New York's mayor has issued the city's first-ever mandatory evacuation notices, as the US faces up to the arrival of Hurricane Irene. Low-lying areas around Manhattan and into Staten Island are at particular risk, according to projections issued by city authorities. The city's transport systems, including the subways and airports, are to shut from 12:00 on Saturday (16:00 GMT). Irene, a category two storm, is due to hit a swathe of east coast states. Boasting winds of 100mph (160km/h) as of 17:00 local time on Friday (21:00 GMT), Irene is due to make landfall in North Carolina on Saturday. North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Connecticut have all been placed under states of emergency. The mayor of Washington DC also declared an emergency in the US capital. More Herecomments?
By Samantha Stamler, CNN
New York (CNN) -- Apple Inc. has submitted plans to New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board to open a new store in Grand Central Terminal, potentially bringing in $5 million in revenue for the MTA, officials said.  story continues..comments?
by drake Wednesday 20-Jul-2011 43% of subway fare-beaters are kids, report finds, costing the MTA millionssaid by BY TREVOR KAPP AND PETE DONOHUE :Some of the subway's littlest riders are its biggest fare-beaters, a new study says.
Kids taller than 44 inches - the height limit for a free ride - made up 43% of fare-beaters observed by NYC Transit surveyors last year, an agency staff report says.
The "predominant mode of evasion is children over 44 inches ducking under turnstiles," the report says.
The surveyors noted that a subway surveillance camera even spotted a young boy enter without paying - and then open an emergency exit gate from the inside so his stroller-pushing mother could also ride free. Read more --> nydailynews.com comments?
by drake Tuesday 17-May-2011 By: NY1 News The city is considering a proposal that would shift thousands of yellow cabs outside Manhattan. It's the latest attempt to improve taxi service for New Yorkers outside Manhattan. The plan would create a new class of 6,000 so-called "borough taxis" that would only be allowed to make pickups outside Manhattan. • Continued at NY1.comcomments?
By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM / Published: May 10, 2011
Ticket-fixing was so prevalent among police officers in the Bronx that even a highway officer whose job was to administer Breathalyzer tests — the very tool used to determine if a driver is drunk — was himself caught on a wiretap trying to fix a ticket for someone, according to a person with knowledge of the contents of the wiretap. story continues..comments?
by cabana Wednesday 11-May-2011 By DAN BILEFSKY / Published: May 10, 2011 Deirdre Ruiz, left, and Sherry Davis ralled against the city's assessments of co-op buildings. But last week, amid fears that the assessed value of her co-op in Douglaston, Queens, could more than double, she took to the streets near City Hall in Manhattan as part of a boroughwide tax revolt that has combined Queens-style gumption with the antitax indignation of the Tea Party movement. “How it is possible that the values of our properties can go up by more than 100 percent during one of the biggest real estate declines in a generation?” asked Ms. Davis, 63, a sales representative for a Korean brush maker, during a public hearing last week on the issue at Queens Borough Hall. “This is the last affordable part of New York City — this isn’t Chelsea or the Upper East Side for goodness’ sake — and we risk being priced out of our own neighborhood.” The visceral anger of the rebels — many of them silver-haired school teachers, taxi drivers and retired nurses — was first fanned in January, when it began to emerge that the city’s Finance Department appeared to have made a mistake in assessing some properties in Queens and had accidentally inflated market values on some co-ops by as much as 147 percent, clearing the way for an increase in the owners’ property taxes Spotted herecomments?
By DAVID SEIFMAN
The city's Finance Department made a monumental blunder in the property-tax rolls, mistakenly boosting market values on some co-ops by as much as 147 percent, The Post has learned.
The whopping error then left the department scrambling to reduce the values of the 139 affected co-ops -- mostly in Queens -- by more than $300 million. story continues..comments?
By CHUCK BENNETT Two power plants in Queens are getting a massive windfall courtesy of everyday New Yorkers due to a controversial ruling that allows their owner to jack up electricity rates to make up for property taxes -- which the company is already excused from paying, a Post analysis found. Astoria Energy, a privately held company, pays zero in property taxes for its two massive facilities located along the East River in Astoria, according to city Finance Department records. Yet a recent ruling by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will allow it to factor in anywhere from $10 million to $20 million in property-tax payments when wholesale electricity prices are set. That could represent an undeserved windfall for the company when the new rates go into effect May 28, critics warn, as household customers could see their summer Con Ed bills leap by 12 percent or $5 to $8 a month. Spotted herecomments?
