Tag: Bill de Blasio

• Friday, March 13th 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  Wall Street financial firms have most of its staff working from home

  

  Working from home went from optional to mandatory across Wall Street this week as financial firms reported their first confirmed cases of coronavirus and the outbreak triggered a state of emergency in New York City.

• Monday, July 15th 2019 - 03:43 UTC

  Power cut hits NYC for almost four hours

  

  Less than a month after a similar episode although at a larger scale happened in almost the entire southern cone, a power cut hit New York for about four hours Saturday, affecting some 72,000 customers, in the city's western area and landmarks such as Times Square, causing havoc and unrest when metro lines and theatres came to a standstill.

• Thursday, May 16th 2019 - 07:22 UTC

  New York mayor de Blasio expected to run for president in 2020

  

  US media have panned him as a potential presidential hopeful and polls suggest an uphill battle, but New York Mayor Bill de Blasio was nonetheless expected Thursday to jump into the crowded 2020 race.

• Tuesday, May 7th 2019 - 08:57 UTC

  Bolsonaro insists in being honored in the US: this time possibly in Texas

  

  Brazil's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro is considering travelling to the United States to be honoured at an event in Texas next week, his spokesman said on Monday, just days after he cancelled a heavily criticized visit to New York City.

• Friday, February 15th 2019 - 08:47 UTC

  Amazon drops plans to build HQ in New York because of fierce opposition from politicians

  

  Amazon has said it will not build a new headquarters in New York, citing fierce opposition from state and local politicians. The dramatic turnabout comes just months after the firm named New York City one of two sites selected for major expansion over the next decades. City and state leaders had agreed to provide about US$3bn in incentives to secure that investment.

• Wednesday, February 4th 2015 - 08:16 UTC

  A record 56.4 million tourists visited New York last year

  

  A record 56.4 million tourists visited New York last year, drawn by its diverse culture, low crime and “dynamism,” and generating 61.3 billion for America's largest city, officials said this week.

• Thursday, November 7th 2013 - 08:11 UTC

  US Tuesday governors' election brings forward a generation of pragmatic leaders

  

  United States Tuesday's election results point the way to next year's mid-term elections and showed the emergence of several candidates with the charisma, age and capacity to attract outside voters that could help them have a go at the White House in three years time.