The New York Music Project: Help Map The City In Song
Since its founding, New York has been an evergreen inspiration for musicians, from Gershwin to Dylan to the Beastie Boys. "Empire State of Mind," Jay...
Since its founding, New York has been an evergreen inspiration for musicians, from Gershwin to Dylan to the Beastie Boys. "Empire State of Mind," Jay...
nytimes.com | MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM | Posted 11.20.2009 | New York
New York's latest large-scale public art project is being exhibited in an unlikely space: your wallet. On the back of seven million MetroCards distrib...
nydailynews.com | By Oren Yaniv | Posted 11.20.2009 | New York
A pilot program at three locations where two or more riders can hop into a cab for a discounted fare should be rolling out next month, the Taxi & Limo...
nydailynews.com | By Lisa L. Colangelo | Posted 11.20.2009 | New York
Animal control officers set a trap at Rochdale Village after a coyote or similar creature was spotted prowling around a parking lot in the sprawling s...
AP | Posted 11.20.2009 | New York
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York's unemployment rate inched to 9 percent in October from 8.9 in September. State labor department officials say that's t...
Albany Watch | Posted 11.20.2009 | New York
A new Marist College poll that coincides with news today that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has decided not to run for governor found that ...
Dan Collins | Posted 11.20.2009 | New York
The Giuliani brand has deteriorated so much it's hard to imagine an office for which he might be suited. If this is the finale of his political life, fine. Good-bye, Rudy. See you on Fox. However, there's still that Senate seat...
Beau Friedlander | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics
There is no solving the problem of mass murder. We can only hope to move past it, and perhaps that the spiritual and emotional wounds of 9/11 will turn into the proud flesh of a new humanist outlook.
Steven Mesler | Posted 11.19.2009 | New York
There is no other organization in the city that covers as much ground as the Philoctetes Center. But it was gutted by Bernard Madoff, and its days are now numbered unless it gets a helping hand.
Posted 11.19.2009 | New York
Following earlier reports that former New York City mayor and Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani had decided not to enter the 2010 govern...
AP | ULA ILNYTZKY | Posted 11.19.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — Artist Jeanne-Claude, who created the 2005 Central Park installation "The Gates" and other large scale "wrapping" projects around the...
Posted 11.18.2009 | Impact
'Tis the season for the annual lighting of the UNICEF Snowflake. UNICEF Ambassador and actress Lucy Liu will light the UNICEF snowflake on Thursday, N...
Caryl M. Stern | Posted 11.20.2009 | Impact
If you are walking near Fifth Avenue and 57th Street in New York City or along Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and happen upon a crystal snowflake hovering overhead, please take a moment to consider why it is there.
nydailynews.com | Adam Lisberg and Erin Einhorn | Posted 11.18.2009 | New York
Mayor Bloomberg's administration quietly reported an unexpected tax windfall of $683 million this year - of which $145 million will exempt cops, firef...
The New York Observer | Irina Aleksander and Meredith Bryan | Posted 11.18.2009 | New York
After years spent ducking through secret doorways past relentless doormen, suffering low ceilings, taxidermy, Mary Kate Olsen, the French Vogue editor...
nytimes.com | JEREMY W. PETERS | Posted 11.18.2009 | New York
New York State would make it a felony to drive while intoxicated with a child in the vehicle and would require first-time convicted drunken drivers to...
Nick Antosca | Posted 11.18.2009 | Books
The Book Expo America organizers should watch and learn from the National Book Foundation's 5 under 35 event, which took place Monday night at Brooklyn's PowerHouse Arena.
Posted 11.18.2009 | Impact
Have trouble understanding modern art? Impact sought out some special exhibits that seek to make a change in the world, be it through raising awarenes...
The New York Daily News | Gary Myers | Posted 11.17.2009 | Denver
Just as New York football fans are finishing up their holiday dinner on Thanksgiving night in 11 days, the Giants will be getting ready for kickoff 1,...
Melissa Plaut | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York
When you swipe your card, the driver has to pay a hefty 5% extra. Why are New York's cabbies paying so much? Because of all the middlemen. A few people are making truckloads of money on drivers' backs.
nytimes.com | JEREMY W. PETERS | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York
Gov. David A. Paterson took to the radio, trying, in interviews on half a dozen stations, to add a sense of urgency to the budget negotiations, and re...
Will Schwartz | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York
We were perversely short-sighted with the way we handled Eliot Spitzer. We prioritized our blood lust for personal justice over our desire for effective public policy.
AP | BETH J. HARPAZ | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York
NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Jeremiah Miller calls the time Barack Obama spent in New York "the lost years," because that period from 1981 to 1985 is...
AP | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York
CORAM, N.Y. — Police say a man who had locked himself and his mother in her Long Island home died after he tussled with officers and was zapped ...
Julie Menin | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York
it should indeed be a jury of New Yorkers, the community who was most adversely impacted by the horrific events of September 11th, who decide Mohammed's fate.
Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 11.20.2009 | New York