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Nov. 20, 2015 8:17 p.m. ET In the wake of the Paris attacks and a terrorist video showing images of Times Square, some schools have canceled field trips to New York City, even as officials insist the city is safe. Schools in New Jersey, Long Island and Maryland this week abandoned plans to visit Manhattan,…
NYC EDC City officials broke ground Monday on Hunter’s Point South Phase II, a massive affordable housing and commercial complex in Long Island City. Plans also include a waterfront park – seen in this rendering. City officials broke ground Monday on the latest phase of a massive affordable housing complex on a former…
On the list of things New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority has a problem with: menstruation. On the list of things it’s apparently totally chill about: Nazis. Well, I guess that clears that up. Just a mere month ago, the MTA was the center of a controversy over its rejection of a campaign created by…
(courtesy Ann Toback) Seats on 42nd Street subway Shuttle cars are wrapped with symbols from Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, intended to carry commuters into the alternate history of the Amazon TV series, The Man in the High Castle, in which the Axis Powers were victorious. “Half the seats in my car had Nazi…
Photo An emergency medical worker with a sick passenger on the F train in Brooklyn in June. Credit Dave Sanders for The New York Times A voice over the intercom delivers the bad news, and throughout the car there are audible sighs. Your train is delayed because of a sick passenger. Subway riders sit and…
(Don Richards) Rats have long been taking advantage of people in the city with the same gusto as hot dog sellers and Staten Island Ferry dealers—but thanks to all the viral food people have been throwing at them lately, they’re starting to act more and more like humans. Connecticut man Don Richards told Fox61…
Back in college, while my friends mostly held down jobs in retail, worked at restaurants, or picked up random gigs through temp agencies, I worked as a nanny. And while a lot of those friends hated their jobs, I was kind of obsessed with mine. I spent my days and evenings with two fiercely smart,…
Could this be the final nail in the coffin of Silicon Alley? Tech start-up bros are going to feel a little less secure in their morning commutes following a recent alarming report that hoverboards-that-don’t-actually-hover may actually be illegal in NYC. Good thing we found a way to fund that capital plan. After a string of…
The City College of New York, one of the City University of New York’s senior colleges, is facing a $14.6 million budget gap. “There’s no other way to say this: Students are doomed,” argues Tammie David, a City College junior who serves as the Vice-President of Public Affairs for the Undergraduate Student Government. “There are…
The plight of the single New Yorker View Full Caption MANHATTAN — If you’re planning to live alone and rent a one-bedroom in Manhattan, you’ll have to earn roughly $130,800 a year. That’s 40 times the amount of September’s median monthly asking rent, which was a record $3,271, according to real estate search…