New York Today: The Great Indoors
Photo Taking a break from vacation. Credit Katie Orlinsky for The New York Times Updated, 7:43 a.m. Good morning on this rain-soaked Tuesday.While many New Yorkers are headed back to their routines after a three-day weekend, more than a million of the younger ones — children, that is — are off from school for winter break.With rain expected today, and cold weather back in the forecast for the rest of the week, parents are on the hook for plenty of indoor events.Don’t..>> view originalNew York Today: The Great Indoors
Photo Taking a break from vacation. Credit Katie Orlinsky for The New York Times Updated, 7:43 a.m. Good morning on this rain-soaked Tuesday.While many New Yorkers are headed back to their routines after a three-day weekend, more than a million of the younger ones — children, that is — are off from school for winter break.With rain expected today, and cold weather back in the forecast for the rest of the week, parents are on the hook for plenty of indoor events.Don’t..>> view originalProgram Aims to Keep Schools Diverse as New York ...
Photo Brooklyn Arts and Science Elementary School is one of seven New York City public schools taking part in an Education Department initiative aimed at maintaining a racial and socio-economic balance at schools in fast-gentrifying neighborhoods. Credit Todd Heisler/The New York Times How white is too white? At the Academy of Arts and Letters, a small K-8 school in Brooklyn founded in 2006 to educate a community of “diverse individuals,” that question is being put to..>> view originalNew York Police Struggle to Follow New Street-Stop Policy, Report ...
Photo Officers outside the Tilden Houses in Brownsville, Brooklyn, a neighborhood with a high concentration of police street stops. Credit Victor J. Blue for The New York Times A review of hundreds of street stops by the New York Police Department last year found that in more than a quarter of the encounters officers failed to document the suspicion that prompted them to stop a person for questioning. In most instances, sergeants signed off on the stop-and-frisk paper..>> view originalManufacturing in New York Contracts for 7th Straight Month
Factory activity shrank in New York for the seventh straight month in February, though measures of new orders and shipments ticked up from very low levels. The New York Federal Reserve's Empire State manufacturing index rose to minus 16.6, up from minus 19.4 in the previous month. January's level was the lowest since the Great Recession. Any reading below zero indicates contraction. Factories are still suffering from a sharp rise in the value of the dollar and weak overseas growth, which ha..>> view originalWall St. Keeps Rising
United States markets were broadly higher on Tuesday, building on their gains from late last week. Shares of the home security company ADT were surging after it agreed to be bought by an investment company, and strong quarterly reports bolstered the stocks of companies including Hormel Foods and Restaurant Brands International. KEEPING SCORE In early afternoon trading, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 1.26 percent and the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index increased 1.5 percent. The Nasdaq..>> view originalA New Yorker lost his wallet and got the most New York note ...
By: Nate Scott | February 16, 2016 11:04 am Follow @aNateScott One of my best friends Reilly Flaherty recently lost his wallet at a Wilco concert at King’s Theater in Brooklyn. Flaherty was in an Uber and made it back to New York City before realizing it was gone, then made the driver take him back to Brooklyn, only to find it wasn’t there. He returned, dejected and tired, back to the city. Then, a miracle happened. Well, a sort of miracle. A very New York miracle. Two weeks aft..>> view originalE-Commerce: Convenience Built on a Mountain of Cardboard
Photo Recology, San Francisco’s main recycling plant collects 100 tons of cardboard every day. Credit Jim Wilson/The New York Times Ruchit Garg, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, says that he worries that something isn’t right with his Internet shopping habit. With each new delivery to his doorstep — sometimes several in a day — he faces the source of his guilt and frustration: another cardboard box. Then, when he opens the shipment, he is often confronted with a Russia..>> view originalBoulder woman fatally struck by dump truck while crossing New ...
Elise Lachowyn. (Photo: LinkedIn) × Boulder woman fatally struck by dump truck while crossing New York street Elise Lachowyn. (Photo: LinkedIn) NEW YORK — A Boulder woman was killed Friday after she was hit by a dump truck while crossing a street in New York. Elise Lachowyn, 48, was on 11th Avenue near West 37th Street when the driver of the truck truck struck her as he tried to make a left turn. The driver, 51-year-old Carlos Torres, was arrested and charged with failure to yield t..>> view originalBoutros Boutros-Ghali, Former UN Secretary General, Dies at 93
Photo The Former United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali in his office at the United Nations in New York in November 1996. Credit Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Boutros Boutros-Ghali, an Egyptian diplomat who led the United Nations in a chaotic 1990s tenure that began with hopes for peace after the Cold War, but failed to cope with genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia and ended in angry recriminations with Washington, died on Tuesday in an Egyptian hospital..>> view original
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