From there, it's a hike of several minutes along a root-veined forest trail that leads to a small sandy beach and a quarter-mile stretch of easy-to-negotiate granite shelves, some of them excellent diving platforms, which give the Ledges its name.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet There were two pools of cash: what a developer called the Rockefeller Group and others might make from four acres of North Hoboken, and what the city might get from a quarter-billion-dollar Sandy relief fund that Chris Christie had a say in distributing.
There were two pools of cash: what a developer called the Rockefeller Group and others might make from four acres of North Hoboken, and what the city might get from a quarter-billion-dollar Sandy relief fund that Chris Christie had a say in distributing.
The state, which owns the property; the town; and the neighbors had all sought assurances over the last couple of years that the historic architecture on the campus be retained, that the public have access to the quarter mile of sandy beach and that the character of the neighborhood of upscale single family homes not be altered significantly.
Hurricane Sandy will have dented fourth-quarter profits to the tune of $2 billion before tax, the most of any American insurer (it also flooded AIG's Wall Street offices).The good news is that insurance prices in America are rising, and that AIG's higher-margin international franchise (despite asset disposals, half of the firm's general-insurance sales are made abroad) is growing fast.
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday| FridayFridayWITH a motley crew of expatriate friends, I'm headed to the outskirts of the Empty Quarter, a stretch of sandy desert that runs through the southeastern Arabian Peninsula.
Near the town are Parlee Beach Provincial Park, with a three-quarter-mile stretch of sandy protected beach, and Shediac, the self-proclaimed lobster capital of the world, where the local McDonald's offers a McLobster Roll.
The British made good their march to Sandy Hook, and Washington took up his quarters at New Brunswick.
He said it was a "terrible quarter," citing factors like Hurricane Sandy, adding that it was one of the worst for the commodities business since 1995.
Verizon Wireless reported record-setting customer additions in the quarter, while Verizon FiOS customer additions were higher in fourth-quarter 2012 than in the prior two quarters, despite the impact of Superstorm Sandy.
