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Yesterday, I ran into this article by the Post that informed me the progress reports were out for high schools in NYC this year. So I decided to make a quick & dirty data-viz out of some of information available. There is a lot more data available, some spanning years, so expect me to do some [...]
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In February, 49 state attorneys general and five of the nation’s largest lenders reached a $25 billion settlement intended to provide financial relief to more than one million current and former homeowners struggling to pay their mortgages. However, the deal also created new guidelines that could make it easier for lenders to issue more foreclosure [...]
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By Cesar Bustamante and Jermaine Taylor Yong Hao Wu, a Sunset Park resident, was arrested last month for owning over 400 snakehead fish. These fish, which are not native to the United States, are delicacies in China, but if any number were let loose in local waters they could annihilate entire schools of native fish. The [...]
cesar.bustamante wrote a new blog post: New York City: The Nation’s Ground Zero For Invasive Species 1 year, 12 months ago · View
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There have been signs pointing to the construction industry – one of the last industries to recover after the recession – finally starting to grow this year. With building permits up and existing home sales rising, it looks like they are poised to experience growth immediately. In March building permits, usually indication of construction work [...]
cesar.bustamante wrote a new blog post: Construction Industry Growth Looks to be a Year Away 2 years ago · View
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Tomorrow’s Bureau of Labor Statistics report will show that unemployment remains at 8.8 percent according to most economists. This ends the steady decrease of jobless claims in the United States since November when it was as high 9.8 percent. The growing number of people getting jobs in the private sector and the decrease of people [...]
cesar.bustamante wrote a new blog post: Unemployment Will Remain Steady as Jobseekers Grow but Remain Untrained 2 years ago · View
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The Index of Leading Economic Indicators (LEI) moved up to .08 from .01. However it will falter when March’s LEI is released because of the unexpected rise in oil prices caused by the unrest in the Middle East and especially the crisis in Japan. “The increase of gas prices affects everybody,” said New York City [...]
cesar.bustamante wrote a new blog post: Japan Crisis Will Push Down the LEI 2 years, 2 months ago · View
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The number for January’s Index of Leading Economic Indicator (LEI) came out yesterday and they show that the U.S. is still increasing by 0.1 percent. For some this may look like bad news since the number was a decrease and much lower than those that came out in the last two months. However, those high [...]
cesar.bustamante wrote a new blog post: Changes in Building Permit Codes Affected LEI Numbers 2 years, 2 months ago · View
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Catherynne M. Valente read from her new novel, The Habitation of the Blessed , at the basements floor of Brooklyn’s WORD Bookstore. But what was unique about this event – even for the author – was that it incorporated dancing and music throughout her reading. Valente has organized multimedia events before, using music and dancing alongside reading her [...]
cesar.bustamante wrote a new blog post: Books, Bands, and Burlesque Dancing 2 years, 4 months ago · View
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As Julie Taymor’s screen adaptation of Shakespeare’s Tempests receives unflattering reviews from the USA Today and Rolling Stone , her other project, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark , continues to be in the news despite not having opened yet. For the past two months there have been negative reports about technical problems, a cast injury and forecast economic problems. It’s a strange [...]
cesar.bustamante wrote a new blog post: Is Spider-Man the Musical Up for a Windfall? 2 years, 5 months ago · View
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Catherynne Valente mixed burlesque belly-dancing, improvised music, and literature for the Nov. 21 launch party of her new book, The Habitation of the Blessed. Putting the different arts together made for an experience that you don’t get out of from any regular book reading. Dancers moved passed the audience to the stage and the band [...]
cesar.bustamante wrote a new blog post: Bringing Multimedia Show to the World of a Medieval Myth 2 years, 5 months ago · View
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According to the survey, there is not a complete consensus on how much of a the problem potholes really are in New York City. Despite the fact that there is a slightly larger percentile of people who rate the problem 7-8 out of 10 in severity, it’s only 8 percentile points higher than those who [...]
cesar.bustamante wrote a new blog post: The Holes on the Ground Point to Brooklyn 2 years, 6 months ago · View
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Despite the fact that Central Park West isn’t actually on the path of the ING New York City Marathon, it was still closed down on November 17 from morning to evening. You could find the street lined with ambulances, restrooms, and police officers directing people on the street as late as 6 p.m. The temperature wavered between [...]
cesar.bustamante wrote a new blog post: Walking away: the end of the Marathon 2 years, 6 months ago · View
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I was e-mailing back and forth with a bicyclist from the Transportation Alternative about riding around in New York City. She wrote that dodging potholes is a challenge for bicyclist here especially since the streets are beaten down by winter weather. Since New York City’s long term plan, outlined in PlaNYC, is to try to double bicycle [...]
cesar.bustamante wrote a new blog post: Bicycling and Potholes in New York City 2 years, 6 months ago · View
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They come in many sizes. From small little cracks on the road to large gaping holes that even veteran motorcyclist can’t avoid . They’re potholes and one assumes they’re peppered all around New York roads. I mean at least you’d think so if they’ve cost the city 38 million dollars in lawsuits since 2005 and caused so many [...]
cesar.bustamante wrote a new blog post: Are Potholes Really a Problem in NYC? 2 years, 7 months ago · View
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I don’t want to make light of the fact the someone committed suicide but I look at this through a sociological perspective especially in this new age of social media. There is still this perceived divide between our online identity and our “real life” which is proving more and more to be a false divide. [...]
cesar.bustamante commented on the blog post What do we do about online bullying? 2 years, 7 months ago · View
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I use the C line every Sunday to help drop off items at a flea market where my mom is a vendor. I don’t find it to be bad generally. That is however a weekend schedule and weekends are this alternate world where things are weird. E trains on weekends change randomly from local to [...]
cesar.bustamante commented on the blog post C subway line: the worst in New York City? 2 years, 7 months ago · View
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We all know that Spider-man does whatever a spider can. He can spin a web any size and catch thieves just like flies. But look out, here comes the Spider-man — singing on Broadway. That’s right, Broadway. After some delays and hiccups in casting, Spider-man: Turn off the Dark will officially be previewed on Nov. 14 [...]
cesar.bustamante wrote a new blog post: Will the Spider-man musical be a flop or a hit on Broadway? 2 years, 7 months ago · View
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Dealing with unwanted plants in your garden can be a nuisance but imagine a plant life that actually strangles trees to death. Wisteria, one of a number of invasive species in Central Park, has a particular trait of wrapping itself around its victims like a boa constrictor. Vanessa Francisco, Manager of Youth Education & Service [...]
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