The nine room suite on the 52nd floor of the Four Seasons hotel has been named the most expensive accommodation in New York city.Despite the recession the hotel has increased its nightly price by pds600 in the year since it opened. ...

I began to wonder why families should not be able to choose their children's schools the way they choose their place of residence, their line of work, their shoes or their car….there was an undeniable appeal to the values associated ... Looking at reforms of the schools system in New York City under the mayor, Mike Bloomberg, the “media mogul”, and his chancellor, Joel Klein, Ravitch also documents problems with the report card system which became a vehicle for school ...

There are many parallels between the controversies around the Cordoba House and KGIA: both of the project's leaders–Rauf and Almontaser–are well-known and respected interfaith leaders in New York City; both campaigns were begun by ...

Last year we looked at the way that the pricing structure of no-change-given ticket machines is often – apparently – designed to lead to overpayment, and I posed the question of whether councils/car park operators actually draw up their budget based ... …in New York, like most major cities in the US, parking meters are priced way below their market value – so “the house always wins” claim wouldn't apply here. Anyone able to find a metered spot is getting a real bargain, ...