Tag: New York
New legislation goes before the City Council today that would potentially allow drivers to return to their spots after the street sweepers pass on “alternate side parking” days. Due to parking shortage, the 90-minute parking restrictions currently result in double-parked cars, traffic jams, and other inconveniences. If the bill passes, the spots will be open […]
At least 20 people were shot in New York City over the weekend, with incidents in every borough. There were nine shooting victims in Brooklyn, five in Manhattan, four in the Bronx, one in Queens and one on Staten Island. Three have died. The total number of shootings so far in 2014 is lower than it […]
Today, New York state’s highest court refused to reinstate the city’s limits on the sale of big sodas, losing its final appeal. The Bloomberg initiative with the Board of Health had “exceeded the scope of its regulatory authority,” the court ruled. In a 4-to-2 vote, the judges upheld the previous ruling against the ban by two lower courts. The […]
“It doesn’t matter if you believe or not, it doesn’t withdraw you from the battle,” says former NYPD sergeant Ralph Sarchie, “a highly regarded demonologist.” This mini-documentary style clip is being released to promote Deliver Us From Evil, a Hollywood film starring Eric Bana based on the novel of the same name, based on the “100% true accounts” of […]
Spotted by a police officer near the Bronx Community College, this large animal was a mystery, until a biodiversity lab at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences identified it as a fisher. A member of the weasel family, fishers populate forest areas from Virginia to Quebec, but a rare to the New York City […]
Since the installation of GPS trackers which record the beginning and end locations of each trip, taxi rides have been automatically creating a massive amount of data. Artists Chris Whong and Andrés Monroy used New York’s Freedom of Information Law to get access to this data, and Eric Fischer — one of our favorite data cartographers — created this map visualization. Here are […]
As part of an ongoing annual tradition in the city, thousands of tenants are typically let down en masse when the Rent Guidelines Board approves a dramatic rent hike. But this year, in an extremely rare move, there will only be a 1 percent increase on one-year leases and a 2.75 percent increase on two-year leases for rent […]
The 32nd annual Mermaid Parade took place on Saturday. Like in previous years, Coney Island was flooded with festive and scantily clad people dressed as mermaids, sea creatures and other things, including Dante and Chiara de Blasio, who were given the distinction of King Neptune and Queen Mermaid. Not to be outdone by their kids, Mayor Bill de Blasio […]
New efforts are being made this summer to bring fresh produce and other nutritional food to bodegas, particularly those in neighborhoods where grocery stores are scarce. The New York Times reports that Hunts Point’s wholesale warehouse Jetro Cash and Carry (which supplies many of New York’s bodegas) is teaming up with City Harvest, Hostos Community College and […]
The city is bolstering its rat extermination program starting next month, adding nine employees to the 45 city inspectors specializing in rodent infestations. A special pilot program has become necessary because heavily infested neighborhoods — West Harlem, Chinatown, the Lower East Side and the South Bronx – haven’t improved from attempts to poison and sterilize the […]
