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A new class-action lawsuit representing New York City parents was filed today in civil court against Mayor Michael Bloomberg for his highly controversial -- and ultimately unsuccessful -- appointment of magazine executive Cathie Black to the ...
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A blogger for Transportation Nation witnessed two cyclists being pulled over and ticketed in Manhattan for biking not on the sidewalk, but on the street -- just not in the available bike lane. According to the Department of Transportation, "you have ...
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The New York Giants opened up their weight room yesterday to three players: Chris Canty, Brandon Jacobs, and Mario Manningham. Why just those three? It isn't clear. As Gary Myers says in this morning's Daily News, "The Giants have now decided to cl...
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Remember that 90-square-foot apartment that we were all freaking out about earlier this month, you know, how can anyone live there that's just insane I'd have a panic attack I'm having one right now, etc., etc.? In fact, its owner did have a panic at...
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This won't be the first time a death has been shown on British television; in 2006, Sky's Real Lives channel aired a program where a man ended his own life in an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland.
Don't stress if you miss Inside the Human Body ...
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Deputy Inspector Wayne Bax,, assigned to the 52nd Precinct, gave the order to a lieutenant, who then told the officer who wrote the ticket that "it would be in his best interest" to get rid it, the Post says.
The disclosure indicates that the pract...
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This is not quite as good as a cat video, but here it is, anyway: The royal wedding route in 3D, thanks to Google Earth, makers of other things in 3D that you can share with your friends on the Internet, because 3D is either really retro or really mo...
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A high school history teacher in Washington Heights was fined $1,000 for using a Spanish swear word last year during one of his classes, El Diario reports. But the fine is a steep reduction from what a court had originally ordered that Carlos Garcia ...
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He's Nicholas Gumas, one of the LGBT scholarship winners honored at Live Out Loud, Monday night's benefit at the TimesCenter, which raised $250,000 for their programs and activities.
Nicholas is whip-smart, gave a great speech, and is much better-dr...
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It's in this toxic environment that the White House has released a copy of Obama's long-form birth certificate.
We noted last September that "White America Has Lost Its Mind." Apparently it still hasn't found it.
Long before Donald Trump entered th...
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The weekend before last two men set out with a plan that would captivate America's imagination and end up getting them at least 15 minutes in the eye of the national, and international, media, from CNN to the BBC to the morning show circuit. John Bel...
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Commercial breaks will never be the same.
Elmer Lynn Hauldren, 1922-2011
Update: The Empire folks have created this website in honor of Hauldren.
Lynn "Empire Carpet Guy" Hauldren Passes Away [Chicagoist]
[ngreene@villagevoice.com / @nickgreene]...
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A prosecutor at the Bronx District Attorney's Office says the cases that are thrown out are "because the police paperwork states the marijuana was actually not in public view. These cases she chalks up to honest mistakes." But if a cop lies, then it'...
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This is at last a favorable development in the gloomy history of these buildings, which had been purchased by high-profile Los Angeles-based company Milbank (one of the Voice's 10 Worst Landlords last year) at the height of the real estate boom. When...
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I had to admit, when I heard about Michael Fairman's explosive exit from Scientology (see our story about it here), my first reaction was, "Michael who?"
His face certainly was familiar, but I wasn't sure where I'd seen it before...
"Penske File! T...
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Well, this is what an insider tells me:"[Reopener] had not paid Don in months, he had not paid the staff, and he had not paid the rent.
"Don was [having a legal battle over] his rent-stabilized apartment.
"Don was VERY STRESSED."
Don, as you know...
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The above video demonstrates how fire ants morph together to build a super-buoyant raft. Researchers at Georgia Tech were able to use time-lapse photography and mathematical modeling to fully understand that the ants "spread out from a sphere in...
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The murder of Trevonne Winn, 24, was captured by a camera on Nostrand Avenue in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, at 8 p.m. on Saturday, outside of a Crown Fried Chicken. The clip above shows the victim blurred, but the Daily News has an uncensored version....
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"Instead of [the restaurant owner] getting killed, he'd have to pay a tax," [Salvatore] Volpe said in Brooklyn Federal Court at the murder trial of Bonanno boss Vincent (Vinny Gorgeous) Basciano. "It was basically a penalty."
So practical! And less...
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But, baby, it's them who are getting sued.
I've just been told that lawyers have lodged a suit on behalf of Beverly Lee of the Shirelles, Dionne Warwick, Chuck Jackson, and others "for unauthorized use of names, images and biographical information."...
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
