In October, Waterfront Toronto announced it had chosen Sidewalk Labs to present a plan to design a brand
new area of the city from scratch, with innovative technologies and infrastructure that's expected to include roads designed for driverless cars.
Some of my best friends from college live in NYC, and I'm always looking for
new areas of the city to explore when I go down to visit them.
We had not spent much time there before this trip & I was excited to explore
a new area of the city.
For those of us who aren't location independent, sometimes the best place to slow travel is in your nearby cities.One way I continue to explore the areas right around me is taking a night out
a new area of the city, in my case San Francisco.
As an MBA and «numbers fanatic», he specializes in a concept called «Real Estate Meteorology» where he takes his knowledge about new real estate trends, finance, strategy, etc., and educates his clients to make smart moves in the hottest
new areas of the city.
Not exact matches
Taking into account past patterns
of drought and water use, the Columbia study reveals that several major metro
areas, including
New York
City, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, are at high risk for water scarcity, along with the Great Plains agricultural belt extending from North and South Dakota down to North Texas.
Merritt Hawkins conducted telephone surveys
of more than 1,900 practices in two categories
of cities, fifteen large metro
areas including
New York, Boston, Miami and Los Angeles; and an equal number
of mid-sized
cities as varied as Savannah, Georgia and Dayton, Ohio.
The breakdown
of the
New York metro
area's public transit system is sure to cause a
city - wide headache, leaving roughly 600,000 commuters scrambling.
The opening
of a 43,000 square foot Northgate Gonzalez supermarket in San Diego's
City Heights
area, an early FreshWorks investment, created 122
new jobs, for example.
he three
New York
City -
areas were the hardest hit as
of Tuesday evening.
The
new cities announced on Tuesday bring the number
of metropolitan
areas in the free delivery program to six.
Looking at a graph
of how the Bay
Area compares to other metro
areas in this index is immediately telling — San Francisco has about twice the density
of the next - highest
city (Boston), and about five times the density
of New York.
The rezoning
of 78 blocks
of east midtown Manhattan was approved by the
New York
City Council in August, with the goal
of enabling the
area's aging building stock to be replaced by more modern — and taller — office towers.
This can take the edge off
of a sudden trip to a
new city, seeing friends or even leads that you didn't know were in the
area.
Ask around and you'll discover that a sizeable chunk
of New York
City's millennial population flocked here from other states, hoping to take advantage
of the career opportunities that the sprawling metro
area has to offer.
Those who want to view the Lyrid shower should find an
area away from light pollution (meaning it won't be as visible to
city dwellers in major cities like New York City, Boston and San Francisco) on the night of April
city dwellers in major
cities like
New York
City, Boston and San Francisco) on the night of April
City, Boston and San Francisco) on the night
of April 21.
Nearly two dozen wildfires spread through the counties
of Napa, Sonoma, and six others last week, destroying an estimated 5,700 structures, and burning over 200,000 acres
of land — a collective
area roughly the size
of New York
City.
When staffers for
New York
City Comptroller Scott Stringer surveyed a random sampling
of 50 businesses in the wider
area surrounding Trump Tower in mid-November, they discovered more than two - thirds
of them claimed they were losing revenue.More than a third called the impact «severe.»
One reason former presidents such as Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, who relocated to the
New York
City area after leaving office, didn't move their residences into the city proper is because of the mind - bending logist
City area after leaving office, didn't move their residences into the
city proper is because of the mind - bending logist
city proper is because
of the mind - bending logistics.
At Fast Company's Innovation Uncensored event last week in
New York
City, Paul English, the co-founder and CTO
of popular travel site Kayak.com explained that when it comes to staffing his company with techies he prefers to hire folks with no travel industry experience who have shown exceptional ability in another
area — say, Olympic - level athletics.
By the early 1930s, the
area along 42nd Street, directly north and south
of Grand Central had become known as the «Valley
of the Giants,» home to three
of New York
City's six tallest skyscrapers: Walter Chrysler's silver spire, real estate king Irwin Chanin's eponymous building across from the terminal and the white - faced Daily News Building.
No longer the northern frontier
of Manhattan's built - up
area, 42nd Street had become the commercial, hotel and transportation hub
of New York, a «
City of Incredible Towers,» said Swiss architect Le Corbusier.
A quick check
of airfares from the
New York
City area to Los Angeles found a nonstop economy flight departing from JFK airport in the mid-morning was $ 412, while the least expensive flight, priced at $ 332, left from Newark Airport, also mid-morning.
Apparel store rent can run as low as $ 8 per square foot in certain parts
of the country, and close to $ 40 per square foot in big malls or shopping centers in high - traffic
areas or in higher - rent metropolitan
areas, like
New York
City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Dallas.
Since then, her ongoing research and those
of dozens
of colleagues have led to conclusions that urban pollution, particularly the kind you live with in dense
areas like
New York
City,
New Delhi, London, and Mexico
City, is a critical health concern.
The company says the campus will bring 50,000 jobs over the next two decades, and most
of the 20 finalist
cities have said they are offering economic incentives to lure the tech giant — for example,
New Jersey has said it wants to award Amazon $ 7 billion in tax breaks if it chooses the Newark
area.
