Steve Jobs hawks Apple iPad in NYC

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Saint Steven Jobs has been spotted in NYC hawking his overhyped iPad in the offices of the New York Times and Time Inc.

According to New York Magazine, the celebrity CEO was also seen in a trendy Asian fusion restaurant wearing a "big top hat type of thing" and ordering food off-menu in "Hollywood mogul" style.

"Our source says Jobs, who sat at the head of the 'intimate, family-style gathering' with Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, demonstrated the iPad and its functions, and spoke about how it could serve the future of media," wrote Daniel Maurer.

"Jobs, who no doubt did his best to assuage their worries about a deal, confessed that, although he reads the Times online every day, even he likes to hold the Sunday edition in his hands." 


Meanwhile, CNN's Philip Elmer-DeWitt explained that the recent Apple jaunt to NYC may be taken as a "sign" of how "badly" both sides need each other.


"Although the 140,000 or so iPhone apps — including 22,000 games — that will run day one on the iPad give it a huge advanage over all the tablet computers that preceded it, Apple needs media partners if its new device is to achieve anything like the iPod's or the iPhone's mass-market appeal," opined DeWitt.

"As for those media partners, each is in a different boat, each sinking slowly in its own special way. Which side needs the other more remains to be seen. The publishers — like Steve Jobs — are no strangers to hard bargaining, but we suspect they'll cut some kind of deal before the iPad ships this spring."

What should I do in my trip to New York city?

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'Socialite' Allegedly Kills Son, 9, in N.Y.C Hotel, Attempts Suicide

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New York police today discovered the body of a 9-year old autistic boy in a luxury Manhattan hotel room, possibly strangled to death by his "socialite" mother who was found nearby suffering the effects of a botched suicide, sources told ABC News.

Gigi Jordan, 49, distraught over the recent end of her marriage, checked in to the Peninsula Hotel where she allegedly killed the boy and then tried to kill herself by taking an overdose of drugs, police said.

Police say she was taken to Bellevue Hospital in New York City for treatment.

Police described Jordan as a "socialite," and family friend told ABC News.com that Jordan was "a very wealthy woman who threw big parties at the Rainbow Room and was well known at restaurants."

Jordan was on her second marriage and was having troubles with her husband, the boy's father, sources said.

According to public records, Jordan lives at the tony Trump Tower on the west side of New York's Central Park and at one time operated a pharmaceutical distribution company.

Local media reports said police were tipped off to her possible suicide attempt by Jordan's aunt, living in Belgium, who received an e-mail threatening suicide.

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Have you seen this - NYC Fire Kills 5, Being Probed as Possible Arson

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A suspicious fire tore through a building that housed Guatemalan immigrants, gnawing gaping holes in the structure's backside, partially collapsing the roof and killing at least five people Saturday.

The early morning blaze at the Brooklyn building is being investigated as a possible case of arson because it started behind the door of the first-floor entrance to the building, New York City Fire Commissioner Salvatore Cassano said.

"That's not where a fire would normally start," Cassano said after surveying the devastation of the fire, which trapped residents and caused the interior walls to collapse. "That's why this is a fire that we are saying is very likely to be incendiary."

Four people in the building were injured, including an infant and a child who were tossed out the window by a woman frantically trying to save them. The infant was in critical condition with a fractured skull after bystanders below failed to catch him, officials and witnesses said. The other child landed on an awning.

At least one adult was hospitalized, and 13 firefighters were injured, none of them seriously, officials said.

The fire started at about 2:30 a.m. and flames quickly engulfed the three-story building on a busy commercial strip, consuming a ground-floor Japanese restaurant and two apartments on the upper floors. The stairwell between the floors collapsed, as well as part of the roof, trapping residents, according to fire officials.

As the fire raged, a woman held a baby boy out a third-floor window. Bars covered the lower half of the window, keeping the woman from climbing out, neighbor Juan Gabriel told The New York Times.

