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A prominent Brooklyn pastor is taking Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes to task for several statements he has made during the contentious Democratic primary race against former federal prosecutor Kenneth Thompson.
Brooklyn DA Charles ...
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Surprise! Not everything happening in New York has to do with the Mayoral election, as much as we bloggers might have you believe. There's also people committing extraordinarily dangerous stunts and videotaping the acts for our YouTube-ing...
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It's a familiar scene.
But at one Staten Island field last summer, it may have been prologue to tragedy. Nicholas Dellaventura, a 15-year-old at St. Joseph by-the-Sea High School, collapsed after his football team's conditioning session and died fr...
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Quinn and Thompson gunned hard for de Blasio--no surprise there--though, weirdly, instead of de Blasio himself, it was Anthony Weiner, polling at an anemic 7 percent, who emerged as the fiercest defender of de Blasio's record.First, Quinn criticized ...
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Today in things we can't believe didn't come sooner: a pilot program on Staten Island is now outfitting convicted domestic abusers with an ankle monitor. Their victims will be alerted by text if the abuser get too close to the "exclusion zones" they'...
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Man, those hats.
Call it the Revenge of the Redcoats. Six British soldiers beat the hell out of an off-duty NYPD officer early last Friday morning, and have now been charged in the assault. Since breaking the man's nose and seriously messing up hi...
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His stunning surge past Christine Quinn and Bill Thompson has brought him to 43 percent of support from potential voters, up from 36 percent on Aug. 28. Thompson sits at 20 percent and Quinn, the former frontrunner, at 18 percent. A stubborn 7 percen...
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Relevant conceptual art.
Now that Bill de Blasio has secured his status as frontrunner in the lead-up to to the Democratic primary, all of a sudden rich people are afraid the man might follow through on one of his marquis campaign promises: tax th...
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The visibility range for Minotaur V's launch.
NASA's LADEE--Lunar Atmospheric and Dust Environment Explorer--will launch from Virginia's Eastern Shore Friday around 11:30 p.m., and much of the eastern seaboard will be able to see it. Minotaur V, a...
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Want another laugh at the expense of Brooklyn hipsters? Created by Cass Chin, the website generates fake but remotely believable names of Brooklyn-based companies. Looking for environmentally conscious, farm-to-table mustache wax? Got that. How about...
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Love is in the air. Chris Christie seems to have reconciled with the Daily News after a blow-up over the paper's New York Jets coverage last week. The dispute sprang from the co-hosting bit Christie did on August 26, when the governor called the Dail...
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By the Daily News's counting, Hennis's death marked the 16th time in the last three months that a child under 15 years old was shot. At least three of those victims were three years old or younger. The stories are painful to read about and difficult ...
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On the Republican side of the mayoral candidate field, this weekend's news coverage really belonged to John Catsimatidis, billionaire, owner of a rather horrid grocery store chain, and incredibly weird guy. While you were busy grilling things this we...
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Afro Jack performing at Electric Zoo in 2011
Before the end of the second day of Electric Zoo two were dead after using MDMA, four others were hospitalized, a 16-year-old girl had been sexually assaulted, and 31 festival-goers had been arrested fo...
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The whole thing began innocently enough. Politicians use their Twitters to troll each other all the time. Challenger Pierson started banging on the war drum by accusing incumbent Levin of corruption. According to Pierson, Levin, a city councilmember ...
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The West Indian Day Parade in Crown Heights yesterday was turned all the way up to 11, and the candidates for mayor took the chance to grandstand for possibly the last time before the primary in a little over a week. While Christine Quinn and Bill Th...
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It's hard and tedious, the day-to-day rightblogger work of promoting impeachment, stirring racial enmity, scrambling for a position that can encompass both a desire to bomb Syria and a desire to thwart Obama, and so on.
Their traditional relief va...
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The New York Post took took to Twitter yesterday with a campaign to replace Gus the Polar Bear, who died earlier this week at 27, with another polar bear. To replace the famed "bipolar bear," apparently nothing less than another large land predator w...
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Five-Ohs can roll deep.
At 8 a.m. on October 12, Yocasta Reyes heard loud knocking on the front door of her Morris Heights apartment. Six police officers were there to arrest her. She spent the next 15 hours locked up in holding cells, waiting to ...
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Striking fast food workers in Union Square yesterday.
A summer of protests over fast food workers' impossibly low wages reached its boiling point yesterday, when employees in New York and 49 other cities walked off the job in a one-day strike. In...
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