NEW YORK (AP) — Emily Langmead was hesitant when she first heard of free Wi-Fi in the subway. Like many New Yorkers, she wondered what the catch was. But now, she says, she uses it all the time. One month in to wireless service being provided in six New York City subway stations, commuters like [...]
Ryan Gosling reportedly saved an ambling British journalist from being hit by a New York City taxi Tuesday night. Laurie Penny– a reporter for The New Statesman, The Independent, The Guardian, Al-Jazeera, and The Nation–tweeted that she began to cross 6th Avenue while looking the other way (because Brits drive on the left side of the [...]
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Layoffs hit nearly 3 percent of teachers in New York this year, according to a survey released Tuesday by the state Council of School Superintendents. That translates into more than 7,000 teacher layoffs, said Richard C. Iannuzzi, president of the New York State United Teachers union. Another 4,000 unfilled positions were [...]
New York’s funniest consumer advocate, Mark Malkoff (you may remember him for bringing a goatinside an apple store, outpacing a city bus on a tricycle, and visiting all 171 Manhattan Starbucks in 24 hours) is worried that, because of the recession, many New Yorkers can no longer afford to take a taxi To do his part promoting this [...]
HERKIMER, N.Y. — A New York woman is accused of running over a bound man who she said promised her $180,000 if she ended his life, but police said they have no evidence he wanted to die. Francis Nelson, 74, was found dead, his hands and feet still tied, near his abandoned car on a [...]
This week is National Sex Ed Week, and for the first time in 20 years, we’re celebrating it knowing New York City will now require sex education to be taught in schools. This news is exciting. For too long, too many of our teens have gone without comprehensive, age-appropriate, medically accurate sexuality education. Our health statistics [...]
300 people showed up at a rally in Brooklyn Wednesday night as a show of force against sexual predators who have raped one woman and sexually assaulted nine others since March in three adjacent neighborhoods, and to show police that they demand more protection, CBS News reports. Protesters chanted “People unite! Take back the night!” and [...]
WASHINGTON — A town clerk in Ledyard, N.Y., is standing in the way of letting a same-sex couple tie the knot, even though the state legalized marriage equality in June. Rose Marie Belforti, the town clerk for the small town of Ledyard, has publicly stated that she will not sign marriage licenses for same-sex couples [...]
The Naked Cowboy isn’t the only showing some skin in Times Square these days. From The New York Daily News: Zoe West, 21, who was being painted by artist Andy Golub, was hauled by cops to a midtown precinct house once she bared her buff body to a shocked matinee crowd at the pedestrian plaza at 44th [...]
With the stroke of a pen just before midnight on Friday, Governor Andrew Cuomo legalized gay marriage in New York, making the state the sixth and by far the largest to have a same-sex marriage law on the books. The victory is all the more remarkable because it comes just two years after gay marriage [...]
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