NEW YORK — Smoking in New York City’s parks, beaches, boardwalks, pedestrian plazas and other public spaces will be banned from May 23 despite complaints about excessive meddling by government in people’s private lives.
You’re walking to work, making good time, and then… someone steps in front of you, moving at a snail’s pace. Or a tourist blocks your path to snap a picture. Or some knucklehead in front of you is focused on their Blackberry, not where they’re going.
Fresh financial pain is on the way, with price hikes expected on everything from underwear to cereal.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is upset that the city will not receive all the funds it requested from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to help cover the costs for the Dec. 26 blizzard.
After springing ahead to balmy temperatures, the city will fall back to more chilly weather this weekend.
To most taxi riders, $100,000 left in the back of a cab is as good as gone, but John James is a lucky man.
The Department of Sanitation has spent almost twice as much as it had budgeted for snow removal operation this year.
Patients seeking care at New York hospitals spend nearly five hours in emergency rooms — among the worst rates in the country.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg today addressed the controversy surrounding his whereabouts during the December blizzard, after the Wall Street Journal published a story today that essentially confirms that he was in Bermuda during the storm.
ALBANY — The number of New Yorkers on food stamps has soared to a record 3 million – an 11% jump from 2009 and a 65% increase in the past five years, the Daily News has learned.
It’s so hard to keep the elevator in your house in good shape these days. Just ask Mayor Bloomberg. Five times in the last 10 years, inspectors have reported the five-story elevator in his upper East Side townhouse was “unsatisfactory.”
The city will continue to furlough workers who fill potholes rather than go full-strength in the war against craters, officials said.
With New York’s alternate-side parking rules finally back in effect, one might think that the city would show some leniency toward the unmoved.
Think again.
Talk about chutzpah! The city yesterday ended its two-week suspension of alternate-side parking rules and slapped drivers with tickets for not moving their cars so plows could clear the snow from curbsides — and then, no plows came through anyway.
New York motorists need to buckle up and hold on tight, because it’s getting bumpy out there. This year’s harsh winter weather is wreaking havoc on the city’s roads, causing thousands of potholes to emerge across the five boroughs.
Misconduct complaints against New York City police decreased by 18% in the first half of 2010 compared with the first six months of the previous year, according to a report released by the Civilian Complaint Review Board on Wednesday.
Just when New Yorkers thought they had seen it all this winter, along came a new cause for alarm on Wednesday: ice, a danger on the ground and from above.
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