New York's unified 311 service, which receives complaints and questions from citizens, recorded a record number of calls in 2014 - 28 million. Even for a city with a population of 8 million, this figure looks impressive. The statistics took into account telephone calls, short messages (SMS), messages by...
New York City Council will consider legislation restricting aggressive pricing of passenger carriers Uber and Lyft. These companies can raise prices dramatically if the demand for their services rises sharply. When many customers order Uber taxis at once using smartphone apps, ...
New York animal activists are concerned about the fate of a rabbit colony in Brooklyn. One of the residents of the building at 466 Third Avenue raises rabbits in the backyard of the building. Animal rights activists say keeping rabbits outdoors in any weather is...
On January 12, the New York City Hall began issuing new plastic ID cards to all residents of the metropolis. This program, the largest of its kind in the country, is designed to provide identification cards to everyone living in the city, but it is primarily aimed at immigrants...
The works of the Jewish writer Isaac Bashevis-Singer are familiar to many from the comedy melodrama “Enemies. Love Story "directed by Paul Mazursky. The prototype of the main character, the charming and amorous immigrant Hermann Broder, who got entangled in relationships with women, was, of course, the writer himself, whose novel is taken as the basis ...
Last Sunday, thousands of people around the world took a ride in the subway without pants as part of the action of the same name. It is already the fourteenth time. New York has consistently become one of the main centers of the worldwide flash mob. In total, people from more than ...
New York lawmakers believe it is time to get serious about assessing the health of city hairdressers and beauty salons. New Yorkers shouldn't risk their health if they get a haircut, manicure or pedicure, City Council parliamentarians say. New York City Councilor Rafael Espinal ...
New York-based news agency DNAinfo analyzed all of Mayor Bill de Blasio's speeches in 2014 and compiled a list of the words and phrases that the head of the city used the most in his speeches, interviews and comments. During the year, the mayor made public speeches 314 ...
Times are tough for the owners and employees of the 13 cafes and bars in New York that offer hookah smoking, among other things. It is likely that the establishments will soon close at the request of the authorities. Health officials discovered tobacco in the blend these establishments use. ...
There is less than a month left until the famous American Groundhog Day. Staten Island's Chuck the Groundhog, who holds the unofficial position of New York City's chief meteorologist, predicts how soon spring will come by looking at his shadow every year. According to a long-standing tradition, the groundhog making his “prediction” is picked up...