Roughly 90% of U.S. households regularly indulge in a sweet, frozen treat. It’s true — people love to eat bright, assorted salads in the summer, especially as an effort to eat clean. However, something else is true about summer eating habits — ice cream satisfies every sweet craving and in NYC this summer, people can really […]
June is the one month in which the most ice cream is produced, but July is the month that most ice cream fans are looking forward to. Why? New York City is about to become home to the Museum of Ice Cream on July 29. The brainchild of Maryellis Bunn, the former head of innovation […]
Woe is Chipotle. The burrito joint recently took another poisonous public relations blow. According to Eater.com, reports of food poisoning from Chipotle in the New York City area were actually first broken on Twitter earlier this month. “This Chipotle thing is still ongoing. My editor ended up in urgent care after being deathly ill all […]
When suing under the False Claims Act, relators, or whistleblowers, are eligible for 15% to 30% of the amount recovered by their case. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re protected. According to a draft Government Accountability Office report, the Department of Energy’s nuclear program very seldom holds its civilian contractors accountable for unlawful retaliation against […]
Rappers exaggerate their lives all the time in their lyrics, but one New York City rap group based one of their songs on credit card schemes that they actually committed. According to The New York Times, Pop Out Boyz, a Brooklyn-based rap group, were recently indicted in Manhattan on grand larceny charges. Members of the […]
Discount carrier Allegiant Airline is cleared for landing at Newark Liberty International Airport, where it announced last week that it will begin providing non-stop service between the New Jersey hub and four other cities at deep bargain rates starting in mid-November. “It’s been something we’ve talked about for years, and now we’re just so excited […]
Crucial evidence in the “Bridgegate” scandal may be lost to the digital abyss as prosecutors continue to forage for information pertaining to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s whereabouts and cell phone communication at the time of the incident. Investigations of Bridgegate are ongoing as both sides prepare to go to trial just over two months […]
Ecommerce is growing faster than just about any industry, and, according to The Wall Street Journal, consumers now make more than half — 51% — of all their purchases online. The United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) released a study, noting that for the first time in history, consumers purchased more products on the Internet than […]
A person’s trustworthiness is determined in only a tenth of a second. But according to some laws in states all over the nation, a transgender individual is not able to be trusted enough to go to the bathroom corresponding with the gender they identify with. However, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is aiming […]
There are approximately 10.4 million residential and 309,000 public swimming pools nationwide, and now one of them is coming under fire for breaching the constitutional separation of church and state. Ever since the 1990s, the Metropolitan City Pool in Brooklyn has maintained women-only pool hours four times a week. This was created to accommodate Hasidic […]