New York City Informer

Rob Robinson took his students to Midtown's American Girl store. Home Page Top Stories on DNAINFO.com – Tuesday, June 18, 2013 | 11:43am

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“Challenging.” “Cumbersome.” “Hostile.” From the Mohawk Valley to New York City, industry advocates agree: New York State isn’t the friendliest, or easiest, place to do business. The Tax Foundation’s 2013 State Business Tax Climate Index ranked New York as the most hostile business tax structure in the country, and Chief Executive magazine’s poll of top [...]

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What’s not to like about Chinatown these days? amNewYork’s Urbanite

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A Long Island catering hall abruptly shut down this week. The venue had booked and collected payments on dozens of weddings and parties. WNYW – Local News

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Two thugs proved no match for a feisty Howard Beach grandma armed with her house phone yesterday. The would-be home invaders tried to push their way into the house of Margaret Mazzio, 75, around 1:30 p.m. — but the elderly Queens woman beat them back with the device, causing… NY Post: Queens

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A determined daughter tracked down the thug suspected of killing her father 26 years ago by conducting an online manhunt. Joselyn Martinez, 36, an aspiring actress from The Bronx, spent years trying to find the man who shot her father in front of his Inwood restaurant in November 1986 — when… NY Post: Local News

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After 30 innings of maddening baseball over two excruciating days in which the Mets failed to win even once against perhaps one of the worst teams in modern history, the front office finally had seen enough. Sports stories from Newsday

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The Mets are gambling on Ike Davis rediscovering his swing in Las Vegas. The struggling first baseman, who is batting .161 with five homers, 16 RBI and 66 strikeouts over 55 games, was sent down to Triple-A Las Vegas along with outfielder Mike Baxter and lefty reliever Robert Carson.      Mets – NY Daily News

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After 30 brutal innings of losing baseball, played against what’s expected to be one of the worst teams in modern history, Mets brass had finally seen enough. Sports stories from Newsday

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Federal regulators, citing a variety of mechanical and operational violations, ordered the company that operated the Lucky Star line to take all of its buses off the road. City Room

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Sayonara. (Flickr) The era of cheap travel out of Chinatown is ending. On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Transportation shut down the Lucky Star bus line, which offered $ 15 trips to Boston from New York City’s Chinatown, just three months after shuttering Fung Wah, another Chinatown carrier. Lucky Star had increased its one-way ticket [...]

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Baba Shetty (Photo via Twitter). Baba Shetty is stepping down as CEO of Newsweek/The Daily Beast after just nine months in the position, editor in chief Tina Brown wrote in a memo that went out to staff this evening. Mr. Shetty will take the summer off to “spend time with his family.” Newsweek‘s international publisher [...]

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A new Quinnipiac Poll found a majority of New York voters think Sheldon Silver should step down as speaker of the New York State Assembly. By a 51-22 percent margin, respondents said that Silver should go. The poll came after a recent sexual harassment scandal that led to the resignation of former Assemblyman Vito Lopez. [...]

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Cops shot a chain-wielding mad man in East Harlem tonight after he went berzerk and swung a 4-foot-long metal chain at an officer, police said. The officers were responding to a call of a crazed man swatting pedestrians with a chain on 3rd Avenue and East 103rd street at around… NY Post: Manhattan

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The city's ambulance workers were unable to connect to their computer systems for 20 minutes Friday. Home Page Top Stories on DNAINFO.com – Friday, May 31, 2013 | 11:35pm

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