While Veterans Day honored all those who served the US military, let us not forget those who have fought in the trenches of the international liquor wars. At the Intrepid Museum's holiday ceremony yesterday, a Times reporter noticed that a 440-foot yacht docked upriver was stealing the show. It's "the first private vessel to moor at the city-owned passenger terminal, where Cunard ocean liners frequently put in" and pays $2,000 a day to do so. Who owns the yacht? Yuri Shefler, the head of the SPI Group that makes Stolichnaya. Let's see you make it to San Tropez before happy hour, Svedka robot. Bot or Not, indeed. more ›

In solidarity with the 99 percenters at Occupy Wall Street, a number of veteran groups marched to Foley Square today for a Veterans Day rally dubbed, "Honor the Dead, Fight Like Hell for the Living." And 1960s folksinger and activist for human rights, Joan Baez, was there to honor the vets on their day! After explaining that she had not visited Occupy Wall Street before now because she was waiting to be invited, Baez sang the Stones' "Salt of the Earth" and "Joe Hill," which she made famous at Woodstock: more ›

A 16-foot bronze statue of a Special Forces soldier on horseback will be unveiled at today's Veterans Day parade, but after its trip up 5th Avenue, the 5,000-lb artwork's future is still up in the air. more ›

Today is Veterans Day, which means government offices and courts are closed, as well as NYC public schools. There's no regular mail delivery or garbage pickup; additionally alternate side of the street parking regulations are suspended today. The Veterans Day Parade starts at 11:30 a.m. on Fifth Avenue at 26th Street, and heads up to 52nd Street. The opening ceremony is at the Eternal Light Monument at Madison Square Park, where there will be a 21 gun salute. Metro-North also has an 11 a.m. ceremony at Grand Central with the MTA Police Pipe and Drum Band. more ›

Today is Veterans Day, the day in which the country thanks and honors all living veterans for their service (Memorial Day is for remembering those who died in service--more here). Schools, government offices and courts are closed and there is no regular mail delivery. Alternate side parking regulations are suspended (but other parking rules, like parking meters, are in effect) and it is a santiation holiday--no garbage or recycling collection or street cleaning. There is an opening ceremony at 10 a.m. at Madison Square Park (Fifth Ave & 24th Street) and followed by a parade, starting at 11:30 a.m. at Fifth Ave all the way up to 26th Street to Fifth at 56th Street. There's also a special crosstown march from the Intrepid along 42nd Street, from 12th Ave to Fifth Ave, during the parade, and a street fair on 56th between Fifth and Madison from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. more ›

Yesterday was the city's day to honor and remember veterans of the U.S. armed forces. The 88th annual Veterans Day Parade started with the Eternal Light Monument Ceremony in Madison Square Park, followed by a parade up Fifth Avenue to 56th Street. An estimated 20,000 gathered for the parade, and there were veterans from World War II, Korean War, and the Iraq War. Mayor Bloomberg said, "You should know that 70 New Yorkers have given... more ›

So about that Congestion pricing that we all got so hot and bothered for yesterday? Maybe not so much. Seems Bloomberg was not amused that only two days after the election his media spotlight got derailed by an issue that he didn't campaign on. more ›