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For reasons perhaps best kept to himself, Rocky, the mysterious owner of Rock Star Bar (351 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg), a/k/a Mermaid, Ship's Mast, Local, etc., has changed...
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The season's first visitors to Coney Island can already see that the batting cages and the go-karts along Stillwell Avenue are gone, as is a miniature golf course that went...
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At the Lab, a Brooklyn nightclub and rental hall, a petite Hispanic bartender sporting braids down the middle of her back and a baseball cap is taking a break on a recent...
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Riot porn played as the crowd filtered in for the meeting at Time's Up last Thursday. The activists playing on the big screen showed how it's done, grabbing long poles and...
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"Outright robbery," says Pastor James David Manning about the building being renovated across the street from his Harlem church at Lenox Avenue and 123rd Street.
That was his...
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New York's two United States Attorneys—Roslynn Mauskopf, who runs the Brooklyn-based Eastern District, and Michael Garcia, the head of Manhattan's Southern...
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Rudy Giuliani's fundraising may not be presidential yet, but his campaign's seat-of-the-pants media manipulation—another requirement for contenders—is looking pretty...
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Shane Coffey, the soon-to-be-former chef at Alias, is about to leave his loyal Lower East Siders for white tablecloths in Aspen. He swears he'll be back, but we got his last...
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In 1972, Allan Sekula decided to interrupt the "capitalist circulation of luxury goods through robbery and waste," so he shoplifted pricey cuts of meat and tossed them under...
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Something was dripping in the first rooms of "Global Feminisms," the Brooklyn Museum's sprawling survey of work by 88 artists, all women born since 1960 and hailing from some...
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A first encounter with the paintings of Wei Dong includes a few double takes. You feel an odd displacement, as if you've stumbled into an art-history dream where time-...
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Good news for the millions of you saddled with student loans—help may finally be on the way.
At least, that's what the politicians say. "College affordability has...
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"Wow—as if I'm not paying Columbia enough already, now there's a dude profiting off my financial misery." According to an online poll last week by the university's...
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With its windows shining in a steady spring drizzle, Samuel J. Tilden High School hardly looks like a place in its last days. This March evening, the East Flatbush school is...
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Health/Sport
Inspired by the success of NBC's The Biggest Loser, a reality program that offers contes-tants something more than humiliation, the 92 Street Y challenges you to...
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OK, so you got into college, but then there was a gnarly homework assignment: The 103- question Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). You put it off; now it's...
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An ex-student of mine once taught at an early-college high school. He was charmed by the gusto and ambition of his pupils, but saddened that the drive to cram prematurely and...
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Words Without Borders does Lonely Planet one better: It mainlines the experience of elsewhere—the wanderlust, the delirium of dislocation. Culled by the editors of ...
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