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New York protest square to be ‘temporarily cleared’: mayor
NEW YORK — The small Manhattan square occupied by anti-Wall Street protestors for almost four weeks will be temporarily cleared for cleaning on Friday, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. Bloomberg went to the protest site, where several hundred people are camped out, to explain the move, which would be…
Bloomberg: Occupy Wall Street can stay, for now
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg may not be a fan of Occupy Wall Street, but he’s not going to force the protest to shut down any time soon. “The bottom line is – people want to express themselves,” he said, according to The Wall Street Journal. “And as long…
Bloomberg tells ‘Occupy Wall Street’ to lay off banks
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg Friday pushed back at the Occupy Wall Street protesters that have been inhabiting a park in lower Manhattan for nearly three weeks, saying that their aims were contradictory. The protesters crowding Liberty Square said they are against corporate greed, and aim their demonstration at…
Fewest ever New Yorkers light up: officials
NEW YORK — The number of smokers in New York has hit an all time low, city health officials said Thursday. Only 14 out of 100 adults still light up, a 35 percent decrease from 2002 figures, the Health Department said. The decrease amounts to 450,000 fewer adult smokers, with…
Nation on alert after ‘credible’ 9/11 bomb threat
Heavily armed police were on alert in and around New York City Friday after US officials warned of a “credible” but unconfirmed bomb threat around the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. “There is specific, credible but unconfirmed threat information,” the Department of Homeland Security said Thursday, as President Barack…
New York steps up security amid credible threat
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Security has been heightened in New York City because of a credible but uncorroborated threat, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Thursday, but said city residents should go about their business as usual. “The NYPD (police department) is deploying additional resources around the city and taking…
Hurricane Irene hits New York
Hurricane Irene hit New York late Saturday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said as rain and stronger winds began to lash the city. “The edge of the hurricane is finally upon us,” he told a press conference. Bloomberg said that with mandatory evacuation orders handed to some 370,000 people in low-lying neighborhoods…
Hugh Carey, former N.Y. ‘governor for hard winters’, dies age 92
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former New York Governor Hugh Carey, a fiscal hawk who tamed a potentially ruinous fiscal crisis in the Empire State in the 1970s, died on Sunday at his summer home on Long Island, officials said. He was 92. Carey, a Democrat, was New York’s 51st governor,…
New York plans to revive waterfronts
NEW YORK – New York’s mayor on Monday unveiled a $3.3 billion plan to revitalize hundreds of miles of shoreline, expand ferry services and boost the shipping industry in the Big Apple. Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plan calls for the long-term development of industrial and tourist potential along the maze of…
NYC outdoor smoking extinguished from May 23
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Smoking in New York City’s parks, beaches, boardwalks, pedestrian plazas and other public spaces will be banned from May 23 despite complaints about excessive meddling by government in people’s private lives. Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed the legislation on Tuesday after the city council voted 36 to…
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