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Schoolcraft, of course, is the Brooklyn cop who secretly recorded his bosses in the 81st Precinct ordering manipulation of crime reports, stop-and-frisk quotas, and actions that probably led to civil rights violations. On Oct. 31, 2009, he was dragge...
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Verrazano Bridge, Staten Island Side
For the second time in two days, Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is the site of a possible suicide attempt. A call that there was a jumper on the bridge came in at 12:30 p.m., says a source at the Fire Department.
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The photo you see to the right washed up on the shores of Reddit yesterday. It's a duck in a subway station. "Why is that duck in that subway station?" you ask. The short answer is: Aflac publicity stunt. The longer answer: poorly thought-out...
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New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman
We truly hate to be the ones to tell you this, but sometimes people say stuff on the Internet that is ... not true. Take a moment to collect yourselves. Case in point: 19 companies were scolded and fin...
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In a new music video, "Debate," McMillan of the Rent Is Too Damn High party says there is only one issue worth talking about.
"You got to have a roof over your head. Money in your pocket. Did you hear what I said?," McMillan raps. "You're working a...
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Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told CBS New York that the pilot "heard a loud bang and then lost altitude rapidly and landed on the water." News outlets cited mechanical failure as the cause and praised the pilot's skills for keeping everybody safe.
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It's no secret that the cost of a college education has skyrocketed in the last decade. With tuition and cost of living increases outpacing the growth in median income across the country and student loans increasingly becoming a bad option, it's no w...
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We told you yesterday about Columbia University professor Dr. Prabhjot Singh, who was attacked and beaten by a large group of young men as he walked near 110th Street and Lennox Avenue in Harlem. Singh was unable to remember much about his attackers,...
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A stack of People and How to Deal With Them magazines
Date: 1948 - 1949
Publisher: The Stevens-Davis Co., Chicago
The Cover Promises: "Dealing with the KNOW-IT-ALL." And that people, generally speaking, are something you just have to deal with. An...
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Yesterday it broke that Hillary Clinton asked Huma Abedin to ice her relationship with Anthony Weiner, now that Clinton's presidential aspirations are changing from rumor to reality. An associate of Clinton's blabbed to a New York magazine reporter f...
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The big show may be all about Bill de Blasio and Joe Lhota, but there's a third-party candidate whose Twitter game is far more entertaining. John Finan is an independent candidate for mayor whose Internet ramblings are, if nothing else, a breath of f...
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This gripe may have been stale in 1998, but movie trailers are so packed with exposition and narration nowadays that audiences expect the film to be ruined long before it opens at their local theater. This is partly why there's so much excitement sur...
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Dr. Prabhjot Singh
It was an ugly weekend. On Saturday night, not long after a woman in a hijab was attacked in Times Square and called a terrorist, a Columbia University professor was beaten in Harlem in an unrelated incident. Dr. Prabhjot Singh ...
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This weekend, it was also the site of an ugly race-based attack. An unidentified man was captured on video swearing at Times Square demonstrators, including a woman wearing a hijab, whom he called a "fucking terrorist" before hurling a sign at her. ...
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In July 1974, two Philippines law enforcement officials arrested Emmanuel Umali. The men told Umali that he had committed "subversive acts" against the government.
President Ferdinand Marcos had declared martial law in the country in 1972, and was ...
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Who's Next?
Democratic primary winner Bill de Blasio met last Wednesday with Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly for what was probably a pretty interesting conversation. The meeting was scheduled for three hours, and said to be a primer on law enfor...
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Six CUNY Students were arraigned last week on charges of resisting arrest during a peaceful protest against David Petraeus's teaching appointment at the college. A YouTube video of the arrest surfaced late in the week, showing NYPD officers brutalizi...
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People of the Gun love the Old West, a place where, they like to imagine, "an armed society is a polite society" (as if Deadwood were a good model for modern life).
But when the Starbucks' CEO Howard Shultz requested -- not demanded, mind you, but...
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On the morning of September 12, the New York City Ballet released a gorgeous video of two of its dancers performing on the 57th floor of Four World Trade Center, against the backdrop of the nearly complete Freedom Tower. Performing an excerpt of Chri...
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It appears that carrying 20 bags of heroin into a city courthouse is not a firable offense in New York City. In a ruling released yesterday, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Manuel Mendez found that Damian Esteban, found with 20 bags of heroin when he...
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