New York
City Parks Advocates had argued the event was taking away public space from, well, the public, by setting up on Damrosch Park, an
area of greenery on the Lincoln Center compound.
The students learned that incubators in
New York have trouble finding and retaining networks
of industry experts, speakers and mentors, that they are short on staff for outreach and marketing, and that they struggle to offer opportunities in poorer
areas of the
city.
Direct Marketing «I've found that direct marketing is an absolute waste
of time and money,» says Wendy M. Civale, 33, the owner
of Nonna Gisella, a food business that sells spices and side dishes to restaurants in the
New York
City area and neighboring states.
Amazon's grocery delivery service costs $ 299 per year, and delivers thousands
of grocery products from fruits and vegetables to food from local merchants within a day or less to customers in metropolitan
areas within northern and southern Calif., as well as
New York
City and Seattle.
It was before Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen broke the customary sphinxlike silence
of her office to observe that valuations in some tech categories have become «substantially stretched,» before the tech sector eclipsed financial services as the leading destination for elite business school graduates, and before tech money made over large swaths
of New York
City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Austin, and,
of course, the entire San Francisco Bay
Area, where one in five working adults is employed by a tech firm.
In addition to its proximity to Eastern hubs including
New York
City and Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and the surrounding metro
area includes dozens
of prominent universities, including the University
of Pennsylvania and Drexel.
For example, in the Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
area, you need to earn $ 16.40 per hour and in
New York
City $ 22.90 per hour to afford an efficiency (or small studio) apartment, according to Looking Up at the Bottom Line author Richard Troxell's calculation
of the universal living wage.
Yes, all the video game people were there, and from the looks
of the crowd, just about every 13 - year - old boy in the metropolitan
New York
City area showed up.
Besides having a full - blown ecommerce site with an expanding line
of products, Raider and Katz - Mayfield have also dipped their toes in the subscription model and recently added a barbershop, known as the «Corner Shop» in
New York
City's SoHo
area.
To his point, about 94 percent
of Aspiration customers are spread across the heartland, as opposed to major urban
areas like
New York
City and San Francisco.
Sidewalk's CEO Daniel Doctoroff has some experience rebuilding
cities already: He is a former
New York
City deputy mayor who rezoned swaths of that city for urban housing and development projects, including the area of Manhattan's West Side currently being redeveloped above railroad tracks, Hudson Ya
City deputy mayor who rezoned swaths
of that
city for urban housing and development projects, including the area of Manhattan's West Side currently being redeveloped above railroad tracks, Hudson Ya
city for urban housing and development projects, including the
area of Manhattan's West Side currently being redeveloped above railroad tracks, Hudson Yards.
Not only does the study lay out the
areas with the highest absolute numbers
of grads (the usual big -
city suspects like
New York, L.A., Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Boston top the list), but it also compares
cities by the concentration
of grads among residents.
According to a
new Bankrate survey out Monday, the Grand Canyon state is home to three
of the country's best
cities for retirees, ranked by metrics like cost
of living, weather, crime rate, health care, taxes, walkability and the well - being
of seniors living in the
area.
While the town has maintained much
of its rustic charm (electricity in the
city's «hotel zone» remains limited), it has also begun to attract a
new wave
of nomad — models, photographers and Wall Street brokers who gather for bikini boot camps, expensive dinners and far niente — to the delight
of foreign investors, who have brandished the
area's boho vibe as a persuasive marketing spiel.
But many
of the
new hires are located in low - cost
areas such as Bangalore, Bengaluru, and Salt Lake
City, according to the company's second - quarter earnings call — keeping costs low.
While most people shy away from dealing with a broker in hopes
of keeping costs down, working directly with the landlord is not always an option, especially in broker - heavy
areas such as
New York
City, Boston, Chicago, and Miami.
It's a veritable who's who
of the Bay
Area, Los Angeles and
New York
City.
Number
of U.S. employees: 30,662 Industry: Professional Services U.S. headquarters:
New York
City Major locations in Bay
Area: San Francisco, Santa Clara and Walnut Creek Number
of locations: 92
Among
cities, San Francisco Bay
Area had the highest number
of funding deals with 46, followed by
New York with 17.
It brought together two leading faculties from two top - ranked business schools in two
of the world's great business centers —
New York
City and the San Francisco Bay
Area — to create a single unique program.
The S&P / Case - Shiller 20 -
City Composite Home Price Index seeks to measures the value
of residential real estate in 20 major U.S. metropolitan
areas: Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis,
New York, Phoenix, Portland, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Tampa and Washington, D.C.
The company said it's aiming for a metropolitan
area of at least 1 million residents, opening up, theoretically, a few dozen
cities in the U.S., from
New York to Tucson, Ariz., and a handful more in Canada.
The Hon. Navdeep Bains, Minister
of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, explained that Canada must think beyond trade and investment to build
new opportunities and partnership through innovation hubs and by tapping into the growth
of developing smart
cities — urban
areas that use communications technologies to manage their infrastructure.
The
New York
City area, with its many interest rate - sensitive industries, has prospered when decision - makers in the public and private sectors could have confidence that the Federal Reserve was committed to a rigorous set
of policies that promoted price stability, in a growth - oriented economic environment.