New York Today: Great Excavations
“I would help him, but it doesn’t look like he needs it,” Mr. Boslet said. The streets looked clear. Others weren’t so pleased.We were pointed in the direction of an often unplowed area near 102nd Street in Corona, where we met Miguel Bonilla, 25, who was scraping the snow off his car.“Can’t you see? No one’s come by here,” Mr. Bonilla said, pointing to what looked like a recently plowed street.What constitutes a clean street, it seems, is a matter of opinion.The deputy commissioner for public ..>> view originalSnowstorm Hits the Northeast
More than 57,000 homes were without power across Massachusetts as of 5:30 p.m. Gusts of 68 miles an hour were recorded in Nantucket and 63 miles an hour in Hyannis on Cape Cod. “We have a lot of trees down, wires, that type of thing,” said Glenn Field, the warning coordination meteorologist in the Taunton, Mass., office of the National Weather Service.Some snowfall totals: 18 inches in Suffield, Conn., and Ludlow, Mass.; 11 inches in Chelsea, Mass., near Boston; 14.5 inches in Litchfield, N.H.;..>> view originalHeavy Snow Pounds New York Region
An intense snowstorm that blew in Thursday blanketed New York City with about 9 inches of snow and took the life of an Upper East Side doorman. Miguel Angel Gonzalez, 59 years old, was shoveling snow when he fell through a glass window at a building affiliated with Mount Sinai Health System on East 93rd Street, police said. Mr. Gonzalez,...>> view originalHow New York City Gets Its Electricity
When you turn on a light or charge your phone, the electricity coming from the outlet may well have traveled hundreds of miles across the power grid that blankets most of North America — the world’s largest machine, and one of its most eccentric. Your household power may have been generated by Niagara Falls, or by a natural-gas-fired plant on a barge floating off the Brooklyn shore. But the kilowatt-hour produced down the block probably costs more than the one produced at the Canadian border. M..>> view originalNYC got snow plowing right this time, lawmakers say
After receiving a blizzard of complaints during last year’s historic winter storm, city lawmakers said the de Blasio administration got snow plowing right on Thursday. In the morning, the mayor tripped out to Queens, visiting neighborhoods that were practically forgotten after Winter Storm Jonas piled a record 27.8 inches of snowfall on the city in 2016. “I liked what I saw,” said a confident de Blasio at a news conference afterward. Thursday’s storm, the first real test since last winter, brou..>> view originalNYC's most hated home is headed to California
The Aluminaire House packed into a truck Amon Focus The Aluminaire House Michael Schwarting NYC's most hated home is headed to California February 10, 2017 The Aluminaire House, a 1,200-square-foot structure billed as the first all-metal home built in the United States, has been called one of “the pivotal works of modern architecture in America” by respected critic Paul Goldberg..>> view originalEveryone's Enjoying An Empty New York City In These Snowstorm ...
A major snowstorm is making its way through New York and Maine on Thursday with an expected 8 to 12 inches of snow in the New York region alone. As inconvenient as it may be, the whiteout makes for beautiful photos of an eerily quiet New York City. Photos on social networks show major tourist destinations like Times Square empty and animals enjoying some free time in the deep snow. Check out the photos below:>> view originalCharles Oakley is the least of the New York Knicks' problems
Charles Oakley exchanges words with a security guard at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday. (Frank Franklin II/Associated Press) Regardless of the events that led up to it, or why they approached him, this much is clear: Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden, Knicks legend Charles Oakley put his hands on multiple security guards and was arrested for doing so. This is something even Oakley didn’t argue during his day-long media tour Thursday, telling The Undefeated’s Mike Wise he “shouldn..>> view originalCourt Refuses to Reinstate Travel Ban, Dealing Trump Another ...
The appeals court acknowledged that Mr. Trump was owed deference on his immigration and national security policies. But it said he was claiming something more — that “national security concerns are unreviewable, even if those actions potentially contravene constitutional rights and protections.”Within minutes of the ruling, Mr. Trump angrily vowed to fight it, presumably in an appeal to the Supreme Court. “SEE YOU IN COURT, THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE!” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter.At ..>> view originalFlynn Is Said to Have Talked to Russians About Sanctions Before ...
Photo Michael T. Flynn, President Trump’s national security adviser, at Trump Tower in December. Credit Sam Hodgson for The New York Times WASHINGTON — Weeks before President Trump’s inauguration, his national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, discussed American sanctions against Russia, as well as areas of possible cooperation, with that country’s ambassador to the United States, according to current and former American officials.Throughout the discussions, the messa..>> view original
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