NBC Sports blogger Craig Calcaterra had the line of the week on Monday, when he tweeted: “With my son at the orthopedist to get his cast off. Have the Braves moved again since I left?” For sports fans and followers … Continue reading
In a year that has featured increased coverage of rising economic inequality—helped along by President Barack Obama’s call to rebuild the economy from the “middle out,” and New York mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio’s campaign focus on a “tale of … Continue reading
The New York Rangers and Knicks opened their regular season schedules this week, giving fans willing to shell out for opening-night tickets — now averaging $72 for the Rangers, and a staggering $123 for the Knicks — the chance to … Continue reading
At this time last year, Lily Jones and Sonika Mehta were both weighing their college options: private or public? East Coast or West? Big city or small? Today, as first-year students at New York University, they’re each happy with their … Continue reading
Bianca Rodriguez, a Philadelphia school reading specialist, was 22 years old when the seizures started. A year later, after she developed more mysterious symptoms, including swollen joints and an outbreak of hives, Rodriguez finally received a diagnosis: adult-onset Still’s disease, … Continue reading
The National Hockey League season doesn’t start for another three weeks, but already hockey fans in Glendale, Ariz., are counting an unexpected victory. Four years after the Phoenix Coyotes went bankrupt and were taken over by the league, prompting endless … Continue reading
A new study by four Harvard and UC-Berkeley economists (including inequality guru Emmanuel Saez) on where in the U.S. it’s toughest to climb the economic ladder got nice placement in the Times yesterday. And if you looked at the handy … Continue reading
As the U.S. Tennis Association prepared to submit plans this spring for another expansion of its 35-year-old National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, some members of Queens Community Board 8 cried foul. “You wouldn’t do this to Central Park, … Continue reading
When House Republicans voted last night to remove food stamps from the Congressional farm bill, they took the first step toward ending a 40-year-long compromise tying food aid to the poor (liked by big-city liberals) to farm subsidies (liked by … Continue reading
It was a story that, if true, was certainly alarming: New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof (12/9/12) reported that poor families in Appalachian Kentucky were pulling their kids out of literacy classes. The reason: They feared that if their kids … Continue reading