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Immigrant Groups, Alongside Bill de Blasio, Push Dream Act with Fellowship

​When Yelky Ramos, a 20-year-old undocumented immigrant from the Dominican Republic, was filling out college applications, her counselor told her that she would have a rough time getting the scholarships she needed. "My counselor said, 'There's a lot of great opportunities out there, but unfortu ... More >>

Salmonella in the City: Infections Are Down, Mayor Bloomberg Says

It's just one of those win-win-win kinda things. In 2010, the city began requiring restaurants in the city to post letter grades based on health inspections. That means that restaurants that score badly -- due to things like pest-conducive kitchens or inadequate hand-washing facilities -- have to ... More >>

City Council: Restaurants Don't Really Like The City's Grading System

A day after Mayor Mike Bloomberg held a press conference touting the successes of the city's letter grading system for restaurant health inspections, members of the City Council are saying that a majority of businesses don't actually like them. Bloomberg, alongside the city's health commissioner, ... More >>

Education Supplement: Bursting the Tuition Bubble

The soaring cost of college has multiple causes and no easy solution

To the Barricades, Variously

A new wave of student activism hits New York City

Conor Tomás Reed, CUNY Teacher and PhD Student, On Being Arrested for Protesting Tuition Hikes

City University of New York students will be protesting tuition hikes this afternoon, and all classes at Baruch's Newman Vertical Campus have been cancelled. It will be déjà vu for Conor Tomás Reed, a CUNY PhD student and a graduate teaching fellow at Baruch College. He was one of five people a ... More >>

CUNY Students and Unions Protest as Board of Trustees Passes Tuition Hike

CUNY students held a rally outside of Baruch College today as the board of trustees met to vote on proposed tuition hikes. The NYPD set up barricades and the school cancelled afternoon classes in anticipation of the protest, which attracted several hundred people including a large union contingent a ... More >>

Iron Curtain Gets Good Marx for Silliness

A new “musical Commie-dy” could make both Reds and Red-staters feel less blue

Rate My Professors Has Some Academics Up in Arms

But how meaningful are its numbers?

Ralph's Famous Italian Ices Opens Today

​Back in March, we noticed that Ralph's Famous Italian Ices was planning to open a shop at the corner of East 24th Street and Lexington Avenue.

Ralph's Famous Italian Ices Prepares to Open in Manhattan

Rebecca Marx​ At some point this spring, Ralph's Famous Italian Ices will be opening its first Manhattan location on East 24th Street and Lexington Avenue. The company, which was founded in 1928, has numerous locations throughout Long Island and Staten Island, and one in Queens. This one will ... More >>

Big Star's Third, Onstage in New York at Last

An all-star tribute to American power pop's finest, bleakest hour

Are Campuses Doing Double Duty as Drug Havens? Plus: Which NYC School Is the Druggiest?

​The New York Post is billing an "exclusive" this week about how Columbia University has systematically failed to report its drug-using student populace to police or prosecutors. The not-so-earth-shattering expose comes on the heels of last week's big frat house drug bust, which led to the ar ... More >>

Columbia's Drug Dealer Frat Boys: The Rundown

​You know that big drug ring bust at Columbia that everyone's talking about? Where those five frat boys got caught selling $11,000 worth of pot, cocaine, ecstasy, and Adderall to undercover cops? (Oops.) Well now that they've been arrested and arraigned (and one of them has even been bailed out!), ... More >>

The Problems with CUNY's New Sexual Assault Policy

CUNY makes a system-wide change, but anonymous reporting gets left out

Pusha T Presents: A Clipse Guide to New York City

Pusha T at the Highline Ballroom last year. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​The Clipse make coke rap cut straight out of Virginia. But Pharrell's favorite rapping brothers, Malice and Pusha T, have a discernible New York streak running through their rhymes. Which is no surprise given that they were b ... More >>

New Bloomberg Threat and This Time It's To Cuomo

There's something familiar about this third-term Mike Bloomberg...​On a panel last night discussing the city's new political landscape, Times columnist Clyde Haberman suggested to the crowd at the Baruch College School of Public Affairs that the signs so far from Mike Bloomberg are a little om ... More >>

CUNY Hopes Computer Simulation Can Help Profs ID Students at Risk

16 Angry Women Attempt to Protest the World's Biggest Douche. Or, The Anti-Tucker Max Story, "I Hope They Serve Subpoenas in Hell"

courtesy of Katrin Tucker Max is a douchebag. Just ask him. The infamous blogger, "author," and self-proclaimed "raging dickhead" -- the latter most often in the form of objectifying and degrading any woman he comes in contact with -- is also the recent subject of the autobiographical film I Hope T ... More >>

Primary Culler: Incumbents Stay Strong in Council Districts 2 and 3

​In City Council Districts 2 and 3, incumbents have much more of a lock than Alan Gerson does in District 1. In the former, first-termer Rosie Mendez built the right connections as a district leader, makes meetings, and has all the big endorsements. Her challenger Juan Pagan (pictured) is ass ... More >>

Will Success Spoil Early-College?

Rising Cuny enrollment means much-lauded campus high schools could get the boot

Brett Favre just the last bailout to fail New York City. Next star in East? Caroline Kennedy.

Well, just another bailout that didn't work. Brett Favre was supposed to save the New York Jets, which would have made the city's sports fans happy, though not as happy as those Wall Streeters in their stadium skyboxes. But in the middle of a boom — the Jets were 8-3 and seemed a cinch for th ... More >>

StarQuest Stern Rocks Term Limits Symposium

Bringing Sexy Back: An Open Call for 2009's EMP Pop Conference

Pragmatic and Defiant Supporters Greet Clinton in New York

Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and the Nomination: Yay Democracy!

Education Listings, Winter 2007/2008

The Starting Line

At Baruch, campus entrepreneurs scratch their itch to get businesses off the ground

Listings

Home Shopping Network

A hidden camera catches the underside of a Brooklyn pol's personal housing deal

Taxicab Concessions

High-tech, high-level wheeling and dealing makes all of us fare game

Fear of Heights

Skyscrapers, fronted by tantalizing promises, set to invade Williamsburg's interior

Bum Wrap

On the night of the city's homeless census, street people count

Cindy Sheehan: Not for President?

'Peace Mom' announces she won't challenge Senator Feinstein

Flashback: Cindy Sheehan for President

With ‘Peace Mom’ absent from Crawford arrests, protesters carry out civil-disobedience plans

Friendly Fencing From Speaker Seekers

Cindy Sheehan for President

Or Senate. The anti-war left seeks a challenger for Hillary Clinton

Dialing Hillary

Hurting at home, Freddy Ferrer turns to national stars for help

President of What?

Nine's a crowd in the race for Manhattan beep

The Labor Fixer

An aging but innovative racketeer who ran three powerful unions

Shopping Districts

Buttons, Diamonds, and Cannabis Soap

Pizza Orientation

The Best Slice Near Your School

Road Scholars

Continuing-Ed Students Have Chances to Study Abroad

The Real Cagers

West 4th: Where Players Test Their Mettle

Rookie Candidates in NYC to Be Schooled by Experienced Pols Like Koch

It's Not Too Late to Sign Up for Crash Course

The Bilbao Effect

Marquee Architects Draw Mixed Reviews on Campus

Letters

Listings

Wedded to Orthodoxy

The Future of Queer

Show People

Behind the Scenes With the Drama Queens