De Blasio Proposes Taxi Surcharge to Fund Accessible Cabs
To make half of all New York City's taxis wheelchair-accessible by 2020, Mayor Bill de Blasio has proposed a 30-cent ...read more Via:...
City Room: New York Today: De Blasio’s Diversity
What you need to know for Thursday: the mayor's diversity record, another cold morning, and the habits of thrifty state ...read more Via:...
City Room: A Final Image of Lincoln, Hastily Sketched at City Hall, to Go...
When Abraham Lincoln was lying in state, no photographers or illustrators were allowed, but one mourner managed to capture his ...read more Via:...
Winning Lottery Numbers for April 11, 2014
Lottery numbers for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. ...read more Via: Winning Lottery Numbers for April 11, 2014
In Search of Agloe, N.Y., a Town on the Border of Fiction and Reality
Google recently removed Agloe, in the western Catskills, from its map, but how it endured on area maps for so ...read more Via:...
Governor and Mayor Clashing Again, This Time Over Homelessness
Andrew M. Cuomo told Bill de Blasio it is “too late” to restore a rent subsidy to the state budget ...read more Via:...
Bloomberg Plans a $50 Million Challenge to the N.R.A.
Michael R. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, said that gun control advocates had to learn from the ...read more Via:...
Armed Groups in Oregon Protest for Dogs Pants Freedom
#Oregonians have again been discriminated against by CNN. For decades Oregonians have been lumped in with #Portlandians. Most recently in #Portlandia series.But there is so...
Pushing to Rid New York City of Classroom Trailers, Even as Enrollments Grow
Over 7,000 city students are learning in trailers, which were intended to be a temporary solution to crowded schools but ...read more Via:...
City Room: In the Bronx, a Tribute to a Salsa Singer
Muralists are honoring the singer Cheo Feliciano, who died Thursday in a car accident in Puerto Rico. ...read more Via: City Room: In...
Theater Review: ‘These Paper Bullets!’ Opens at Yale Rep
With “These Paper Bullets!,” Rolin Jones and Billie Joe Armstrong have broadly adapted Shakespeare's “Much Ado About Nothing” into a ...read more Via:...
Queens Community Mourns 4 Friends Killed in Crash
The deaths of the young people, who were passengers in a car that plunged off a dead-end road and into ...read more Via:...
Family and Colleagues Mourn a Fallen Officer in Queens
A wake was held in Ozone Park for Dennis Guerra, 38, a married father of four who was killed in ...read more Via:...
Verdict Doesn’t Halt Debate Over Venue for Terror Trials
The debate continues over how and where international terrorists should be prosecuted, with opponents of civilian trials concerned that not ...read more Via:...
