3 d. ago New York’s serene Central Park makeover fixes years of neglect: in pictures

Officials have unveiled dramatic changes to the northern edge of Central Park. The $160m project is the park’s most expansive update in years and part of an effort to rectify decades of disregard Continue reading...

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3 d. ago New York unveils most dramatic changes to Central Park in years – in pictures

The $160m makeover to the park’s north side is part of a long-term project to address years of neglect Continue reading...

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1 week ago No more ‘subway spaghetti’! New Yorkers adjust to first new transit map in 50 years

The first major overhaul since 1979 seeks to simplify the map’s old illegible squiggles – but faces opposition from change-averse New YorkersThe New York City subway map has always been tricky to decipher. Unlike those in cities from Boston to London to Tokyo, the longstanding New York map hews fairly closely to the image of the city aboveground.Central Park is clearly depicted, as are the individual bodies of water within it; you can see the shape of each borough and the rivers and ocean framing them. Overlaid across it all is a tangled web of subway lines, daunting to the first-time visitor – especially when it comes to distinguishing between local and express trains. Continue reading...

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1 week ago New $160million pool set to open to tourists at one of New York's most

This weekend sees the re-opening of the $160 million Davis Center, which is set to become a tourist favourite in both the summer and the winter months, thanks to two new attractions.

Economics

2 w. ago The Spin | Reborn in the USA: has cricket finally cracked the American market?

A lack of pitches, kit and coaching has held the sport back for far too long but Major League Cricket may be the answerIf you look south from the Manhattan end of Brooklyn Bridge, you can just about imagine the cricket field that used to be beneath what is now the South Seaport – and, if you squint, pretend that the people making their way around the bars and clubs and restaurants are the descendants of the same New York crowd who attended a match here between a local team and a London XI in 1751. Modern-day Manhattan is built on cricket pitches, among other things. They are there under the streets, among the farms and tenements cleared to make way for skyscrapers. There’s another under Central Park, a third below the NYU Langone medical centre, where – in 1844 – Canada beat the USA by 23 runs in what is considered the first international fixture in all sport.People have been dreaming of reviving American cricket ever since it died during the civil war, more than 160 years ago. It w...

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2 w. ago Toll on Manhattan drivers remains in effect, despite Trump’s Easter Sunday deadline

Manhattan’s congestion toll remains in effect, despite an Easter deadline from President Donald Trump’s administration to halt the first-in-the-nation fee

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2 w. ago 420 Hyde Park: Hundreds gather in central London to smoke pot on Easter Sunday in annual cannabis protest

420 Hyde Park: Hundreds gather in central London to smoke pot on Easter Sunday in annual cannabis protest  The Sun

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2 w. ago Easter BINNIES! As rubbish bags continue to pile high in Birmingham SEVEN council workers are seen emptying one car full of litter as strikes continue

Staff were based at several mobile refuse collection vans at Birmingham Central Mosque Car Park on Sunday to help clear the overflowing streets of waste.

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3 w. ago Military clerk who stole £1m from the MoD to pay for hair transplants, Turkey teeth and 'fake six

Former corporal Aaron Stelmach-Purdie, 34, ran the scheme while working at Regent's Park Barracks in central London.

Economics

3 w. ago Military clerk stole £1m from the MoD to pay for hair transplants, Turkey teeth and 'fake six

Former corporal Aaron Stelmach-Purdie, 34, (pictured) ran the scheme while working at Regent's Park Barracks in central London.

Economics