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1:30 pm
May. 17, 2013
New York News
Go Listen to This Coney Island-Themed Playlist Marty Markowitz Made on Spotify
By Sydney Brownstone
Thank god for Marty Markowitz, possibly the only lovable politician left in New York. Today, the Brooklyn borough president released a soundtrack to rebuilding a Sandy-shattered Coney Island on S... More >>
Runnin' Scared
12:26 pm
May. 17, 2013
New York News
Vito Lopez, Legislative Powerhouse, Serial Groper, to Resign; Ducks Expulsion Proceeding
By Graham Rayman
Once-powerful Brooklyn Assemblyman Vito Lopez has agreed to step down from his longtime post as his support collapsed this week on the heels of the Staten Island District Attorney's damning report... More >>
Runnin' Scared
10:45 am
May. 17, 2013
New York News
New Jersey Wants to Raise Its Smoking Age to 21, Too
By John Surico
"This has now truly become a regional, if not national, effort." Thus spoke City Council Speaker Christine Quinn at a press conference yesterday. Former-governor-turned-state-senator Richard Code... More >>
Runnin' Scared
9:45 am
May. 17, 2013
New York News
The CDC Discovered Poop in Public Swimming Pools
By Sydney Brownstone
Everyone's worst public pool fears are true, and just in time for summer. On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a study showing that 58 percent of public pool sampl... More >>
Runnin' Scared
8:42 am
May. 17, 2013
New York News
A Cooper Union Student, the Chair of Trustees, and Felix Salmon Walked Into a Debate
By Sydney Brownstone
ICYMI: After Cooper Union president Jamshed Bharucha met students for a surprise discussion in his office earlier this week, on Wednesday morning Democracy Now! hosted a rare, moderated forum wit... More >>
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7:00 am
May. 17, 2013
New York News
Ken Thompson, Brooklyn D.A. Candidate, Asks Gov. Cuomo to Bigfoot Charles Hynes' Review of Old Murder Cases
By Graham Rayman
The race for Brooklyn District Attorney is becoming a bit of a slugfest. First, there was word that longtime Democratic incumbent Charles Hynes' office was getting a reality show right in the midd... More >>
Runnin' Scared
3:36 pm
May. 16, 2013
New York News
High Concept Item: Pizza Delivery Cocaine Dealers!
By Graham Rayman
Not a huge case, just kind of amusing: Drug dealers went back to the future with a scheme revealed yesterday to deliver cocaine through a pizza delivery service, special narcotics prosecutor Bridg... More >>
Runnin' Scared
1:20 pm
May. 16, 2013
New York News
Christine Quinn Wants to Save the Streets From Themselves
By John Surico
Between 2009 and 2011, approximately 450 people died crossing the street in New York City. Whether to reckless driving, not looking both ways, or sheer confusion, the city lost 450 residents. And ... More >>
Runnin' Scared
12:11 pm
May. 16, 2013
New York News
Judge Gives Hurricane Sandy Victims in Hotel Program Time to Find Housing
By Sydney Brownstone
Over the past month, a group of people who lost everything in Hurricane Sandy have been waging a battle with the city. They came from the most traumatized areas, and from the poorest economic bac... More >>
Runnin' Scared
11:00 am
May. 16, 2013
New York News
Comptroller John Liu Gives Back His Campaign's Dirty Cash
By John Surico
With the primaries in four months, this is probably a good idea. By now, the controversy over John Liu's run for comptroller in 2010 is an old wives' tale in recent New York City scandal history.... More >>
Runnin' Scared
10:00 am
May. 16, 2013
New York News
What to Do if You Get Vito Lopez'd at Work
By Sydney Brownstone
On Wednesday, state ethics regulators unleashed a 68-page document detailing young, female staffers' allegations of sexual harassment from Assemblyman Vito Lopez. One complainant described Lopez'... More >>
Runnin' Scared
7:00 am
May. 16, 2013
New York News
City Used Memo Leak to Drag Stop-and-Frisk Judge Through the Mud, Lawyers Say
By Ryan Devereaux
In an act of desperation, the city of New York has used the media to launch a "despicable" attack on the federal judge presiding over a landmark stop-and-frisk trial, attorneys for the plaintiffs... More >>
Runnin' Scared
6:00 am
May. 16, 2013
New York News
Robert Johnson, Bronx DA, Slams Judge Who Dismissed Charges Against Ramarley Graham's Killer
By Graham Rayman
Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson is slamming a judge who dropped charges against a police officer in the fatal February 2012 shooting of an unarmed teenager. Meanwhile, the judge blamed the ... More >>
Runnin' Scared
3:07 pm
May. 15, 2013
New York News
Developer Builds a Fence Through the Children's Magical Garden
By Nick Pinto
Backed by police, a team of construction workers entered the Children's Magical Garden on the Lower East Side this morning, stepping over fresh plantings to erect a chain-link fence through the m... More >>
Runnin' Scared
2:30 pm
May. 15, 2013
New York News
The New Yorker Launches Strongbox, a Project Developed by Aaron Swartz
By Sydney Brownstone
It's at once terribly exciting and infinitely sad: This morning, the New Yorker announced the arrival of Strongbox, a new tool for receiving sensitive documents and messages from readers. Commis... More >>
Runnin' Scared
1:27 pm
May. 15, 2013
New York News
The Village Voice's Top 5 Book Events This Week, May 15-21, 2013
By Heather Baysa
Fiona Maazel and Peter Trachtenberg Pete's Candy Store Thursday, May 16, 7:30 p.m., free In reality we've already got G-, Facebook-, Skype-, and every other type of non-synchronous chat option im... More >>
Runnin' Scared
12:15 pm
May. 15, 2013
New York News
Union Square is Getting a Massive Wi-Fi Expansion in June
By Sydney Brownstone
The good people at the Union Square Partnership are bringing Wi-Fi to the masses. Well, at least they're expanding Union Square's Wi-Fi, which currently only serves a meager 250 people. By mid-Ju... More >>
Runnin' Scared
10:38 am
May. 15, 2013
New York News
We May Have a Weiner in the Mayoral Race by Next Week
By John Surico
"I'm trying to gauge not only what's right and what feels comfortable right this second, but I'm also thinking, How will I feel in a year or two years or five years? Is this the time that I should... More >>
Runnin' Scared
10:34 am
May. 15, 2013
New York News
Appeals Court Rules on New York Fire Department Discrimination
By Nick Pinto
The Fire Department of New York has a discrimination problem: In a city where, in 2002, 25 percent of the population was black and 27 percent was Hispanic, the fire department was 2.6 percent bla... More >>
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8:33 am
May. 15, 2013
New York News
Bronx Woman Charged by Both State and Feds for Posing as Newtown Victim's Aunt
By Sydney Brownstone
A Bronx resident who prosecutors say set up a Paypal for donations in the wake of the Newtown massacre has been charged with identity theft and scheming to defraud by the state. In January, Noue... More >>

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