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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…
Ever seen a news story from a few years back — or maybe even just a few weeks back — and gotten frustrated when an old link doesn’t work any more? It’s a problem for anyone who publishes on the web, but particularly for news organizations — both because that network of links is an…
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is taking personal responsibility for his platform’s chronic problems with harassment and abuse, telling employees that he is embarrassed for the company’s failures and would soon be taking stronger action to eliminate trolls. He said problems with trolls are driving away the company’s users. “We suck at dealing with abuse and…
Fans of Arrow may not have tuned in just to see Brandon Routh suit up as Ray Palmer a.k.a. ‘The Atom’, but the show has been slowly building to the Justice League member’s reveal nonetheless. The show’s brilliant billionaire may still be constructing his suit of armor, but today DC Comics has released the very first official…
Updated Feb. 3, 2015 8:48 a.m. ET Chronically late people can be frustrating and baffling to anyone stuck waiting for them. One main explanation for their behavior is deceptively simple, psychologists say: People simply underestimate how long a task will take. That’s a little-known concept called the planning fallacy, which is a strong tendency to…
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…
Feb. 3, By Christian Murray The city has plans to develop thousands of affordable apartments over the Sunnyside Yards. Mayor Bill de Blasio, during his state of the city address today, said that he aims to build 11,250 affordable units over the yards and said that the housing could cater to more than 30,000 people….