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Crown Heights, NY – The Blessed Brick Oven Is a Kosher Melting Pot

By admin on August 25, 2010

Crown Heights, NY – The morning pastries are homemade, the coffee is from Italian roaster Danesi, but the most remarkable thing about Basil, a café and wine bar in Crown Heights, may be who’s working the front and back of the house.
At this strictly kosher, all-dairy restaurant, none of the waitstaff are religious Jews, and [...]

Orange County, CA – New York – Americans Buy IPads While Broke in New Abnormal Economy

By admin on August 2, 2010

Orange County, CA – In March, Ralph Ronzio went to a warehouse in a seedy part of Orange County, California, and watched a man auction off his condo for half what he’d paid for it. Ronzio had bought the place for $329,000 in 2005, when he moved to Southern California from Rhode Island to take [...]

NYC: Accused ‘Starbucks Bomber’ Offered Plea Deal

By admin on July 28, 2010

Manhattan prosecutors made their best offer to the accused teenaged Starbucks bomber today: a grande three-and-a-half years behind bars if he pleads guilty to the 2009 Upper East Side blast.
Kyle Shaw, 18, didn’t hurt anyone when he allegedly lit the fuse to a plastic container stuffed with fireworks powder outside the East 92nd St. java [...]

New York – Brooklyn Mom Sues Starbucks Over Scalding Tea That Burned Infant Son

By admin on July 4, 2010

New York – A Brooklyn mother is suing over a cup of scalding tea that she claims severely burned her infant son at a Starbucks.
Villona Maryash claims the tea was “improperly served” without a protective sleeve.
Maryash’s suit, filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court yesterday, stems from an incident last Oct. 9 at the Bensonhurst Starbucks. Her [...]

Washington – DEA Seize drug-smuggling Submarine Near Ecuador

By admin on July 4, 2010

Washington – The Drug Enforcement Administration said Saturday it has helped seize a submarine capable of transporting tons of cocaine.
DEA officials said that the diesel electric-powered submarine was constructed in a remote jungle and captured near a tributary close to the Ecuador-Colombia border. Ecuadorean authorities seized the sub before it could make its maiden voyage.
The [...]

Brooklyn Mom Sues Starbucks Over Scalding Tea That Burned Infant Son

By admin on July 4, 2010

A Brooklyn mother is suing over a cup of scalding tea that she claims severely burned her infant son at a Starbucks.
Villona Maryash claims the tea was “improperly served” without a protective sleeve.
Maryash’s suit, filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court yesterday, stems from an incident last Oct. 9 at the Bensonhurst Starbucks. Her 5-month-old son, Arnold [...]

New York, NY – Would You Pay $33,000 For A Mattress?

By admin on June 18, 2010

New York, NY – Bloomingdale’s is selling a bed for $33,000.
“Do you sleep on your side?” Bloomie’s salesman Robert Goldstein asks. “Lay on it how you usually sleep.”
“It’s enveloping, isn’t it?” marvels the store’s merchandise veep James Coia.
Zzzzzzzzzz. Oh! Yes!
“That’s okay,” says Bryan Umiker, Bloomingdale’s chief mattress buyer. “We’ve had people fall asleep here before.”
“It’s [...]

Los Angeles, CA – GPS System Getting An $8 Billion Location Makeover‎

By admin on May 24, 2010

Los Angeles, CA – The Global Positioning System is something most Americans take for granted. It’s one of those things, like radio waves and cellphone service, that just seems “there.” As if it were always “there” and will always be “there.” It’s almost as if the world was created with GPS, mostly because there’s no [...]

New York City – Food Companies Agree to Bloomberg’s Push to Cut Sodium

By admin on April 26, 2010

New York City – Sixteen food makers and restaurant chains have agreed to cut salt in products from ketchup to bacon as part of a city-led national push to trim Americans’ salt consumption by 20% over five years, Mayor Michael Bloomberg plans to announce Monday.
The moves by the companies—including H.J. Heinz Co., Kraft Foods Inc., [...]

New York – Orthodox Jewish Entrepreneur Manufactures a Haitian Recovery

By admin on April 25, 2010

New York – Mesh Gelman, a scarily enthusiastic, in-your-face entrepreneur, is standing in a Port-au-Prince factory whose machines are idled as he examines a newly printed T-shirt. The slogan is supposed to read “Choose Haiti,” but the letters e and H are piled on top of each other. To Gelman, a textile whiz in New [...]

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