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Ever Orozco, 49, the victim of Stephen Torres's hate-fueled stabbing
Looks like this summer's spree of hate-related beatings and killings was just the appetizer. Steven Torres, 22, was arrested yesterday in Elmhurst for fatally stabbing a man he t...
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Update: This post has been updated throughout.
Ocean County prosecutor's office released the results of their investigation into the 10-alarm fire that burned down nearly 50 businesses on the Jersey Shore boardwalk last week. The fire was ruled acci...
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Occupy Wall Street's terrible twos began this morning with a familiar set of scenes: protesters holding signs. Protesters glaring at cops. Cops glaring at protesters. Dozens of metal barricades lining the streets between them. Everyone pausing to lo...
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Mayor Mike Bloomberg hasn't been going quietly. He's been spouting thoughts like that drunk guy who's stayed too long at the house party. Stop and frisk more minorities! De Blasio ran a racist campaign!
He's clearly savoring this rare moment in the ...
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In mid-April, 41-year-old Tom Eli was arrested, suspected of slashing an acquaintance outside a nightclub in the Flatiron. Since then, the usually routine matter of posting bail for him has gotten much, much more interesting. Eli's family is Romany (...
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Two years ago, an isolated demonstration in Zuccotti Park was swiftly mutating into a national movement, and Stephen Colbert wanted in on the action. The Comedy Central host headed on down to the Occupy Wall Street protest where he encountered "two y...
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It's been two years since Zuccotti Park was briefly the center of the Universe. Occupy Wall Street has since become a massive worldwide struggle against the abuses of finance capitalism and the lack of accountability of governments to their people.To...
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We miss these dudes already
Another Fashion Week has come and gone. Naturally, we used all of Sunday to nap and recover from 12 hectic days of runway shows, celebrity sightings, and chain-smoking free e-cigarettes. While in deep coma, we drifted ...
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Organizers of the parade have launched a Kickstarter to raise $50,000 to cover the loss from last year's cancelled event. Sandy swept through the area on Halloween weekend, forcing a last minute cancellation of the storied neighborhood spookfest.Acco...
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Todd and Lance Feurtado helped keep the peace after Gittens' murder.
In the two years since Ramel Gittens' murder, there have been street memorials, music video tributes, and relative peace between rival gangs. There has not yet been justice, tho...
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Bill Thompson ended his bid to become the Democratic nominee for mayor this morning at a press conference on the steps of City Hall. Thompson had previously said that he would wait until all votes were counted, despite De Blasio's unambiguous 40-perc...
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World's oldest man Salustiano "Shorty" Sanchez-Blazquez was 112 years old when he died this weekend. Shorty was born in Spain in 1901, emigrated to the United States in 1920 via Ellis Island, and has lived in Niagara Falls, New York (mostly) ever sin...
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Theodora Ray, 54, after being accidentally shot by the NYPD.
On Saturday night, as you've likely heard, the NYPD tried to shoot a disturbed man as he was running in and out of traffic near the Port Authority. Instead, they hit two women standing n...
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The Miss America pageant is not known for being especially thoughtful (the first question asked in the interview segment this year was about twerking, the second question about sexting, the third about Syria).
The judges seem unusually prescient thi...
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Monday: blech. The city's population is about to add 600,000 commuters coming from around the metropolitan area. To you, intrepid bridge-and-tunnel people: don't speed. New York gives out the third highest number of driving citations of any state in ...
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Last week we reported that rightbloggers were enraged the tyrant Obama was contemplating war with Syria. This week we can report that rightbloggers are enraged that the pussy Obama is avoiding war with Syria.
But if you're tired of foreign affairs,...
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Cops'll tear a place up in a drug raid. Ripping up pillows. Busting through walls. Pulling down shelves. Of course, when the place is clean, there'll probably be a lawsuit coming.
But then there are cases like what happened in an apartment on East ...
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Petraeus teaches the seminar "Are We on the Threshold of the North American Decade?", whose syllabus seems to mostly consist of articles from the Economist about How To Beat China.
In an email to press, Kirschner expressed her disappointment with t...
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Marc Jacobs
Attendees at this season's Marc Jacobs show couldn't get a break: Outside the armory on Lexington Avenue it was pouring rain, inside it felt like it was a hundred degrees. In lieu of air conditioning, pitifully ineffective paper fans w...
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A fire has destroyed much of the iconic Seaside Park boardwalk in New Jersey, including large portions of the Funtown Pier amusement park. Around 11 p.m. last night, after nine hours of work by fire crews, the blaze was declared officially contained....
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