With power outages affecting an estimated two million people in the state on Tuesday, hundreds of thousands of them in New York City, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that the state Public Service Commission will monitor utility companies’ work to restore service. “On the restoration of power, we’re going to ask the Public Service Commission to […]
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Hurricane Sandy has already claimed one significant casualty in New York City: the boom on the roughly 700-foot-tall crane at the luxury One57 tower in Midtown Manhattan.
With the worst of the storm still to come, the World wanted to know: how are the rest of the city’s cranes likely to fare? How do operators go about securing their equipment hundreds of feet above the ground? And what does the city do to ensure the safety of construction sites?
Oral arguments could mark the beginning of the end for race-based admissions decisions at institutions of higher education – including New York’s
New York City and state both levy income taxes, and it is likely that some people pay them even when — thanks to tax credits and rebates — they owe nothing to Uncle Sam. And likewise, some people end up paying taxes in New York City even though they don’t owe anything to the state.
This week we launched a map showing where the NYPD is giving out pink slips for minor legal infractions, such as public drinking and riding a bike on a sidewalk. Now we would like to hear your opinion. Does the NYPD issue too many summonses or are pink slips necessary to keep order in the city?
Supporters of three imprisoned Russian members of the punk-rock performance group Pussy Riot were arrested today in New York City. Many wore masks in solidarity with the artists, who were sentenced on Friday morning to two years in prison for performing a “punk prayer” protesting President Vladimir Putin in Moscow’s central church. The members of […]
The limited options for targets of demands for private information
Meet the Public Service Commission, the obscure panel that decides what you’ll pay for power.
It all depends on where you live.
Meet the five City Council contenders who lead the pack for 2013.
