Thursday, August 10, 2017

New York Today: Plan B for Penn Station Commuters and other top stories.

  • New York Today: Plan B for Penn Station Commuters

    New York Today: Plan B for Penn Station Commuters
    — Susan Piskiel Blackburn, 63, Short Hills, N.J. (N.J. Transit)“I’ll use the PATH if necessary, though I fear herds of commuters moving inch by inch through Hoboken. So I’m looking forward more to the New York Waterway, which might seem like a mini-vacation each way. It’ll add 20 minutes to my walk to work, but maybe with a spring in my step from the boat ride’s misty wind.” — Joel Schwartzberg, 48, Chatham, N.J. (N.J. Transit)“Utilizing the Hunterspoint Avenue station as much as possible, espe..
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  • How to Get to New York During Penn Station's Summer Repairs

    How to Get to New York During Penn Station's Summer Repairs
    How to Get to New York During Penn Station’s Summer RepairsPennsylvania Station, which stands to get even more crowded this summer.CreditDrew Angerer/Getty ImagesMonday, July 10: the day commuters are dreading. That’s when repair work at Pennsylvania Station begins, officially kicking off what Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has called the “summer of hell” and disrupting regular train service from Long Island, New Jersey and beyond for at least eight weeks. If you can work from home, you should. If you can..
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  • New York hospital offers to take terminally ill UK baby Charlie Gard

    New York hospital offers to take terminally ill UK baby Charlie Gard
    A New York hospital has offered to help Charlie Gard, the 11-month-old baby from the U.K. suffering from a terminal illness. New York Presbyterian Hospital and ...
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  • Scene of NYC officer killing caught on surveillance video

    Scene of NYC officer killing caught on surveillance video
    The man accused of killing a New York City Police Department officer was captured on surveillance camera approaching the marked police command vehicle just moments before the fatal shooting early Wednesday. The surveillance footage recovered from a nearby store in the Bronx shows the suspect, identified as 34-year-old Alexander Bonds, come near the vehicle's passenger side door, where police sources say Officer Miosotis Familia was sitting and writing in her memo book. The video then shows s..
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  • Cost of Hudson Tunnel Project Could Hit Nearly $13 Billion, Report ...

    Cost of Hudson Tunnel Project Could Hit Nearly $13 Billion, Report ...
    Despite his optimism, the Trump administration has not committed to providing federal financing for the tunnel, raising questions about whether it supports the project. The federal Transportation Department recently withdrew from the Gateway corporation board, saying that it did not want to appear to favor the tunnel over projects elsewhere in the country. Elaine Chao, the transportation secretary, has said that she and President Trump understand the tunnel’s importance, but the administration ..
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  • Court Affirms New York State Law Governing Anonymous Juries

    Court Affirms New York State Law Governing Anonymous Juries
    Before jury selection, Justice Nicholas DeRosa, who presided at the trial, informed the men’s lawyers that he intended to withhold the names of the prospective jurors and identify them only by number. Justice DeRosa came to the decision on his own, explaining that in recent years several jurors in other cases had told him that they felt uncomfortable walking through the courthouse parking lot, where they occasionally encountered the defendants whose fates they were deciding. One of the defense ..
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  • Microsoft to Cut Up to 4000 Sales and Marketing Jobs

    Microsoft to Cut Up to 4000 Sales and Marketing Jobs
    In an internal email last week, Judson Althoff, a Microsoft executive vice president, described the reorganization and its rationale. He wrote that there was “an enormous $4.5 trillion market opportunity” for Microsoft in the coming years. Photo Under its chief executive, Satya Nadella, Microsoft has transitioned to cloud software delivery. Credit Ian C. Bates for The New York Times The sales and marketing changes, Mr. Althoff wrote, were intended to “enable us to align ..
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  • De Blasio's Concessions on Charter Schools Are Disclosed

    De Blasio's Concessions on Charter Schools Are Disclosed
    Negotiations over the issue had foundered by the scheduled end of the session, and lawmakers left Albany with the matter of mayoral control unresolved. With the clock ticking, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo — a Democrat, but nonetheless a regular beneficiary of campaign backing from the supporters of charter schools — summoned legislators to return for a special session to take up the issue. Charter schools, his office insisted, would not be part of the conversation. But shortly after a last-minute deal ..
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  • Increased whale sightings in New York City waters a sign of cleaner ...

    Increased whale sightings in New York City waters a sign of cleaner ...
    New video shows a diver off the coast of Tasmania coming face to face with a whale recently in a once-in-a-lifetime encounter.But you don't have to travel to Australia to see these marine giants--they're now in the waters off New York City.Though the Hudson River was once a national symbol for pollution, humpback whales have become a more common sight around New York and New Jersey, reports CBS News correspondent Jeff Glor. In Rockaway, Queens, steering with Manhattan's skyline to the side, the ..
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  • Jerry Brown Announces a Climate Summit Meeting in California

    Jerry Brown Announces a Climate Summit Meeting in California
    The California summit meeting will bring together the leaders of states, cities, businesses and others who made pledges to curb heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions as part of the Paris accord and the thousands of others who were galvanized by Mr. Trump’s decision. Days after his announcement, the former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg published a letter to the United Nations signed by more than 1,200 mayors, business leaders, university presidents and others declaring “we are still in”..
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