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amNY
April 13, 2018
NYC Train Sign burst onto the market in August 2017, but the company quickly proved it could not deliver on its promises, according to several customers. The company's co-founder admits to mistakes in his business model but insists he will still satisfy orders. Anthony Sylvester, of Woodside, said heÃâà...
NBC New York
April 13, 2018
As apartment-renting season in New York City kicks into high gear, home hunters can add a new AI-powered tool to their search arsenal. The mobile-first site Localize.city offers potential tenants simple but colorful information about the building and neighborhood of a given address. The website pulls dataÃâà...
Hotel Business
April 13, 2018
NEW YORK, NY—The Buccini/Pollin Group, Hidrock Properties and Embassy Suites by Hilton celebrated the opening of the 310-room Embassy Suites by Hilton New York Midtown Manhattan with a ribbon cutting, which was officiated by key officials from Embassy Suites by Hilton and development teams.
Business Insider
April 13, 2018
NEW YORK (AP) — Benedict Cumberbatch is back to reading passionate emotional letters onstage, this time in New York City. The British actor was one of many celebs who have taken part over the years in "Letters Live," which originated from London. Stars are given letters with highly emotional material to read, and theyÃâà...
Crain's New York Business (blog)
April 13, 2018
Complaints from restaurant owners about how hard their business has become are a regular feature of media stories, especially when a restaurant closes. But the number of open restaurants in the city is at a record high, according to statistics I requested from the city's Department of Health this week.
Commercial Observer
April 12, 2018
The February morning Commercial Observer met Escobar at 362 Fifth Avenue, his new office space, he'd already done a 7 a.m. site visit, completed a series of ... And his first New York City project, the one he said made him who he is here, and introduced him to people elsewhere, was The Gretsch at 60Ãâà...
Business Insider
April 12, 2018
Hudson Yards Ob Deck Journey Steel Raise 11 courtesy of Joe Woolhead.JPG A construction crew installs the observation deck at 30 Hudson Yards in New York City. Joe Woolhead Costing an estimated $25 billion, Manhattan's Hudson Yards neighborhood is already the largest real-estate development in AmericanÃâà...
Commercial Observer
April 12, 2018
Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream, a Brooklyn-based favorite, is on a tear with three new leases in New York City, Commercial Observer has learned. ... feet on the ground floor at 1625 Second Avenue between East 84th and 85th Streets, according to Jaime Schultz of Lee & Associates NYC, the broker forÃâà...
Commercial Observer
April 12, 2018
In addition to the Soho store, Muji has 14 New York City U.S. outposts. The company—which launched in Japan in 1980 and has 400 stores in that country, plus 400 in London—selects its new locations by using its “e-commerce sales to inform which locations are key markets for us,” Tsunoda added.
Crain's New York Business
April 12, 2018
That was the City Council's message Wednesday to small businesses as it passed sweeping anti-sexual harassment rules affecting both the private and public ... Manhattan Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal, who spearheaded the bundle of proposals—collectively called the Stop Sexual Harassment in NYCÃâà...
CBS New York
April 3, 2018
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo agreed with Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday night about setting a cap on ride-sharing vehicles operating in the city. It's a issue that has been debated for years: From late arrivals to overcrowding on trains, take a ride on any subway and there is a long listÃâà...
The Drive
April 3, 2018
The surcharges aren't insignificant (the Uber/Lyft surcharge equals the cost of one subway ride), and they make getting into New York City's busiest borough that much more expensive. Drivers face loss of business if passengers decide the cost of a taxi or ride-hailing service is too much. In statements, UberÃâà...
Streetsblog New York (blog)
April 3, 2018
Despite the mayor's repeated assertions that businesses, not workers, would bear the brunt of e-bike enforcement, delivery workers do pay directly. ... status of electric bicycles being operated on New York City streets,” and “NYPD will continue to work closely with the Department of Transportation to ensureÃâà...
Business Insider
April 3, 2018
In Tuesday's "New York Today" column in The New York Times, author Jonathan Wolfe stumbled across an extremely interesting fact: The interior of a New York City subway car is cleaned by hand — and it takes one person three and a half hours to do it. Wolfe shadowed 47-year-old Corey Skinner, who scrubs downÃâà...
CNN
April 3, 2018
It's the Evolution Store, a science- and art-lover's paradise in New York City's Greenwich Village, where locals and tourists alike have been coming for 25 ... In a city increasingly filled with chain stores and outposts of luxury brands, the Evolution Store is the rare family-owned small business that's not onlyÃâà...
The Cut
April 3, 2018
Last week, Jezebel reported that the New York City Human Rights Commission was launching an investigation into The Wing to determine whether the ... this can't be its business model, just as we would condemn all-male businesses, all-white businesses, all-Christian businesses, etc.,” the petition reads.
The CPA Journal
April 3, 2018
A new law, passed by the New York City Council on November 30, 2017, made significant changes to the New York City Commercial Rent Tax (CRT). ... Given the stiff competition from e-commerce businesses, increasing the amount of base rent that is not subject to the CRT is necessary to help keep smallÃâà...
