The East River Ferry is celebrating six months of service, and has announced that you can climb aboard their vessels for free today, all day, and they’ll even be giving you free coffee from Brooklyn Roasting Company this morning. Even if the ferry came in last in our commuter race (by a half hour!), it is the most scenic way to get to where you’re going. Plus, even though it may rain a little today, it’s going to be a downright balmy 53 degrees! [ more › ]
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Free Ferry Rides (And Coffee) On The East River Today!
Nine years later the Iraq War ended with a whimper yesterday. ” After a lot of blood spilled by Iraqis and Americans, the mission of an Iraq that could govern and secure itself has become real, ” Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said at a ceremony at Baghdad’s international airport yesterday. “To be sure, the cost was high—in blood and treasure for the United States, and for the Iraqi people. Those lives were not lost in vain.” [ more › ]
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Mission Accomplished: The Iraq War Is "Over"
A year and a half in the making, REI finally opened its SoHo store today in the Puck Building and we dropped by to check the space out. The 35,000 square foot, three-level store is the company’s first in New York City. The new location has a ground-level service center for quick fixes for bikes and skis, areas that showcase the history of the Puck Building and items recovered/restored during the renovation, and a gear rental shop. There’s also a community room for classes, and a meeting space for the store’s non-profit partners. One major thing missing, however, is the climbing wall that is a fixture at many REI locations. [ more › ]
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Photos: REI SoHo Opens Its Doors in the Puck Building
A pedestrian walking by West 57th Street and 10th Avenue was killed by a motorcyclist that struck him. According to WCBS 2, “Police say a 22-year-old woman driving the motorcycle hit the man while he crossed the street at 57th and 10th Avenue just before 3 a.m.” [ more › ]
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Pedestrian Killed By Motorcyclist At West 57th & 10th Ave.
For someone who spent millions getting himself a third term as the mayor of New York City ( about $175 per vote !) Michael Bloomberg certainly seems ready to get back to his Bermuda estate. He’s sick of going to all those boring ceremonies (“I can’t wait for the last one. You have no idea.”), doesn’t care what happens here after he’s out (“My job is to sustain it for the next 781 days.”) and—despite there being 763 days until Bloomberg leaves the building—he has reportedly already started having city agencies write up his legacy. [ more › ]
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Bored Bloomberg Is So Ready To Be Out Of Here
Coupon clippers, keep your eyes peeled for great savings on the country’s hottest new Congressionally sanctioned treat: horse meat! Yes, that’s right, Congress has just lifted a five-year-old ban on funding horse meat inspections, which means that horse slaughterhouses in the US could be up and running in the next month. [ more › ]
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Coming Soon To A Supermarket Near You: Horse Meat?
The Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor is trying to get the dock workers’ union to enlist more blacks and Hispanics to work at ports in New Jersey and New York, but they’re finding that it’s heavy lifting. Today the Times reports that the International Longshoremen’s Association, which has controlled the ports for decades, has defied orders to diversify. Ordered by the Commission to submit a diverse list of candidates for temporary jobs unloading baggage from cruise ships, the union came up with 37 candidates. 33 were were white men, none were Hispanic—and the only black candidate on the list “did not really want a job,” according to the Commission. [ more › ]
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Longshoremen’s Union Defies Order To Diversify
Is the Occupy New School movement about to end? Last Thursday a number of students took over the school’s study space at 90 Fifth Avenue (in a building not owned by the college) and at first the school seemed okay with it, as long as the occupiers respected the space and the building’s other tenants. But as we saw yesterday with the “demands” some have written on the space’s walls, things haven’t worked out so great (we hear! The press isn’t allowed ). And now the building’s owner reportedly wants the protesters to shoo. And some students, like the one who sent in the above photos, seem to agree. [ more › ]
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Photos: Is Occupy The New School A Fire Hazard?
The latest episode of Cubes, —Mediabistro’s video series on office spaces— visits the 900,00-square-foot Hearst Tower near Columbus Circle in NYC. Featured: the Good Housekeeping Research Institute, where humanoids in white coats have been testing products such since the early 1900s. Below, please find a respite from the building’s signature glass and steel in the Good Housekeeping living and dining rooms, designed as soup-to-nuts replicas of the ones in the original Hearst building (the short, squat, Joseph Urban-designed 1920s building upon which Norman Foster’s 46-story tower now stands). The Video: · Cubes: Hearst [Mediabistro TV]
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Video Interlude: Come Tour the Good Housekeeping Living and Dining Rooms
One person was killed, and four others were injured after a two-alarm fire ripped through a house in Queens early this morning. It took 106 firefighter approximately two hours to stifle the blaze at 61st St. in Woodside. “There was heavy, heavy fire and we had to climb some fences two yards over to get to the back of the building,” said firefighter Ronnie Daly of Rescue 4. Once he smashed his way inside, he found an unresponsive 63-year-old man: “He was about 12 feet into the rear bedroom, on the ground, unconscious. It looked like he was trying to get out.” [ more › ]
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One Dead, Four Injured After Two-Alarm House Fire In Queens