Santa showers $100 bills in NJ, NY Image Credit: AP Photo/Rich Schultz Santa showers $100 bills on Thursday, November 29, 2012 in several US states recently affected by Superstorm Sandy. The anonymous Santa is reportedly a rich businessman from Kansas City, Missouri. Reports say that Santa plans to give away $100,000 during the holiday season. [...]
Sixpence for $430K Image Credit: Handout|The 1652 New England sixpence A rare 1652 sixpence was reportedly auctioned for $430,000 at the Colonial Coin Collectors Club in Baltimore on Black Friday, November 23, 2012. According to a Newsday report, the $430K silver Colonial Massachusetts coin was reportedly found by an anonymous woman in a potato field [...]
Hurricane Sandy exposed the shipwreck of a presumed 90-year-old ship that was reportedly buried on Fire Island National Seashore, a barrier island off Long Island in New York. According to Paula Valentine, a public affairs specialist in the area, the shipwreck is believed to be that of Bessie White, a vessel measuring over 200 feet [...]
Macy’s 86th Thanksgiving Day Parade Route Map Image Credit: Nyctrip.com Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is celebrated every year and this is the much awaited event in the United States where millions of people are expected to occupy the streets of New York. This year, Macy’s 86th Annual Thanksgiving Day Parade will be celebrated on Thursday, [...]
Kirsten Gillibrand Image Credit: Newsday Democratic U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand won the New York Senate seat against Republican opponent Wendy Long, international news sites reported on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. Gillibrand won via landslide, getting 72% of the votes while Long got only 26.5%, according to reports. “I can’t thank you enough for the honor [...]
A huge sinkhole in Brooklyn, New York opened up on Wednesday, August 3, 2012 and almost swallowed a parked family car, as shown in the news video below. Local authorities rushed to the area immediately but took hours to pull out the vehicle hanging from the massive hole. Brooklyn sinkhole, and a car nearly swallowed [...]
Joey Chestnut and Sonya Thomas won the 2012 Nathan’s Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest on Thursday, July 4, 2012, as part of the July 4th holiday, which was held at the company’s flagship restaurant in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York. Joey Chestnut and Sonya Thomas, during their weigh- in for the 2012 Nathan’s [...]
The 9,000 year-old mask Credit: Christie’s A 9,000-year-old mask will be auctioned at Christie’s this June, international news sites reported on Wednesday, May 23, 2012. According to Christie’s as mentioned in the reports, the rare limestone mask is one of the earliest sculptural types to survive from antiquity. “Only very few of these masks are [...]
The 2012 New York Auto Show (N.Y. Auto Show), which started on Friday, April 6, 2012, featured some of the latest cars including the 2013 Nissan Altima and 2014 Nissan NV200 Taxi, as shown in the photo below. As noted at US news sites that day, the new cars mentioned above were considered as among [...]
A misspelled school sign in a New York street that has been there for more than a year has been corrected, as shown in the photo below, a day after it was reported online and earned a lot of criticisms. According to the New York Post on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, a sign at Stanton [...]