The architectural firm behind plans to remake New York City’s Penn Station unveiled its design on Monday, and renderings show a station that’s meant to be bigger, brighter, and more welcoming to the public. [Image: Penn Transformation Partners/Amtrak] The design, which leaked last month before its formal reveal, would encase the circular form of Madison Square Garden with a classical-style, square-shaped station that’s designed to let light in. Inside, narrow walkways would be expanded and low-slung ceilings raised. Architects estimate the redesigned platforms will reduce egress time by more than a minute. [Image: Penn Transformation Partners/Amtrak] More details about the…
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Tonight, the National Hockey League’s cutest competition is back, bringing together adoptable shelter pups to celebrate the Stanley Cup and find their forever homes. “This event has quickly become a fan-favorite tradition, blending the competitive spirit of the NHL with the mission of finding homes for animals in need,” Steve Mayer, NHL president of content and events, said in a statement. “When Patrick Kanine, Cole Pawfield, Quinn Chews, and others find families because of Stanley Pup, we know that this show has true meaning.” (These puppies are playfully named after Patrick Kane of the Detroit Red Wings, Cole Caufield of…
As the 90 degree sun blared in Midtown Manhattan last Friday, a crowd of dozens flooded the entrance of Madison Square Garden snaking out of the venue’s door—not for a concert or a game, but for merch. It was just five hours before game 2 of the NBA finals, and the line to snag an official jersey or a cap at the Knicks’ home arena seemed to be never-ending, despite moving quickly. For many of the people in line, this would be their first piece of Knicks gear. Such is the effect of Knicksmania, an ecstatic response from a city…
On a drizzly Saturday morning late last month, the basement of the New Paltz United Methodist Church filled with old lamps, blunt knives, malfunctioning sound mixers and balky zippers. About a dozen volunteers welcomed the broken goods and their owners to a worldwide movement that’s evangelizing new relationships between people and their things. Repair Cafes — free events where volunteers with technical know-how help neighbors fix myriad household items — are part of a new brand of anticonsumerism that’s trying to offer an alternative to the mass-produced disposable goods that have dominated the global economy for the last half-century. Helping fuel that move to…
ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a negative day today: • NIKKEI 225 decreased 2,563,52 points or -3.85% to 64,024.60 • Shanghai decreased 68.398 points or -1.70% to 3,959.338 • Hang Seng decreased 304.89 points or -1.22% to 24,657.06 • ASX 200 closed • SENSEX decreased 719.08 points or -0.97% to 73,524.26 • Nifty50 decreased 243.70 points or -1.04% to 23,123.00 The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today: • AUDUSD increased 0.00018 or 0.03% to 0.70507 • NZDUSD increased 0.00199 or 0.34% to 0.58149 • USDJPY decreased 0.127 or -0.08% to 160.164 • USDCNY decreased 0.00592…
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. Speaking in front of institutional investors and money managers on Tuesday at the Bank of America Housing Symposium, PulteGroup’s VP of investor relations, Jim Zeumer, said America’s third-largest homebuilder still has “work to do in Oregon and Washington. … We have work to do to clear spec in some of our Western markets.” By “work,” he means making affordability adjustments to better align with market conditions in PulteGroup’s Oregon and Washington communities. While the state of Washington has seen active inventory rise 17%…
If you shopped at Trader Joe’s in mid-2019, you have until Tuesday to file a claim to be included in a $7.4 million class action lawsuit brought against the popular grocery chain. But be forewarned: Qualifying for the settlement isn’t so straightforward. The settlement, announced earlier this year, stems from a lawsuit first brought in 2019 by plaintiff Brian Keim, who alleged that Trader Joe’s had violated the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA). Though the Monrovia, California-based grocer has denied his claims it agreed to a settlement related to a roughly 18-week period between March and July 2019…
On Friday, June 5, Lizzo released her new album Bitch. It’s not doing so well. In its first 24 hours of release, Bitch garnered just 633,914 streams on Spotify. That’s a far cry from the heights of Lizzo’s previous two albums, 2022’s Special and 2019’s Cuz I Love You, which debuted at No. 2 and No. 6 on the Billboard 200 respectively. In the first half of the 2020s, Lizzo’s cultural presence was undeniable. Her single Truth Hurts went massively viral, launching her into the spotlight. Between 2020 and 2023, she won four Grammys and even an Emmy for her…
For some professions, “AI is coming for our jobs” is no longer a vague threat about future events. Timothy McKeon, who spent years translating to and from Irish for the European Union, knows this better than most. As machine translation has improved, the ability to produce a text that is “good enough” has taken a huge bite out of his livelihood – costing him roughly 70% of his income as his EU work dried up. “The more it learns, the more obsolete you become,” he told CNN. And McKeon is not an outlier. 43% of translators have seen their incomes…
Israel and Iran traded fire early Monday in their first attacks since the U.S. struck a ceasefire with Tehran two months ago. Hours later, Iran’s military said that it would stop offensive operations.The renewed hostilities threatened to drag the Middle East back into a full-scale war.The war, launched by the U.S. and Israel on Feb. 28 with strikes on Iran, has shaken the global economy, driven energy prices up around the world and made many basics, including food, more expensive. Officials have been unable to turn the April ceasefire into a deal to permanently end the conflict.During the truce, Iran…