Fashion & Life Style
NY Fed to increase repo oversight after reform delays
Feb 15th
The New York Federal Reserve on Wednesday said it may consider restrictions on the $1.67 trillion tri-party repurchase agreement market, dissatisfied with an industry committee’s progress on reducing the loans’ risks for the financial system. More >
Diane von Furstenberg at NY Fashion Week
Feb 13th
Diane von Furstenberg let the crowd attending New York Fashion Week in on a little secret Sunday: Fashion is a puzzle. Von Furstenberg, who, as president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America is the de facto leader of the American fashion community, used jigsaw puzzle pieces as a prominent theme of her fall collection, presented to a packed house that included her personal friends Oscar de la Renta, Anderson Cooper, Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters. More >
NY winter park is a twist on pop-up trend
Jan 31st
Birds are chirping, the grass is green and tea is being served amid blossoming bushes. Welcome to New York City in January, with a cure for cold-weather blues: a pop-up indoor park in lower Manhattan that’s open through Valentine’s Day. More >
New York’s Chinatown – A lovin’ place
Feb 23rd
Chinatown is the favored destination point for Chinese immigrants, though in recent years the neighborhood has also become home to Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Burmese, Vietnamese, and Filipinos among others. It’s the largest Chinatown in the United States and the site of the largest concentration of Chinese in the western hemisphere is located on the lower east side of Manhattan. Its two square miles are loosely bounded by Kenmore and Delancey streets on the north, East and Worth streets on the south, Allen street on the east, and Broadway on the west. With a population estimated between 70,000 and 150,000, Chinatown is the favored destination point for Chinese immigrants, though in recent years the neighborhood has also become home to Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Burmese, Vietnamese, and Filipinos among others. More >
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