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East Coast earthquake was felt as far north as New England AT&T reports no major issues in N.J., N.Y. or Boston from quake Elizabeth Chuck and Dania Kalaji A representative from AT&T said the network is not reporting any large phone outages in New Jersey, Brooklyn, Manhattan, or the Boston area following the earthquake. How […]
NEW YORK — What residents said felt like a series of small explosions rattled New Yorkers from Astoria to Roosevelt Island on Tuesday. For hours, confounded firefighters and Con Edison crews circled buildings just south of the Roosevelt Island Bridge and Tramway, even popping manhole covers, but . . .
Reading Time: 9 minutes News414 is a service journalism collaboration between Wisconsin Watch and Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service that addresses the specific issues, interests, perspectives and information needs identified by residents of central city Milwaukee neighborhoods. Learn more at our website or sign up for our texting service here. Story highlights About half of public […]
AFP/Getty Images This picture, taken on September 17, shows a raging fire at the Greater Nile Petroleum Oil Company Tower in Khartoum. CNN  — Sudan’s warring factions have traded blame over a massive blaze that engulfed landmark towers in the capital Khartoum, amid fierce fighting in the conflict between the country’s armed forces and a […]
Majority-Black school districts have far less money to invest in buildings — and students are feel – CBS Chicago Watch CBS News Almost 70 years after the U.S. Supreme Court ordered equal educational opportunities for all children, a CBS News investigation has found many schools fail that test. National investigative correspondent Stephen Stock uncovers one […]
NEW YORK, N.Y., Aug. 23, 2023 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Tonight, the heart of New York City will resonate with a poignant tribute as its iconic buildings don a solemn hue in honor of the International Day of Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. This visual gesture carries a profound significance, paying homage to […]
The Century Building, 202 S. State St., built in 1916, architects Holabird and Roche. Consumers Building, 220 S. State St., built in 1913, architects Jenney, Mundie and Jensen. (Preservation Chicago / Eric Allix Rogers) The fight to save a pair of Chicago’s 20th century State Street skyscrapers has gone national. The Century and Consumers buildings, […]
UMAN, Ukraine — Inna stood staring at what was left of her home on Friday, the building’s facade blown nearly completely off. Maybe her children, 17-year-old Kyrylo and 11-year-old Sophia, had been carried away by the blast, she kept repeating into the wind. Maybe they would be found alive. Her husband, Dmytro, had raced to […]
If you stand at the porch near the front entrance of The Kendeda Building on the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta, you’ll see an old oak tree. You’d think of the building and the tree as disconnected — one born of nature, the other of man. But the building’s design imagines them as born of […]
Rafael Viñoly, a Uruguayan-born architect whose New York-based firm was responsible for major commercial and cultural buildings in nearly a dozen countries, died on Thursday in Manhattan. He was 78. His death, at a hospital, was caused by an aneurysm, according to his son, Roman, who is a director at the firm. Mr. Viñoly was […]