Norman, CEO of the Oprah Winfrey Network, is tasked with creating an entire TV network around Oprah Winfrey's call to "live your best life." Her challenge is to suffuse the new self-help channel with Oprah's essence.READ»
Smart energy meters can help us conserve energy, sure, but what about water? As anyone suffering through a heat wave knows, water conservation can be just a crucial as power to keeping a city running. Beginning this week, residents ...READ»
Bronx Used Cars buyers are reaching out to Yonkers Auto Mall through its many social media sites in order to obtain information about the dealership’s current inventory and special promotions.READ»
Superstar Aussie ad man Craig Davis has spent his life promoting brands. Now, with his new Web site, Brandkarma.com, he wants the world to weigh in on who's been naughty or nice.READ»
Urban cyclists, rejoice: New York City is transforming 225 parking meters into bike racks. Every third or fourth parking meter on select streets in the Upper East and West sides, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens will have its "head" ...READ»
China's new train is the fastest in the world, traveling at an average speed of 217 miles per hour. Passengers making the 663 mile trek from central China to south China will see their trip time cut from six hours to just two hours ...READ»
Uh oh. The Whenever-We-Feel-Like-It Internet Police are back on the job.
The FBI arrested 47-year-old Bronx resident Gilberto Sanchez earlier this morning and accused him of copyright infringement for allegedly uploading a copy of ...READ»
Going Local
When Henry Kissinger quipped, "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac," he wasn't talking about electric utilities. But readers deluged us with email and online comments about staff writer Anya Kamenetz's July/August article ...READ»
A manual for New York City street design released yesterday signals a flexible, pedestrian-friendly cityscape to come--one more influenced by Jane Jacobs than Robert Moses.READ»
The Wall Street Journal recently challenged architects to design a green house of the future. This morning, the paper unloaded the designs, that come from four firms: William McDonough, Rios Clemente Hale, Cook + Fox and Mouzon ...READ»
What's an iced tea got to do to get respect these days? That's the question that tormented Snapple executives as they saw their product get squeezed in the bodega and pizza shop refrigerator cases by an assortment of enhanced ...READ»
Usually, architects have problems choosing what to build on a given site: a building or tennis court? But when tasked with building a water treatment plant in the Bronx on what used to be a driving range, Grimshaw skirted this ...READ»
