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The last homicide to occur, on February 1. (David Torres) As the headline says: New York City has not been the setting for one single murder for an entire week. Congratulations #NYPD – 0 Murders in NYC for week ending Feb 8th!! Keeping NYC Safe! @CommissBratton — Roy T Richter (@rtrichter) February 9, 2015…
Would making all of this taller actually solve the affordability problem? (By Flickr user @sage_solar, via Creative Commons Attribution license) In San Francisco, pretty much everyone agrees on one thing: The city’s housing is crazy expensive. Apartment-hunting causes its own form of PTSD. The rent, to put it simply, is too damn high. But even…
Start Component ID: 4471 – Article Page: Video Player Main Asset End Component ID: 4471 – Article Page: Video Player Main Asset Start Component ID: 146 – Article Page: Image Gallery Begin Photos Enlarge Photo Conner Jay Sonja Trauss, the founder of San Francisco Bay Area Renters Federation, holds up a pro-development sign at 75…
41 W. 24th St. View Full Caption FLATIRON — “Affordable luxury” three-bedroom apartments are hitting the market in Flatiron, offering balconies, heated bathroom floors and granite countertops for $4,500 a month. Ten three-bedroom units will soon be available in the eight-story building at 21 W. 24th St., two blocks from Madison Square Park, in what…
The city could get up to 8 inches of snow by Monday night, forecasters said. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Camille Bautista MIDTOWN — Snow could fall for 48 hours straight this weekend, forecasters said. The storm is expected to begin late Saturday and continue all the way through Monday evening, dumping up to 8 inches, the…
The East River Ferry, one of the city’s water transportation options. View Full Caption Flickr/Sean Davis ROCKAWAY BEACH — Mayor Bill de Blasio announced expanded ferry service across the five boroughs in his State of the City address Tuesday, saying the rides will improve transportation as the city continues to grow. The new ferry routes…
How do you eat dinner? Chances are there aren’t many of us sitting down with perfect posture at a dining room table, linen napkin on lap, carefully taking in and savoring each bite. Behind closed doors, you’re more than likely going to find a New Yorker hunched over a laptop scarfing down microwaved leftovers or…
Diplomacy can be complicated. (Rolex De La Pena/pool photo via European Pressphoto Agency) The only thing worse than mocking an accent heard in another country is doing it publicly, via Twitter, when you’re the president of Argentina, while you’re in that other country on a high-stakes diplomatic visit. Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner made a strange attempt at…
A French anti-racism organization on Tuesday filed an official complaint for discrimination after a company published a job ad online looking for a computer graphics designer who “if possible” is “not Jewish.” The job description, which was published Monday on specialized website www.graphic-jobs.com by graphic design agency NSL Studio and has since been removed, sparked…
Over the years we have had our fair share at the epic social(ist) experiment that is Venezuela. Below is a random selection of stories over the past years or two, which truly capture the essence of Venezuela’s socialist revolution: Unfortunately, the country whose president two weeks ago said that “Venezuela Must Deepen Socialism To Improve…