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As if we needed another helping of tragedy this summer: Twenty-one-year-old Islan Nettles died last night from injuries sustained during fight in Harlem. The fight is believed to have been a verbal attack that escalated when the assailants discovered...
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Last week, the Voice reported that ACT UP, one the nation's leading HIV/AIDS activist organizations, was protesting in front of New York's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in Queens over its lousy data collection and even lousier education ini...
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Excruciatingly long lines, invasive pat-downs, awkward luggage inspections, delays, cancelations--and, oh yeah, racial profiling--are all pretty much accepted as par for the course.
Aditya Mukerjee, who lives and works in New York and is Hindu, not ...
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Yesterday was a particularly historic moment for New York's City Council, which voted to override Mayor Bloomberg's veto of two NYPD oversight bills. The successful override means that an independent inspector general will be appointed to help regula...
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Porn actor Cameron Bay came forward Wednesday admitting that her recent unconfirm HIV diagnosis is the reason why the porn industry is on ice until further notice. Some good old shoe leather over at Gawker revealed that the last porn actor to have un...
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Olivo, who sustained minor injuries in the crash, has a history of bad behavior and public drunkenness. His illustrious rap sheet includes everything from being busted with an open container of Four Loko to threatening a McDonald's employee with deca...
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Yes, the mafia's odd love of the garbage industry lives on. Yesterday three men pleaded guilty to various financial crimes linked to attempts to corner the waste-hauling business in greater New York City and New Jersey.The charges against Dominick Pi...
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The New York Review of Books publishes mostly men, and in that, they're not alone, joined by pretty much every major print magazine in this country. But the NYRB's editor, Robert Silvers, responded to a criticism of their mostly-maleness this week wi...
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Here are your mayoral race power rankings, based on candidates' performances in Wednesday night's debate, as we trudge toward primary day. 1. Christine Quinn
Quinn had clear command of the room from the start, welcomed by a thunderous round of appla...
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The Mayor's Office* has announced that the Rockaway Ferry will continue serving Queens residents until 2014. Originally slated to close when repairs to the A line were completed back in May, the ferry will serve commuters at Rockaway Park until the e...
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Nitpicky policy debates get me all the way #turnt up.
The primary season's umpteenth mayoral debate will be broadcast live on NY1 and streaming on its website at 7 p.m. tonight. We here at Runnin' Scared thought, hey, what better way to endure the...
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Why, yes.
Don't Hassel the Hoff, the old wisdom goes. A 36-year-old Shelton, Connecticut convenience store clerk, heeding the warnings of our forebears, tried to stop a man from stealing signs with images of David Hasselhoff off of a pole and was ...
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Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer released a report yesterday claiming that 75 percent of New York City's public schools have Internet connections that operate at 10 megabits or less. Schools' broadband speeds must be 100 times that by 2020,...
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The aftermath of Tuesday's accident
Twenty three-year-old Sian Green counted down the days, hours, minutes, and seconds until her New York City vacation. The young woman, a citizen of the U.K., posted a shot of her countdown clock on Instagram wit...
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A married couple in Cobble Hill last week learned that they have really shitty neighbors. Just the worst. A group of incredibly classless, dickish, can't-mind-their-own-business-worth-a-goddamn sort of people complained to Gothamist and then assorted...
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Park Avenue, day and night
New York's charms ripen at different times of day: while the sun is up, the city pulsates with purpose. There's the same vibration and torque in the grandest of achievements as are in the most mundane of errands. At nigh...
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Do you mind frisking yourself? Thanks.
Last week was a big one in the fight against stop and frisk: Manhattan Federal Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled that stop and frisk has led to unconstitutional stops, ordering tougher oversight of police and even...
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The scene of the accident from above.
A taxi cab jumped the curb in front of 30 Rockefeller Center at approximately 11:30 a.m. FDNY has confirmed that at least one victim, listed as 23 years old in numerous reports, lost at least one leg in the cr...
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The restaurant whose sidewalk was the scene of New York's latest hate crime is taking heat on social media. Billie and Jacob James-Vogel were harassed and attacked for being an interracial couple outside Shi Restaurant in Long Island City, Queens, wh...
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