Stories tagged "nyc"

A college honors student found dead with an electrical cord wrapped around his neck apparently was suffocated with a pillow during a robbery by a stranger he invited to his Manhattan apartment, police said Tuesday.

Ms. Sanz, a 33-year-old Jamaican immigrant who had donated a kidney in 2004 to save her husband’s life, was run down by a van driven by a 72-year-old man with 21 suspensions and 3 revocations on his license.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed a renewable energy program for New York city that would include placing windmills on city bridges, solar panels on skyscrapers, and the use of tidal, geothermal and nuclear energy.

A review of the AMNH horse exhibit - includes images and video!

Here’s a bit of trivia about NYC fashion; did you know that the name for nylon stockings was originally derived from New York and London - the two cities where this useful material was first developed as an alternative to silk?

When she was arrested in Afghanistan last month, Aafia Siddique allegedly had in her possession maps of New York, a list of potential targets that included the Statue of Liberty, Times Square, the subway system and the animal disease center on Plum Island

Find evidence of the good conduct that surrounds us all the time and bring it to greater public attention - the person who goes out of their way to help someone else...

Flameproofing violation. The FDNY, the Building Department and the Health Department enforces regulations that require all decorations, drapes and curtains, scenery and other materials used for artistic enhancement inside public buildings to be either no

  What is flameproofing? Flameproofing is the process of treating both natural and synthetic materials to prevent existing fires from spreading and to reduce the risk of new fires starting.  Materials that have been subjected to flameproofing treatments

Starbucks happy days in New York City may be unhappily numbered.