The plunging Dow Jones and panicky
investors are hardly a problem for the world's
oldest profession, where business is still
brisk."The market is down, business is down, but we
feel it less," said Dylan, 24, a promotional
model-turned-Manhattan prostitute. "We're still
busy."
Israel
carried out a major military exercise
earlier this month that American officials
say appeared to be a rehearsal for a
potential bombing attack on Iran’s nuclear
facilities.
Official Name:
State of New York
Nickname:
The Empire State
Capital:
Albany
Largest City:
New York City
Admitted to Union July 26, 1788
Governor:
David A. Paterson
Population:
19,306,183 (2006)
Land Area and rank:
47,214 square miles
Median Household Income:
$45,343
Renderings of the 2009 Yankee stadium.
York Yankees Final Season 2008 Statue of Liberty
Subway and Bus Fares,
as approved by the MTA Board, December 2007, for MTA New York
City Transit, MTA Long Island Bus, MTA Bus
Base fare remains $2.00.
Base express bus fare remains
$5.00.
On Pay-Per-Ride MetroCard, an additional 15% is added to
card with the purchase or addition of $7 or more. (Cost per
ride would increase from $1.67 to $1.74.)
Introduce a 14-Day Unlimited Ride MetroCard that will
cost $47.
Cost of 7-Day Express Bus Plus
MetroCard remains $41.
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you will find information on all aspects of City housing,
including renting an apartment, buying a home, and apartment
maintenance issues. Through this site, you will also find all of
the City's affordable housing lottery listings.
UNTIL early last month, Debra Fierro drove each day from her home
in Charleston, near the southern tip of Staten Island, and parked
her white S.U.V. in front of Rubyfruit Bar and Grill, the Hudson
Street tavern that she opened in 1994. Ms. Fierro, 53, dressed in
running clothes, usually arrived around noon and took inventory for
that night’s dinner.
Giants, Jets end stadium naming
negotiations with Allianz over past Nazi ties
The developer of the new Jets and Giants
stadium has sacked Allianz following outrage
that the Nazi-linked insurance company was
vying for naming rights.
In a brief
statement Friday, the head of the New
Meadowlands Stadium said the company "is no
longer in discussions with Allianz."
MYERS: JETS, GIANTS DEAL WITH THE DEVIL
No reason was given, but a source said
the "emotional reaction" from the public to
a potential sponsorship deal was the major
factor.
The talks were called off just two days
after the Daily News disclosed that Jewish
groups and football fans were horrified at
the prospect.
Troubles on Wall
Street Make Shoppers Stop to Think Before They Buy
Two days after buying a $40 DKNY tie on sale at a
mall in Queens, Laumonte Williams went back to the mall on Saturday
to return it. After a week of financial chaos, Mr. Williams decided
that such a purchase suddenly seemed more of a luxury than a
necessity.
5 Family Members Die in Chelsea Apartment Fire
Kathy Creer, who lives a
floor down from where the
fire started, said she saw
soot seeping from under the
door to the apartment, in
public housing on West 18th
Street.
Five people, including three
children, were killed after a
fire swept through a sixth-floor
apartment in Manhattan’s Chelsea
neighborhood.
Newsstands of Tomorrow Get Mixed Reviews Today
They are like extraterrestrial visitors in
the tired streetscape, gleaming new
stainless-steel-and-tempered-glass
newsstands that carry grand lighted
advertisements. They’ve been dropping onto
the sidewalks of New York — quite literally,
as cranes swing them down from flatbed
trucks. So far, 97 of 330 have been
installed.
But there have been complications. The city’s new newsstands, all
of a standardized design, have drawn complaints from some about
their sameness, not to mention about leaking roofs, inadequate locks
that invite break-ins, and a design that has compelled some
operators to spend thousands of dollars on customization.
Lego's for the Grown-Ups
THE social event of the season in Locust Point, a quiet enclave
of tidy family homes along the East Bronx waterfront, took place
just over a week ago when a crane lifted two 18-ton halves of a
prefabricated house off flatbed trailers and stacked them like Legos
on an empty lot.
