Radio reporter Sally Herships, a native New Yorker and longtime friend of the show, has been obsessed with a particular block in midtown Manhattan. Given the crowds and the traffic and the tourists, every inch of the block should be attempting to sell something. Instead it is littered with empty storefronts. What explains these perplexing retail deserts, both in New York and throughout the rest of the country? #Amazon #Retail #Consumers #NewYork #RealEstate #Economy

Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Monday that Cornell University, with its partner the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, has been chosen to build a new applied sciences and engineering school on Roosevelt Island. It is another sign of his administration’s push to promote and expand the city’s growing technology sector. “It promises to create a beehive of innovation and discovery, attracting and nurturing the kind of technical talent that will spawn new companies, cr