Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran acquitted on a charge of criminally negligent homicide in Manhattan in December, has been hired by one of Silicon Valley’s most prestigious venture capital firms to join its “American Dynamism” team. Mr. Penny, a Long Island native and former architecture student, will work in a group that supports American interests,…
Customers at some CVS stores will no longer have to push a button and wait for a clerk to unlock one of those glass cabinets to get the products they want to buy. A new app will allow them to open the cabinets themselves, the company said on Tuesday. That feature of the new CVS…
There is no shortage of unpleasant odors in New York City: overflowing garbage on the sidewalk, unmentionable substances in the subway, traffic fumes and more. This week, yet another foul scent has entered the smellscape, but in this case, New Yorkers are flocking to experience it: the blooming of an Amorphophallus gigas, a.k.a. a corpse…
David Schneiderman, an editor turned publisher turned chief executive of The Village Voice, the granddaddy of alternative newspapers, whose 28-year tenure ran from its era of downtown-bestriding indispensability to a long, slow fade in the internet era, died on Friday in Edmonds, Wash., near Seattle. He was 77. His daughter, Kate Schneiderman, said the cause…
Shanti Gooljar recently got a $2,000 tip. She runs a driving school in Manhattan that caters to a high-end clientele, and only works on referrals. She says she has taught the offspring of a few names you might know: Jerry Seinfeld. Rupert Murdoch. Vera Wang. Katie Couric. She had initially worked as a paramedic. But…
Pearson Awarded $17 Million Contract to Digitise SHSAT: What It Means for NYC’s Elite Schools (Getty Images) New York City made a significant change to the entrance process for its eight prestigious specialised high schools. The city’s Panel for Educational Policy approved a five-year, $17 million contract with Pearson, the education publishing giant, to digitalise…
Guatemala migrant set a woman on fire: रविवार सुबह अमेरिका में एक दुखद घटना हुई. ग्वाटेमाला के एक प्रवासी ने कथित तौर पर एक महिला को ट्रेन में आग लगाकर उसकी हत्या कर दी. हिंदुस्तान टाइम्स की रिपोर्ट के मुताबिक यह घटना कोनी द्वीप के स्टिलवेल एवेन्यू सबवे स्टेशन पर सुबह करीब 7:30 बजे हुई….
Thousands of Kris Kringles and jolly Old St. Nicks are jamming streets, sidewalks and bars from Adelaide to Vancouver on Saturday for annual SantaCon charity pub crawls. In New York City, where temperatures hovered around freezing, the fermented merriment kicked off around 10 am and was slated to stretch into the evening. Santas – along…