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March 18, 2015 Liam Mathews

NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer examined Census data and confirmed that full-time workers in New York have a longer average workweek than their counterparts in 29 other American cities, according to Crain’s. The average New York workweek, from CEO to security guard, totals 49 hours. That includes commute time. The biggest reason for the extended workweek, […]

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March 14, 2013 Samer Kalaf

Do you use the bus system? Do you feel like a total dumbass at your stop waiting for a bus that seems like it’ll never show up, even though it’s only a couple minutes before the scheduled arrival time which is entirely dependent on the consistency of bus drivers? Then you start worrying, “Maybe it crashed,” and […]

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March 4, 2013 Samer Kalaf

Poor Santiago Munoz. The 14-year-old from Queens is a student at the Bronx High School of Science. Munoz, who lives in Far Rockaway, wakes up at 5 a.m. each school day, taking two hours and twenty minutes to get to school and usually two hours and forty minutes to get back. The trek requires two […]

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