Officials have steadily increased the hours and open areas of Governors Island in the past few years, and this summer it has emerged as a charming, if still largely unknown, getaway in New York City.
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Retail Sales in Jan rose .4% headline m/o/m, .7% ex auto's, .6% ex auto's and gasoline and .7% at the core. The headline figure was less than expected while the rest were slightly better. But, with respect to non headline sales, because Dec figures were revised lower, taking the two months together were about in line with forecasts overall. Sales rose in electronics, building materials, food/beverages, clothing, sporting goods, dept stores and restaurant/bars and fell interestingly for online retailers, health/personal care, furniture and motor vehicle/parts. Bottom line, headline sales were below expectations due to the greater than expected fall m/o/m...
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August 7th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
One of you fat cats buy it, before it becomes an over crowded Disney Worldish place of no return. Nothing against a living individual enjoying such a beautiful place, just feel that, (it is probably hopeless), the world needs to shrink, GDP, needs to shrink. Everyone needs to learn how to live without invention, without something fancifully new. It won’t happen in my life-time, but it will in the not so distant future. Unless, we can truly find the man that walks on water, we (humans), will have to fine a niche of our own, just like so many times in the distant past. May we please find a way to stop the propagation, in order to stop the genocide that so often results. This is what mankind needs to be thinking about, not GDP, Economic Growth. Please, all that truly care about the Earth’s future think, “children’s children.”