The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released data showing Manhattan as the country's highest paid place. Thanks to financial executives' salaries, the average weekly salary for a Manhattanite is $2,821. The next highest weekly salary in the country is Fairfield, Connecticut - $1,979. The figure reflect the heady first quarter of 2007. The rest of New York City residents make more modest amounts. Queens residents make an average of $831/week, followed by $788 made in......

Reader Austen took some photographs of an injured man being lifted from an Upper West Side construction site. A firefighter and the injured man, who is strapped on a board, is being hoisted by a crane to the ground level. The site is at Amsterdam and West 77th, where the Dakota stables once stood but where, after a fight with preservationists, condos will soon rise. It's unclear what caused the man's injury, but the......

Thanks, Bureau of Labor Statistics, for confirming what we all knew: Investment banking is extremely lucrative. Based on a recent report, salaries at investment banks are ten times more than all other private sector jobs. The NY Times notes that average i-banking weekly wage is $8,367; all other private sector job average weekly wage is $841. Sigh. But not all investment bankers are created equal: NYC hedge fund managers can make twice as regular......

While it certainly isn't getting cheaper to live in New York, a study by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics found that we're spending less than two other large cities. The agency found that in 2004 and 2005, people in the New York area spent slightly less than residents of Los Angeles and Chicago, news that must make our friends at LAist and Chicagoist happy. New Yorkers spent an average of about 72% of our......

Bureau of Labor Statistics, you fascinate us! Not only do your provide us with number-porn to whittle away the hours with, but now you are about to give us a report all about us - erm, and everyone else who has lived in Gotham over the past century. The report isn't available online yet (it will be here on Monday) but in the meantime the Times provides a nice peak into what is in its......

The Bureau of Labor Statistics gives the official news of what many had suspected: NYC's consumer price index jumped 0.9% this month! Okay, maybe we weren't suspecting there would be an almost 1% rise (which is a big deal), but given the hoo-ha about gas prices, it is going to be more expensive to live in the city. AM New York outlines the situation from what BLS regional commissioner Michael Dolfman says, and here's our......

The NY Times looked at some numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that showed income dispartiy between Manhattan and the other boroughs. When looking at salaries adjusted by inflation, Manhattan salaries have increased while in the other boroughs, salaries have decreased. Cost of living expenses, like rent and utilities, have outpaced many raises that outer borough residents do get. A Crown Heights resident, whose rent went up 11.8% (from $850 to $950), told the......

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released information about on-the-job deaths and NYC's worker death rate was 14% higher in 2004 than in 2003, with 107 total. AM New York (PDF) had a number of stats: 29 of the deaths were homicides, "from police officers killed in the line of duty to bosses murdered by scheming employees to cashiers shot during robberies"; construction jobs are the most dangerous, with 27 deaths, followed by transportation ones (bike......

Perhaps because the Bureau of Labor Statistics site is a bitch to navigate (it's the total webification of what you think government bureaucracy might be), the NY Times looks at the BLS's recent news release on spending in cities, and how NYC has a raw deal. The most distressing thing, amidst statistics like food prices going up 9.3% in NYC, vs. 2.7% nationally, and rental prices going up 8.1% in NYC, vs. 4.1% nationally, is......