Last year, Queens resident Augusto Noguera was appointed to an administrative role in Paraguay's consulate in NY, apparently "as payback for supporting [its President Fernando] Lugo and other candidates in last year’s elections," according to the NY Times. Only, it turned out that Noguera [...]
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Will Canal Side Skyway Side be a success?
The enouraging part of this project is that appears to be the political will to get it done.
The scary part is the unknown…we have heard too many times in Buffalo’s past about the build and they will [...]
History as it happens: NY Times looks at how different colleges and graduate schools are adding new classes or updating courses to include the recent global economic crisis that has left the world hurting. An American Studies course from Columbia University professor Steven Fraser [...]
Today, the House of Representatives "approved the most sweeping overhaul of the nation's financial regulatory system since the Great Depression," according to the Washington Post. The NY Times reports the vote, which was 223-202, created the Consumer Financial Protection Agency which would oversee [...]
With populist rage still simmering over the global financial crisis, TARP bailout, and ridiculous executive pay, investment bank Goldman Sachs says many of its top executives will not be receiving cash bonuses this year. Instead, the NY Times reports, "the 30" [...]
Photo taken from a Bronx subway platform via mariab3bx's flickr Fall foliage is pretty much to subways what Canadian geese are to airplanes...allegedly. According to the NY Times, transit officials have plastered at least 500 signs along three subway [...]
Tonight Animal and Mother bring the mysterious B.N.E.'s work off the streets and into a gallery in Manhattan. In anticipation of the event, the NY Times tried to dig a little deeper into [...]
Mayor Bloomberg loves to travel, so it should come as no surprise that he and aides are going to Copenhagen next week for the U.N.'s climate change conference. The NY Times reports, "His schedule, for now, includes delivering a speech at a reception" [...]
Photograph by dietrich on Flickr A Treasury report suggests that the government will, as the NY Times reports, "recover all but $42 billion of the $370 billion it has lent to ailing companies since the financial crisis began last year, with" [...]
On Friday, the NY Times reported that the Google engineer struck by a falling tree branch in Central Park was suing the city and Central Park Conservancy for negligence. Now, it turns out the still-hospitalized Sasha Blair-Goldensohn's lawsuit is worth $120 million.
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After months of talks, cable giant Comcast has made a deal with General Electric for NBC. According to the NY Times, "The agreement will create a joint venture, with Comcast owning 51 percent and G.E. owning 49 percent. Comcast will contribute to the joint" [...]
Melissa King, who handled management of the Sandhogs union's benefits plan, was charged with embezzling $42 million from those plans! According to the NY Times, federal prosecutors say King, who was paid $540,000/year, funneled the money into accounts she controlled and the money "went" [...]
Apparently one of the frontlines against terrorism is the doorman at the super-swank 15 Central Park West condo! NY Times columnist Clyde Haberman discovered that West 61st between CPW and Broadway was closed off for the Thanksgiving Parade watching pleasure of 15 CPW [...]
No chance of a Larry King Live revelation tomorrow night from the State Dinner crashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi who still managed to mingle with President Obama. The NY Times reports, "Television industry executives said on Saturday that Michaele and Tareq Salahi" [...]
Madonna's 22-year-old boyfriend Jesus Luz gets the NY Times Styles section treatment. Sure, he met his ridiculously famous 51-year-old girlfriend for a W fashion shoot last year, but now, he's not only modeling. "He enrolled at a D.J. school in Manhattan and in" [...]
Photograph of Gov. Paterson, with Lieut. Gov. Ravich on the left, discussing deficit reduction earlier this month New York State's dire budget situation gets the front page treatment from the NY Times today. And the Times sounds the alarm bells and [...]
From the NY Times The New York Public Library has a great collection of photographs from 1933 of "Thanksgiving Ragamuffins." Unfamiliar with the term? According to [...]
While in Washington D.C. yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg said the city will start to use students' test scores when evaluating teacher tenure. The NY Times called the proposal one "that has been bitterly opposed by the teachers’ union and criticized as putting too much weight'" [...]
Yesterday, the NY Times reported on a 13-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome who hid in the subway system nearly two weeks. Francisco Hernandez didn't want to go home, because he had gotten into trouble at school and was afraid of' [...]
As you may have read in our newsletter, on this day in 1966 New York City experienced the smoggiest day in the city's history... and the details read like a horror movie. After 9/11, the NY Times touched upon three [...]
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The NY State Court of Appeals, the highest in the state, dismissed a lawsuit challenging the use of eminent domain for developer Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project. The NY Times calls the lawsuit the [...]
A coffee war is brewing in Crown Heights, so you know the NY Times is on the scene to count the bodies (and the beans). Two new coffee shops, The Pulp and the Bean and The Breukelen Coffee House, began trading insults and blog [...]
In the latest article in NY Times' series "Toxic Waters," about the "worsening pollution in American waters, and regulators’ response," the focus is on sewer systems. And the main example is here in NYC, starting' [...]
In 1935, the NY Times published an article titled, “Alligator Found in Uptown Sewer,” tracing the actions of 16-year-old Salvatore Condoluci and his comrades, who trapped and killed an 8-foot-long alligator found under 123rd Street. Today, at 92, Condoluci still remembers some of the [...]
Apparently news that Goldman Sachs employees would help out at the Salvation Army's Thanksgiving meals isn't good enough for the NY Times editorial board! The Times published an opinion piece slamming Goldman Sachs for its "non-apology." Noting that CEO Lloyd Blankfein said, "Certainly,'" [...]
Photo by Joe Schumacher The latest public art project to glean some attention can fit right in your pocket... but it's gonna cost ya. The NY Times reports that seven million MetroCards were distributed starting in September, all containing the word [...]
Tired of clicking around YouTube and iTunes for online videos of substance? Search no more! The Observer has your weekly handy guide to what's worth watching on the Web.
One in 8 Million series on NYTimes.com - How many times have you walked around the city streets [...]
After months (years?) of speculation, former mayor Rudy Giuliani is not going to run for governor—but will set his sights on the Senate seat now occupied by Kirsten Gillibrand, according to various media outlets that spoke to anonymous sources.
