Bloomberg: NYC Might Top Record Tourist Number
Despite the economy, Mayor Michael Bloomberg says New York City might top last year's record of 48.8 million vistors this year.
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Despite the economy, Mayor Michael Bloomberg says New York City might top last year's record of 48.8 million vistors this year.
A lot of people in Connecticut and other states work out of their home offices for companies located across state lines, in New York, for example.
Every year, the Saint James General Store is transformed into a picturesque Christmas village, complete with a real life Santa Claus. The store is partially funded by Suffolk County tax dollars, and cutbacks meant Santa's contract was canceled.
Abe Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, says the amount of anti-Semitism is rising in America. A new survey by the ADL shows 40 million Americans are infected with serious anti-Semitism.
A Lowe's home improvement store planned for Huntington, Long Island will no longer go forward, and neither will the jobs it would have created.
Among the most notable incidents on Friday happened when one man lost his balance, and was run over by a police scooter.
Wall Street is again losing jobs because of global economic woes, threatening tax revenue for a city and state heavily reliant on the financial industry, New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said Tuesday.
These are desperate economic times and desperate times call for desperate measures. That is certainly true at the YMCA in Stamford.
The casinos have struggled for five years with plunging revenues amid ever-growing -- and ever-closer -- competition.
In Connecticut, dying can be expensive. Under Connecticut's new budget laws, estates over $2 million can be taxed as high as twelve percent.
U.S. stocks are mixed Friday after a week of brutal selling pushed them to new yearly lows.
A popular Long Island concert venue has been shut down.
"This is just an expression of frustration with the lack of solutions by our government to address the economic crisis," said protester Elias Holtz.
Congress is reconvening this week for what could be a painful confrontation over how to put Americans back to work.
Thousands of needy children on Long Island are getting the supplies they need for the first day of school, thanks to the Family Service League.
With the economy still in a sorry state, more out-of-work professionals are chasing their dreams and turning them into second careers.
At the 166th Dutchess County Fair the emphasis will be on the best home-baked pie, the cows and baby pigs.
In these challenging economic times, we can learn something from an expert bargain shopper.
The Dow Jones industrial average at one point was down more than 500 points. It's now down 436 at 10,973.
St. Sen. Len Suzio is coralling the help of Connecticut's citizens to cap a tax on gasoline in the Nutmeg State.
The state Environmental Protection Department says visits have tripled since 1980, to a record 18.8 million people in fiscal 2010. It's up 2 million since 2007.
Those looking for work came from a variety of backgrounds, including child services professional Deborah Riddy and former business owner Matthew Manning.
Investors hoping for relief from last week's volatility in the stock market found it Monday.
The economy may be in dire straights, but there is one industry in New York that is growing by leaps and bounds.
Many professionals in our area have been hit hard by the economic crisis. With no money and no jobs, some are finding themselves homeless, living in tents. It could happen to anyone.
