Solid concrete and GPS don’t get along all that well, as New York City’s tunnel and bridge crowd can attest. Commuters, couriers, bus attendants, cabbies, and sightseers driving between the Garden State and the Big Apple — or crossing from Manhattan into the city’s outer boroughs (or vice versa) — know all too well what a trip beneath East River or the Hudson entails: a navigational blackout. It’s an inconvenience on the best of days, and an absolute nightmare when traffic’s backed up to kingdom come. For context: New York’s Lincoln Tunnel ranked eighth in the 2015 American Highway Users Alliance’s study of the country’s worst highway bottlenecks, which found that the total annual delay caused exceeded 3.4 million hours and cost $87 million. The problem’s one that the engineers at Waze, the Israel and Palo Alto company Google acquired for nearly a billion dollars in 2013 to bolster its mapping and navigation … [Read more...] about Waze Beacons arrive in New York City tunnels
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New York City Woman Rescued After Spending Days Trapped in an Elevator
A New York City woman who works a housekeeper on the Upper East Side got trapped in an elevator Friday, and spent the entire weekend stuck there before crews rescued her, authorities said. Marites Fortaliza, 53, got stuck between the second and third floors of the townhouse she worked in on Friday evening after the building’s owners left town, the New York Post reported.Nobody noticed Fortaliza had been trapped in the elevator until a courier making a delivery to the residence on Monday morning discovered that no one was home. The courier called the owners, who dispatched their daughter to check on things at the building. The daughter then discovered Fortaliza stuck in the broken down elevator around 10 a.m. and called 911. Firefighters responded to the scene, forcing open the elevator door and took the woman “to [a] local hospital with non-life threatening injuries,” FDNY officials told People Magazine. Fortaliza is recovering at New York Presbyterian/Weill … [Read more...] about New York City Woman Rescued After Spending Days Trapped in an Elevator
Lime has a new, rugged scooter that the company says is built for New York City roads
Graham Rapier, provided by Published 3:24 pm PST, Monday, January 28, 2019 Graham Rapier / Business Insider Electric scooter rental companies are betting that New York is the next frontier for their services. The city council is currently considering bills that would legalize the vehicles and create a pilot program for New Yorkers to rent them via apps. Lime hosted a weekend pop-up to show off its new scooter, which it hopes can withstand the harsh New York City streets. The fleets of rentable electric scooters that have expanded to wide swaths of the United States and other countries have largely missed out on a key market: New York City. Lime, which has operated a pilot dockless bike share program here since 2018, is hoping that’s about to change. The $2 billion company opened up a storefront over the weekend to show off its newest model of scooter, the first to be designed in-house. Graham Rapier / Business Insider"This scooter is made … [Read more...] about Lime has a new, rugged scooter that the company says is built for New York City roads
Woman rescued after 3 days in New York City elevator
Verena Dobnik, Associated Press Updated 3:07 pm CST, Monday, January 28, 2019 The woman, Marites Fortaliza, of Queens, told authorities she'd been trapped since Friday while the owners were away for the weekend. The woman, Marites Fortaliza, of Queens, told authorities she'd been trapped since Friday while the owners were away for the weekend. Photo: Jon Shapley, Houston Chronicle Photo: Jon Shapley, Houston Chronicle Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 The woman, Marites Fortaliza, of Queens, told authorities she'd been trapped since Friday while the owners were away for the weekend. The woman, Marites Fortaliza, of Queens, told authorities she'd been trapped since Friday while the owners were away for the weekend. … [Read more...] about Woman rescued after 3 days in New York City elevator
I worked out at premium gyms around New York City without committing to expensive memberships — a new fitness app helped me do it on a tight budget
Connie Chen, provided by Published 5:56 am PST, Monday, January 28, 2019 The Insider Picks team writes about stuff we think you'll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships, so we get a share of the revenue from your purchase. POPiN Fitness app POPiN gives users access to a variety of premium gyms in New York City and only charges them for minutes they spend in the gym — nothing more, and nothing less. Simply scan the app at the front desk to start the timer, then use the gym's equipment and facilities or take a class for any amount of time you want. When you're done, you just scan the app again to check out and stop the counter. I tried POPiN and loved how it let me incorporate fitness into my busy schedule, whether I had an unexpected gap in between commitments or wanted to mix up my workout routine. Going to the same gym every day offers much-needed consistency and reliability, but it can also get boring after a few months, or it's simply … [Read more...] about I worked out at premium gyms around New York City without committing to expensive memberships — a new fitness app helped me do it on a tight budget