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Welcome to City RoomCity Room® is a news blog of live reporting, features and reader conversations about New York City [Highlights]. Reader comments are moderated [Details]. Send questions, suggestions or complaints by e-mail for prompt attention.Archive Select Month May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October ... Continue reading →
Been Facebook-ed Lately? By AZAM AHMED and SUSANNE CRAIGGotten whacked by the market today?Wall Street has a new saying for that: You have been Facebook-ed. Or, you have been Zuck-ed.With shares of the social network trading below their offering price, Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg are finding their ways into the traders lexicon. On Wall Street, Zuck is a new four-letter word.“I got Facebook-ed, man,” said one trader this week after finding himself on the losing end of a situation.Facebook isn’t the first company to find itself being used as a verb. Google is often used instead of search. Even MF Global, the bankrupt commodities dealer, has gotten caught up in the trend. “I got MF Global-ed,” said one person recently when he was ... Continue reading →
Jens Mortensen for The New York Times This past March, standing outside a Shell station in Mellen, Wis., in the state’s far north, Mike Wiggins Jr. told me about a series of dark and premonitory dreams he had two years earlier. “One of them was a very vivid trip around the North Woods and seeing forests bleeding and sludge from a creek emptying into the Bad River,” Wiggins said. “I ended up at a dilapidated northern log home with rotten snowshoes falling off the wall. I stepped out of the lodge, walked through some pine, and I was in a pipeline. There was a big pipe coming in and out of the ground as far as I could see. Teri Fullerton for The New York ... Continue reading →
New York authorities are investigating the claims of a man who has told investigators that he had a role in the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz, the 6-year-old boy who vanished in SoHo on his way to school and is believed to have been murdered, officials said on Thursday.“An individual now in custody has made statements to N.Y.P.D. detectives implicating himself in the disappearance and death of Etan Patz 33 years ago,” Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said in a statement issued early Thursday. “We expect to provide further details later today.”The man, identified by one law enforcement official as Pedro Hernandez, was taken into custody late Wednesday in New Jersey and was taken to the office of the Manhattan District Attorney, Cyrus R. Vance, ... Continue reading →
Jim Wilson/The New York Times “Those oil guys can think whatever they want, but we know how harsh this ocean is. They don’t know what they’re getting into.” ROY NAGEAK, 60, a whaling captain from Alaska’s North Slope, where temperatures can reach 50 below zero. WASHINGTON — Shortly before Thanksgiving in 2010, the leaders of the commission President Obama had appointed to investigate the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico sat down in the Oval Office to brief him. After listening to their findings about the BP accident and the safety of deepwater drilling, the president abruptly changed the subject. “Where are you coming out on the offshore Arctic?” he asked. William K. Reilly, a former chief of the Environmental Protection Agency ... Continue reading →
5:47 p.m. | Updated to include women mentioned for the job.With about five months until the election and seven months until the departure of Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, Glenn Somerville and Felix Salmon have two of the first goes at guessing his successor.On the Democratic side, possibilities include Laurence D. Fink of BlackRock, the asset manager; Erskine Bowles, who served on President Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform; Daniel K. Tarullo, a member of the Federal Reserve Board; and Roger C. Altman, the investment banker.For the Republicans, the front-runners include Robert B. Zoellick, the head of the World Bank; John B. Taylor, the Stanford economist; Glenn Hubbard, the head of Columbia Business School and a Mitt Romney adviser; and Kevin Warsh, a ... Continue reading →
Marcus Jonson A hut in the forest near Skinnskatteberg, Sweden; 44 euros at welcomebeyond.com. EVERY March my most organized friends start reserving waterfront rooms, urban oases or country cabins for their perfect summer getaway, while I procrastinate, overwhelmed by the options. Recently, I logged onto VRBO.com (Vacation Rental by Owner), only to find my head spinning at the length of its roster — 180,000 properties worldwide. Scrolling through Hotels.com (145,000 hotels in more than 60 countries) and Airbnb.com (over 100,000 short-term rental places in 192 countries), I almost gave up. Then I stumbled upon DesignTripper.com, a site that features 200 or so beautifully photographed small hotels, inns and houses — a slim roster of properties, which appeared to be so breathtakingly designed that the destination ... Continue reading →
Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times Andreas C. Dracopoulos, co-president of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. ATHENS — While money pours out of Greek banks, and Europe debates whether Greece deserves its next handout, the people potentially in the best position to help shore up the nation’s finances are mainly keeping their heads down. They are among the wealthiest Greeks — whether shipping magnates, whose tax-free status is enshrined in the constitution, or the so-called oligarchs who have accumulated vast wealth via their dominance in core areas of the economy like oil, gas, media, banking and even cement. Astute investors, they have been reluctant to lend a hand to the Greek treasury through the risky proposition of buying government bonds. But they have also been slow to ... Continue reading →
