In a front-page story two weeks ago, our reporter Sarah Portlock took a walk along the Fulton Mall shopping strip in Downtown Brooklyn and found that at least 11 chain stores have more than one location in that short eight-block stretch.
One store, Payless Shoes, has three!
Real-estate observers said that such saturation makes sense from a [...]
A white 2006 Toyota Matrix was reported stolen Thursday from Finish Line Auto on Route 940, police said Monday. The owner went to pick up the vehicle and found it wasn’t on the property.
This is the fourth vehicle reported stolen from that location since April 27, when three boys between the ages of 15 and [...]
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DESIGNER PRIEST Alfred A. Juliano.
So Mr. Saunders settled, instead, for a nightmare.%26#8220;I remember one day going through a book about [...]
The results of last month’s Chinatown raid were dramatic: over $1 million in seized counterfeit goods, 32 illegal vendors closed down and an entire block emblazoned with orange “closed by court order” stickers.
“Whoever you are, whatever you are, we are going to shut you down,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced at a news conference.
Yet only a [...]
“They don’t even have to hire someone to harass you anymore. The machine can do it for them,” said Ed Ott, executive director of the New York City Central Labor Council of the AFL-CIO. “The palm print thing really grabs people as a step too far.”The International Biometric Group, a consulting firm, estimated that $635 [...]
BACK when trucks were trucks and they were often tools of workmen, many states kept them off their parkways, wanting these scenic roads to be uncluttered by commercial vehicles. And most parkways in the New York City area, with their sharp turns, short ramps and poor lighting, were also not built for trucks and [...]
BACK when trucks were trucks and they were often tools of workmen, many states kept them off their parkways, wanting these scenic roads to be uncluttered by commercial vehicles. And most parkways in the New York City area, with their sharp turns, short ramps and poor lighting, were also not built for trucks and [...]
About half the city’s water supply passes through the tunnel from upstate reservoirs. Of the hundreds of millions of gallons that flow there every day, some 10 million to 36 million escape from cracks in a 45-mile stretch. Not only is it a waste, the leaks create sinkholes and other problems at the surface.The city [...]
Instead of dumping shots straight into the paper cups they’ll serve to customers, Starbucks baristas are getting back to pouring espresso into shot glasses first. “You get to see if it’s a quality shot of espresso,” store manager Justin Chapple, 25, said during a training session at a New York City store.Starbucks switched to automatic [...]
The play features eight stories of nine orphans on a train that left New York City on May 28, 1914. Performances are at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday and March 8 and 3 p.m. Sunday and March 9. Tickets are $5. Bring a lawn chair [...]
