Ben Rice

Sunday, New York citizens, and tourists alike, were given an opportunity to publicly wave goodbye to their unwanted memories of 2014. The Times Square Alliance along with Shred-it International collaborated to provide a mobile shredding truck at Broadway Plaza, so participants could watch their bad memories, written on a piece of paper, be permanently destroyed.

This year marked New York Cares’ 26th annual coat drive, and the charity has had 100,000 requests for coats from social services this winter.

The National Retail Federation has reported that holiday-period spending will increase this year compared to last. While the average consumer will increase spending on gifts for his or her family by 6.5 percent, they’ll increase spending on gifts for their pets by 14.18 percent.

This year’s version of the community-based project “Soul Nativity” is to be presented at the Harlem School of Arts (HSA).

Days ahead of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting anniversary, advocates and lawmakers in front of City Hall on Thursday called for stricter gun laws.

In order for a forum to occur at the United Nations (UN), it requires a member state to sponsor.

During November, a lot of controversy was stirred up when the European Space Agency (ESA) created history by landing its robot ‘Philae’ on a comet. The controversy didn’t stem from the remarkable technological achievement of that feat, but from a shirt that Matt Taylor, an ESA engineer, wore during a live stream of the landing.

In the late 1800s, Fordham University sold some land to the City of New York, on condition that the lands be used for a zoo and garden. They did this in order to create a buffer between the university grounds and the urban expansion that was beginning to encroach into the area. New York state followed through on its intentions to develop the land as a park, and in 1899 opened the Bronx Zoological Park to the public.

Though we’re regularly exposed to poisons and toxins in our food (think the bitter taste in coffee and tea) and on the airwaves (think Alice Cooper’s “Poison” and Britney Spears’s “Toxic”), we often don’t realize how widespread and influential they’ve been in shaping our society.