New York City is expanding its Summer Streets program.
Entertainment icon Russell Simmons and Luis Guzman, a star of “The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3,” were helping Mayor Michael Bloomberg promote the program on Monday. More than 1,500 free events will be offered this year.
Last year, nearly seven miles of Manhattan streets became traffic-free on [...]
New legislation to be introduced will make all cabs equal – meaning pedicab owners will soon have to get a license, carry insurance, and pass inspections.
Owners will also have to display their rates, along with information about their parent company.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg supports the bill, as does the Pedicab Owners’ Association.
The legislation is expected to [...]
The Senate approved legislation Wednesday that would make it easier to cut or consolidate layers of local government in New York, a measure that supporters hailed as a significant step toward relieving tax burdens across the state.
The bill, drafted by the New York State attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, simplifies what is now a byzantine [...]
New Yorkers who pay about $50 to drive down a cartoon road on their computers can save hundreds of dollars off their car insurance.
Under a program launched this month, New York joins 26 other states that offer on-line driving courses to cut insurance costs and erase points from drivers’ licenses.
The virtual driving courses can be [...]
Get ready to pay more if you refuse to pick up after your dog in a city park.
Starting next month, the city Parks Department is more than doubling the fine from $100 to $250.
Dog owners face the same fine from the Department of Sanitation if they do not scoop up their dogs’ feces from the [...]
The New York City Water Board today voted to approve a water rate increase of 12.9 percent at its annual board meeting.
This is the third consecutive year of double-digit increases.
The original proposal called for a 14-percent hike, but the city Department of Environmental Protection says cuts to its operating budget, decreased utility costs, and lower [...]
Gov. David A. Paterson has signed legislation allowing Nassau and Suffolk counties to install cameras to catch red-light violators at dangerous intersections in each county, officials said Tuesday.
The bills would raise about $3 million to $4 million this year in Nassau County. Suffolk officials said they don’t anticipate any revenue this year but expect to [...]
A town supervisor has been convicted of felony drunken driving more than seven months after he drove into a ditch in western New York.
Lloyd Kinnear, supervisor of the town of Canandaigua (kan-un-DAY’-gwuh) for three years, will lose his job and could draw a maximum penalty of 16 months to four years in prison at sentencing [...]
Faced with a sharp drop in its endowment and a $15 million deficit, the Wildlife Conservation Society announced on Monday that more than 100 of its 1,200 employees had accepted buyouts and that dozens more would be laid off.
The society, which operates the Bronx, Central Park, Prospect Park and Queens Zoos and the New York [...]
Three Manhattan post offices could be shuttered this year, making life miserable for snail-mail dependents.
The possible closures come as the US Postal Service attempts to cope with a double whammy of the recession and people’s increased use of the Internet.
The lease on the Columbus Circle office at 27 W. 60th St. expires May 30, and [...]
