Dubai Debt Issues Push Stocks Down
GMA: Adam Lambert, No; Chris Brown, Yes
Family Gets Early Christmas Gift From Ellen DeGeneres
Mayor: Sex Trafficking Victims, Please Speak Up
Street Artist Proposes on Subway Signage
- New York is the only city in the country (with a population of 1 million plus) to record an increase in the poverty rate... expect Mayor Bloomberg to refute the Census' figures somehow, as that totally screws with his re-election platform
- The NYPD flunks 42 police cadets from the Police Academy, leaving 42 people who will not have to endure Steven Guttenberg and Michael Winslow jokes anymore
- The NY Press looks at the Marc-Ecko-graffiti-party controversy
- Slice's Adam Kuban hit NY1 to talk about his use of Google Maps for NYC pizza delights!
- Events planners in the city are already working on the big Christmas parties, which makes Gothamist hope candy canes will go on sale very soon
- Texas authorities claim Al Sharpton's driver was speeding at 110 mph when the Reverend Al was in Crawford to support Cindy Sheehan; Sharpton is saying there's something fishy as he wasn't questioned yet he was in the car
- Transporation Alternatives projects director Noah Budnick is back, after his biking-related injury (the police tell him he hit a pothole and was "catapaulted off"); it's good to know you're doing better!
- Advertising Week is coming to NYC again, and while last year's event was underwhelming, Gothamist is still voting "I Love New York" as the best slogan
- And in this update about the closest baby panda to NY, aka the little guy in DC at the National Zoo, it looks like his eyes are open!
Extra, Extra
add to stumble upon
add to reddit
tweet this
post to facebookComments (9) [rss]
Post a comment (Comment Policy)
Tips
Newsmap
Contribute
Latest Tip:
Those Mariachi guys piss me off when you enter a mostly silent subway car.
[more]
Does that poverty figure have anything to do with the fact that anyone in this city earning less than $100K a year is basically at the poverty line?
That’s because people who make 100k a year are stupid enough to rent a high priced shoebox in the city when they can live in Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, Staten Island, LI, or Jersey for much less.
I'd rather live in the burbs and save.
New York also imports poverty - as immigrants (including my own parents long ago) continue to flood in in search of opportunities. Outside of Vegas, it is one of the few places a high school grad can make a decent living (so long as they live in the boroughs)
Be silent or i shall eat you all when i grow up.
That Panda Cam is addictive. Much better than the litterbox cam.
I was watching a rerun of SNL this weekend and they had an episode of one of those comedy shorts "Bear City" (in which a meteor destroys humanity and leaves bears with the ability to live as humans did, except they're bears, but for two plucky brave human children, who are promptly eaten by bears). Anyway, the episode was called "Pack of Smokes" and it involved a bear going into a convenience store and trying to buy a pack of cigarettes except the bear worker couldn't understand the unintelligible gruntings of the customer and the latter became more and more exasperated. Maybe it was late, but it took me a while to realize that the bear behind the counter was a Panda (whereas all the other bears are brown) and thus supposed to be Asian, and unable to speak the domestic bear language. Completely off topic, but I thought a funny use of pandas in an amusing and mildly transgressive way.
Bloomberg will ignore the poverty rate, just as he ignores the all-time historic high of NYC's homeless rate.
I love pandas, too, esp. panda babies.
The user "Blike" misquotes the article, and says that there's an all-time homeless rate, when the article only talks about homeless shelter population. I'd assume that the homeless use the shelters more when safety in the shelters are improved, which probably follows crime in general to some degree. In anycase, that article draws no such conclusion on homelessness in the city.
As for the average salery, of course the average of the top 20% surpases the bottom 20% by an enormous degree, and we have the broadway stars, actors, an other industry leaders paying taxes for that, but the median is pretty close to national average so I don't think there's a significant skew.
Anyone who's upset about the poor suffering in new york but at the same time refuses to let a wal-mart enter the city are fooling themselves. No wal-mart in the city is a pure symbolic statement that hurts our citys poor much more then it effects wal-marts bottom line.