Bag Fee for New York City Is Delayed by State Legislature A proposed city law that would have charged shoppers 5 cents for each disposable bag taken at the checkout counter will almost certainly be postponed. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York…
Posts published in “New York City”
If the Islanders Need a New Home, Hartford Says, How About Here? With the Islanders’ future in Brooklyn in question, the Connecticut capital invited the team to use XL Center as an interim or long-term arena. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York…
An Icy International Rivalry With Warm Relations In a renewal of a competition contested every five years, a team of Scottish curlers made a stop on their American tour to face a team in Westchester County. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York…
City Comptroller Blocks Contract to Buy Body Cameras for Police Officers The office of Scott M. Stringer, the comptroller, said he needed questions answered before he could sign off on a $6.4 million deal. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
His Future With Knicks in Doubt, Derrick Rose Chases Improvement Rose, who has missed the team’s past three games with a sprained left ankle, said he tries “to be better every game, every practice, every day.” {$excerpt:n} Source: New York…
New York Changes How It Tests for Lead in Schools’ Water, and Finds More Metal In new tests after experts raised concerns, New York has found many more water outlets with significant levels of the metal than it did last…
Critic's Notebook: Men’s Runways Are Threaded With Dissent At New York Fashion Week: Men’s, John Varvatos, Raf Simons and Willy Chavarria make the case for internationalism during a fraught political moment. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
F.Y.I.: The Story of Sweet Marie and an Earlier Women’s Protest The woman, whose real name was Marie Ganz, was perhaps the most colorful figure in the Food Riots of 1917, which broke out in Brooklyn. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York…
Big Ticket: Top Sales Include Billy Bush’s Chelsea Townhouse The sale of the former ‘Today’ host Billy Bush’s Chelsea townhouse was one of the notable closings in the city in January. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
10 Things to Do in NYC Now It’s a big city, with plenty to do, see, hear and watch. Here’s a sampling of cultural highlights this weekend and over the week ahead. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Renters: A Move to the West Village for a Good School Seeking good public schools, a family leaves their Brooklyn townhouse for a two-bedroom in the West Village. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
New York Today: New York Today: Our Football Hall of Fame Friday: Talking points for your Super Bowl party, weekend events, and the Beatles’ first trip to our town. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Shaken and Stirred: A ‘Pounder’ of a Cocktail at the Reinvented Chumley’s A Greenwich Village bar is back in business a decade after that unfortunate wall collapse. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Sunday Routine: How the Model Andreja Pejic Spends Her Sundays: Yoga and a ‘Pig Out’ Brunch Ms. Pejic, the first transgender model profiled in Vogue, also says she likes to step outside her “personal bubble” and catch up on current…
360 View: Write an Essay, Win This House A couple hope to free themselves of a Catskills vacation home by running an essay contest with an entry fee, and bestowing the house on the winner. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times