Posted on 24 April 2009. Tags: Compost, Earth Day, green, New York City, Parks and Recreation, PlaNYC, Soil, Tompkins Square Park
By Jim Flood, Jessica Simeone, Michael Preston, and Kate Nocera On a beautiful spring day in Manhattan’s East Village, volunteers came out as part of the three-day Green Apple Festival, a yearly Earth Day event that spans 10 U.S. cities. Mike Lytle, the head gardener at Tompkins Square Park, put teams of volunteers to work […]
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Posted on 14 March 2009. Tags: anxieties, brooklyn, economy, fears, housing market, Manhattan, New York City, park slope, real estate
By Lois DeSocio, Jacqueline Linge, Maureen Sullivan, and Brian Winkowski. The New York City real estate market is no longer immune to the real estate drop that is hitting the rest of the country. Home values and sales have decreased throughout the metropolitan area, according to the Real Estate Board of New York. As a […]
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Posted on 13 March 2009. Tags: college, college application, financial aid, graduation, high school, limo, New York City, operation fairy dust, prom, prom dress, prom tickets, recession, school rings, senior year, shopping, tuition, tuxedo
Reporting by: Amber Benham, Rachel Senatore, Jessica Simeone and Nicole Turso Teenagers these days aren’t just thinking about love and movies; they’re worried about how they’ll pay for college in a recession. For these seniors, saving money is the goal. Ivan Collado Ivan got accepted at the University of Michigan, but there’s a nearly $15,000 […]
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