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Whoo, hey, everybody, government shutdown! Are you psyched?
No? Well, that makes sense. It'll be expensive and embarrassing for the country, and you're not crazy. Rightbloggers, on the other hand, see in this mayhem an opportunity, and their hope i...
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Anwar Al-Awlaki, Babafemi's boss at Inspire, was killed in a drone strike in 2011.
A Nigerian man connected with Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula appeared in a Brooklyn court today. Lawal Olaniyi Babafemi, 33, was arraigned in Brooklyn Federal Co...
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Jamaican LGBT rights activists are taking this week's official visit of the country's prime minister to New York to speak out against homophobic violence. Seven protesters from Jamaica Anti-Homophobia Stand paced the sidewalk in front of the Ford Fou...
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Dwight Lewis, 27, was shot and killed inside Whisper's Lounge, a Bronx night spot, last year. Now, his estate seeks to hold the club's owners responsible for not preventing the homicide.
The venue "negligently provided security" and "failed to dete...
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Atef Sabry Abu El Enin in Times Square on Saturday
Rachel Gunnoe, a stay-at-home mom from New Jersey, was in a Times Square on Saturday, taking part in a demonstration against the military coup in Egypt, when she was accosted by a man who grabbed ...
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A deceptively beautiful stretch of the Gowanus
Sometime very soon, the Environmental Protection Agency will release its final plan on how to clean up the incredibly polluted Gowanus Canal, a process that's expected to take years and cost $550 mill...
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This revelatory tidbit emerged in federal court Tuesday during a hearing on Schoolcraft's lawsuit before U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet. It raises the question of whether it was proper for the NYPD to run the names of people through criminal databa...
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A suburban retiree with a heart of gold. A cat with swollen ears. A jealous bagel shop worker. Something cute is bound to happen with this crazy crew.
Or not. Yesterday Nancy Glassman was arrested at her Long Island home for snatching a cat from an ...
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In New York, some times you just want a little bit more jungle in your concrete jungle. Rentenna, another addition to the city's growing stable of artisanal housing market startups, has compiled just where in New York City you might find a little bit...
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At around 11 a.m. on October 28, 2011, 17-year-old Patrick Dixon got off a bus in Jamaica, Queens. A group of young men followed him. They were about to try to steal his iPhone.
There was a scuffle. A punch. A razor. And within seconds, Dixon lay on...
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Turns out those wires running above train tracks are really, really important. The Con Edison feeder that supplies power to the overhead wire on the Metro-North New Haven commuter rail line went dark yesterday, shutting down the entire train service....
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who signed the conversion therapy ban August 19
At the end of August, two therapists in New Jersey sued the state over its recently signed ban on "conversion therapy," a practice which purports to turn gay peopl...
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Yesterday the MacArthur Foundation named its 2013 recipients of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. No fewer than nine of the 24 fellowships awarded went to residents of New York. One of them is Karen Russell, an author and writing professor whose ...
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It's Banned Books Week--the time of year to think of censored classics like J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye ("obscene"), Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer ("a cesspool") and Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita ("one of the filthiest books I've ever read")...
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At 12:30 p.m. on September 25 in the Year of Our Lord 2013, something amazing happened: Some 358 New Yorkers got together in Herald Square and broke the world record for the number of people twerking simultaneously. The rules were simple: Keep your...
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If you've ever tried to enter the Metropolitan Museum of Art, only to receive judgmental stares from staff for foregoing the (technically optional) entrance fee, this one goes out to you: The Met is tied up in two lawsuits over its allegedly "decepti...
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In January, 26-year-old Jose Lagos pleaded guilty to orchestrating three murders in Newburgh between 2008 and 2011--he was one of three Latin King gang members ordering the hits.
One of those shootings targeted a rival Bloods member but instead kill...
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John Catsimatidis, statesman.
It wasn't so long ago that we said a reluctant farewell to John Catsimatidis, grocery store magnate, unsuccessful mayoral candidate, and profoundly weird dude. Oh, sure, he's popped up here and there--writing a hear...
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New York is full of wonderful things. That's why you live here, right? Out-of-towners see a very crowded place, but we know that this city is crowded with amazing restaurants, parks, people, bars, concerts, teams, stores, and theaters. Because it's s...
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When Ali Yasin Ahmen, Madhi Hashi, and Mohamed Yusef appeared in the Brooklyn courthouse last December, people were confused.
They were confused because the men were Somali; two of them had Swedish citizenship and the other held citizenship in the ...
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