Forget trying to find some unmarked hotspot—Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer is worried about regular ol' buildings that don't display their numbers! Today, he released a study that shows nearly 40% of buildings studied along certain stretches of 13 busy corridors do not display their addresses. In fact, along East 42nd Street, 8th Avenue and Columbus Avenue, over 50% of the buildings don't have visible addresses. more ›

President Obama spent the afternoon in the Situation Room meeting with his national security team, the first face-to-face meeting with some two dozen advisers since the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. Following the meeting, the president acknowledged that the government knew of “other red flags” in the failed underwear bombing plot. "This was not a failure to collect intelligence, it was a failure to integrate and understand the intelligence that we already had," Obama told reporters at the White House. For good measure, he added that "the system has failed" in a major way. But at least the FAIL wasn't as bad as the one in Slovakia on Saturday! more ›

President Barack Obama addressed Congress, proclaiming that the "day of reckoning has arrived" and the country must take action—but also emphasizing that there is hope, "While our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken, though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this. We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before." more ›

While conceding that the city is reeling from the economic crisis, Mayor Bloomberg stressed the sunny side last night during his annual State of the City address at Brooklyn College, telling the assembled audience that "dwelling on the bad news won’t make it any better." So buck up, New York, it's a new year—an election year—and Hizzoner has a nine point plan to create 400,000 new jobs by 2015, assuming he wins another term. Here are some of the highlights outlined by the Mayor's office:
• Continuing to make investments that diversify our economy with initiatives like a $100 million investment towards the modernization of the Hunts Point produce terminal.
• Growing New York City’s "green economy" by identifying the best places in the five boroughs to generate wind power and doubling the production of solar power.
• Keeping crime down by continuing to emphasize "quality of life" crimes and introducing a new State law: commit six or more quality of life crimes within two years, and the next one will be a felony.
• Asking the State Legislature to require all guns sold in New York to include micro-stamping technology.
• The opening of more than 50 new schools, providing seats for nearly 15,000 students throughout the five boroughs.
• Push the Port Authority to keep the Freedom Tower and memorial on schedule. (Snicker.)

This morning, the first-ever State of the MTA Address was given, with MTA CEO and Executive Director Elliot Sander Sander emphasizing the MTA was born 40 years ago out of crisis and needed federal, state, and municipal cooperation to get things done (in other words, nothing changes!). more ›