It appeals to young commuters anxious for a quick hit of news, sport and celebrity.
Some of its listings appear in print in RedEye, The Tribune's five-day-a-week publication aimed at young commuters.
With so many young commuters and empty nesters living in the area, he added, "I realized that Valley Stream is in dire need of it".
The hotel, which is on Hempstead Avenue in the Village of West Hempstead, would be razed after the town adopts zoning that would pave the way for apartments geared to young commuters next to the train station — similar to housing that developed as the Long Island Rail Road grew in the 1800s.
Leaving my taxi at Sanphawut Pier, a few miles from the centre (to be really green you could walk the mile or so from Bangna Skytrain station), I board a ferry full of schoolchildren, young commuters and old folk with shopping bags and cross the wide grey Chao Phraya river into a different world.
That lower case B - marked on each "can" - is worn with studied nonchalance by NBA basketball players, Premier League footballers and affluent young commuters.
Matt Mahoney, another young commuter, described the area as "cheaper than Park Slope — and closer".
We hear the rumble of a train before we see it or the young commuter Lavinia (Maia Thomas).
AmNew York is part of a fiercely competitive New York City newspaper market, going up against another free paper, Metro, in the push to draw young commuter readers.
Few markets can support more than one or two freesheets, analysts say, because these papers generally reach very similar audiences — largely young, urban commuters.
