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NEW YORK — In a Queens park here on the East River, the tech giant Uber has set up the kind of company picnic you hold when nearly all of your workers are independent contractors — unknown to each other, no bosses among them — and when your ...
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April 27, 2004: American author E.L. Doctorow smiles during an interview in his office at New York University in New York. (AP). NEW YORK – Writer E.L. Doctorow, who wryly reimagined the American experience in such novels as "Ragtime" and "The March" ...
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More than 1,000 subcontracted airport security officers, baggage handlers and wheelchair attendants at the city's two major airports plan to strike starting Wednesday night, according to a union that seeks to represent them. Officials with Local 32BJ ...
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On Wednesday, the wage board is set to vote on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposal to raise the state's minimum wage for fast food workers to $15 an hour. The meeting will be held in New York City at 2.30 pm. New York's minimum wage for all ...
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(CNN) Andy Warhol, Madonna, Debbie Harry, Grace Jones, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Glenn O'Brien, John Lurie -- iconic symbols from a bygone New York City. One that was cheaper, grittier and pulsing with new music, art and powerful personalities.
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In October 2010, after a clerk at a New York City bodega was killed during a botched robbery, Ramon Murphy, the president of the Bodega Association of the United States, urged the city's store owners to apply for gun permits. “We need protection,” he said.
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New York is the country's largest repository of the lumber that formed the spine of the Industrial Revolution — a five-borough safe deposit box for New England white pine and spruce, Pacific Northwest Douglas fir and, especially, Southern longleaf pine.
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NEW YORK – Brooklyn's trendy hipster hangouts may soon offer more than craft beers, artisanal cheese and organic produce: They'll brag of being powered by locally sourced electricity, from their own solar panels or maybe from batteries down the street.
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HARRISON, N.J. – A thrilling US Open Cup quarterfinal match went down to the wire, as the 10-man Philadelphia Union defeated the New York Red Bulls 4-3 on penalties after a 1-1 score at the end of regulation and extra time. From the onset, everything ...
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Some people in the Brazilian Amazon are very distant relations of indigenous Australians, New Guineans and other Australasians, two groups of scientists who conducted detailed genetic analyses reported Tuesday. But the researchers disagree on the ...
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