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Jobless Rate Got No Help From Hiring for Holidays

The usual preholiday hiring by stores did not happen in October as New York City’s unemployment rate held at 10.3 percent, its highest level in 16 years, the State Labor Department said Thursday. The city’s official unemployment rate remained slightly ...

From PATRICK MCGEEHAN, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Labor Department

Flat Holiday Hiring as Jobless Rate Holds at 10.3%

The usual preholiday hiring by stores did not happen in October as the city’s unemployment rate held at 10.3 percent, its highest level in 16 years, the State Labor Department said on Thursday. The city’s official unemployment rate remained slightly ...

From PATRICK MCGEEHAN, NYT: City Room,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Labor Department

Pfizer to Leave City That Won Land-Use Suit

From the edge of the Thames River in New London, Conn., Michael Cristofaro surveyed the empty acres where his parents’ neighborhood had stood, before it became the crux of an epic battle over eminent domain. “Look what they did,” Mr. Cristofaro said ...

From PATRICK MCGEEHAN, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Pfizer Inc.,  Susette Kelo,  Clarence Thomas,  Wyeth|WYE|NYSE

Five Development Projects to Receive Stimulus Money

City officials have chosen five more development projects, one in each borough, to receive tax-free financing through the federal stimulus program. The five projects, which include a hotel, a medical facility and a cement depot, would receive up to $87 ...

From PATRICK MCGEEHAN, The New York Times,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Economic Development Corporation

For a District That’s Short of Heroes, a Teamful

The “Canyon of Heroes” that the champion Yankees will parade through on Friday looks more like the valley of hard times these days. After heading north from Battery Park at 11 a.m., the procession will pass the headquarters of Bank of New York Mellon, ...

From PATRICK MCGEEHAN, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Thomson Reuters,  New York Giants,  Merrill Lynch,  Goldman Sachs,  Citigroup

Mapping the Sites of Con Ed's Stray Voltage

New Yorkers can use interactive online maps to gather a vast amount of information about their neighborhoods, from how many bars they contain to where the nearest subway and bus stops are. Now they can find out how many light poles have been ...

From PATRICK MCGEEHAN, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Consolidated Edison, Inc.

In the Shadow of Yankee Stadium, an Off Year

By all reckoning, this should be the moment Saeed Alawy was waiting for. His shop, Pin Stripe Collectibles, sits just beyond the right field wall of the new Yankee Stadium, where Game 6 of the World Series will be played Wednesday night. Businesses ...

From PATRICK MCGEEHAN, The New York Times,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Yankees,  Economic Development Corporation,  Atlanta Braves

Soft Real Estate Market Is a Key Ingredient at Brooklyn Brewery

Less than two years ago, the Brooklyn Brewery found itself in a bind that had squeezed many companies out of New York. It wanted to expand, but the rapid gentrification of its neighborhood, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, had pushed rents beyond what it ...

From PATRICK MCGEEHAN, The New York Times,  1 Nov 2009

Subway Service to Be Disrupted on Manhattan Bridge

A $150 million project to replace all of the vertical suspension cables on the 100-year-old Manhattan Bridge will cause sporadic weekend disruptions in subway service and require closings of the bikeway and some traffic lanes for parts of the next four ...

From PATRICK MCGEEHAN, The New York Times,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Brian Gill,  Transportation Department

Construction Deaths Spike in City

More than 30 construction workers died in falls and other events on job sites in New York City last year, the federal Department of Labor reported Wednesday. Chiefly because of that spike, the overall number of workers who died on the job in New York ...

From PATRICK MCGEEHAN, The New York Times,  28 Oct 2009

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