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NYC EDC City officials broke ground Monday on Hunter’s Point South Phase II, a massive affordable housing and commercial complex in Long Island City. Plans also include a waterfront park – seen in this rendering. City officials broke ground Monday on the latest phase of a massive affordable housing complex on a former…
On the list of things New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority has a problem with: menstruation. On the list of things it’s apparently totally chill about: Nazis. Well, I guess that clears that up. Just a mere month ago, the MTA was the center of a controversy over its rejection of a campaign created by…
(courtesy Ann Toback) Seats on 42nd Street subway Shuttle cars are wrapped with symbols from Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, intended to carry commuters into the alternate history of the Amazon TV series, The Man in the High Castle, in which the Axis Powers were victorious. “Half the seats in my car had Nazi…
Yahoo Mail is purportedly locking out people who use ad-blockers. According to a post on Adblock Plus’ message boards, a Yahoo user noticed the issue on Google Chrome when trying to access email this morning, posting this screenshot: “Yeah, whatever Yahoo,” the person mused, adding that two other people noticed the issue, too. Advertisement Yahoo’s tactic…
It’s time for a little good news, the kind of good news that you can pass down to and your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren. According to new estimates from the World Economic Forum (WEF), it will be 118 years before women across the globe will achieve pay equality. A legacy, indeed. The report indicates that…
Share on Facebook (1,237) Tweet (348) Share (98) Pin (2) The technology industry is flush with companies forecasting the rapid growth of cloud computing over the next five to 10 years. Now Google, a relatively small player in the cloud market, has chimed in. Urs Hölze, senior vice president of technical infrastructure, predicted today at the Structure conference that Google’s cloud revenues would surpass its advertising…
With all the controversy surrounding the #BlackLivesMatter movement, it’s rare for a company as massive as Chick-fil-A to take a stand – but they have. A counter movement has come out of the media wreckage called #PoliceLivesMatter that urges citizens to respect police and understand that they are here to serve and protect, and…
paging_filter It’s been nearly four months since Gawker Media was thrown into disarray after it published, and then took down, a controversial post reporting that an executive at a major media company with a wife and children had solicited a male prostitute. After the post was removed, over the objections of Gawker’s editorial leadership, then-executive…
Subway Restaurants’ former spokesman Jared Fogle was sentenced to 15 years and eight months in prison, three years more than the maximum sought by the government, after pleading guilty to child-pornography charges in a deal that imposes lifetime supervision on the fallen sandwich pitchman. His sentencing Thursday in Indianapolis federal court largely ends a scandal…
Welcome to a very special edition of people are worried about unicorns. They really are! The most worrying unicorn of them all, Square, went public last night at $9 per share, below its $11 to $13 marketing range. That gives it a valuation of $2.9 billion, not even a tricorn, and a sharp fall from the $6 billion sexacorn valuation…