Target takes Manhattan with pint-sized New York City store
Downtown Manhattan residents who refuse to schlep all the way to Brooklyn, Harlem or Queens will now be able to shop at one of the country's largest retailers without hopping on the subway. Target is cutting the ribbon Wednesday on its 45,000-square-foot Tribeca store, its latest effort to penetrate dense urban markets with smaller shops. For New York City dwellers who haven't stepped foot inside a Target for awhile — and even for those who have — the Tribeca shop will look decidedly d..>> view originalA Head-Shot Truck Comes to New York
On a recent afternoon in Hell’s Kitchen, a pink and orange Chevrolet Stepvan, pulled up to the curb. It looked suspiciously like a food truck peddling Miami-fusion tacos, but the only thing cooking inside was a generator, pumping power into a 12-foot photo studio in the back.It was a head-shot truck, and with its white exposed faux-brick walls, new wooden floor, makeup station, changing area and chair bolted into the floor, the compact studio makes use of every available inch.The head shots hap..>> view originalHurricane Matthew Pummels Haiti and Moves Toward US
Frantic residents in the south said by phone that they were coping with major devastation as the storm felled trees, ripped roofs and destroyed farms in what already was a struggling area in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country.“Thank God our neighbors came to save us,” said Daphne Thelma, a resident of Les Cayes, one of the hardest-hit towns on the southern coast. “We lost all our crops, and have nothing left.”She said her family of eight, four of them children, had been rescued by neighbo..>> view originalCarnival Passengers Stuck In New York Due To Hurricane Matthew
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Cruise ship passengers hoping to be in the Caribbean ended up docked in Manhattan because of deadly Hurricane Matthew. As CBS2’s Tracee Carrasco reported passengers aboard the Carnival Pride Cruise Ship were re-routed to New York from Baltimore. Late Saturday night, passengers received an email hours before they were supposed to set sail from Baltimore, Maryland, to the Bahamas, stating their cruise would be re-routed to New York City, then New Brunswick, Canada because ..>> view originalGo Inside the Renovated New York Public Library Reading Room
It all started with a piece of plaster. On May 30, 2014, a piece of ceiling fell inside the New York Public Library Rose Reading Room. The stunning landmark space was forced to close for “about two weeks.” That turned into two years. Now, the Rose Room is finally ready for its reopening. And the results are stunning. “I’ve been to the library for events or just to explore the space prior to the closure of the Rose Main Reading Room, but it’s clear that the heart and the history of the New Yor..>> view originalNew York City rent comparison: What $1850 gets you
Welcome to Curbed Comparisons, a weekly column that explores what one can rent for a set dollar amount in various NYC neighborhoods. Is one man's studio another man's townhouse? Let's find out! Today, we're looking at apartments renting around $1,850. ↑ This Fort Greene studio would have fit in perfectly during Micro Week: it measures a mere 250 square feet, but has a decent kitchen, a bathroom with an actual bathtub, and a lovely fireplace. Yes, it’s tiny, but it’s also in a pretty great ne..>> view originalPolitics|Donald Trump Would Have Trouble Winning a Suit Over The ...
Not long before The Times posted its article on Mr. Trump’s taxes, one of his lawyers, Marc E. Kasowitz, sent a letter to The Times threatening legal action. Mr. Kasowitz said that “an individual taxpayer’s income tax returns are confidential and statutorily protected from public disclosure.”That is true so far as it goes. In an email a few hours later, but before publication, Mr. Kasowitz wrote that “any unauthorized disclosure, which publication by The New York Times would be, is illegal.” He..>> view originalTim Kaine and Mike Pence Clash Sharply Over Their Running Mates
But at other points he showed a deftness that Mr. Trump often lacked at his own debate last week. And he also offered voters a face of the Republican Party that was not overly dark or angry, as Mr. Trump has often been in this race. “Senator, you and Hillary Clinton would know a lot about an insult-driven campaign,” Mr. Pence said. “The campaign of Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine has been an avalanche of insults.”From Mr. Trump’s proposals for cutting taxes and repealing the Affordable Care Act t..>> view originalObjects From New York's Buried Past Find a New Home in Midtown
Photo A selection of artifacts from New York’s archaeological repository. Clockwise from top left: large oysters, a Pearlware plate with an image of a building, Col. Benjamin Fletcher’s bottle seal, a Transferware teapot spout, a perfume bottle, coffee beans, a vessel, a sugar mold and a toy teacup. Credit Landmarks Preservation Commission and James Estrin/The New York Times From a cone-shaped mold used in sugar refining to an oversize oyster, a 7,000-year-old spear tip..>> view originalHealth insurance startup sending NYC jobs to Arizona
Oscar Health is laying off 31 employees at its headquarters in the Puck Building in Soho. The cuts at the insurance startup — co-founded by 31-year-old tech tycoon Josh Kushner, the brother of real-estate scion and Donald Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner — revealed in a state filing last week that the layoffs slammed its “member services team.” The jobs cut in the Empire State are being shipped to a recently-opened customer-service call center in Tempe, Ariz., sources close to the company said. W..>> view original
Monday, October 10, 2016
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