A new state law may soon bring electric scooters to the streets of New York City. But a mile away in New Jersey, Hoboken already offers a test case of the promises and the perils of the electric vehicles, which have taken hold across the world.
MIDDLETOWN, N.J. — It was only 7 a.m., but for the commuters stewing inside a Spartan train station in this bedroom community, the day was already off to a predictably bad start.
Now though, with both state and city leaders making sweeping promises about swearing off using fossil fuels, some of the biggest expanses of flat roof in New York are being turned into sources of cheap and green electricity.
The crash was startling, with the vehicle, an orange garbage truck, landing nose-first on the westbound lanes of Route 495, which carries traffic flowing out of Manhattan.
NEW YORK — The company seemed like a model for the modern economy. It was growing so fast in the clean-energy field that New Jersey awarded it $7.2 million in tax incentives to keep adding jobs installing solar panels.
NEW YORK — After Hurricane Sandy devastated New York in 2012, city officials considered some drastic responses to storm surges, like long concrete sea walls and tall earthen berms.
NEW YORK — After Hurricane Sandy devastated New York in 2012, city officials considered some drastic responses to storm surges, like long concrete sea walls and tall earthen berms.
NEW YORK — Netflix, the video-streaming company, said Thursday that it would spend up to $100 million to expand its presence in New York City by creating a production hub in Brooklyn that would include six soundstages.
NEW YORK — Four years ago, Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a plan to spend more than $325 million on a fleet of custom-built ferryboats and docks so that more of the city’s neighborhoods would have a better transit connection.
NEW YORK — Four years ago, Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a plan to spend more than $325 million on a fleet of custom-built ferryboats and docks so that more of the city’s neighborhoods would have a better transit connection.
NEW YORK — At Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital in New York City, the 58 tiny beds for sick newborns are almost always filled. But nurses who work there say there are often too few of them to provide all the care the babies, and their worried families, need.
For more than a year, a group of Hollywood actresses waving the banner of the Time’s Up movement have been pressing Gov. Andrew Cuomo to apply New York’s minimum wage to workers who earn tips, arguing that it would make waitresses less vulnerable to sexual harassment.
NEW YORK — A railroad crossing in Nassau County turned into a chaotic disaster scene Tuesday night when two Long Island Rail Road trains traveling in opposite directions struck a car that had swerved around lowered gates and onto the tracks, killing three people.
After the driver of the vehicle went around the gates, an eastbound train pulling out of the station struck the car, according to Phillip Eng, the president of the railroad.
Its workers were the first to stage rallies demanding a minimum wage of $15 an hour. Then, they pressed for changes in the way national restaurant chains set their work schedules.
At LaGuardia Airport in New York on Friday, Divneet Wadhwa, 26, was stewing. Her flight to Toronto, where she was going for a wedding, had been delayed three times.
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