Tag: New York
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A small but growing movement wants you to put down your phone
More than a dozen millennials gathered in a brownstone apartment in Brooklyn and placed their phones in a metal colander before two hours of reading, drawing ... -
NYC Pilot and copilot killed in collision between jet and fire truck
Two people were killed and several others badly hurt when an Air Canada regional jet struck a fire truck on a runway while landing at New ... -
Police investigating after device thrown at anti-Islam protest in New York City
A counterprotester demonstrating against a “Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City” event Saturday lit and threw a device containing nuts, bolts and screws at ... -
Ex-NY governors’ aide got kickbacks for masks
A former aide to two New York governors is set to go on trial today [Macau time] on charges she sold her influence to the Chinese government ... -
Milan’s Via MonteNapoleone usurps NYC’s Fifth Avenue as most upscale shopping street
Shoppers laden with bags from Fendi, Loewe, Prada and other designer labels clog the narrow sidewalks of Milan’s swankiest shopping street, bringing joy to the purveyors ... -
Independence Day hot dog contest set for NYC — minus its usual muncher
The annual Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest will see a slate of competitive eaters wolf down as many franks as they can ... -
Trump suggests Chinese migrants are ‘here to build an army.’ The migrants tell another story
It was 7 a.m. on a recent Friday when Wang Gang, a 36-year-old Chinese immigrant, jostled for a day job in New York City’s Flushing neighborhood. ... -
A $15 toll to drive into part of Manhattan has been approved – a first for US cities
New York is on track to become the first U.S. city with congestion tolls on drivers entering its central business district after transit officials approved a ... -
‘Friends’ creators, actors, family mourn Matthew Perry
Matthew Perry was widely mourned this weekend by friends, co-stars and some very famous fans, including his childhood classmate, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau; his “Friends” ... -
Fossilized skeletons of aerial and aquatic predators to be auctioned by Sotheby’s
The fossilized skeletons of an aerial predator with a 20-foot wingspan and an aquatic reptile with a snake-like neck will be auctioned in New York this ...
