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Can Trump Avoid Taxes With Change of Address? It May Not Be So Simple
Like a long line of other wealthy New Yorkers, President Donald Trump has decided to establish his legal residence in Florida, apparently at least in part to save money on taxes.
Can Trump Avoid Taxes by Moving to Florida? It's Not So Simple.
Like a long line of other wealthy New Yorkers, President Donald Trump has decided to establish his legal residence in Florida, apparently at least in part to save money on taxes.
Selling the Warhol: Their Bitter Divorce Leaves an Art Trove
NEW YORK — There is the $72 million apartment, so large it runs the full length of one side of the Plaza Hotel, with windows overlooking Central Park. A second Manhattan apartment is high up in one of the tallest buildings in the Western Hemisphere, along the so-called Billionaires’ Row.
'People Were Bleeding All Over': America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park
Amusement parks are designed to deliver thrills. They are places for splashing and screaming and laughing, often on rides that defy common sense, not to mention the laws of physics.
James Robinson, 79, Dies; Filled an Ambulance Gap in Brooklyn
When a 7-year-old girl was hit by a car one day in 1988 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, it took more than 30 minutes for an ambulance to arrive. When it did, her uncle, James Robinson Jr., climbed in for the ride to the hospital.
Hailing a Helicopter to Beat the Traffic
NEW YORK — Aakash Anand, who was on his way to Kennedy International Airport, looked out the window at the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn. “I’m not sitting in that bumper-to-bumper traffic,” he said happily.
He's spent just one night on his private island, he's had enough
Albert Sutton paid just more than $1 million for something that many rich people dream of — a private island. Then he bought a second island, 400 yards away, for $450,000.
Pride parade: 50 years after Stonewall, a joyous and resolute celebration
NEW YORK — There were moments of celebration, moments of contemplation, moments of commemoration — and complaints about commercialization. There were people who were passionate about equal rights and people who reveled in being free to be themselves.
Home shopping in the stratosphere
NEW YORK — In the 1920s, when Gilded Age plutocrats reigned in Manhattan, an heiress agreed to an unheard-of deal. She traded her Fifth Avenue mansion for an apartment atop a new building.
Ex-detective admits running brothels in the worst NYPD scandal in years
NEW YORK — It was one of the worst police corruption scandals in New York City in recent years: a multilayered criminal operation that included brothels in Brooklyn and a numbers racket run out of beauty salons and a deli in Queens.
Just like subway and bus riders, the disabled find getting around New York maddening
NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Transportation Authority operates a subway system in New York City that is a study in chronic unreliability and a bus system that often seems to run in slow motion.
Celebrating the first trans-Atlantic flight, no, it wasn't Lindbergh's
The first trans-Atlantic flight? Lindbergh seems the obvious answer. But that would be wrong.
New York City Fire Kills 6, Including 4 Children
NEW YORK — Six people, including four children, were killed early Wednesday when a fire swept through an apartment in a city-owned building in Harlem.
Governor says only 49 state flags may fly in New Jersey Park, one must go
It is a springtime routine at the picturesque Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey, which has sweeping views of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island from its 2-mile-long promenade: Workers go from flagpole to flagpole, raising the flags of the 50 states.
New Jersey Governor Refuses to Fly Mississippi Flag in Spring Ritual at Park
It is a springtime routine at the picturesque Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey, which has sweeping views of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island from its 2-mile-long promenade: Workers go from flagpole to flagpole, raising the flags of the 50 states.Boy Scouts' 'perversion files' tracked claims of sex abuse by volunteers
The Boy Scouts have kept files going back decades showing that nearly 8,000 volunteers have been excluded from the organization because they had been accused of sexually abusing children, according to a review by an expert on child sexual abuse.
In an Elevator Shaft, Lifting Up the Ordinary
NEW YORK — Alex Kalman does things that Max Hollein of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Glenn D. Lowry of the Museum of Modern Art do not, like sweeping the street in front of his museum.
Block by Block, Looking Back as New York City Changes
NEW YORK — In the 1980s, New York City sent photographers to every building and every lot in every borough. The city had done the same thing in the 1930s as part of a program to make tax assessments fairer and more accurate.
How a movie projectionist keeps the dying art of celluloid alive
(Grace Notes): NEW YORK — For the 9:20 p.m. movie, Jesse Locascio threaded film through the projector. This was after he had sprayed compressed air on the sprockets and rollers, blowing out dust that could show up as black dots on the screen.
A summer of '69 romance and the stage from Woodstock
(Grace Notes): In this year of 50th anniversaries — astronauts walking on the moon, “Sesame Street” premiering on television and the New York Mets winning their first World Series, to name only three — Steve Gold has what he says is the biggest souvenir from one of the biggest happenings of all: the stage from Woodstock.
