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☆ The Hotel That Owed Over $300,000 in Water Bills
  + stars: | 2024-03-21 | by ( James Barron | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
The city says that the bill scofflaws have used six billion gallons without paying. That’s enough water to satisfy the city’s thirst for four full days, as well as its needs for teeth brushing, showering and toilet flushing. Looked at another way, the daily average for water use is about 191 gallons for a single-family home and 142 gallons per unit for a multifamily one. The city charges $11.63 for every 100 cubic feet of water (748 gallons), which includes a charge for wastewater services. That works out to about a penny a gallon.
☆ Charles Osgood, Lyrical Newscaster on Radio and TV, Dies at 91
  + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( James Barron | More About James Barron | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Charles Osgood, a newscaster who told unconventional stories on the radio in unconventional ways — sometimes with rhyme, sometimes with humor, often with both — died on Tuesday at his home in Saddle River, N.J. Mr. Osgood became a familiar face on television as the host of “CBS Sunday Morning” from 1994 to 2016. On television, he was known for his trademark bow ties; on the radio, it was for his distinctive voice, most familiar from his short “Osgood File” segments on CBS Radio. It was not booming like Paul Harvey’s, deeply authoritative like Edward R. Murrow’s or telegraph-staccato like Walter Winchell’s. Some listeners compared the way Mr. Osgood sounded to the jerky rhythms of Rod Serling, the host and creator of “The Twilight Zone.”
Persons: Charles Osgood, —, Osgood, Paul Harvey’s, Edward R, Walter Winchell’s, Rod Serling Organizations: CBS News, CBS Locations: Saddle River, N.J
☆ Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Collars, Captured by Camera
  + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( James Barron | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
In the soft stillness of a museum gallery, you could forget that the photographs on the walls around you were shot under time pressure. Six minutes each, the photographer Elinor Carucci told me. The photographs, on view at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan, are haunting, almost three-dimensional images of collars and necklaces that belonged to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court.
Persons: Elinor Carucci, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Organizations: Jewish Museum Locations: Manhattan
☆ ‘Splash Spots’ Reinvent the Hydrant Spray Cap and Save Water
  + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( James Barron | More About James Barron | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
He and an industrial designer named Colin Kelly came up with four prototypes called Splash Spots that have eye appeal. The Fire Department worries about low water pressure when hydrants are open, a potentially serious problem when a call comes in and fire trucks go out. Sprinkler caps, which firehouses can make available on request, cut the flow to 25 to 30 gallons a minute, by Kelly’s calculations. Splash Spots send out about half that, and unlike the Fire Department’s sprinkler caps, they can be turned on and off, saving even more when a sprinkler is not needed. “I was out for a run over the July 4 weekend, and I passed a street with a hydrant with a spray cap,” Gordon said.
Persons: Colin Kelly, ”, Jeffrey LeFrancois, Kelly, ” Gordon Organizations: Chelsea, Management Association, Fire Department Foundation, Department Locations: Meatpacking
☆ Hell Hath No Fury Like a Writer Who Gets a Speeding Ticket
  + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( James Barron | More About James Barron | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
“They’ve made school zone limits now 24-7,” he wrote. That’s about cash.”After @cjones47 posted saying “the citywide default speed limit in NYC has been 25 MPH since 2014,” Simon countered: “Then send me a ticket for speeding and I have no comment. They now effectively blanket the five boroughs; the Legislature stipulated that cameras had to be placed within a quarter-mile of a school. In 2021, more than half of the vehicles that received one speed-camera ticket did not receive a second — another sign, officials say, that the cameras have made a difference. Not all the responses to Simon were posted on the X platform.
Persons: Simon, They’ve, ”, “, ” Simon, Christopher Robbins, you’re Organizations: State Legislature Locations: Bronx, Staten Island, Queens, New York
☆ Forget What the Song Says. Tony Bennett’s Heart Never Left New York.
  + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( James Barron | More About James Barron | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
There were the famous New York places where he was celebrated, like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where his 75th birthday party wasn’t referred to as a birthday party. There were the canvases he painted in every Manhattanite’s backyard. And there were the New York stages he appeared on, from the Paramount Theater when he was in his 20s to Carnegie Hall in his 30s to Radio City Music Hall in his 90s. Tony Bennett may have become famous for “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” but his own heart was unquestionably a New Yorker’s. He had that New York cool, decade after decade — the kid from Astoria, Queens, who made a go of it in Manhattan.
Persons: Tony Bennett, ” Organizations: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Paramount Theater, Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall Locations: New York, Central Park, New, San Francisco, York, Astoria , Queens, Manhattan
☆ A Veteran Business Journalist (and Wine Lover) Learns an Age-Old Lesson
  + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( James Barron | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
As he acknowledged, the story was unusual because it had started with his own experience with Sherry-Lehmann, a New York store that had long been venerated. Many New Yorkers who don’t know wine know about Sherry-Lehmann. “The customer base on the Upper East Side left town,” debilitating the company’s bottom line, Stewart told me. For people who know their wine, Sherry-Lehmann was something more than a retail store with Park Avenue respectability. Just as there are corn futures and soybean futures, there are wine futures, which struck me as a concept a business reporter would love.
☆ Tomorrow Is Earth Day. Let’s Celebrate Our Harbor.
  + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( James Barron | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Weis, a professor emerita at Rutgers University and a former president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, nominated the estuary. “That’s not the people I was hoping to reach. “We haven’t met the goals of the Clean Water Act,” he said. “The spring runs of American shad up the Hudson River were once legendary,” he said. “Now it’s just a fraction of what it was.” He said the same was true of herring and other migratory fish.
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