A little known tax on New Yorkers’ electric bills helps state businesses go green. [NY Times]
Post-holiday retail sales may be disappointing citywide, but the 111 bus—which takes passengers to the Jersey Gardens mall and IKEA—has been packed. [NY Times]
The recession has canceled or delayed $5 billion worth of NYC real Read More
Yesterday, when we stumbled on the much-reported claims that Michael Jackson had some genetic disease we’d never heard of called Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (or A1AD)—which attacks the lungs and liver—and was suffering from severe gastrointestinal bleeding, emphysema, and 95 percent blindness in his left eye as a result, we thought, “Nah, couldn’t be.” We Read More
Manhattan DA indicts three supervisors and a subcontractor for gross negligence in the Deutsche Bank building fire, while the city escapes without a charge. [NY Times]
M.T.A. considering a proposal to raise single ride fares to $3. [NY Times]
The number of families housed in the city’s shelters jumped to 9,720 last Read More
U.S. Helicopter to resume its eight-minute flights from Wall Street to area airports after being forced to shut down on Nov. 1. [City Room]
A peak inside André Balazs’s Standard after its soft opening yesterday. [Curbed]
Two major Manhattan projects delayed: Jean Nouvel’s Tower Verre and Herzog & de Meuron’s Jenga-tower Read More
Suck sounds like one of those films that end up being more fun to gossip about than to watch. But since the thing isn’t coming out till next fall, we’ve got a good while to revel in the absurdity. To backtrack a bit: The flick, written and directed by Rob Stefaniuk, is a chronicle of Read More
Manslaughter charges expected to be announced later today against three construction supervisors and a subcontractor at the Deutsche Bank building. [NY Times]
Today begins New York’s mysterious (and much-needed) two-week eviction holiday. [NY Times]
Instead of layoffs, more employers are cutting down labor costs by introducing four-day workweeks, wage freezes, or unpaid Read More
Bush announces $17.4 million in aid for GM and Chrysler conditioned on a comprehensive reorganization of both companies and their future profitability. [NY Times]
Renaldo Clark, the second guy to scale the NY Times Building, pleads guilty to reckless endangerment. [City Room]
Bowing to intense City Council pressure, Bloomberg backs down from Read More
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It seems the RIAA has finally realized that suing single mothers, a 13-year-old girl, and a dead person for file-sharing might not be such a great idea for their public image. As per the Wall Street Journal this morning (via MBV), the RIAA has decided on a new, and we might say, more Read More
Plummeting CD sales—it’s become a holiday tradition for the music industry. And this year, what with the recession and all, things have certainly been no different. Coolfer has the latest SoundScan numbers and they’re not pretty. Fourth quarter CD sales are down a whopping 22 percent compared to the same period last year—that’s 45 Read More
