The March 3, 2015 eruption of Villarrica not long after it started, with an impressive lava fountain and accompanying ash plume. Photo by Araucania de Todos, used by permission.
Before Yadira Fragoso became a worker-owner at Si Se Puede, a housecleaning cooperative of immigrant women in New York, she earned $6.25 to $10 an hour in various jobs. She had no control over her hours or schedule and sometimes had to bring her children to work.
New York City Councilman Mark Levine is expected to unveil a proposal on Thursday that will allow the city to accept bitcoin as payment for fines. The bill would allow the municipality to accept the cryptocurrency ...
Short-term rentals trigger debate around affordable housing shortage as Airbnb calls for ‘smart regulation’ like collection of hotel taxes as in other cities
In a city of more than eight million people and 33 million subway rides a week, police officers arrested or ticketed just 22 people for jumping the turnstile last week. In the same period a year ago, nearly 1,400 fare-beaters were caught.
You could never accuse New York of lacking imagination, with its plans for green space in the heart of Manhattan. First, there was the High Line, a park built on elevated railway tracks.
Each year, CEA (the Consumer Electronics Association) inducts a new group of inventors, engineers, business leaders, retailers and journalists to our Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame. And it's not lost on us that we celebrate innovation and...
Solar companies and prospective commercial and residential customers can now view details of nearly 10,000 solar projects that have participated in New York’s open enrollment solar incentive programs over the past 10 years, including the ramp up of installations under the state’s NY-Sun initiative.
The international community is increasingly looking toward cities for leadership with regard to fighting climate change, C40 president and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Wednesday.
In a move that has upset many in the bitcoin community, New York has become the first state to issue guidelines for the regulation of the trade and storage of bitcoins and other virtual currencies. With New York City being the hub of the nation’s financial network, state regulators introduced the new rules in an attempt to introduce safeguards to cryptocurrencies — which have received scrutiny recently as several states have moved to remove restrictions on virtual currency use or to clarify existing virtual currency laws.
Nathan Yau of FlowingData has put together an interactive map tool that shows how Americans get to work. From a national perspective, there are counties all across the nation where people walk, bicycle, and use public transit to get to work. And carpooling is a popular option just about everywhere.
More than 400,000 people moved to New York in the last 10 years. Every person had their reason, hopes, dreams, and tragedies when they arrived (even Taylor Swift). During the same period, many New Yorkers left. Maybe for a job or to be closer to family. It could be anything.
At a hackathon at New York University, students and bitcoin enthusiasts eschew sleep to develop new, potentially profitable uses for the digital currency.
Cash mobs are a great way to boost local business and bring community together while you’re at it. The idea is simple: a group of people flood a store and pledge to buy stuff. Think flash mob but instead of dancing, you’re spending money to help give back to the local economy.
New York city has undergone a silent transformation in recent years, allowing for more bike lanes, cleaning up dirty energy sources, and reducing emissions. Katherine Bagley, co-author of Hidden Legacy, tells Hari Sreenivasan that Mayor Bloomberg biggest contribution to the city was to take action against climate change.
When Airbnb talks about its legal troubles in New York, Berlin, Amsterdam, and elsewhere, it claims that existing laws were never designed for its new brand of disruptive peer-to-peer business.
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