Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Travel Subscribe Log In Log In Today’s Paper Travel | In Kolkata, a Love of Literature, Fried Street Food and, Mostly, Sweets Supported by frugal traveler This city is more relaxed than some of its modern Indian counterparts, and residents claim a strong relationship to its colonial past. ByLucas Peterson Nov. 22, 2018 India’s rivers are central to the life of its people and the Hooghly River, a 160-mile branch of the Ganges that runs through the city of Kolkata in West Bengal, is no different. In the late afternoon, I walked to Babu Ghat, and onto the broad concrete slipway that descended into the water, where a few moored boats bobbed slowly and men and children bathed in underclothes. The sticky heat had finally begun to break and people were out sitting on the banks of the Hooghly, chatting, eating, or just watching the sun glitter on the water as … [Read more...] about In Kolkata, a Love of Literature, Fried Street Food and, Mostly, Sweets
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Summit-based Boll & Branch opens first store at The Mall at Short Hills
Laura Adams Stiansen North Jersey Record Published 8:09 AM EDT Oct 20, 2018 Everyone is looking for a good night’s sleep; most people rarely get one. According to the National Sleep Foundation, sleep is just as important to a healthy lifestyle as diet and exercise. And one way to rest easier is by finding the right bedding. That’s where Boll & Branch, a Summit-based luxury bedding business that opened its first brick-and-mortar flagship location at The Mall at Short Hills in September, comes in. Creators Scott and Missy Tannen think that finding high-quality bedding shouldn’t be difficult. The husband-and-wife team found out “how little thread count has to do with the comfort and quality of a bed sheet,” says Missy, so they formed the e-commerce company, selling luxury linens made of 100 percent organic cotton. Boll & Branch generated about $1.75 million in revenue in its first year and it is currently on track to be its third consecutive … [Read more...] about Summit-based Boll & Branch opens first store at The Mall at Short Hills
Singapore, G-7 Summit, Anthony Bourdain: Your Monday Briefing
Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Briefing Subscribe Log In Subscribe Log In Advertisement Supported by Asia and Australia Edition ByCharles McDermid June 10, 2018 (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up .) Good morning. All eyes on Singapore, towers of Indian trash and tributes for Anthony Bourdain. Here’s what you need to know: • President Trump and Kim Jong-un are in Singapore, with their on-again, off-again meeting — set to be the first encounter between a U.S. president and a North Korean leader — planned for tomorrow. Some fear mismatched expectations. Few analysts believe that Mr. Kim is ready to give up his nuclear arsenal for the economic help Mr. Trump could offer. They may not even define issues like “denuclearization” the same way. Here is a look at the issues behind the basic terminology in question. And our Beijing bureau chief … [Read more...] about Singapore, G-7 Summit, Anthony Bourdain: Your Monday Briefing
Deal could restart stalled NYC Ferris wheel tourism project
NEW YORK (AP) — It was a soaring idea, intended to put the city's least-populous, least-visited borough on the tourism map.But six years after it was announced, a plan to build one of the world's largest Ferris wheels on Staten Island is still stuck on the ground.The four pedestals for the wheel, each weighing 100 tons, remain the only components of the 630-foot (192-meter) structure erected to date on a site on the Staten Island waterfront.The project, originally budgeted at $230 million, has been mired in cost overruns, delays and disputes between investors. Work on the New York Wheel has been stalled since May of 2017 when the main contractor on halted work and was fired.The proposal got a glimmer of hope last week when New York Wheel LLC, the company behind the project, reached an agreement with the contractor, Mammoet-Starneth, to resolve some of their legal disputes. The agreement, filed with a bankruptcy court, gives New York Wheel until Sept. 5 to either restart the … [Read more...] about Deal could restart stalled NYC Ferris wheel tourism project
‘It’s just not what people want anymore’: Subway to close hundreds of U.S. stores
Democracy Dies in Darkness Sections Home Try 1 month for $1 Username Sign In Account Profile Newsletters & Alerts Gift Subscriptions Contact Us Help Desk Subscribe Account Profile Newsletters & Alerts Gift Subscriptions Contact Us Help Desk Accessibility for screenreader Business by Abha Bhattarai by Abha Bhattarai Email the author April 27 Email the author Subway, the world’s largest restaurant chain, says it plans to close about 500 U.S. stores this year as it opens 1,000 locations worldwide. Here, a Subway store in Kolkata, India. (Brent Lewin/Bloomberg News) Subway Restaurants, home of the ubiquitous $5 footlong, plans to shutter hundreds of U.S. stores as consumers lose their appetite for lunch meats. The world’s largest restaurant chain says it will close about 500 of its 26,000 locations nationwide this year. Last year, Subway closed more than 800 U.S. … [Read more...] about ‘It’s just not what people want anymore’: Subway to close hundreds of U.S. stores