Skip to main content

manhattan

  • 0
    Report: NYC chef busted for hoarding gas after restaurant fire injures 3
    1352921340

    After the flooding and power outages, one of the biggest impacts Superstorm Sandy has had in the Northeast remains a rash of gasoline shortages. To get around the problem, Fei Teng, a 42-year-old sushi chef at a Manhattan restaurant called 1066 ENO, was reportedly hoarding gas in the restaurant's ...

  • 0
    Report: New Yorkers want parking ban to curb... sex in cars?
    1335445140

    To some residents of Midtown Manhattan, sex is a problem. Specifically, sex in cars is a problem and they've asked the Community Board to ban weekend parking on their streets. The board granted the request, citing chronic drug use, double parking and rampant sex. Unfortunately, the board has no ...

  • 0
    Official: Porsche Design opens new flagship store in SoHo
    1327325280

    Take a flight overseas and you may happen upon a Porsche Design store in an airport somewhere. That's because, while the automaker's product-design division has dozens of locations around the world, few of them are in the United States for a brand that is typically European in its focus. But all ...

  • 0
    Report: F1 may be coming to New York, but not NASCAR
    1320096660

    NASCAR and New York may strike you as diametrically opposite pillars of modern America. But if Formula One can race in Texas, surely NASCAR can race in New York, right? F1 has recently announced two new races in the United States: the U.S. Grand Prix slated to race in Austin, Texas, for the ...

  • 0
    Video: Crushed NYC fire truck lowered into Ground Zero memorial
    1311269520

    Next year, an underground museum commemorating the attacks on 9/11 will open on the site that once held the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan. And it just got one of its first exhibitions. A crushed 30-ton fire truck, draped in a white covering and American flags, was lowered by ...

  • 0
    Report: NY legislature green lights plan to let pedestrians hail livery cabs from street
    1309522800

    It took more than a couple of legal strategems, but New York City's mayor Michael Bloomberg has outwitted the city's powerful yellow taxi lobby. The State Legislature passed a bill making it legal for New Yorkers to hail livery cabs from the street. What's a livery cab? It's a private taxi, ...

  • 0
    Video: Manhattan's speed limit - Do you know it?
    1291067820

    NYC DOT speed limit PSA spots – Click above to watch the videos
    You might honestly think that the speed limit in Manhattan is "whatever you can crank it up to between red lights." That's wrong, and the New York City Department of Transportation wants you to know that it's 30 mph. More ...

  • 0
    Rumormill: GM considering flagship dealer in Mahattan to bolster IPO cause
    1278076920

    Citing "three people who know about the discussions," BusinessWeek reports that General Motors is ruminating whether or not to build a high-zoot showroom in Manhattan to gain favor among "high-fashion New Yorkers, tourists and high-rolling investors." The stated aim would be to raise awareness ...

  • 0
    Ecclestone reportedly working on bringing U.S. Grand Prix to New York
    1270125660

    While the New York Auto Show is under way at the Javitz Center, on the opposite side of the globe the Big Apple came up in an entirely different context. Speaking with Italy's sports journal La Gazzetta dello Sport during this past weekend's Australian Grand Prix, Formula One supremo Bernie ...

  • 0
    VW building $125M flagship dealer complex on Manhattan's west side
    1258153080

    Rendering of new VW/Audi complex in Manhattan – Click above to view in high-res
    Volkswagen is building swanky new digs on New York City's west side for its VW and Audi brands. The automaker has purchased a 256,000 square foot space currently occupied by Potamkin GM (the Potamkin family has ...

Loading

Loading
Autoblog iPhone App