New York Today: Taking on the Triathlon, as a Family
“We’re all going to have a lot of fun, but at the same time I can’t let Malcolm beat me. I can’t let my dad beat me. I can’t let my youngest brother beat me, especially, and I just want to keep up with this guy,” he added lightheartedly, pointing to Doug, who he said can outrun the rest of the family “by a long shot.” Growing up, the four brothers would often compete two-on-two in games like basketball and table tennis. They plan to do the same at the triathlon, adding up the times of the oldes..>> view originalThe night New York City went dark
Thursday, July 14, 1977, 10:02 a.m. Nick and I are sitting slouched and dragged-out at the bar in Jimmy Day’s, determined to drink whatever drinkable beer might be left in Greenwich Village before it all warms up. There is nowhere to go, no relief from the heat anywhere; the blackout has stopped even time. People sit around wherever they happen to be, or walk by outside the windows, limp and red-eyed, sticky with sweat. Everyone going about whatever they do in dim darkness inside and bright swe..>> view originalSet in New York, Fit for the Hammock
Among them are two other debut novels, “Golden Hill,” a romp through the pre-Revolutionary city of 7,000 whose indelible immigrant dreams and moneymaking echo in today’s metropolis, by Francis Spufford, another accomplished author, and “Bed-Stuy Is Burning” by Brian Platzer.Graham Moore’s “The Last Days of Night” fictionalizes the highly charged late-19th-century rivalry between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse over the respective merits of direct and alternating current. Kim Stanley Robin..>> view originalLiquid city: A New York waterfront walking tour
New York (CNN) — It's easy to forget as you walk along the hard crust of a midtown Manhattan sidewalk, your view hemmed in by mountainous office towers, that New York City is made mostly of water. Drift toward the island's edge, though, where the sun flares on a tranquil, untrafficked expanse, and you see why the city was born and grew up where it did. New York magazine's Justin Davidson. The border of that sixth borough runs more than 500 miles, a shoreline more extensive and more varied than t..>> view originalCan Small Businesses Survive New York City?
The sign also drew reporters’ attention. “I’m responsible for 25 families — the families of people that work for me,” my dad told a Time magazine reporter. “What’s going to happen to them if I pull out? As bad as I got hit, there are other guys that got wiped out. What’s going to happen if they can’t reopen? What can the city and the government do to keep people like us from leaving these neighborhoods?” My dad knew he needed help from the city to rebuild his business. Just two years earlier, ..>> view originalFloyd Mayweather's bodyguards just surrounded Conor McGregor ...
The Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor world media tour stormed into New York on Thursday with the fighters unleashing more profanity-laced attacks on each other as they looked to build up interest in their light middleweight boxing bout. On the third stop of four-day, four-city barnstorming blitz to promote their Aug. 26 Las Vegas clash, the witty barbs that characterised their exchanges Los Angeles and Toronto were replaced by what appeared to be real venom. Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) cham..>> view originalPolitical sewer is New York state's ultimate disgrace
What in the world will it take for New York to clean up the sewer of its politics? That is the question raised by the 2nd Circuit’s stunning decision to vacate the conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. Neither the feds nor the state were prepared to charge Mayor de Blasio for his favors and fundraising practices, which stank out loud. Ex-state Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno was convicted of federal fraud charges, but, as in Silver’s case, had the verdict overturned on appeal. ..>> view originalThe Awful Decline of the New York City Subway System
Okay, what the hell happened to the New York subway?It wasn’t so long ago that New Yorkers could smugly look to cities like Boston (Aww, what a darling toy train!) and Washington (Six whole lines? Adorable!) and appreciate the scope and reliability of their underground transit system.But between fare hikes, overcrowding, frequent breakdowns, mechanical failures, signal gaps, janky cars, and rickety tracks, New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is facing millions of angry riders and ..>> view originalClinton and Bush are total bros
George W. Bush and Bill Clinton sounded more like a Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin at the Presidential Leadership Scholars conference in Dallas. The two former Presidents poked fun at each in the light-hearted appearance Thursday at the George W. Bush Presidential Center. “Why do I have a friendship with him?” Bush said when asked about his relationship with Clinton. “Well, he’s called a brother with a different mother.” The duo spoke about their grandkids and life post-White House. “I painted bec..>> view originalWhere do New York City's artists live?
In New York City, the old refrain goes a little something like this: Artists move into a neighborhood, make it cool, get pushed out by rising housing costs as area ...>> view original
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