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With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Letitia James has won the Democratic runoff election for New York City's public advocate, ending a particularly bitter and heated race. James took almost 60 percent of the vote, about 110,000 votes, while Squad...
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Update: We found it! Location and photo at the end of the post.
About two weeks ago, the elusive graffiti artist Banksy got the Internet whirring when he tore down his multipage website and left just a single black-and-white image of a previously un...
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Yesterday AARP published the results of its caregiver survey, a study of how families and individuals cope with providing care to their elderly relatives. The survey results were astonishing: Forty percent of New Yorkers over 50 report working as an ...
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The government officially shut down at midnight, which means that, for the time being, only essential government services will be in operation.
High on the list of government services deemed "nonessential" is the management of federal Twitter accoun...
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Macaque monkeys are the most widely used species in experimentation.
A primate at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn was strangled by a chain used to hold its play objects to its cage, according to U.S.D.A inspection documents obtained ...
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This morning, for no particular reason--not because the federal government has ground to a screeching partial halt, and certainly not because he might like to be president someday--Chris Christie would like to remind you how good he is at compromisin...
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So suggested Mayor Bloomberg Monday, saying a shutdown would make the U.S. look like a third-world country, and adding that could eventually cause problems in the operations of city agencies. "At the beginning, it really doesn't hurt us," he said. "I...
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Payday loans--short-term, high-interest cash advances that often target low-income communities--are illegal in New York state. A 1976 law made it a felony to charge borrowers an interest rate above 25 percent. Because payday loans operate on quick le...
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Yesterday a series of e-mails were obtained by Gawker in which the CUNY administration discusses its intention to move David Petraeus's seminar to the 16th floor of West 57th Street due to security concerns. Though administrators posted the notice of...
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Do not ever swim in here.
In 10 years or so, the fragrant banks of the Gowanus Canal may smell less like supercharged sewage, while the waters might lose their pus-addled-Ninja-Turtle hue. The Environmental Protection Agency announced its final p...
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Alfonso "Little Al" D'Arco
For authors Jerry Capeci and Tom Robbins, the long road to their fascinating new book about mafia boss Alfonso D'Arco, who became the federal government's most successful cooperator, began a decade ago.
In Mob Boss: T...
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A rendering of Brooklyn's "Tech Triangle"
On the heels of a report that New York's tech sector grew faster than almost any other city's--becoming the city's second-largest industry this year--comes more good tech news.
Mayor Bloomberg announced ...
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Every week since August 27, just after the landmark court ruling which created a monitor for the NYPD's stop-and-frisk program in the face of heavy opposition from Mayor Bloomberg, the mayor's press office has been sending out a subtle reminder about...
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The second took place on Friday, September 27, at Fairmount Place and Marmion Avenue, and involved a 26-year-old victim and a similar groping.
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The alleged groper is described as a male hispanic in his twenties, about 5-foot-8...
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Sang Ho Kim
SPolicing have been hunting for Sang Ho Kim, a suspect in an East Garden City office shooting that left one dead, since Wednesday. Today, it appears the manhunt has come to an end. At 9:30 a.m., a body believed to be Kim's washed up on...
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Update, 8:02 p.m.: The driver of the SUV has been identified as Alexian Lien, 33, a Director at Skrill, an "e-commerce" site. There are still no arrests in the case. At the time Lien, his wife Rosalyn, and their two-year-old child were on a drive cel...
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Frank Galarza, New York State light middleweight champion.
When Starrett City Boxing Club in East New York opened in 1978, it was surrounded by dirt roads and blight. And in the marshes just out back, "people would dump things," says longtime trai...
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Anti-Communist, but not anti-monster.
Much of the mayoral race's mudslinging this past week has centered around whether Democratic nominee Bill de Blasio is, in fact, a class-warfare-loving "Marxist playbook" user, as his Republican counterpart, J...
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New York City Opera's Anna Nicole
Calling all deep-pocketed arts patrons--now is your moment to swoop in and save City Opera from certain death.
With just 15 hours left to go, New York City Opera's Kickstarter campaign has raised just $285,590--...
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This past Friday the state Comptroller's office reported that it had uncovered a nearly $2 billion surplus in its operating budget. How about those scheduled fare hikes in 2015 and 2017? Despite news of the surplus, MTA officials plan to go ahead wi...
The MTA Procures Storm Surge Protection via the Catastrophe Bond Market
Type Miscast: An Elmhurst Doctor's Type 2 Diabetes Misdiagnosis Results in the Death of a Six-Year-Old Girl
Bill de Blasio's Elusive City Council Papers Raise More Questions Than They Answer
Daniel McGowan: The FBI's Least Wanted
Benjamin Lawsky: The Man Who Picked a Fight With Wall Street
Despite State Ban, Federal Inmate Ronell Wilson Is Sent to Death Row
