NYC stories

NEW YORK—Living in the most walkable city in the country, perpetually in-motion New Yorkers probably walk more than anyone. But Matt Green, a man with no address, is endeavoring to walk 8,000 miles of New York City, purely for the sake of walking.

NEW YORK—Mayor Bill de Blasio signed an executive order on Tuesday to increase wages for workers employed at building developments that receive more than $1 million in city subsidies.

NEW YORK—Employees of Charles Schwab, Chipotle, the New York Palace Hotel and others can now enjoy a new “pocket park” opened Tuesday just for them.

Affordable housing advocates are banding together Friday to launch a campaign against the Airbnb ads plastered throughout subway stations in New York City.

NEW YORK—City Council just might halt Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plans to ban the horse-drawn carriage industry in New York City.

Starting Sept. 16, an iPhone app will allow New York riders to choose from a fleet of all female drivers, sporting hot pink pashmina scarves.

NEW YORK—Fashion Week means being out the door by 7 a.m., completing a show before 10 a.m., and going back for more productions at Shop Studios (Shop) in Manhattan.

NEW YORK—Sporting a superman shirt and a massive feathered headpiece, Trinidadian flag in hand, Anjali Brathwaite, 10, was ready to celebrate her heritage at the West Indian Day Carnival Parade Monday afternoon. “It’s so much fun,” she said.

Health department fines have cost the owner of a popular Lower Manhattan restaurant $3,000 a year. Following a barrage of inconsistent health inspections, coupled with high operating costs, and rats, she decided recently to close her doors.

We’ll never recover our reputation for being a tough, brutally “Darwinian” city after you hear what goes on at the Wild Bird Fund, tucked behind a glass storefront on Columbus Avenue between 87th and 88th streets.

For 23 hours a day, and for more than 300 days, there was nothing. There was nothing except the screams from nearby cells. The screams that drove the teenaged Ismael Nazario to wail, and press himself against the solid door of a 6-foot-by-8-foot room where he was held in solitary confinement.

Dogs dressed up in lace and frills or in their birthday suits arrived for Tuesday’s dog party outside Loews Regency Hotel in Manhattan.

NEW YORK—More than one in four New Yorkers (2.6 million) go hungry because they cannot afford to buy food, according to the nonprofit Food Bank For New York City.

NEW YORK—When a face off between two men on a street in Ferguson, Missouri earlier this month ended with one dead, it was followed by a maelstrom of violence, looting, and outrage. Amid a lack of information about what really happened, protestors speculated widely.

NEW YORK--Sometimes I feel like I spend a lot of time attempting to convince overworked colleagues to get out and enjoy New York City. There are two frequent responses: a blank stare or a weak, “yeah….”

NEW YORK—Hidden in plain sight in the middle of Manhattan on East 28th Street is a family homeless shelter which residents claim has conditions so decrepit they are desperate for help. “They shouldn’t do this to people like us, honest, drug-free people,” said one female resident who says she is a victim of domestic violence and mother to an 8-month-old girl who is also in the shelter.