Friday, November 6, 2015

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  • New York Today: Beneath Grand Central - The New York Times

    New York Today: Beneath Grand Central - The New York Times
    Updated 8:05 a.m.Good morning on this foggy Friday.The M.T.A. is making subterranean moves on the East Side, bringing the Long Island Rail Road intoGrand Central Terminal.The project, known as East Side Access, will include more than 11 miles of tunneling to serve an estimated 162,000 customers a day by December 2022.This week,Emma G. Fitzsimmons, The Times’s transportation reporter, descended into Manhattan’s underworld with agency officials and other reporters to tour the site.And to get “dripped on by mystery goop in the bowels of Grand Central,” she said.The site is still unfinished — “it looks like a big rock cavern,” Ms. Fitzsimmons said.But the M.T.A. wanted to take reporters and phot..
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  • New York, Capital of Cool - The New York Times

    To the Editor:Ada Calhoun (“My City Was Gone. (Or Was It?),” Sunday Review, Nov. 1) suggests that New York City never dies, that it just dies for a person who ages out of the new cool.I lived briefly in New York City as a very young child who wasn’t yet aware of what was or wasn’t cool, and recently visited the city. I am now nearly 60.I spent an evening in the Village. Yes, it still seemed cool, and yes, the cool people were much younger (but fun to watch!). Yet there is an objective measure of change in the city.The artists I spent the evening with could not afford even a tiny studio in an outer borough. When you run the artists out of town, you exile one kind of cool, the one that matters..
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  • Woman Accused in Death of Fiancé in New York Kayak Murder Case: 'I'm Not a Killer' - ABC News

    Woman Accused in Death of Fiancé in New York Kayak Murder Case: 'I'm Not a Killer' - ABC News
    A woman accused of killing her fiancé while they were kayaking in New York's Hudson River told ABC News' "20/20" in her first television jailhouse interview that she is not a murderer."I didn't kill him. ... I loved him," Angelika Graswald said. "I'm not a killer. I'm a good person."The 35-year-old native ofLatvia, who was living with her fiancé Vince Viafore in Poughkeepsie, New York, has been held at the Orange County Jail in New York on $9 million bond since April awaiting her murder trial.Watch the full story on ABC News' "20/20" TONIGHT at 10 p.m. ET.New York Kayak Murder Case: A Timeline of Events in This Mysterious Death on the HudsonProsecutors claim that Graswald killed Viafore, 46,..
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  • Centuries-old coffins, skeletons found in vault under New York City street | syracuse

    Centuries-old coffins, skeletons found in vault under New York City street | syracuse
    NEW YORK (AP) — Two centuries-old burial vaults discovered beneath a street in the heart of New York University's campus by workers replacing a water main were likely part of a Presbyterian church cemetery, an archaeologist said Thursday.One of the roughly 15-by-18-foot crypts was clearly disturbed, with the skeletons and skulls of between nine and 12 people pushed into a corner while more than a dozen stacked wooden coffins can be seen in the second one, said Chrysalis' Alyssa Loorya, the project's principal investigator."You never know what you can find beneath the city's streets," she said at the site in Manhattan's Greenwich Village neighborhood. "You bury people to memorialize them, a..
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  • New giant cruise ship arrives in New York

    New giant cruise ship arrives in New York
    Like this topic?You may also like these photo galleries:AutoplayShow ThumbnailsShow CaptionsLast SlideNext SlideRoyal Caribbean's Anthem of the Seas pulls into New York Harbor for the first time on Nov. 4, 2015.(Photo: Royal Caribbean)Wednesday was a big day for cruise fans in the Northeast as one of the hottest new ships of the year,Anthem of the Seas, took up permanent residence in the New York area.Unveiled in April, the 168,666-ton Royal Caribbean vessel arrived from Europe, where it spent its first few months, to become the largest cruise ship ever to sail year-round from the region. It'll operate a range of five- to 12-night voyages to the Caribbean, Bahamas, Bermuda and the Northeast ..
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  • New York is investigating Exxon Mobil for allegedly misleading the public about climate change - The Washington Post

    New York is investigating Exxon Mobil for allegedly misleading the public about climate change - The Washington Post
    A view of the Exxon Mobil refinery in Baytown, Texas in this file photo from September 15, 2008. REUTERS/Jessica RinaldiThis story has been updated.The state of New York is investigating whether Exxon Mobil misled the public and investors about the risks of climate change, a move sought by environmentalists that could signal a broader reckoning with the conduct of big energy companies.A spokesman for Exxon Mobil confirmed Thursday that the company had received a subpoena from the office of the attorney general of New York, Eric Schneiderman, related to the subject of climate change and was “assessing” its response.The investigation focuses on whether Exxon Mobil intentionally clouded public ..
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  • Greater New York Watch - WSJ

    Greater New York Watch - WSJ
    Members of the New York Police Department reported seeing several aircraft parts washing onto the shores of the Breezy Point neighborhood, officials said.
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  • New York Life Hires Firms for PR, Creative, and Media Buying | Agencies - Advertising Age

    New York Life Hires Firms for PR, Creative, and Media Buying | Agencies - Advertising Age
    New York Life Names Roster Shops for PR, Creative, Media BuyingWeber Shandwick, Anomaly, MediaVest Will Help Insurer Reach 'Maturing Millennials'New York Life has hiredWeber Shandwickfor consumer marketing communications and PR; Anomaly for creative and advertising; and MediaVest for media planning and buying following a competitive review.The gold top of the New York Life building in New York City Credit: David Shankbone/Creative CommonsThe insurance company has been seeking to support its upcoming consumer-focused brand marketing program, which will look to engage "maturing millennials," said Kelli Parsons, senior VP-chief communications and marketing officer at New York Life."Our objectiv..
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  • On the Inside at Mother New York, where rotating desks are the norm - Digiday

    On the Inside at Mother New York, where rotating desks are the norm - Digiday
    At Mother, nothing ever stays the same.The independent agency network, which has offices in New York, London and Buenos Aires, has an egalitarian approach that asks employees to switch desks every three months. “It’s based on a very complex algorithm,” jokes co-founder Paul Malmstrom. In fact, the seating is random and based on a simple idea: the more you know about people, the better you can work with them.Three stories tall and far away from the ad nexus of Madison Avenue, on Eleventh Avenue in Manhattan, Mother’s New York headquarters is quirky and fun. There’s an art gallery called “The Peanut Gallery” and a big stuffed bear that doubles as security. And everyone works together in large ..
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  • Legal or not,NewYorkers like Airbnb, survey says

    Legal or not,NewYorkers like Airbnb, survey says
    Photo:BloombergMost New Yorkers want Airbnb to be legal, survey said. In the increasingly tense tug-of-war between Airbnb and its critics in the city and state legislatures, the home-sharing company wants the politicians to know that the public is on its side.To that end, Airbnb—which is trying to defeat three City Council bills that threaten its operation here—shared withCrain’sthe result of a poll it commissioned that found more than twice as many city voters have a positive opinion of the company than those who view it negatively.The numbers are generally positive for Airbnb but hardly overwhelming: 12% of those surveyed said they had a “very favorable” and 25% a “somewhat favorable” ..
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