Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Get the hell out of NYC while you can and other top stories.

  • Get the hell out of NYC while you can

    New York City is one of the worst most populous places to live in America, barely edging out dusty hellholes like Fresno, a study of the nation’s choicest urban enclaves revealed Wednesday. US News & World Report analyzed 100 cities from the nation’s largest metro areas, basing evaluations on the local job market, affordability and quality-of-life measures that included crime, education and transit measures. New York was ranked No. 96 — just ahead of Fresno, Stockton, Modesto and No. 100 San Ju..
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  • New York Today: The Place to Podcast

    New York Today: The Place to Podcast
    Photo The tools of the trade. Credit Uli Seit for The New York Times Updated, 12:14 p.m. Good morning on this overcast Wednesday.In case you hadn’t heard, our city has encountered a burst of podcasts and podcasters of late.Gimlet Media, BuzzFeed and a legion of garage productions have joined WNYC and other veteran audio producers to deliver earfuls from, and about, New York.(The Times has gotten into the game as well, with its Modern Love podcast and a recent collabo..
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  • Minority Voters Push Hillary Clinton to Victories

    Minority Voters Push Hillary Clinton to Victories
    Continue reading the main story Video Clinton Reacts to Super Tuesday Results Hillary Clinton spoke to a crowd in Miami after she racked up a series of victories on Super Tuesday. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on Publish Date March 1, 2016. Photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times. Watch in Times V..
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  • Saks Off 5th Set to Open in New York

    Saks Off 5th Set to Open in New York
    Photo From left, a faux-fur hooded jacket ($298, originally $650) at the Gilt shop-in-shop at Saks Off 5th; a printed T-shirt dress from the Moschino Capsule Collection ($895), available on stylebop.com; and a Diane von Furstenberg embellished silk and lace slip dress ($428). Openings and EventsOn Thursday, the designer outlet Saks Off 5th will open its first New York City location. It will include a Gilt shop-in-shop (after the acquisition of the luxury flash-sale site by Saks Fifth Aven..
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  • Possible NJ Transit Train Strike Raises Anxiety Among Commuters

    Possible NJ Transit Train Strike Raises Anxiety Among Commuters
    Photo Passengers entering a New Jersey Transit train in Newark on Wednesday. The agency is facing a strike by its rail workers this month. Credit Brian Harkin for The New York Times Faced with the possibility of a rail strike starting next weekend, New Jersey commuters are increasingly worried about a shutdown that could paralyze the region and send them scrambling to find a way into New York City. New Jersey Transit’s rail workers could go on strike if they do not r..
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  • Couple Charged In West New York Hit-And-Run That Killed Girl, 7 ...

    Couple Charged In West New York Hit-And-Run That Killed Girl, 7 ...
    WEST NEW YORK, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — She was there when a hit-and-run driver killed her little girl, and on Wednesday, YeimyCoria shared her pain. A couple arrested in connection with a hit-and-run that killed a 7-year-old girl as she walked to school with her mother in West New York appeared in court on Wednesday. Fabian Rodriguez, 33, has been charged with causing and leaving the scene of a fatal accident and 26-year-old Joanna Rosas-Alvarez has been charged with hindering apprehension, authori..
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  • Aroldis Chapman's Stance Changed From Defiance to Acceptance

    Aroldis Chapman's Stance Changed From Defiance to Acceptance
    Photo “I’ve never hurt anybody, never in my life,” Aroldis Chapman said in Spanish through an interpreter. Credit Butch Dill/USA Today Sports, via Reuters TAMPA, Fla. — When Aroldis Chapman stood at his locker in the Yankees’ spring training clubhouse last week, he was resolute in defending himself. He knew that Major League Baseball was investigating his actions in an October episode in which, according to a police report, he placed his hands around his girlfriend’s ..
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  • UN Security Council Adopts Toughest North Korea Sanctions Yet

    UN Security Council Adopts Toughest North Korea Sanctions Yet
    Continue reading the main story Video South Korea Calls for Sanctions on North South Korea’s foreign minister called on the United Nations Security Council to impose the harshest sanctions since the founding of the organization, saying North Korea is the “greatest threat” in Asia. By REUTERS on Publish Date March 2, 2016. Watch in Times Video » UNITED NATIONS — Th..
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  • Kava and the Rise of Healthy New York

    Kava and the Rise of Healthy New York
    In an increasingly health-conscious New York, some would-be boozehounds are turning to kava, made from a South Pacific-originated plant, as a substitute for alcohol. Credit Photograph by Kirstin Scholtz / WSL via Getty “ALCOHOL IS SO 2014. TRY KAVA,” suggests a sandwich board on Tenth Street between First Avenue and Avenue A, in the East Village. Whether by design or not, this block has become a retro-futurist downtown cornucopia of health, wellness, and New Agey philosophy. It..
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  • New York Narratives

    New York Narratives
    Curbed’s new, all encompassing tagline is “love where you live,” and who exemplifies that idea better than New Yorkers? The idea of being a New Yorker, and what it means to claim that status, frequently inspires passionate debates: Do you need to have been born in the five boroughs? Lived here for a certain amount of time? Completed some feats of strength that are specific to the New York experience? We don’t think it’s quite that simple—as Michele Carlo, a storyteller who you’ll meet bel..
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