By Philip Newman
An annual report on the state of health in counties throughout the United States includes many examples of healthy counties next door to not-so-healthy neighbors with Queens and Brooklyn providing a telling contrast.
In the report “How Healthy Is Your County?” by the University of Wisconsin and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Queens is rated the city’s healthiest at No. story continues..comments?
The District Attorney of Organized Crime & Rackets Bureau in Queens New York busted an illegal gambling ring run by at least four organized crime members. Among those busted in this Mafia connected sports gambling ring which had a website and an offshore bank account to process over $8 million in two an a half years are Michael Palmaccio who’s charged with bookmaking, Ronald Salerno who’s charges are collecting debts, Cono Natale who’s charges are “being a runner” for the operation and Gerry Gullotti charged with loansharking. story continues..comments?
by drake Monday 04-Apr-2011 By: NY1 News Senator Charles Schumer is trying to save New Yorkers from a rate hike on their electric bill. The head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has agreed to another hearing on an approved utility surcharge granted to power companies. ... continued here at NY1.comcomments?
NEW YORK (AP/CBS New York) – Armies of emergency workers with plows and salt spreaders are hitting the streets across the Tri-State area as the snowstorm that caused mayhem in the South moved into the region, dumping more than a foot in some areas overnight.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said crews would work even harder after criticism of how the city handled a storm just after Christmas, when hundreds of streets went unplowed, subway riders were stranded and medical calls unanswered because ambulances were unable to navigate snowy streets. story continues..comments?
by Martin LaMonica
Lithium ion batteries aren't just for your laptop anymore. A group of truck-size battery banks are delivering quick bursts of power to the electricity grid in upstate New York. story continues..comments?
By Mike Mazzeo
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- Most athletes prefer Wheaties, “The Breakfast of Champions.”
New York Jets kicker Nick Folk, however, would rather start his day off with something a little more apropos. story continues..comments?
By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
Published: January 11, 2011
The federal government has accused New York City of overbilling Medicaid by “at least tens of millions of dollars” by improperly approving 24-hour home care for thousands of patients.
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan also insinuated that the city had cheated the federal government after a 2006 change in Medicaid rules relieved the city of having to contribute to the cost of the round-the-clock care. story continues..comments?
Matt Rosoff, On Wednesday October 20, 2010 Microsoft and New York mayor Mike Bloomberg held a press conference this morning to announce a big new contract for 100,000 city workers to use Microsoft software and services. The deal is expected to save New York about $50 million over the next five years, as a bunch of formerly separate contracts were consolidated into one. But the deal is also a good example of how Microsoft can use its existing contracts to win business for its cloud based services, like the Office 365 service announced yesterday. ... Read more @» finance.yahoo.com/news/Microsoft···=0&.v=6Related:DSLR: » [Info] Microsoft Just Cut A Big Deal With NYCcomments?
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TAMPA - FOX 13 has confirmed that New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner has died. He was 80. story continues..comments?
By RONALD BLUM, AP Sports Writer
NEW YORK (AP)—Bob Sheppard, whose elegant introductions of stars from Joe DiMaggio to Derek Jeter(notes) at Yankee Stadium for more than a half century earned him the nickname “The Voice of God,” died Sunday. He was 99. story continues..comments?
Pet Health Alert: Iams Announces Voluntary Recall of Cat and Kitten Food
On June 9, Procter & Gamble announced that it is recalling specific lots of Iams canned cat food as a precautionary measure. The affected products include all varieties of Iams ProActive Health canned cat and kitten food in 3- and 5.5-ounce cans and with expiration dates—printed on the bottom of the can—from 09/2011 to 06/2012. story continues..comments?
New York's state park system and those in more than 25 other states where facilities have closed or services have been reduced because of budget cuts have earned a spot on a national preservation group's annual list of the most endangered historic places. The National Trust for Historic Preservation is scheduled to announce its 2010 list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places Wednesday... Spotted Herecomments?
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