Citgo, controlled by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, started a discounted heating oil program for needy Bronx residents two years ago. Now the energy company is backing social programs in the borough.
Two NYU students are offering an alternative proposal for the Domino's Sugar refinery: enviromentally friendly housing, complete with solar panels and wind turbines. But plans for a large apartment-and-retail complex already are in the works.
Lower East Side residents are demanding the renovation of the LaGuardia Bathhouse, which has been shuttered for three decades. The city contends it would cost too much to restore the century-old building and the pool inside.
A new bike lane on Ninth Avenue has yielded a dip in the number of parking spaces, hurting sales for Chelsea merchants, small business owners say.
Tiffany & Co. opened its second Manhattan store, on Wall St., marking the jewelry store's return to downtown after a 67-year absence. For many, the move is symbolic of downtown's comeback from 9/11 – and the changing Financial District retail landscape.
The city is restoring the High Bridge, a National Historic Landmark that once provided a majestic pedestrian path between the Bronx and Manhattan. The span is set to reopen in 2011 - after more than 40 years.
The city's 28,000 subsidized home child-care providers soon could become part one of the city's most powerful unions. The workers, who have no vacation days or pensions, are voting on whether to be represented by the United Federation of Teachers.
When the city Board of Health voted to ban trans fats from city restaurants in December 2006, many small business owners had no idea what the transition would entail.