Celebrating two months of Occupy Wall Street with 200 new arrestsAround 10,000 people have taken to the streets of Lower Manhattan on an official Occupy Movement Day of Act, after police removed protesters from their camp at Zuccotti Park earlier this week.
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New York, how do I love thee
There are 14 million people in the United States currently looking for work. But that’s not enough to stop Caroline Regidor moving to the city of dreams to hang out with artists, hipsters and Occupy Wall Street protestors.
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Hurricane Irene whips New York
It wasn’t the doomsday prediction that authorities had feared, but New York didn’t escape Hurricane Irene completely unscathed. Check out these photos of flooded lower Manhattan and Brooklyn brownstones covered in fallen trees.
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“I now pronounce you married”: New York’s gay wedding bonanza
Hundreds of gay couples flocked to registry offices in New York on the first weekend that same-sex marraige was legaliesd. Check out this charming gallery of happy couples and families celebrating the constant stream of nuptials.
The one issue it’s fine for politicians to flip flop on
The state of New York passed gay marriage over the weekend and it was largely thanks to Republican politicians who previously refused to support it. It’s great to see politicians ignore partisan ties and stand up for something they believe in, writes Margaret Talbot
The NY grid turns 200
Two hundred years ago New York street commissioners certified the city’s famous street matrix, its blueprint for unprecedented - and ultra orderly - development. Debate still rages about the grid but its impact is indisputable, writes Sam Roberts.
travel Telling your nickels from your New York nonsense
New York: a town of rude cab drivers, rich Gossip Girl types and super size meals, right? Samantha Kodila found the truth even better than the stereotypes.
New York bans smoking in parks and beaches
The New York City Council has voted to ban smoking in 1,700 city parks and along 14 miles of city beaches. In addition to parks and beaches, the bill also prohibits smoking in other areas such as pools and recreation centres.
Wheels turning for experimental bike sharing
A new experimental bicycle sharing system that utilizes iPhone and Android apps is set to have its training wheels removed later this year in New York. Participants will be able to use their phones to find and unlock bicycles scattered throughout the city.
A brand new start of it, in old New York
Kristin Moore went to New York twenty years ago, when it was grungy and dangerous and full of warehouse parties. This time she took her 15 year-old son along for a holiday. What’s changed?
New York to become pro-nanny state
Nannies and other domestic workers in New York look set to receive a fairer shake of the sauce bottle, with new legislation designed to improve employment conditions. Is this the end of The Nanny Diaries style exposés?
The Russians invading NY
Billionaire — and owner of the NBA team the New Jersey Nets — Mikhail Prokhorov is the face of the New Russians taking over New York City, a mix of Russian culture, Western education and a snobbish attitude.
How to stop terrorist attacks in crowded places
Times Square is a tourist destination for thousands of people, how can you possibly keep it safe? NY Times asks security experts for advice, who say cameras and training help but sometimes not much can be done.
Times Square car bombing: I was there
The Guardian’s theatre critic Emma Brockes was out in Broadway when the Times Square car bombing attempt was made. She gives a first-hand account of how it unfolded.
Shafer: Murdoch wants New York’s love, not its money
Look at moi, look at moi: the WSJ’s new New York section is more about winning over the people of New York than it is about ad dollars or sales revenue, says Jack Shafer.
NYT vs. WSJ: the last great newspaper war?
The Wall Street Journal is muscling in on the New York Times’ territory, launching a local New York section. Is this really the last great newspaper war, or just the first great battle of the online news age? asks Wired.
The biblical battle of the beards: hipsters vs. Hasids
A hilarious war has broken out in super cool Williamsburg, Brooklyn over a bike lane. The hipsters love to ride their bikes. The Hasidic Jews say the bike riders are dressed too provocatively. What happens when skinny jeans meet bekishes?
How the New York Times lost Gen Y
The publisher of popular New York blog Gothamist, Jake Dobkin, has penned a stinging take-down of the NYT, explaining why its “slavish devotion” to traditional journalism has lost it the local yoof market to sites like his.
Big Apple sets a salt standard for Australia to follow
After laying down the law on trans-fats and requiring restaurant chains to publish calorie counts on menus, New York is now sizing up to big salt — and Australia could learn a thing or two, says Jacqui Webster
Devine: Want to stop murders? Look to New York
If Miranda Devine was an Indian mother, then she wouldn’t send her child to study in Melbourne. Particularly when all the pollies can do is whip out their personal spin machines on overseas junkets rather than address better policing methods.
New York gangs use Twitter to organise turf wars
Even New York’s street thugs aren’t immune to the lures of The Twitter, it seems: NYPD officers report gang members are using Twitter to deliver 140-character “shout-outs and throwdowns” to their rivals.
Giuliani for 2012?
Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is preparing to run for the US Senate and, if successful, may have a tilt at the White House in 2012, according to Republican Party inside sources.
Why Murdoch wants to destroy the NY Times
News Corp’s Wall Street Journal is stepping-up its New York coverage, and it’s all part of Rupert Murdoch’s single-minded plan to strike a massive blow against the liberal world by buying-out or destroying the NYT, says Michael Wolff.
The sex diaries of the city that never sleeps
Thanks to Craigslist, GPS enabled social-networking iPhone apps and a host of other technological developments, sex has gone digital and nowhere more so than in NYC. NY Mag examine their anxiety filled Sex Diaries series to find what Sex in the City really means.
