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NYC Diamond Heist Targets Famed Tiffany & Co.
2013-06-12 22:14:32| Jewelry - Topix.net
While organized retail crime has become a growing trend that vexes businesses, what appears to be an old-fashioned five-finger discount recently plagued the mother of all jewelry retailers, Tiffany & Co.
NYC To Start Major Post-Sandy Work Soon on Two Tunnels
2013-06-12 21:37:08| ENR.com: Headline News
New York City Transit plans to start major reconstruction work this summer on two subway tunnels that were severely damaged by Superstorm Sandy. The agency is preparing bid documents for the work, which is expected to be divided into two projects, each with multiple contracts that will total more than $100 million, NYC Transit notes.
Levees, removable walls proposed to protect NYC
2013-06-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Removable floodwalls would be erected in lower Manhattan, and levees, gates and other defenses would be built elsewhere around the city under a nearly $20 billion plan Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed Tuesday to protect New York from storms and the effects of global warming. The plan - which would also include the building of marshes and the flood-proofing of homes and hospitals - is one of the biggest, most sweeping projects ever proposed for defending a major U.S. city from the rising seas and...
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NYC lays out $20 billion plan to combat climate change -
2013-06-11 20:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday announced a $20 billion plan to prepare for rising sea levels and hotter summers expected as a result of climate change in the coming decades. The plan, which follows widespread destruction wreaked by Superstorm Sandy last year, included about 250 recommendations ranging from new floodwalls and storm barriers to upgrades of power and telecommunications infrastructures. It coincided with a report updating projections of the impact of climate change,...
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Mayor to discuss prepping NYC for warming world
2013-06-11 01:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The projections paint an unsettling picture of New York's future: a city where by the 2050s, 800,000 people could be living in a flood zone that would cover a quarter of the land, and there could be as many 90-degree days as is now normal for Birmingham, Ala. Facing those new projections of the effects of global warming on the nation's biggest city, Mayor Michael Bloomberg was scheduled to talk Tuesday about what to do about risks that Superstorm Sandy brought into stark relief. "We have to...
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