Email Author Jen Doll

2011 Stories by Jen Doll

• 20 New Year's Eve Experiences You Will Have in Your Lifetime

  published Dec 30, 2011

  It's that time of year, the time of year in which you say "it's that time of year" way too much. We'll stop after this post, we almost guarantee it. It's also the time for rounding up all of the vario... More >>

• Let's Agree Not to Use These Words Ever Again, or At Least Not For a While

  published Dec 30, 2011

  We love banning things and we love the English language, so you can only imagine the joy in our hearts upon encountering Lake Superior State's "List of Banished Words" for the year. While some of our ... More >>

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  Here Are the 20 Most-Read Village Voice Stories of 2011

  published Dec 30, 2011

  Somewhat unbelievably, here we find ourselves on the last Friday of 2011. We hope this year has been a good one for you. As for us, well, we can't complain too much. After all, this is the post in whi... More >>

• New York City Traffic Fatalities at 100-Year Low

  published Dec 29, 2011

  This week has brought a wave of PR-department-approved good news to New York City residents. We have less crime! We are healthier! We might just live...forever! And...we're better at driving and/or wa... More >>

• Here Is Your Mesmerizing Subway Video of the Day

  published Dec 29, 2011

  Add this to your collection of things posted on YouTube that happened on the New York City subway this year. This one, "Zilla March," is from a group called The Next Level Squad; they're doing a Brook... More >>

• Yes, There Are Still Fewer Men Than Women in New York City. So Whatr

  published Dec 29, 2011

  It's that time of year when we dredge up old stats and check them again! And in so doing, we can confirm, via Census data and the New York Post, that women outnumber men in the city "by 52.5 to 47.5 p... More >>

• Grimy Back Alleys Are the Hot New Real Estate Get in New York City

  published Dec 29, 2011

  Nick Carr explores a modern-day conundrum in his recent piece in the Wall Street Journal, "Our Typecast Metropolis." You see, Hollywood considers New York City a sort of permanently 70s-era New York C... More >>

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  817 Jaydens Were Born in New York City Last Year

  published Dec 29, 2011

  It's that time of year again! Let's look at what we all named our babies in New York City in the last year, and figure out which name is the "most popular," which really means your kid is just going t... More >>

• The Taxi and Limousine Commission Has Turned Into Your Mother

  published Dec 29, 2011

  Upset or perhaps personally just really offended that a majority -- 65 percent! -- of yellow cab passengers are not doing the barest minimum to keep themselves safe, and did we really raise you this w... More >>

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  Fox News Compares New York Times Email Mishap to the Anthony Weiner Sexting Scandal

  published Dec 28, 2011

  In a mishap that sent tremors through the media consciousness, the New York Times earlier today sent out an email that was first attributed to spam, possibly a hack, and then acknowledged to be from t... More >>

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  Happy Good Riddance Day: Time to Dredge Up Your Worst Memory of the Year and Destroy It

  published Dec 28, 2011

  You may not be aware, but today is an important day on our nation's calendar. It is, yes, several days after Christmas, and several days until the New Year (and the eve proceeding that year). And it i... More >>

• Crime Down in New York City for 2011; Central Park After Dark Now Just 'Boringly Safe'

  published Dec 28, 2011

  At Mayor Bloomberg's press conference about public safety today, he announced that crime in the city has been driven down 34 percent in the last 10 years, and that serious crime is down overall this y... More >>

• Drunk Online Shopping Will Save This Wretched Economy!

  published Dec 28, 2011

  Credit card debtr What credit card debtr Oh, pour yourself another drink. The latest fun -- and healthy! -- thing we're all doing under the influence of a little boozin' is...shopping on our own perso... More >>

• Transel, Company Responsible for 285 Madison Elevator, Has Been Sued at Least Eight Times

  published Dec 28, 2011

  Following up on the elevator tragedy that caused the death of Suzanne Hart, a Y&R ad executive working at 285 Madison Avenue, the New York Post reports that Transel, the elevator maintenance company r... More >>

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  10 Things We Would Like the Talking Doll We Got for Christmas to Actually Say

  published Dec 28, 2011

  Truth: We didn't actually get a talking doll for Christmas. We are way too old for that sort of nonsense (no offense, kids). But we did watch this video of a talking doll calling someone, quite agreea... More >>

• Passengers Stranded on Subway During 2010 Blizzard to File Suit

  published Dec 26, 2011

  Last year around this time, under very different weather circumstances than we're having right now, hundreds of people were stuck on an A train in the Rockaways from approximately 10 p.m. on December ... More >>

• Little Girl Acts Like a Modern Woman to Make a Mockery of All of Us

  published Dec 20, 2011

  In a video that will be oddly reminiscent of all of our lives (except we don't drive, and we rarely threaten to sue -- only if we're really, really angry), here is a little girl living the life of a m... More >>

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  Santa Claus Is From Chelsea

  published Dec 20, 2011

  Everything you thought you knew about Santa may be a lie! According to the New York Historical Society, Santa is not, despite all of our assumptions, a native North Pole-ian, complete with North Pole-... More >>

• Pro-Adultery Website Ashley Madison Endorses Newt Gingrich

  published Dec 20, 2011

  Of course, you've heard of (but certainly never used!) the website Ashley Madison, tagline "Life is short. Have an affair." After all, it's "the world's leading married dating service for discreet enc... More >>

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  Someone Apparently Shot a Window Out of a Cab on Avenue A Last Night

  published Dec 20, 2011

  EV Grieve reports (with photos) that someone allegedly "blew out the window" of a cab last night at Avenue A near 14th Street. Per the tipster, Matt LES_Miserable, police were on the scene and the dri... More >>

• The Seasonal Ice Skating Wedding Proposals Have Begun

  published Dec 19, 2011

  It's that time of year again! The time when you go to a public place with ice and skate about to cheesy piped-in tunes with your boy or girlfriend and suddenly, awash in love, rosy from the fresh air,... More >>

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  Brooklyn Junior High Has the Most Sexting Suspensions in the City

  published Dec 19, 2011

  The unfortunately named (given what we're about to say next) "Edward B. Shallow" Junior High in Bensonhurst has the dubious honor of being the New York City school with the most suspensions issued for... More >>

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  Happiness Is on the Decline, at Least According to What We Tweet

  published Dec 19, 2011

  Scientists from the University of Vermont have undertaken an in-depth, extremely thorough examination of the emotions of the Twitterverse, and they've found that happiness is...decreasing. In the jour... More >>

• A Hundred Boomboxes Will Rove the Streets of New York City in January

  published Dec 19, 2011

  Newmindspace, the brains behind street pillow fights and epic light saber battles in the park, has a new event in the works, in conjunction with Tom and Gary of Decentralized Dance Party. This event r... More >>

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  Snow Unlikely for You This Christmas

  published Dec 19, 2011

  Recall, if you will, last Christmas-time in New York City. Aside from the gifts you did or didn't give or receive, there was ever so much white stuff, blanketing the ground, preventing you from flying... More >>