Archive forJuly, 2008
July 31, 2008 @ 11:59 pm
· Filed under Moore Street Retail Market, Williamsburg (NYC)
A year and a half after the city proposed closing the Moore Street Retail Market in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the market’s scrappy vendors are on the verge of signing a five-year lease.
Permalink
July 31, 2008 @ 11:58 pm
· Filed under Greenwich Village (NYC), Roofs
A maintenance worker fell from the roof of a five-story building to his death in Greenwich Village on Thursday night, the police said.
Permalink
July 31, 2008 @ 11:57 pm
· Filed under Administration for Children's Services, Duncan, Lethem, Embezzlement, Frauds and Swindling, Koeltl, John G, Thompson, Stay
Prosecutors have said Lethem Duncan took part in schemes to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars intended for the care of children with disabilities or special needs.
Permalink
July 31, 2008 @ 11:57 pm
· Filed under Harlem (NYC), House of Representatives, Rangel, Charles B, Rent Control and Stabilization
The resolution accused Representative Charles B. Rangel of “dishonoring himself and bringing discredit to the House” by occupying four rent-stabilized apartments and using one as a campaign office.
Permalink
July 31, 2008 @ 11:55 pm
· Filed under Baby Foods, Computers and the Internet, Gerber Products Co, Hoaxes, Poisoning and Poisons, YouTube.com
A New York City man who claimed that he had poisoned millions of bottles of baby food because he wanted to kill black and Hispanic children was arrested on Thursday.
Permalink
July 31, 2008 @ 11:55 pm
· Filed under Credit and Money Cards, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York City Transit, Subways, Transit Systems, Vending Machines
A faulty encryption device caused the widespread breakdowns of MetroCard vending machines on Monday and Tuesday, New York City Transit officials said.
Permalink
July 31, 2008 @ 11:54 pm
· Filed under Budgets and Budgeting, National Press Club, New York State, Paterson, David A
Gov. David A. Paterson asked the federal government for assistance and said that social programs like education and health care were not immune from cutbacks.
Permalink
July 31, 2008 @ 11:54 pm
· Filed under Brazil, Brazilian Voice, Illegal Immigrants, Immigration and Refugees, Lotteries, Newark (NJ), Rumors
The tale of the Brazilian lottery winner is an example of how rumors in one immigrant corner of one American city can quickly reverberate thousands of miles and a hemisphere away.
Permalink
July 31, 2008 @ 11:54 pm
· Filed under Environment, Everglades (Fla), Florida, Florida Crystals, Refineries, Sugar, U.S. Sugar, United States Sugar
In a plan to save the Everglades, Florida officials and a family-run sugar company are seeking a delicate balance.
Permalink
July 31, 2008 @ 11:50 pm
· Filed under Economic Conditions and Trends, New York City, Nineteen Hundred Seventies, Paterson, David A, Studio 54
Evocations of a grim financial past are making some New Yorkers gulp hard and wonder if the ’70s are making a comeback.
Permalink
July 31, 2008 @ 11:48 pm
· Filed under Company Reports, Exxon Mobil Corp|XOM|NYSE, Royal Dutch Shell Plc|RDS.A|NYSE
Record earnings for Exxon, the world’s largest publicly traded oil company, have become routine as the surge of oil prices in recent years has filled its coffers.
Permalink
July 31, 2008 @ 11:46 pm
· Filed under Airbus Industrie, Airlines and Airplanes, Boeing Co|BA|NYSE, Oil (Petroleum) and Gasoline
Despite a multiyear backlog of airplane orders at both Airbus and Boeing, aircraft manufacturers are seeing troubling signs among their customers.
Permalink
July 31, 2008 @ 11:46 pm
· Filed under Center for Land Use Interpretation, Hudson River Valley (NY), Sing Sing Correctional Facility, Travel and Vacations
The Hudson, once a source for art, commerce and industry, is now focused on tourism, recreation and real estate.
Permalink
July 31, 2008 @ 11:45 pm
· Filed under Federal Reserve System, Labor, United States Economy, Wages and Salaries
The Federal Reserve’s policy makers assume that people eventually demand and get higher pay, but they differ sharply on how quickly that pressure could emerge.
Permalink
July 31, 2008 @ 11:39 pm
· Filed under Economic Conditions and Trends, Merrill Lynch & Co, Thain, John A
Is the fear that John A. Thain, chief of Merrill Lynch, showed in dumping securities for pennies on the dollar an indication that the stock market bottom has been reached?
Permalink
July 31, 2008 @ 11:26 pm
· Filed under Uncategorized
Palm’s $99 Centro smartphone has proved to be surprisingly popular, especially with young women and people who have never used a smartphone before.
Permalink
July 31, 2008 @ 11:20 pm
· Filed under Company Reports, Motorola Inc|MOT|NYSE
Lagging mobile phone sales continue to plague Motorola, once a mobile leader, as it readies a plan to spin off the cellphone operations into a separate company.
Permalink
July 31, 2008 @ 11:20 pm
· Filed under Books and Literature, Lace, Salem (Mass)
A novel about Ipswich lace has received so much attention that William Morrow bought it and is promoting it with a contest set in the author’s hometown, Salem, Mass.
Permalink
July 31, 2008 @ 11:20 pm
· Filed under Art, Wilson, Louise
Jane and Louise Wilson at 303 Gallery, John Armleder, Olivier Mosset, Haim Steinbach at Nicole Klagsbrun, “The Future as Disruption” at the Kitchen and more.
Permalink
July 31, 2008 @ 11:19 pm
· Filed under Books and Literature, Bottomless Belly Button (Book), Cartoons and Cartoonists, Comic Books and Strips, Divorce, Separations and Annulments, Shaw, Dash
In Dash Shaw’s engrossing 720-page graphic novel, three generations of the Loony family spend a week together at their beach house coping with the divorce of the clan’s grandparents.
Permalink
« Previous entries