New York still the source of inspiration for style worldwide!
The new O & X New York collection of sunglasses has just arrived in Brazil, exclusively in Curitiba, in Eric Gozlan Lunettes.  The O&X New York brand is a division of Kio Yamato Optics, the famous Japanese designer optical, and features pieces with inspired by the [...]

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MYFOX New York is reporting that a New York City based Police/Fire Department team pulled two children alive from the remains of a two-story building in Haiti on Tuesday.
The children appeared to be severely dehydrated but remarkably well otherwise. The rescuers hurried the 8-year-old boy and the 10-year-old girl to the only fully operating hospital [...]

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Crains New York is reporting that a team of nine doctors, as well as additional staff from the Hospital for Special Surgery arrived in the Haitian capital over the weekend on a borrowed corporate jet.
“The volunteers, apparently the first group of New York physicians to arrive on a hospital-sponsored mission, mobilized quickly after the chief [...]

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New York City officials destroyed tons of new, unworn clothing and footwear last year that had been seized in raids on counterfeit label operations, abandoning a practice of giving knockoff garments to groups that help the needy.
Some heads need to get knocked together over this. I understand perfectly why copyright holders would have concerns, but [...]

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The Times reports:
On Monday morning, Mr. Rollino went for a walk in his Brooklyn neighborhood, a daily routine. It was part of the Great Joe Rollino’s greatest feat, a display of physical dexterity and stamina so subtle that it revealed itself only if you happened to ask him his date of birth: March 19, 1905. [...]

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Those outside of New York are starting to see what has always been apparent to us in New York; New York is great!  For the first time since 1990, New York City has finally earned the title of tourist capital of the U.S. again.
Mayor Bloomberg lent his enthusiasm at a press conference at the Greenhouse [...]

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The Times invites us to spend 36 hours in New York City, and suggests that 1 p.m. is the perfect time to visit Brooklyn. Hmmm, well OK.
If you’re wandering around Brooklyn of an afternoon, there are certainly worse places to shop than the boutiques they profile, including my favorite, the Chocolate Room.
Once known as the [...]

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Gotta love those New Yorkers.  Recently, a retired social studies teacher in Cortland, New York, decided to give $5.2 million to the State University of New York in Cortland.  The money will help to pay for scholarships for children of recent immigrants.
As expected, the donor is the son of Italian immigrants who says that the [...]

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Brian Lehrer did an interesting interview with Nick Paumgarten, the author of last week’s New Yorker profile of Whole Foods CEO John Mackey.
John Mackey, the co-founder and chief executive of Whole Foods Market, refers to the company as his child — not just his creation but the thing on earth whose difficulties or downfall it [...]

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Hopes fading for Brooklyn’s very own Whole Foods on the banks of the Gowanus Canal
Prospects are dimming for a Whole Foods on the banks of the Gowanus Canal.
Now, even company officials concede they have no clue if they’ll ever build a store along the polluted waterway.
On again, off again, on again, off again.
It seems wholly [...]

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