Ray’s Pizza, the First of Many, Counts Down to Its Last Slice

It did not call itself the flagship Ray’s Pizza because it never really had a fleet. It was not Original Ray’s or Famous Ray’s or Original Famous Ray’s or Real Ray’s or Ray’s on Ice or any of the other cloned shops sprinkled like shredded mozzarella all over town. It was simply Ray’s Pizza, and in the great pizza wars of New York City, it was respected as having been the first, standing more or less above the fray at 27 Prince Street in Little Italy, with tree limbs holding up the basement ceiling and an owner whose name wasn’t even Ray.

Tallest Building in New York Now LEED Certified

The tallest building in New York currently standing is the Empire State Building. It is a beautiful symbol of the greatness of New York, rising 1,250 feet (381 meters) with an antenna spire rising to 1,454 feet (443.2 meters) above bustling midtown Manhattan. It was named one of the Seven Modern Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers, amidst the ranks of the Panama Canal, the Channel Tunnel, and the Golden Gate Bridge. Now it can add another notch in its belt, as it has just been awarded LEED Gold certification by the US Green Building Council.

I Puffi: un film in 3D per invadere New York. Video in anteprima

Puffarbacco! E che ci fanno i Puffi tra i grattacieli di New York? Per i bimbi cresciuti con i cartoni animati degli anni Ottanta, c'è il rischio che sia un vero colpo al cuore. Da una parte la nostalgia per quei vecchi, cari omini blu alti due mele o poco più. Dall'altra, la sopresa di ritrovarseli davanti in sembianze e ambientazioni totalmente stravolte: Gargamella in carne ed ossa, il gatto Birba un vero micio rossastro. E loro, i Puffi, esserini digitali catapultati dal loro bosco incantato al ritmo frenetico di Central Park.

Nelle città Usa torna l'incubo terrorismo, caccia a tre sospetti

Una minaccia terroristica "specifica, credibile ma non confermata". Una minaccia contro gli Stati Uniti a pochi giorni dal decimo anniversario degli attentati terroristici dell'11 settembre 2001. Per il momento non si sa molto: non la metodologia del possibile attacco né gli eventuali obiettivi. Anche se fonti di Cnn dicono che nel mirino sarebbero le grandi città, Washington e New York per esempio. Un notizia che ha subito fatto scattare l'allarme nella Grande Mela dove il sindaco Michael Bloomberg ha dato ordine di alzare le misure di sicurezza anche dispiegando adeguati rinforzi per le forze dell'ordine. "Di alcune misure vi accorgerete, di altre no", ha detto Bloomberg, "viviamo in un mondo in cui bisogna prendere sul serio le minacce".

Storm Damage Largely Spares New York

Tropical Storm Irene swept through the desolate streets of New York on Sunday, flooding low-lying areas and leaving millions of homes without power along the Eastern Seaboard as it continued on to New England. Most New Yorkers emerged from their makeshift bunkers to find little of the widespread devastation the authorities had feared.

New York: With Storm Near, 370,000 in City Get Evacuation Order

New York City officials issued what they called an unprecedented order on Friday for the evacuation of about 370,000 residents of low-lying areas at the city’s edges — from the expensive apartments in Battery Park City to the roller coaster in Coney Island to the dilapidated boardwalk in the Rockaways — warning that Hurricane Irene was such a threat that people living there simply had to get out.