Tag Archives: NYC

As much as everybody complains about Wall Street’s bonuses, their decline is one of the leading causes of tax woes for the city and state. New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says the state will lose nearly $1 billion in revenues because cash bonuses to Wall Street employees declined 44% last year. Mr. DiNapoli estimates in a report released Wednesday …

NYC’s iconic Flatiron Building is going to be converted to a luxury hotel. New Yorkers are happy to hear the iconic Flatiron Building may open as a world-class hotel, even if it is 10 years down the line. “This sounds like one development project that actually makes sense,” said Johnanna Acevedo, 36, who lives in the neighborhood and works in …

I guess this guy is going to be taken off the Sex And The City tour. Via Gothamist: At at a time when any decent baker should have been selling racially harmonious black and white cookies by the truckload, one Greenwich Village bakery popular with celebrities and shows like Sex and the City has outraged neighbors by selling a “Drunken …

So many people have filed for unemployment in 2009, the state of New York has had to borrow money from the feds to pay the claims. Despite paying lower benefits to its jobless residents than other Northeastern states, the state’s unemployment fund has been borrowing about $90 million a week from the federal unemployment trust fund, state officials said. The …

The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force holds a cocktail reception tonight in the West Village to kick off the 2009 New York Leadership Awards. The event takes place at Design Within Reach at 408 W.14 Street from 7pm – 9pm. More details here, where you can RSVP. This here website thingy will be a media sponsor of the awards, …

Kenneth Cole has put up this billboard over the West Side Highway near where Flight 1549 went down. Interestingly, it’s now being reported that the plane had engine trouble two days before going down in the Hudson and at that time the pilot (not Sullenberger) advised that an emergency landing might be necessary. (Via – Gothamist)

Cafe FiGo, 1st Avenue, 4pm Clerk: Do you want that toasted? Customer: Is the president black?

Flight 1549 was pulled from the Hudson at 2am this morning. Doesn’t look like a plane that just crashed, does it? The left engine is at the bottom of the Hudson, but divers haven’t located it yet

The New York Post is calling for an intifada against the Canadian geese who are wrongfully occupying the Gotham Strip. It’s time to kill the geese. It’s especially time to kill those geese most likely to wreck another jet airliner, much as a gaggle of Canada geese seems to have brought down US Airways Flight 1549 Thursday. This time, all …

The NTSB is attempting to remove the US Airways jet from the Hudson River, but the plane is now anchored in the ice. The jet is tied up to a seawall at Battery Park City at the southern tip of Manhattan about three miles downriver of the crash. More on the salvage effort and a photo gallery at Gothamist. JMG …

Chesley Sullenberger, 57, the pilot of the plane that crashed into the Hudson River yesterday, accomplished something never done in over 50 years of commercial aviation. When he brought his Airbus 320 to an as-perfect-as-possible landing, it was the first ever non-fatal emergency ditching for a passenger jetliner. Often, one of the wingtips will graze the water and cause the …

A US Airways jetliner has crash landed in the Hudson River just after takeoff at LaGuardia. The aircraft is in the center of the river approximately over the Lincoln Tunnel. Numerous commuter ferries have rushed to the scene to rescue passengers, many of whom are standing on the planes wings. Unconfirmed reports suggest the jet may have struck a flock …

The busiest record store in the country, Virgin Times Square, will be closing in April, much earlier than previously announced. The coming closure of the Union Square location was announced last year, but no final date of business is known. Music retailing, what little is left, has effectively been returned to the place from which it first sprang over 40 …

The MTA asked over 750,000 New Yorkers to grade their subway lines and the results sure wouldn’t get the system into the Honor Society. As usual, the Lexington Line (which serves the Upper East Side) got the lowest grade due to its overcrowding. The best grade went to the L, which runs from the West Village to Canarsie, Brooklyn.

New York Knicks star center Eddy Curry has been hit with a sexual harassment and racial discrimination suit by his former chauffeur. The stunning court papers claim Curry, a married father of three, repeatedly approached chauffeur David Kuchinsky “in the nude,” allegedly telling him, “Look at me, Dave, look” and “Come and touch it, Dave.” Curry also made Kuchinsky perform …

The NYPD is asking for federal permission to disrupt cell phone service in NYC in the event of another terrorist attack, citing the use of mobile devices to coordinate last year’s bombings in Mumbai. A draft copy of [NYPD Chief] Kelly’s statement to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security says the NYPD believes the Mumbai attacks could be a model …

There’s an interesting discussion making the rounds of NYC news blogs regarding what happened at a Jewish wedding reception last week. A 23 year-old Christian-raised cater waiter, who for five years had worked for a catering company that specialized in Jewish weddings, decided to express his sympathy for Palestinians by using the Woodbury Jewish Center’s PA system to broadcast some …

Over 1200 shivering Gothamites showed yesterday for Improv Everywhere’s annual No Pants Subway Ride. Check out Improv’s galleries of pants-less nonsense here.Photos credit: Katie Soloker.

There will be a fundraiser tribute party tonight for Mel Cheren, “the Godfather of Disco.” Top DJs and performers from the days of the Paradise Garage will perform. Get tickets here. Admission benefits LIFEbeat, AREA, and the Gay Men’s Health Crisis.

Surprising nobody, new data reveals that health costs and other benefits are wreaking havoc on NYC’s budget. Average salaries for NYC employees went up 33% since 2000 (very comparable to the 29% inflation rate since then), but the cost of employee benefits soared 186%. Overall compensation cost has risen 66% in just eight years. The NY Post points out that …