New York City's sales tax hiatus on clothing less than $110 has led us to spend countless hours in the Croc store. But Long Island residents of Nassau and Suffolk counties can never taste the joy of having "Classic Digi Camo" polyurethane on their feet, tax-free: their counties are too poor to participate in the exemption. "When times are tight like they are now, you may find fighting between counties," a Hofstra Business School professor tells CBS. But that in turn helps Long Island's greatest export: YouTube videos. more ›

While ticket prices at the new Yankees Stadium prices are high, the last season at Yankee Stadium is also proving lucrative with all sorts of memorabilia to remember the house that Ruth built. more ›

A 7-year-old New York City boy has joined a growing number of children who’ve had the horrifying experience of getting their feet mangled by escalators while wearing popular plastic clogs made by Crocs. The boy’s mother says the accident happened in a Kentucky airport:

”All of a sudden I hear this excruciating screaming from Nicky and I turn around and his little foot is being sucked into the side of the escalator. It's just like chewing up his foot.” more ›

"The skin was peeled off her toe; it's a pretty horrifying injury,” says the lawyer representing the family of a 3-year-old girl in a $7 million lawsuit against the Colorado-based footwear company Crocs. The girl, Emma Hochberg of Westchester, was wearing pink clogs when she got caught in an escalator at JFK Airport, chewing up her big toe and causing “severe and permanent” injuries. more ›