Investigators hope to get answers soon to questions about deadly New York...
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. (Reuters) - Data to be released on Thursday from a train that slammed into a vehicle at a suburban New York crossing this week could shed more light on what caused the deadly crash,...
View ArticleThese are the 11 hottest tech startups in Brooklyn
Brooklyn isn't just for hipsters anymore.Manhattan may be known as New York City's Silicon Alley, but Brooklyn — its neighbor to the east — is buzzing with startups too.We rounded up some of the...
View ArticleThe 12 most romantic date night spots in New York City
Wondering where to take your special someone for Valentine's Day dinner?So were we, so we decided to reach out to the food experts at The Infatuation for a list of the best candlelight joints with...
View ArticleChinese airline exec closes on One57 apartment for $47 million
The founder of China’s largest private airline company paid $47.4 million for a full-floor condo at Extell Development’s’s One57. Guoqing Chen, co-founder of HNA Group, closed on the 86th floor unit on...
View ArticleA once-obscure Chinese financial firm leaps into the spotlight
China's insurance companies are boring. That is exactly what regulators want. Insurers are forced to fund themselves with plenty of capital and to restrict their investments to safe, low-yielding...
View ArticleBefore he died, a former head of Goldman Sachs warned the governor about...
Before he died on Feb. 7, former Goldman Sachs cochair John Whitehead was really worried about corruption at the highest levels of New York state government.In a letter written to Gov. Andrew Cuomo,...
View ArticleBillionaire Barry Diller's $130 million floating park on the Hudson is...
Media mogul Barry Diller and his wife, fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, have committed to funding a floating public park and performance space on a pier in the Hudson River. Their pledge of over...
View ArticleSee inside a sprawling New York apartment overlooking Central Park that was...
A huge apartment on New York City's Upper West Side has just been listed for $42 million, according to The Wall Street Journal.The 7,000-square-foot apartment is in one of Manhattan’s first co-op...
View ArticleBillion-dollar London money transfer startup TransferWise is coming to the US
Andreessen Horowitz-backed money transfer startup TransferWise is expanding to the United States, the company announced today.Based in London, the fintech company recently raised $58 million in a...
View ArticleNew York Republicans just trolled Bill de Blasio with a bizarre 'Fifty Shades...
The New York State Republican Party decided to jump into the discussion surrounding the hit erotic romance movie "Fifty Shades of Grey."On Tuesday, the state GOP tweeted a fake movie poster for "Fifty...
View ArticleQUIZ: Are you part of New York City's middle class?
Mayor Bill de Blasio's vision for the five boroughs is to move past the "tale of two cities," to create "a city where everyone has a shot at the middle class," he said during his State of the City...
View ArticleCadillac is basically now a New York car company (GM)
Last year, General Motors announced that Cadillac would be moving its marketing and sales operations to New York from Detroit. It was part of Caddy President Johan de Nysschen's plan to assert that...
View ArticleCongressional hopeful has an amazing YouTube page on dating advice,...
A long-shot candidate in a New York congressional special election has a rather unique background.In addition to working as an autism research advocate, the candidate, Amber Adler, wrote books on...
View ArticleNew York's touted whistleblower act shows how Europe is miles behind the US
US authorities and regulators have a love-hate relationship with whistleblowers. European powers are even more confused with what to do with them.Authorities like it when whistleblowers get them tax...
View ArticleWhy London should stop trying to be NYC and start trying to be Paris
Watch out New York, London is coming for you. This was a key message of the Long Term Economic Plan for London launched by the U.K. Chancellor and London's mayor Boris Johnson last week.Among a host of...
View ArticleEurope's biggest minicab firm has set itself a seemingly impossible challenge...
London taxi company Addison Lee is expanding to New York, the Guardian reports.The firm, which has a long-running dispute with car booking app Uber, is planning to try to gain a foothold in the £2.2...
View ArticleA man was found hiding in the cockpit of a Jetblue Airways plane in New York...
A man was found hiding in the cockpit of a Jetblue Airways plane early Tuesday morning in New York.The airport that the plane was at wasn't identified.Port Authority officials told NBC New York that...
View ArticleCoyotes in suburban New York 'aren't afraid of people anymore'
CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. (AP) — This well-heeled hamlet north of New York City is embroiled in an increasingly nasty debate that seems oddly out of place amid the stately homes and tony boutiques: What should...
View ArticleThe most important cities in the world for the super-rich
Which are the hottest cities for the world's ultra-wealthy? Global real estate consultant Knight Frank broke them down for us in its 2015 Wealth Report.The report ranks the top 40 cities for "Ultra...
View ArticleThe rough landing at LaGuardia raises serious questions
As the National Transportation Safety Board begins its investigation into a Delta jetliner that slid off a runway while landing during a snowstorm at LaGuardia Airport, there is no shortage of...
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