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In the final few minutes of the final debate Republican candidate Joe Lhota tried to convince voters he is not the ice water-veined bureaucrat he's been portrayed as since declaring he would not stop the subway to protect a pair of mangy kittens."I'm...
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This all began when the Team Marketing Report released this year's version of a report looking at stadium costs in major league baseball. (More after the jump)Somehow, the Yankees, we are told, do not sell the most expensive beer in the major leagues...
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Stumping at churches across the city yesterday, New York City Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott announced a $13 million initiative to add more slots to the city's after school programs. 4,000 seats will be added to after-school care and tutoring for ...
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A Brooklyn resident pleaded guilty to fraud charges in federal court on Friday. Gregory Konoplya, 57, will now face sentencing for his part in an elaborate kickback scheme that funneled $13 million in fraudulent claims from Medicare and Medicaid into...
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A luau at Cynthia Rowley.
Upon arriving at the Highline Hotel for Cynthia Rowley's presentation on Saturday evening, we were handed a program covered in images of her inspirations for spring. There were colorful leis, tulips, crashing waves, a dog...
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Here's a lovely historical irony: A Democratic president has proposed limited military action in the Middle East, and conservative Republicans are aligning with anti-war Democrats, Occupy Wall Street, The Nation, MoveOn, and Code Pink to stop him.
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Last week we learned that Tunisian designer Max Azria, who got his start in Paris at a just barely pubescent fifteen, might be losing control of his empire--which is reportedly hundreds of millions in debt. You'd never know it from this show.
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Two men have been arrested for shooting killing a one-year-old boy in a gangland dispute with the boy's father. The two men were taken into custody in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the same day of 16-month-old Antiq Hennis's funeral. The suspects are a...
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In a crime likely to be a pie in the face for the city police department, an NYPD officer has been arrested as part of an international gun-smuggling ring. Officer Rex Maralit and his brothers Wilfredo and Ariel have been charged in a conspiracy to s...
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During Cory Booker's first year as Newark's mayor, in 2006, there were 107 murders in his city. By 2009, that number was down to 68. That 36 percent drop in homicides helped establish the reputation that has propelled Booker to national prominence.
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To his credit, he did break a record: The last attempt to circle all of Manhattan clocked in at 26 minutes. And his speeding video did go viral in a matter of days. Views went from 80,000 to over 300,000 in just two days.
Tang is charged with reckle...
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The final tally from two days of Electric Zoo: two dead, 19 "stricken," 31 arrests, at least one sexual assault.
When the third day of the festival was called off, angry ravers directed their rage at Mayor Bloomberg for recommending the cancellatio...
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flocking to foster daddy Steven Liu's apartment. (The ingrate kitties have responded by scratching the hell out of him. Or possibly they're just not fans of the Daily News.)
Last night, though, Stephen Colbert took a different tack, paying homage o...
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Can someone turn on the AC?
New York-based Mexican designer Paola Hernandez doesn't usually present her clothes in a standard runway setting, and her show on Wednesday night was no exception. Her "Singularity" Spring 2014 presentation was held ...
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New York Fashion Week officially began today, but we've been diligently covering it for the past two days. Erin Fetherston kicked things off right after Labor Day with her Spring/Summer 2014 intimate presentation in Tribeca.
For about eight years, t...
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The Washington Redskins have an offensive nickname. It's one of those things we'll look back on 20 years from now and find absurd.
For now, however, there is debate, there is publicity, there is a radio ad campaign. The Oneida Indian Nation, which ...
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It's pretty clear at this point that a pair of former high school administrators shouldn't be allowed near high school girls anymore, or perhaps women in general, or maybe just other carbon-based life forms. William Abreu was yanked from his job as a...
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A Brooklyn couple was arrested in Syracuse on August 30 for a plot to scam nearly 100 Asian immigrant families out of tuition paid for English-language instruction. Patrick Panettieri, 63, and Joanne Panettieri, 59, extracted tuition fees ranging fro...
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Arthur and August, the kittens spotted scurrying around under the third rail at the B/Q stop near Church Avenue last Thursday, have parlayed their mega-stardom into a luxe cardboard cat-tower six-stories high.As you probably recall, subway service wa...
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Yesterday the Manhattan District Attorney joined the Schools Chancellor and NYPD Commissioner to announce a new initiative to help bring down truancy rates in New York City. DA Cyrus Vance stated that the new Engagement Center, a place for frequently...
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