New York Today: Leap-Day Lore
Photo When you have a birthday only once every four years. Credit Roger Higgins, via Library of Congress Updated, 10:04 a.m. Good morning on this cloud-shrouded Monday.Happy leap day!Feb. 29 is more like a catch-up day than a leap day, however, as the astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson recently told our Grace Notes columnist, James Barron.That’s because it takes the earth 365¼ days to orbit the sun, so a day is added to the Gregorian calendar every four years.Well, n..>> view originalUber says demand in New York City is up 30 percent since prices ...
Uber has taken a lot of flack from some of its drivers since it lowered fares in January, but the ride-hail company argues that the cheaper rides are having the desired effect. In New York City, for example, where fares were cut 15 percent on January 28th, demand for uberX rides in some neighborhoods has risen over 50 percent in the three weeks since the cut, compared to the previous three weeks, the company says. Trips in Soundview in the Bronx and Jamaica in Queens, both working-class neighbo..>> view originalNail Salon Sweeps in New York Reveal Abuses and Regulatory ...
Photo Labor investigators have inspected hundreds of nail salons across New York State since May, when Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo ordered them to step up scrutiny of the industry. Credit Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times When a New York State labor investigator entered a Long Island nail salon last July, she spotted two women sneaking out the back. The owner insisted that they did not work there. But the truth emerged several days later, when one of the women called the ..>> view original7-year-old on way to school killed in West New York hit and run
WEST NEW YORK, New Jersey (WABC) -- Police in New Jersey are searching for a hit-and-run driver after a 7-year-old girl was struck and killed by a vehicle Monday morning.Sheyla Pichardo was on her way to school with her mother at 62nd Street and Van Buren Avenue in West New York when they were both hit and pinned.The mother, who was also injured, told police that a passenger got out of the vehicle and saw what had happened, and that person then got back in the car, which then sped away."If..>> view originalEven as He Rises, Donald Trump Entertains Conspiracy Theories
Continue reading the main story Video Donald Trump’s Conspiracy Theories From hinting that Justice Antonin Scalia may have been murdered to suggesting that George W. Bush knew the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were coming, Donald J. Trump has shared many outrageous conspiracy theories. By MICHAEL LESTER on Publish Date February 29, 2016. ..>> view originalSevered, Cooked Horse Head Found Inside Manhattan Park: NYPD
A woman walking in a Manhattan park Sunday found a severed, cooked horse head and other animal parts in a beer box Sunday morning, the NYPD said. The woman was walking through Highbridge Park at West 190th Street and Amsterdam Avenue when she came upon the remains inside a box with Corona logos, authorities said. Police said the woman opened the box and found the cooked horse head, other animal parts, an unopened bottle of Spanish soda and fresh fruit. Sanitation Department workers took the ho..>> view originalCuomo-de Blasio Feud Threatens New York City's Plans for ...
For most of the last two decades, financing affordable housing in New York City has been a predictable process, instrumental in adding tens of thousands of apartments for lower-income households in a city where rents continue to soar out of reach for more people every year. But a cloud of uncertainty now hangs over those efforts, as many developers predict that projects could be choked off by the unremitting tensions between Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who in January outline..>> view originalNew York salt war heats up with emergency reprieve
A trade group fighting a New York city rule requiring warnings on salty menu items won an emergency reprieve from enforcement of the new regulation, one day before the city was set to start issuing fines for violations.The city recently became the first U.S. municipality to require restaurant chains to post high-sodium warnings on menus, forcing eateries with 15 or more locations nationwide to place a triangular salt-shaker icon beside items with at least 2,300 milligrams of sodium. The Nationa..>> view original
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