NEW YORK — One of the world’s largest Apple stores is opening at the landmark Grand Central Terminal. The 23,000-square-foot personal electronics business will start selling to the public on Friday. The owner of the space, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the city’s bus and subway system, says Apple Inc. is paying $180 per square foot for its lease — slightly less than the $200-per-square-foot top rate at the century-old Manhattan train hub. Read full article > >

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Huge Apple store opening at NYC’s Grand Central, likely to draw business to transit hub

Appeals to Manhattan donors before primaries.

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Newt Scrambles for Campaign Money

Glauco Lolli-Ghetti has one of the world’s most expensive parking spaces. His 11th-floor, $7 million condominium in Manhattan includes an attached garage.

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Even on the 11th Floor, There’s Parking Right Out Front

Vivian Toy has visited nearly 600 Manhattan co-ops and condos, mainly for the Real Estate section’s “On the Market” page.

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Vivian S. Toy: The Apartment Critic

Hundreds of demonstrators tried to reach the New York Stock Exchange as police officers in riot gear tried to block their way.

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City Room: Occupy Protesters and the Police Clash Near Wall Street

Sushi Yasuda, now in its second decade on the East Side of Manhattan, remains a standout shrine to sushi.

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Restaurant Review: Sushi Yasuda — NYC — Restaurant Review

NBA officials and player representatives met Wednesday afternoon in New York and talked until about 1 a.m. Thursday, but walked out of a Manhattan hotel after 12 hours of negotiations without an agreement and no indication that a deal was close at hand. The sides agreed to resume talks at noon Thursday. NBA Players Association president Derek Fisher cautioned that “we can’t say there was significant progress made.” Both declined to provide details of the discussions. Read full article > >

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NBA and union meet for 12 hours, break without agreement to end lockout

Homeless teenagers who have stayed at Sylvia’s Place in Manhattan paint a picture of the shelter as dirty, overcrowded and unsafe.

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Sylvia’s Place Faces Licensing Problems

“What would Jesus think of Occupy Wall Street ?” I asked myself this week as I wandered the makeshift, blue-tarp village in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park . Born with little means into a first-century world, the historical Jesus might feel right at home with the very aspects of the occupation that so many 21st-century observers consider gross: the tents, the damp sleeping bags, the communal kitchen. Jesus would have sympathy, I think, with the campers’ efforts to keep a small space sanitary in the absence of modern plumbing. Read full article > >

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Jesus at Occupy Wall Street: ‘I feel like I’ve been here before’

Everyone agreed that St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church would rise again. But it took 10 years to agree on exactly where and how.

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City Room: Smaller St. Nicholas Is Not Expected to Interfere With World Trade Center Development

An art show, inspired by ongoing protests in New York, opens in an empty building once used by J.P. Morgan.

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City Room: Artists Occupy Wall Street for a 24-Hour Show

Some 2,000 people have marched on Manhattan’s main police station as part of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement.

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VIDEO: Wall St protest march on police

Four underground subway stations in Manhattan will come alive on Tuesday with cellphone service.

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Cellphone Service on Subway Platforms, but No More Excuses

Billy Hunter is the biggest wishbone in pro sports right now. When the NBA union chief walks into a boardroom at a Manhattan hotel Thursday , with only the beginning of the season in the balance, Commissioner David Stern will be tugging on one lapel. NBA players, who will soon start missing paychecks because of their economic stalemate with team owners, will be tugging at the other. Read full article > >

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NBA lockout: Union chief Billy Hunter knows how to fight fairly

Imagine that the twin towers still dominated the Manhattan skyline. Imagine that the Pentagon’s western facade had remained intact. Imagine that there was no reason to build a memorial in Shanksville, Pa. And imagine that the numbers 9 and 11 meant nothing more than an emergency telephone call. The world changed on Sept. 11, 2001, that much is clear. But how much, and how radically? Read full article > >

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A world without 9/11: No President Obama, more China trouble, same debt crisis