Gov. David Paterson is supporting a plan to create low-interest student loans for public and private universities in New York. The proposal for a subsidized loan program financed through tax-exempt bonds comes from the state Commission on Higher Education.
A relative of a 9/11 victim is fighting his Brooklyn co-op board, which wants to remove an American flag from his door. Vincent Romano, who's a lawyer, says he put the flag outside his door after his wife's cousin died
Tara Lipinsky takes you around Manhattan to hot, happening hangouts only A-list celebs, wealthy and influential frequent. We're going inside to see how the other half lives. Today we visit HighBar, an oasis 16 floors above Manhattan.
A cyclist was killed and now a Long Island man is in custody for allegedly running him over on purpose. The incident occurred on Sunday in Hempstead at the intersection of Elk Street and Bennett Avenue. Police say 36-year-old Lorenzo
Conservative radio host Michael Savage told CBS 2 Monday that he would not apologize for his controversial comments about children with autism, and instead tried to explain in a not-so-critical manner what he was trying to explain.
Bergen County prosecutors announced the arrest of a Teaneck youth program supervisor and basketball coach on four counts of Endangering the Welfare of a Child, CBS 2 HD has learned. Four males ranging in age from sixteen to eighteen years
Jeremy Shockey's tenure as the New York Giants' outspoken tight end has come to a close. The defending Super Bowl champs traded the former first round pick to the New Orleans Saints on Friday, a Saints spokesman confirmed.
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The lack of affordable industrial space in some sections of Brooklyn is impeding one local business's expansion. Brooklyn Brewery owner Steve Hindy, who started leasing a property on North 11th Street in Williamsburg 12 years ago, tells the Times that
A few weeks ago a reader told us that the iron gate outside her Crown Heights house had been stolen, and this weekend the Times has a piece on how the same crime happened recently in Clinton Hill. Gates were
While plenty of parents of St. Ann's students have expressed their opinion about the impending relocation of a Federal probation center to a building in which the school leases space and which abuts its lower and middle schools, there had
A $17.3 million renovation of the Strand Theater on Fulton Street will result in new facilities for cultural organizations Bric Arts and Urban Glass. The Economic Development Corp. and Dept. of Cultural Affairs are overseeing the revamp, which will be
Adams Street between Willoughby and Tillary has a notoriously bad track record in terms of illegal parking and bicycle lane infringement (as the two posts we've done on it attest). So we were happy to see some incremental improvement as
This three-unit brownstone condo at 83 Halsey Street in Bedford Stuyvesant just hit the market last week. There are three units, two 725-square-footers priced at $425,000 and on 971-square-foot place priced at $550,000. It's a beautiful building from the outside
The GOTD submissions keep rolling in...We bought our place in 2004 and have been DIY renovating ever since. The garden is one of the first things we tackled as we wanted to get everything in and out through the house
NEW YORK, July 21 (newratings.com) - Analysts at Robert W Baird maintain their "outperform" rating on Manpower Inc (ticker: MAN), while reducing their estimates for the company. The target price has been reduced from $82 to $75. [more]
LONDON, July 21 (newratings.com) - Analysts at JP Morgan reiterate their "overweight" rating on Croda International Plc (ticker: CRDA-GBX), while raising their estimates for the company. The target price has been reduced from 815p to 795p. [more]
LONDON, July 21 (newratings.com) - Analyst Barrie Cornes of Panmure Gordon maintains his "buy" rating on Aviva Plc (ticker: AV.-GBX), while reducing his estimates for the company. The 12-month target price has been reduced from 854p to 803p. [more]
LONDON, July 21 (newratings.com) - Analysts at JP Morgan maintain their "overweight" rating on Deutsche Post AG (ticker: DPW-EUR), while reducing their estimates for the company. The 18-month target price has been reduced from €27 to €23.3. [more]
