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New York City
The future of driveless cars at CES, Google to provide Wi-Fi to Manhattan neighborhood
by
Molly Wood
Jan 9, 2013
Amid the tablets and the smartphones at CES, Toyota is showing off a robot car, called the Lexus LS460. In New York's Chelsea neighborhood, they turned an old elevated rail line into a public park. Now that part of town is getting another amenity with no admission charge: Free Wi-Fi courtesy of Google.
New York looks to reinvent city’s payphones
Dec 6, 2012
In the cellphone era, what’s the value of a payphone? New York sees advertising and Internet hot spots as the future for its 11,000 payphones.
A gas station...without gas?
by
Kai Ryssdal
Nov 9, 2012
Gas stations in New York and New Jersey continue to face post-storm problems. Not having gas in their pumps.
Mayor Bloomberg institutes odd-even gas rationing
by
Kai Ryssdal
Nov 8, 2012
Odd numbered license plates get to buy gas on odd numbered dates; evens on evens.
Thousands of New Yorkers displaced after Sandy
by
Dan Bobkoff
Nov 5, 2012
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the city will need to find housing for 30,000 to 40,000 people due to Hurricane Sandy.
After Sandy, the marathon must go on
Nov 2, 2012
The New York City Marathon will go off as scheduled Sunday morning as the city still deals with clean up, massive power outages, and limited transit services.
Sandy strands elderly in New York highrises
Nov 1, 2012
New York is boosting food deliveries to elderly residents stuck in powerless high-rise buildings. Nonprofits are scrambling to help too.
For public good, not for profit.
Sandy's water damage was predictable
Nov 1, 2012
Experts say damage to New York's subway from rising sea levels should not have come as a surprise and other cities could experience similar devastation from Sandy-like storms and hurricanes.
After Sandy, New York's new normal
Nov 1, 2012
It's been three days since Sandy hit New York City and as residents wake up this morning, the city is still staggering back to normal.
Lower Manhattan flickers back to life
Oct 31, 2012
Despite the loss of power in lower Manhattan, Wall Street and some nearby businesses reopen. But downtown is dead compared to midtown.