NYC Startups Batten Down the Hatches for Sandy
With mass transit closed and dangerous storm surges set to wallop the city, New York startups aren’t messing around when it comes to hurricane prep. Most, like Usablenet, Kickstarter, HowAboutWe and...
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JPMorgan Waives Checking Account and Loan Fees for Frankenstorm
JPMorgan Chase is waiving checking account and loan fees for commercial and consumer banking customers in seven states affected by Hurricane Sandy, according to a press release posted on its website....
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Lindsay Lohan Urges Calm As Hurricane “Sally” Approaches
Lindsay Lohan (Getty Images) Lindsay Lohan has broken her silence on Hurricane Sandy. The actress, soon to be seen in Lifetime's Liz and Dick, asked her 4.5 million Twitter followers: "WHY is everyone...
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Manhattanites Flee the Country for City Sanctuaries as Sandy Approaches
Both the Carlyle and the Waldorf-Astoria are fully booked for the storm. Brown Harris Stevens broker John Burger spent the better part of Sunday afternoon dashing from one listing to the next. He...
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The First Hurricane Sandy
The Hurricane was named Sandy. It struck in October and took a path that brought it through northern New Jersey and New York State before the storm petered out over Canada. This Hurricane Sandy...
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Inside the Gowanus Canal Evacuation Zone
Gowanus Canal floodwaters at the dead end on 2nd Street earlier this evening. (Photo: Hunter Walker) Many of the blocks along the shores of the toxic Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn are designated are part...
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Despite Being Locked Inside, Williamsburg High Rise Residents Decide to Stay Put
Get out while you still can. (Matt Chaban) Judging by the lights, lots of people are still home. (Matt Chaban) "I love the water," Blis Laurel said this afternoon, standing beside the choppy waters of...
View ArticlePenguin and Random House to Merge and Become Penguin Random House
Publishing houses Penguin and Random House will combine forces and become Penguin Random House, Penguin announced this morning. The move comes after rumors of merger talks between Penguin's parent...
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Fine Dining Doesn’t Stop Just Because There’s a Hurricane
Midtown residents can count on the Breslin for breakfast Monday. As Hurricane Sandy approaches, New Yorkers have been stocking up on packets of ramen and cans of beans, unhappily contemplating the less...
View ArticleThe New Jews?
The strong Asian-American presence at New York’s elite public high schools has been years in the making. Now, however, comes the backlash: parents are complaining, in essence, that schools like...
View ArticleCrisis Managers
As the full effects of Sandy hit the city late in the afternoon on Monday, there wasn’t a subway or a commuter train to be had. And that was surely a good thing. New York officials made many good...
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Joggers and Shoppers Signal a Slow Return To Normal Life in New York
Gateway shopping center in Brooklyn was (relatively) packed. Cars are still submerged on Wall Street, regular subway service may not resume for weeks and huge swaths of Lower Manhattan lie in darkness,...
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New York to Sandy: ‘Blow Me’
Illo: Robert Grossman As The Observer was going to press on Tuesday, the death toll from what appeared to be the most devastating storm our city has ever experienced was up to 18, after 80 mph winds...
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The Humbling of Rajat Gupta: When Uncommon People Commit Common Crimes
Photo illo: Ed Johnson When Rajat Gupta was sentenced to two years in prison last Wednesday, the government finally nailed to the wall the largest scalp it has taken to date in its multiyear...
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People Clustering for Cell Phone Service, Pitch Black Hospitals Among the...
An empty FDR provides a free-for-all for pedestrians. (Ian Lamb) A zombified cell phone cluster. (Ian Lamb) Special correspondent Ian Lamb tried to pitch in at Bellevue, but not being a doctor or a...
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Let the Great MTA Cleanup Begin
The love below. (MTA/Flickr) We've been hearing all day that this the most devastating disaster the MTA has ever experience. On Sunday, the subway celebrated its 108th birthday. Never, ever have the...
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‘Ice’ Storm: New Doc Shows How Swelling Oceans Threaten to Swallow Manhattan...
Coming soon to a sea level near you: Iceland's melting glaciers. From Chasing Ice. “Wow. We live in a horror movie,” my husband opined one morning not long ago. He was reading an article about the...
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Family Matters: Bad Jews Is a Sharp Group Portrait, but A Summer Day’s Drama...
'Bad Jews.' (Courtesy Joan Marcus) The actress Tracee Chimo—brassy, ballsy, dominating—is a force to be reckoned with in any role. But turn her into a big-haired, big-mouthed, know-it-all Jewish...
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From Evacuation to Hibernation: How New Yorkers Rode Out the Storm
Barbara Guggenheim (far right) in sunnier days with Wendi Murdoch and Abigail Asher. (The Image Gate/Getty Images for Credit Suisse) As Hurricane Sandy hurtled toward land, New Yorkers’ preparations...
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Built To Last: New York’s Historic Houses and Ships Largely Unharmed By...
Still standing: the Alice Austen house on Staten Island (the Historic House Trust). Their floors may creak, their plaster may crumble and their halls may be filled with daunting drafts, but New York's...
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