City Limits
April 3, 2018
While all three are about the commercial waste and recycling services sector that provides essential but thankless service every day to keep New York City clean and manageable, they show how even basic data is misrepresented – often for political purposes. The first was a misguided headline in a recentÃâà...
WatertownDailyTimes.com
March 25, 2018
These complex works have found a natural home on social media, with nail artists and their clients posting often on Instagram and fostering a diverse global community that extends far beyond the streets of New York City. It's good for business: One can find designs, trends and artists from all over the worldÃâà...
Westfair Online
March 25, 2018
Two years ago, when his company was looking for an office property in Westchester County, Matthew Kiamie said all it took was a tour of Acadia Realty Trust's airy headquarters at 411 Theodore Fremd Ave. in Rye to know he had found his building. Kiamie, vice president and chief operating officer ofÃâà...
City & State
March 25, 2018
The Associated Press' scoop that Jared Kushner's company filed false paperwork with New York City claiming it had no rent-regulated tenants in ... With the incentive structure of state rent regulations and a two-tiered legal system in which corporations get a slap on the wrist for ripping off the public while theÃâà...
Fox Business
March 25, 2018
Police say an officer shot and wounded a knife-wielding man inside a New York City Whole Foods store. The shooting happened just before 8:30 p.m. Saturday at a Whole Foods in Harlem. Continue Reading Below. Police say a 28-year-old man brandished a knife and advanced toward officers who wereÃâà...
Business Insider
March 24, 2018
NEW YORK (AP) — A firefighter who was killed battling a fire on a New York City movie set has been posthumously promoted to lieutenant. Mayor Bill de Blasio and Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro announced firefighter Michael Davidson's promotion on Saturday. Davidson died early Friday after sufferingÃâà...
Business Insider
March 24, 2018
Massive throngs of people hit the streets on Saturday in cities across the United States for the March for Our Lives protests against gun violence in the wake of last month's high-school shooting in Florida. The main event kicked off in Washington, DC, but cities like New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, andÃâà...
Business Insider
March 24, 2018
Legendary musician Paul McCartney took part in the "March for Our Lives" rally in New York City on Saturday, and was spotted not too far from where his former Beatles bandmate, John Lennon, was the killed due to gun violence in 1980. As McCartney sported a shirt that read "We can end gun violence,"Ãâà...
Business Insider
March 24, 2018
Leading the way was Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio — but the two didn't march together and were not once seen talking to each other. ... "Today I'm wearing the survivor button to honor my loved ones who were taken by gun violence," Monroe told Business Insider.
U.S. News & World Report
March 22, 2018
New York City's buildings regulator has launched investigations at more than a dozen Kushner Cos. residential properties three days after The Associated ... FILE - In this Monday, March 19, 2018, file photo, New York City Council Member Ritchie Torres, left, and Housing Rights Initiative Executive DirectorÃâà...
New York Business Journal
March 16, 2018
Former whiz kids in the tech industry have "made their fortunes and are now settling down, starting families and starting to think about their legacies," according to a New York Times story. The median employee at the five largest tech companies is around 30 (h/t Payscale). That's roughly a decade youngerÃâà...
Business Insider
March 16, 2018
According to this week's market reports, 13.6 percent of New York City millennials get parental assistance in paying rent and Manhattan rental rates rose by just 0.5 percent in February. The median rent in Manhattan stayed flat in February, inching up by just 0.5 percent on a month-over-month basis to $3,418. The modestÃâà...
Business Insider
March 16, 2018
The Basilica of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral, a Catholic church in downtown New York City, recently put a unique piece of real estate on the market. The church is looking to sell the last remaining crypt — a sealed burial chamber — in its 200-year-old catacombs for six to seven million dollars. The crypt isÃâà...
Aviation International News
March 16, 2018
The NTSB's investigation into the fatal March 11 crash of a “doors off” helicopter photo tour flight into New York's East River will continue for months, but key areas of interest likely will be the supplemental passenger restraint systems, the fuel shutoff control, and the emergency pop-out floats. N350LH was aÃâà...
WIRED
March 16, 2018
Despite recent, very strenuous protestations to the contrary, it appears Uber is indeed on the precipice of selling its southeast Asian business to Grab. The San Francisco ride-hail company would reportedly exit the region for a stake in its rival. Kitty Hawk, the flying car company funded by Google CEO LarryÃâà...
Digital Trends
March 16, 2018
The Plattsburgh, New York city council voted unanimously to introduce an 18-month ban on commercial Bitcoin mining operations within the city. ... at new commercial Bitcoin-mining operations, so businesses already operating cryptocurrency mines in Plattsburgh will be able to continue doing business.
Grub Street
March 15, 2018
Jeremiah's Vanishing New York reports that a reader tipped him off to Silver Spurs' final demise, and that manager Kiki Bourekas blames the shuttering on a dip in business. Bourekas says she's been there since this location opened 22 years ago, but that 2 years ago things started going south. They simplyÃâà...
Condé Nast Traveler
March 14, 2018
Economy flights from the east coast of the U.S. can reach $1,000, and the cheapest business class ticket we saw (NYC to Paris this spring) was $2,500 on United. The next best option jumped to $7,330. Then there's La Compagnie, a French airline that offers exclusively business class for discounted prices.
