New York City

Welcome to the long awaited second series of How To Make It In America. The popular HBO series that follows the lives of Ben Epstein (Bryan Greenberg) and his friend Cam Calderon (Victor Rasuk) as they try to succeed in New York City’s fashion scene. Synopsis: Ben and Cam return to NYC from a successful [...]

Sylvia Robinson, the singer, songwriter and record producer who formed the Sugar Hill Gang and made the first commercially successful rap recording, died early Thursday morning at a hospital in New Jersey. She was 75. Ms. Robinson had a notable career as a rhythm and blues singer long before she and her husband, Joe Robinson, [...]

Migration will form a virtual mega-city stretching through Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Baltimore, Maryland and ending in the capital Washington D.C. In 1910 72% of Americans lived in rural areas Vast swathes of the U.S. countryside are emptying and communities becoming ghost towns as rural America now only accounts for just 16 per [...]

Private-Public Partnership Will Invest More than $120 Million in Educational, Employment, and Mentoring Initiatives across the Five Boroughs Building on its long commitment to reverse systemic injustices in the United States, the Open Society Foundations today announced that it is joining a new initiative to address broad disparities facing black and Latino boys and men [...]

  NSF certifies water filtration products & one of the pitchers it has certified is manufactured by ZeroWater. I’d heard a bit about their filters, being comparable to a reverse osmosis system, and when I started reading, I came across “TDS,” or total dissolved solids, for the first time. According to ZeroWater, removing TDS is [...]

Since making his mark in NYC hip hop radio back in the early 2000s, Troi Torain, aka Star of the “Star and Buc Wild” morning show, has established himself as an individual in the truest sense, unafraid to speak his mind and share his views regardless of what other people think. After making the move [...]

Everybody with any good sense is leaving Amerikkka… stay tuned Madison Square Garden Entertainment President Jay Marciano has resigned from that position and will be named CEO of Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) Europe, sources told Billboard.biz. He will replace David Campbell, who left that position at AEG in February to become a top executive with [...]

  Word?!? So yall just randomly decided that you were gonna round up some  mobsters huh? So let me ask you this question, where are all the politicians in handcuffs?…And who is gonna pick up the trash in NY and North Jersey now? The FBI calls it the biggest mafia round-up in New York history. [...]

A peek inside stores’ shopping data highlights regional preferences for certain colors and brands; Victoria’s real secret. Luxury-spending data can tell us a lot about the state of the nation — and our own neighborhoods. Take Detroit — not the city where one might expect to see the strongest recovery. Yet when American Express Co. [...]

Hip-hop mogul Jay-Z and his business partner sued Boston Red Sox baseball player David Ortiz Thursday for naming a Dominican Republic nightclub after their chain of 40/40 Club sports bar lounges. Jay-Z and Juan Perez own 40/40 Clubs in New York City, Atlantic City and Las Vegas and have plans to open further venues in [...]

Don’t miss the premiere of Jay-Z’s new video “On To The Next One” featuring Swizz Beatz. The video will air during “NBC’s New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly” on Thursday, December 31. The show will broadcast in high definition from the middle of the world’s most famous New Year’s Eve destination, Times Square in New [...]

Many of you have been asking and wondering about this shows so here’s your first glimpse into “How to Make It in America”. The show follows a group of twenty-somethings in their journey as they hustle their way through New York City, determined to achieve the American Dream. Kid Cudi’s character goes by the name [...]