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For me, Grand Central is the last bastion of an American grandeur, when traveling was an elegant enterprise free from shoe checks and body scans. This month traveling through my favorite train station gets even better.
Imagine expanding the number of tidal turbines in NYC's East River over the next ten years -- enough to ultimately generate about 1 megawatt of electricity, enough to power 9,500 New York homes.
It goes without saying that everyone loves a good party, from President Obama, who has hosted dozens of celebrity-filled parties, all the way dow...
Children's Aid will be expanding its reach and implementing best practices codified over many years when it opens its first community charter school in the Morrisania section of the South Bronx in August 2012.
At one point in time, the Greek American painter Theodoros Stamos was at the forefront of the Abstract Expressionist Movement.
Duck is one of those ingredients we tend to look at in the grocery store and then move on to the chicken section instead. Why? Because often we are not sure how to prepare it and this scares us!
Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently proposed cracking down on alcohol sales in an attempt to curb the city's alcohol abuse problem. It's logical that reducing alcohol availability will in turn reduce sales and decrease use and abuse.
I couldn't bring myself to deliver the lines I was coached to say. So, I did what any reasonable, starving New Yorker would do. I lied.
Metal detectors at school entrances make many New York City schools feel more like prisons than places where young people want to be and contribute to the sense that these are not a place where people are respected.
When challenges and frustrations arise, I've learned to stop in that very moment, take a breath, and find a more centered resolution to the problem at hand.
More often than not being an only in NY means you have your own room, you play with friends, and if your parents have the opportunity you are thrust into a sea of onlys at every minute of your formative years.
Paul Schweitzer stands like a relic from a bygone era in a three-piece suit and tells us that he fixes typewriters for a living. His story needs to be told precisely because he makes up the fabric of this city.
I was left thinking the Cleanweb is a powerful concept with important implications for the future of clean technology and the environment. And with this weekend's hackathon, it is reaching takeoff velocity.
In Manhattan's China Town, dragons are parading through the streets and hundreds of people are visiting Buddhist temples to pray for good fortune. Across the world, others do the same.
Compared to owning a place, renting is supposed to be a pretty hassle-free existence. If your dishwasher leaks or the window won't open, you tell your landlord and someone comes to fix it. That's the theory.
Chefs get their inspiration from so many sources. And Anthony Goncalves is now taking his inspiration from chefs who hail from the country of his heritage, Portugal.
