Mortgages Borrowers with mortgage troubles must wait a period of time before seeking another loan. Behind the Wheel | 2011 Chrysler Town & CountryThe company says the new minivan has been only re-engineered a bit, but the van feels like an all-new, and better, vehicle. New Cars SearchUsed Cars SearchMore in Automobiles Corner Office: John W. Rowe John W. Rowe of Exelon, the electric utility, says he learned early in his career that it’s always important to take action — “to always be looking for something to do that moves the ball.” Find the best job in the New York metro area and beyond. Continue reading →
N.Y./Region | City Room Working in the Sky A trip to new heights with Tom Gordon, a crane operator at One World Trade Center, now the tallest building in New York City. Continue reading →
Ruth Fremson/The New York Times A small part of Jefferson R. Burdick’s collection is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is considered the father of card collecting. Baseball fans argue endlessly about the best ever to play the game, tossing around names like peanuts at a ballpark. But no one disputes that the greatest card collector was Jefferson R. Burdick. Some hobbyists have more cards and some investors have more valuable collections. Yet all of them owe a debt of gratitude to Burdick, an unassuming bachelor from upstate New York who essentially created modern card collecting. The father of card collectors, as Burdick was known among his admirers, amassed more than 30,000 baseball cards that are presumed to be worth millions of ... Continue reading →
The search for him, once hopeful, was turning desperate. Weather stoked the fear. The missing man was wearing only shorts, a T-shirt and running shoes. It was late March. Daytimes were warm, but the cold scythed through the spruce forest in the depth of night, the temperatures cutting into the 20s. For three days, rescue teams had fanned out for 50 yards on each side of the marked trails. Riders on horseback ventured through the gnarly brush, pushing past the felled branches of pinyon-juniper and ponderosa pine. An airplane and a helicopter circled in the sky, their pilots squinting above the ridges, woodlands, river canyons and meadows. “We’re in the middle of nowhere, and this guy could be anywhere,” Tom Bemis, the rescue coordinator appointed ... Continue reading →
N.Y./Region Preparing to Walk a Wire Over Niagara Nik Wallenda, who comes from a long line of high wire performers, is preparing to walk over Niagara Falls on June 15. RELATED Continue reading →
May 16, 2012, 11:23 amJudge Allows Class-Action Status in Stop-and-Frisk Lawsuit By THE NEW YORK TIMESA federal judge has granted class-action status in a lawsuit accusing the New York Police Department of violating the constitutional rights of blacks and Hispanics as a result of the department’s stop-and-frisk tactics.Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of Federal District Court in Manhattan wrote in her ruling on Wednesday that the evidence presented to her showed that the Police Department had a centralized policy that led to a vast number of illegal stops.Judge Scheindlin said that the evidence also showed that the department had a “policy of establishing performance standards and demanding increased levels of stops and frisks” that has led to an exponential growth in the number of stops.Police Department ... Continue reading →
