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Can Trump Avoid Taxes With Change of Address? It May Not Be So Simple
Like a long line of other wealthy New Yorkers, President Donald Trump has decided to establish his legal residence in Florida, apparently at least in part to save money on taxes.
Can Trump Avoid Taxes by Moving to Florida? It's Not So Simple.
Like a long line of other wealthy New Yorkers, President Donald Trump has decided to establish his legal residence in Florida, apparently at least in part to save money on taxes.
Selling the Warhol: Their Bitter Divorce Leaves an Art Trove
NEW YORK — There is the $72 million apartment, so large it runs the full length of one side of the Plaza Hotel, with windows overlooking Central Park. A second Manhattan apartment is high up in one of the tallest buildings in the Western Hemisphere, along the so-called Billionaires’ Row.
'People Were Bleeding All Over': America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park
Amusement parks are designed to deliver thrills. They are places for splashing and screaming and laughing, often on rides that defy common sense, not to mention the laws of physics.
James Robinson, 79, Dies; Filled an Ambulance Gap in Brooklyn
When a 7-year-old girl was hit by a car one day in 1988 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, it took more than 30 minutes for an ambulance to arrive. When it did, her uncle, James Robinson Jr., climbed in for the ride to the hospital.
A 374,000-Pound Linchpin for Downtown Arts Center
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Hailing a Helicopter to Beat the Traffic
NEW YORK — Aakash Anand, who was on his way to Kennedy International Airport, looked out the window at the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn. “I’m not sitting in that bumper-to-bumper traffic,” he said happily.
New York City Fire Kills 6, Including 4 Children
NEW YORK — Six people, including four children, were killed early Wednesday when a fire swept through an apartment in a city-owned building in Harlem.
Harlem Fire Kills 6, Including 4 Children
NEW YORK — Six people, including four children, were killed early Wednesday when a fire swept through an apartment in a city-owned building in Harlem.New Jersey Governor Refuses to Fly Mississippi Flag in Spring Ritual at Park
It is a springtime routine at the picturesque Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey, which has sweeping views of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island from its 2-mile-long promenade: Workers go from flagpole to flagpole, raising the flags of the 50 states.In an Elevator Shaft, Lifting Up the Ordinary
NEW YORK — Alex Kalman does things that Max Hollein of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Glenn D. Lowry of the Museum of Modern Art do not, like sweeping the street in front of his museum.
Block by Block, Looking Back as New York City Changes
NEW YORK — In the 1980s, New York City sent photographers to every building and every lot in every borough. The city had done the same thing in the 1930s as part of a program to make tax assessments fairer and more accurate.
That Dusty Apple Macintosh Plus From the '80s? It Could End Up on TV
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André Previn, Whose Music Knew No Boundaries, Dies at 89
André Previn, who blurred the boundaries between jazz, pop and classical music — and between composing, conducting and performing — in an extraordinarily eclectic, award-filled career, died Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 89.
André Previn, Whose Music Knew No Boundaries, Dies at 89
André Previn, who blurred the boundaries between jazz, pop and classical music — and between composing, conducting and performing — in an extraordinarily eclectic, award-filled career, died Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 89.
André Previn, Whose Music Knew No Boundaries, Dies at 89
André Previn, who blurred the boundaries between jazz, pop and classical music — and between composing, conducting and performing — in an extraordinarily eclectic, award-filled career, died Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 89.
He Wrote a Best-Seller as a Detective. Now He's Back in Police Headquarters.
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Two New Jobs, One Mission: Fighting the Trump Administration
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Did 'Hamilton' Get the Story Wrong? One Playwright Thinks So
NEW YORK — The 15 or 20 minutes before the performance ticked by the same way they do on nights when Rome Neal presides over jazz at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. But this time Neal was directing a reading of a play. It takes aim at the sensation that is the theatrical juggernaut “Hamilton” and its creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda.
In the #MeToo Era, a St. Patrick's Group Rethinks a Men-Only Ritual
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