"She was screaming, 'Help me, help me,' " Gabriel said. Moments later, she threw the infant out the window to Gabriel and two other men.

In the darkness, the child fell to the ground, authorities said. She then tossed another child out the window. He landed on the awning below.

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Karen Schmeer Killed in Hit and Run in NYC (Well, I never expected to see this)

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Karen Schmeer, celebrated documentary film editor, was mowed down by three robbers trying to flee from New York's finest.

"Fog of War", is an Academy Award winning documentary that Karen Schmeer worked on. "Fog of War" is about Robert McNamara, for US Secretary of Defense. For "Sergio," Karen Schmeer won a best editing honors at the 2009 Sudance Festival.

Karen Schmeer was less than away from her home when she was hit by a 2010 Dodge Avenger. The car was driven by three people who had just stolen drugs at a local CVS.

Karen Schmeer was pronounced dead on arrival. The fatal hit and run occured on Broadway, near W.90th St., just before 8 p.m. last night as the three were making to make a quick getaway. They had stolen the allergy medication, Zyrtec, from nearby CVS.

What a tragic accident and loss of a great talent. May Karen Schmeer rest in peace.

Find the truth about NYC in this story - Famed Portland-bred film editor Karen Schmeer killed in NYC accident

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FAST CHEAP AND IN CONTROL

How a young film buff from Portland saved a famous director's newest movie

This is the story of how a young woman from a small city went off to a somewhat bigger city and had an enormous impact on an important little film.

This is the story about how a famous filmmaker took advice from a novice editor with a bachelor's degree in anthropology.

This is the story of how a Lincoln High School grad who once pushed popcorn at the Movie House theater lucked into a job with the director of ``A Thin Blue Line'' and helped him figure out a way to finish his newest movie, ``Fast, Cheap and Out of Control.''

This is the story of Errol Morris, big-time director of documentaries, and Karen Schmeer , a twentysomething intern from Portland whom Morris credits with ``saving'' his film.

Morris you know. His films ``Vernon, Florida,'' ``Gates of Heaven,'' ``A Brief History of Time'' and ``The Thin Blue Line'' have stretched the bounds of the American documentary, opening it up to editorial speculation and suggesting that a coherent film can be stitched together as a crazy quilt of tones, film stocks and techniques.

``Fast, Cheap and Out of Control,'' which plays through Dec. 4 at Cinema 21, is an acme of his technique and his themes. Juxtaposing the stories of four apparently unconnected men -- a lion tamer, a topiary gardener, a mole-rat expert and a robot scientist -- the film is a kaleidoscopic meditation on what it means to be human and, specifically, what it means to observe, reshape and engage the world around us.

It's a movie built of a wild variety of images: footage from antique documentaries and Saturday-morning matinees, interviews with the principals, images shot with a seeming thousand of styles by cinematographer Robert Richardson.

At times, in fact, it almost feels random -- a charge that Morris vigorously denies. ``A movie doesn't have to have an ostensible subject matter,'' he says. ``That said, there was premeditation and deliberation here. There was intent.''

Morris says, however, that the film comes ``awfully close to pure montage,'' a string of suggestively juxtaposed images meant to evoke but never explicitly state a theme.

``The multiple formats make you aware of imagery as imagery,'' he says, ``but I can't imagine this film without the narration by the characters. The ideas come from the relation between what is being said and what is being seen. If there isn't a connection, it doesn't work -- and I can testify to this from empirical knowledge gathered in an editing room.''

That's where Schmeer comes in. Morris had been working on ``Fast, Cheap'' (which, he says, was ``not done fast or all that cheap -- though the `out of control' is true enough'') since the mid-'80s, though not really seriously until three or four years ago. At that time he marshaled his interviews, wrangled his miles of illustrative and metaphoric footage, and got frankly stuck trying to make a movie of it.

