East River News
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg called for a $20 billion system of flood barriers to protect low-lying areas from storms almost eight months after Hurricane Sandy devastated the region.
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Gary Delgado learned last week from a note slipped under his door that the rent for his two-bedroom apartment at Manhattan’s Stuyvesant Town will jump by $920 to $4,220 a month in July. Unable to move immediately, he says he’ll stick it out for another year.
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Next week on May 29 the Pritzker Prize will be awarded to Toyo Ito, of Tokyo, who will receive his bronze medal and $100,000 in a formal ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.
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The drop of molasses that fell on me last night at the Domino Sugar Factory was proof of authenticity.
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Banks that opened more than 15,000 branches across the U.S. in the decade leading to the financial crisis are retreating from lower-income neighborhoods, even as the industry posted its second-most-profitable year on record.
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American International Group Inc. is increasing investments in commercial real estate, with a focus on apartment buildings as U.S. rental demand climbs, Chief Executive Officer Robert Benmosche said in an interview.
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Could a surge-protection barrier have saved New York City from much of the flood ravages of superstorm Sandy?
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The four-acre Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park finally completes a memorial to the 32nd U.S. president -- almost four decades after architect Louis Kahn finished the designs.
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Opponents of New York’s plan to reopen a waste-transfer plant on the Upper East Side of Manhattan were predictably disappointed that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gave the plant a green light last month.
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A helicopter carrying tourists crashed in New York’s East River, killing a woman and injuring three other passengers, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
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