All NYC parades to be cut by 25% and restricted to 5 hours in a $3.1M money-saving move [with nice pic] Plus: Police announce Parade crackdown.

Two Diamond District wholesalers were arrested for staging a bizarre $4 million jewel heist in broad daylight on Dec. 31, 2008 on West 46th Street, involving two purported thieves disguised as Hasidic Jews.

Wall Street bonuses were up 17 percent to over $20 billion in 2009, the year taxpayers bailed out the financial sector after its meltdown.

M.T.A. to lay off more than 1,000 employees.

Central Park’s latest coyote visitor was spotted on the ice of The Pond.

Until 1993, Hoffmann had lived in the well known Chelsea Hotel in New York City, which Hoffmann later said she enjoyed.

Allen Tannenbaum: New York in the 70s.

The art collection of James and Barry, New York.

every day nyc | February 23rd, 2010