``There were times during editing,'' he confesses, ``when I feared it wouldn't come together.''

But Schmeer , who had begun working in Morris' Boston offices as an unpaid research intern a few years earlier, witnessed Morris' struggle and offered a solution. Having recently been promoted to a paid position as an assistant editor, she spoke up.

``There was a point where I was very concerned with where the film was going,'' she remembers, ``and I didn't want him to complete a movie that I didn't like. We were kind of inundated with visual material, but we were losing sight of the characters, which are really the core of his film.''

So where does a novice editor get the guts to speak up to a famous director? From the director himself, it turns out.

``The thing about Errol is that he really does listen to other people and he really does want to know what they think,'' Schmeer says from her Boston home. ``He'll ask anyone about the movie, and he'll use those ideas in his work. There was a 17-year-old intern in the office who he used to call `the voice of youth,' and he asked him questions all the time.''

True to his democratic nature, when he heard Schmeer 's critique of his work in progress, Morris listened. ``I credit Karen to a large extent with saving this movie,'' he says, ``with convincing me to make longer passages and not allow the visual style to overwhelm the movie.''

As a result, when the film's original editor, Shondra Merrill, left the project, Morris gave Schmeer the job -- even though her background was in, of all things, anthropology.

Morris says he wasn't at all anxious about handing over the editing reins of a film to a novice. ``I've had so-so experiences in the past with professional editors who have no idea what to do with my material,'' he explains. ``But I've hired a lot of people who had no experience, and they've gone on to successful careers as editors. Karen was a lucky find. She's very, very smart and independently minded.''

And she knows movies. While attending Lincoln High (she graduated in 1988), Schmeer

worked as a ticket taker and snack vendor at the nearby Movie House. ``I watched movies all the time,'' she remembers. ``It's part of the reason that I took a minor in film criticism (at Boston University). I loved the Movie House, and when I came to Boston I worked at a similar struggling art theater, the Coolidge Corner.''

After graduating from college in 1992, Schmeer looked around town for work and hit a lucky number: ``I saw a flier around Harvard for a filmmaker needing a research intern, and I had some research experience, so I applied.''

The rest, as they say, is history. Schmeer has moved on, just as Morris suggested she might, to a fledgling career as a film editor: She's working with another Massachusetts filmmaker, a woman who's making an autobiographical documentary about her father's mysterious death. And Morris' film, with Schmeer 's fingerprints all over it, is wowing critics and audiences alike. 

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NYC found in the headlines Fatal NYC fire probed as possible arson

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NEW YORK - A fire that tore through a Brooklyn building that housed Guatemalan immigrants, killing at least five people, is being investigated as a possible case of arson.

New York City Fire Commissioner Salvatore Cassano said Saturday's early morning blaze started behind the front door of the building. He said it's "not where a fire would normally start."

The 2:30 a.m. fire engulfed the building, trapping residents and causing part of the roof to collapse.

Four people in the building were injured, including an infant and a child who were tossed out the window by a woman frantically trying to save them.

One of the children, an infant boy, was in critical condition with a fractured skull suffered when bystanders below failed to catch him, according to officials and witnesses. The other child landed on an awning and was also injured. An adult was also hospitalized.

Firefighters hurt

Thirteen firefighters were injured, none of them believed seriously, in the blaze in the Bensonhurst neighborhood. The flames engulfed the three-story building on a busy commercial strip, consuming a ground-floor Japanese restaurant and two apartments on the upper floors.

As the fire raged, a woman held a baby boy out a third-floor window. Bars covered the lower half of the window, keeping the woman from climbing out, Gabriel said.

"She was screaming, 'Help me, help me,' " Gabriel said. Moments later, she threw the infant out the window to Gabriel and two other men.

In the darkness, the child fell to the ground, authorities said. She then tossed another child out the window. He landed on the awning below.

The area is home to a diverse population of Russians, Hispanics and Chinese.

What city is directly west of new york city?

