Tag: New York
Residents of Hampton Bays, Long Island have been finding bags of Jolly Ranchers and fliers inviting them to join the KKK’s Loyal White Knights strewn across their lawns and slipped into their mailboxes. The Southern Poverty Law Center told CNN this weekend that this is part of the organization’s seasonally-expanding efforts to gain members in several cities across the […]
According to the newest Quinnipiac data published in the Daily News, 68% of polled New Yorkers see no excuse for police violence which that lead to the tragic death of Staten Island man Eric Garner. Only 24% said the cops’ actions were understandable. 64% wanted the officer who placed Garner in the deadly chokehold to face criminal charges […]
According to a new report by the Citizens Budget Commission (CBC), New York City is not as expensive as everyone says, relatively speaking. Sure, rent prices are out of control, but it’s actually one of the country’s affordable major cities for a typical household — all because of our awesome public transportation system! “The report uses a […]
There are several swanky residential high-rises coming to Downtown Brooklyn. The developers of these luxury buildings need to fill a community board preference quota. There are roughly 1,000 affordable rent housing units planned for the neighborhood around BAM. These developers are now claiming that they can’t fill their quotas because there are not enough “qualifying” locals, DNAinfo […]
“I was sitting in traffic when all of a sudden a taxi jumped on the sidewalk,” writes YouTube dash-cam fan NY DashCams about his or her only video. Watch as a taxi driver decides to circumvent a traffic jam by brazenly driving down the sidewalk, getting stuck, trying to turn a corner, and getting stuck some more. […]
According to a new working study released by the National Bureau of Economic Research, New York City ranks as the least happy city in the US. The study sourced years worth of data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention based off a questionnaire that simply asked, “In general, how satisfied are you with your life?” The self-reported data […]
Today, New York’s Department of Financial Services has released a proposal [PDF] for a “BitLicense” regulatory framework, becoming the first state to create regulations specifically for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. WHO’S GONNA NEED A LICENSE? Exchanges, online wallet providers, escrow services, and the creators, administrators, and issuers of virtual currency now have to get a license from […]
Mayor Bill de Blasio has accomplished one of the central goals of his campaign by signing legislature which will offer municipal IDs to all New York residents, regardless of their immigration status. New York City Identity Cards will help previously disadvantaged groups such as the homeless, the elderly and members of the transgender community, to […]
Since the eleven-day transit strike of 1980, another transportation system formed in New York’s five boroughs — a network of unauthorized shuttle vans. After the bus and subway service returned, the vans remained in service, still charging a dollar to drive locals around in places where city transit was desperately lacking. The New Yorker created a […]
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton is on a mission to eliminate subway dancing. Earlier, Business Insider reported that subway panhandler and performer arrests have risen by 271% since he took office. Now, the AP reports that more than 240 people have been arrested on misdemeanors related to subway dancing in 2014; only 40 were arrested at the same time last […]