The whole neighborhood came out to watch,
sharing coffee and doughnuts while enjoying
the daylong spectacle on Tierney Place, a
two-lane street lined with manicured lawns.
“All the kids were amazed how that crane
just picked it up and dropped it,” said Nick
Virello, a contractor who lives down the
street. “It went up like an Erector Set. It
was extraordinary.”
Prefabricated homes made up of parts that
have been produced in factories, then
shipped in pieces and assembled on site, are
hardly new to New York. But this
prefabricated house on Tierney Place is
believed to be the first in the modernist
tradition to be erected in the city.
Modern prefabs, as they are often called,
have come into fashion in recent years;
examples have been featured in stylish
shelter magazines like Dwell and developed
by dozens of architects. The Museum of
Modern Art plans to exhibit five modern
prefabs in a lot beside the museum this
summer, and Resolution 4: Architecture of
Manhattan, the firm that designed the Bronx
house, has won awards for its
energy-efficient modern modular dwellings.
Profit and Public Good Clash in Grand Plans
The bitter battles over reconstruction plans for
ground zero. The unraveling of the Atlantic Yards development in
Brooklyn. And now this.
Given current economic realities, the Metropolitan Transportation
Authority’s selection on Wednesday of a team led by Tishman Speyer
to develop the West Side rail yards seems like a wishful fantasy.
Yet even if the project takes decades to realize, it is a damning
indictment of large-scale development in New York.
The Boy in the Bullpen
I BAREHANDED the Spaldeen
off the wall.
“Nice catch, Tommy,” Dad
said.
“Thanks,” I answered.
We continued our ritual,
Dad on the south side of East 85th Street
and me on the north. We played outside
Loftus Tavern on York Avenue.
Loftus, where my Dad
danced on the bar the night I was born seven
years before, in 1954.
He threw high ones off the
wall, teaching me how to play Fenway Park’s
left field. If I was going to play for the
Yankees, I had to conquer the Green Monster,
the most treacherous barrier in baseball.
I described the action to
the fans. “Oh, my! Tommy makes a shoestring
catch, whirls and fires a strike into second
base, robbing Carl Yastrzemski of a double.”
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Latest Design for 9/11 Museum Merges Old and New
The architect Craig Dykers has been working since 2004 on the
design of a museum building for the World Trade Center site. In the
end, he realized there could be no more powerful a centerpiece than
something Minoru Yamasaki designed 45 years ago.
Mr. Yamasaki, the original architect of the
twin towers, added one instantly
recognizable flourish to his otherwise
Spartan design: trident shaped columns that
created an arcade of almost Gothic
proportion at the base of the buildings.
Enough of these enormous steel tridents
survived the terrorist attack of Sept. 11,
2001, that their silhouettes came to
symbolize emergence from catastrophe.
Two
surviving tridents from the north tower,
each almost 90 feet tall, will return to
ground zero to be incorporated in the atrium
of the museum pavilion designed by Mr.
Dykers and his colleagues in the firm
Snohetta, which is based in Oslo and New
York. Their presence, the company said, is
meant to “convey strength, fortitude,
resilience, survival and hope.”
SANTO DOMINGO.- El Metro de Santo Domingo hizo hoy un
recorrido desde la estación Isabela y seis minutos más tarde llegó a
Villa Mella, donde se encuentra la última parada bautizada con el
nombre de Mamá Tingó.
Under chill gray clouds that gradually gave way to
patches of blue, the city paused on Thursday to observe the seventh
anniversary of a day that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said “began
like any other and ended like no other.”
Kissing the Earth Goodbye in About 7.59 Billion Years
If nature is left to its own
devices, about 7.59 billion years from now Earth
will be dragged from its orbit by an engorged red
Sun and spiral to a rapid vaporous death. That is
the forecast according to new calculations by a pair
of astronomers, Klaus-Peter Schroeder of the
University of Guanajuato in Mexico and Robert Connon
Smith of the University of Sussex in England.
Welcome
to the New York City Affordable Housing Resource Center. Here
you will find information on all aspects of City housing,
including renting an apartment, buying a home, and apartment
maintenance issues. Through this site, you will also find all of
the City's affordable housing lottery listings.