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What is the most fun resturaunt in New York?

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New York Times reports plan to move trial out of NYC

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NEW YORK STATE -- It seems the trial of the accused mastermind of the 9/11 attacks will moved outside of New York City.

The New York Times is reporting the Obama administration is considering other options, however, no new location has been named.

The trial has been facing political backlash and city officials have been calling for a new trial location, saying there was fear the trial wouldn't be able to go forward if it stayed in Manhattan. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said the trial would pose a security risk and cost the city millions of dollars.

It's unclear where the trial would be moved to, but some suggest nearby military installations, like West Point.

It was last year that Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the trial would take place in Manhattan federal court. That announcement received heavy criticism and opposition.

Governor David Paterson joined New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in asking the Obama administration to move the trial outside of New York City.

Meanwhile, former Governor Elliot Spitzer says the venue doesn't matter, as long as there's a conviction.

"I think where it is matters much less than if it takes place and we get a conviction. I think that is what we as citizens care about. Justice should be done and we should prove to the world the rule of law works in the United States. We will punish terrorists," Spitzer said.

While New York officials are adamant about moving the trial out of their city, one mayor in the Hudson Valley says his city would be a good fit.

Newburgh Mayor Nicholas Valentine says Newburgh's new state-of-the-art courthouse means the trial would be secured more easily there than New York City. Many are concerned the location of the trial could be a possible terrorist target, but Valentine says Newburgh could benefit from the international exposure.

"Some municipality is going to be chosen. I'm just asking for a fair shake to be in the mix. And also say that in the end, with the tourists, with the amount of people coming here, and the amount of media coverage, Newburgh would truly be on the map and that's not a bad thing for our city," Valentine said.

Valentine also told us a federal aid package to pay for trial expenses would make it worth the effort. However, Orange County Executive Edward Diana made it clear he would be against the move to a city in his county.

b k took an fantastic pic - Midtown New York traffic under the Gimbels Bridge

I was pleased when someone sent me this New York City photo. I hope that you like b k's photo of New York City as much as I did.

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Taken from Penn Plaza - Madison Square Garden on 32nd street

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NYC Jewelry Store Worker Killed in Midday Robbery (I knew more of this was coming)

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A jewelry store worker was shot to death in a brazen midday robbery Wednesday in a shop on posh Madison Avenue, police said.

Two people were working at R.S. Durant at about 12:25 p.m. when a man in his 30s wearing a blue overcoat, gray slacks, sunglasses, a black wool hat and a scarf around his face came into the Upper East Side store and said he was robbing the place, police said.

The workers refused to fill two canvas bags the gunman brought, police said. The suspect took out the clip from his semiautomatic pistol and showed it to the employees, saying, "You think I'm kidding? This is real" before putting the clip back in and firing once, said NYPD spokesman Paul J. Browne.

Henry Menahem, 71, was hit once in the chest. The second worker, a 49-year-old man, asked if he could call 911 to help Menahem, but the gunman refused.

The store is only about 12 feet wide and about 20 feet deep and had jewelry cases hanging on the walls. The gunman smashed one of the cases and loaded bags with diamond necklaces and other jewels before fleeing south on Madison Avenue. No customers were in the store, located between 75th and 76th streets, at the time.

Police were still looking for the suspect. The victim was taken to Lenox Hill hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

A call to the Menahem home in Long Branch, N.J., was answered by a friend who said the family was "in total shock."

The neighborhood boasts rows of swanky boutiques and expensive jewelry shops and the incident occurred not far from the Whitney Museum of American Art. The area near the shop was cordoned off with yellow crime scene tape, but traffic was moving along Madison Avenue.

Carmen Fontanez, a private security guard who patrols the stretch of Madison Avenue, said a man was smoking in front of the store when a tall man wearing a ski mask and sunglasses pushed him inside and shut the door behind him.

The shooting happened very quickly, she said.