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Naked Green People Fighting The Spectra Gas Pipeline Construction In The West Village

Activists protesting the construction of a new natural gas pipeline into the heart of Manhattan stepped up their efforts to draw attention to the issue this weekend by getting naked, painting their bodies green, and dancing along the West Side Highway. The NJ-NY Expansion Project, known familiarly ... More >>

Lonely, I'm Not Deserves Your Company

Topher Grace and Olivia Thirlby star in Paul Weitz's comedy at Second Stage

Richard Breunich, JP Morgan Executive, Has Carte Blanche At NYPD Headquarters

A top executive at the investment bank JP Morgan Chase has special access to police headquarters, the Voice has learned. The mystery is why. Most of us regular folks have to go through a ridiculous security screening process just to get into 1 Police Plaza (a public building, by the way), including ... More >>

Facebook and Twitter Have Rotted Our Brains!

And I don't mind as long as you click on my link, genius

Surprise, Surprise: New York Becomes Even Less Affordable

Manhattan living has become more overpriced than before, even though there are more open apartments than in January 2011, a new study has found. Citi Habitats, one of the town's largest real estate firms, says that rents have gone up 5 percent compared to last year. "While rents often decrease dur ... More >>

100 Most Powerless New Yorkers

A 'power list' for the rest of us

Bank Robberies Have Almost Doubled in the Last Year in New York City

​While the general message from the Bloomberg administration has been that crime is down, that people are healthier, that everything is groovy, the New York Times City Room blog reports on a crime increase in one area: Bank robberies in New York City nearly doubled from 2010, when there were 2 ... More >>

Cash In Now, Honey: The 11 Best Uses Of Music In Commercials This Year

We are adidas' friends. You'll never be shoeless again. ​Right now in a record store (probably in Seattle or maybe in Austin), two people are flipping through used vinyl and talking about music. Inevitably, one of them will turn to the other, pick up a record and accuse that musician or band o ... More >>

What the 1% Say: Grading Bankers' Aloofness

​After entrenching themselves in Zuccotti Park for weeks, the Occupy Wall Street protesters have finally grabbed the attention they originally sought. What started as a largely ignored sideshow is now a global phenomenon, and the demonstrators' voices are being heard from Wall Street to The Ha ... More >>

CIA Connection in Libya?; Tropical Storm Lee to Hit Gulf Coast; Government Sues Banks

​Documents tying the CIA to the Qaddafi-led Libyan government were found in an abandoned office in Tripoli, the New York Times reports. The findings, which have not been verified for authenticity, allude to the practice of the American intelligence agency handing over terror suspects to the Li ... More >>

Fox News' Brazen Sugarcoating of News Corp's Hacking Scandal

They've outdone themselves! I mean, damn. The obviousness of it. The comparison of the News Corp hacking scandal to the hacking incidents at the Pentagon and Citibank boggles the mind, since the Pentagon and Citibank were the victims of hacking, while News of the World was the perpetrator. Not t ... More >>

Ailey II Step On In With Shards and Common

Four pieces from the company's junior crew

Camera Kind to Harlem Bank Robbery Suspect

Harlem bank robbery suspect​Cops have released a couple of damned good photos of a guy who they suspect of sticking up a couple of Harlem banks last week. On March 8, someone held up a Citibank branch at 2481 Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard. He took the money and ran. The next day, someone -- police ... More >>

Vitaly Borker, Thuggish Russia-Born Brooklynite, Stars in Sunday's New York Times

Michael Falco for The New York Times​This weekend's best story comes courtesy of the New York Times, whose Sunday business section features the jaw-dropping story of Vitaly Borker, a resident of Sheepshead Bay, and his online eyeglass store DecorMyEyes. What makes Borker special is his blatant ... More >>

Debrahlee Lorenzana Now Also Too Hot For JPMorgan Chase

Debrahlee told to shut up!​Claiming she's tarnishing the financial industry's reputation, ex-Citibanker Debrahlee Lorenzana's current employer, JPMorgan Chase, now threatens to fire her for speaking to the press, the Voice learned today. Debrahlee Lorenzana is the sexy former Citibanker whose ... More >>

Debbie Does New York: TV Stations Make a Frantic Run on Sexy Ex-Bank Employee Lorenzana

Photograph by Carrie SchechterIs Debbie Lorenzana too hot to work at Citibank? That's yet to be decided, as our story on her discrimination lawsuit pointed out. Is she hot enough to work the TV circuit? Oh, yes.

This Week, in the Voice: Is This Woman Too Hot to Be a Banker?

​Debrahlee Lorenzana was a banker at a Citibank branch in Midtown Manhattan. As you'll see from our cover, she's an attractive woman. But too attractive to keep her job? Elizabeth Dwoskin asks as much in this week's Village Voice cover story, Is This Woman Too Hot to Be a Banker?

No Fat Finger in Last Week's Market Crash, Says the Wall Street Journal

​The Wall Street Journal debunks the "fat-fingered trader" theory of last week's precipitous 1,000-point market crash and recovery that occurred in the span of some 15 minutes. Darn. Because we really liked the schadenfreude associated with a mysterious ham-fisted Citigroup trader punching "b" ... More >>

Dow Plunges 1,000 Points in 15 Minutes, Possibly Due to Typo

D'oh!​If you've been anywhere near the news you know the Dow just went batshit crazy, falling 1,000 points in about 15 minutes. Early speculation was that the plunge was due to investors freaking out about Greece's debt problems, which have the potential to hinder global economic recovery. B ... More >>

Anna Sokolow and Luciana Achugar: Two definitions of Intensity, Generations Apart

Morning Billfold: Junk Bond Apocalypse Terror, Lehman's Snitches, Hedge Fund Rockstars

​Lehman Brothers weren't so happy about their whistleblowers. The "rock stars" of hedge funds aren't exactly proverbial Guitar Heroes. A 2.2 billion euro bonus went out to the "risk takers" of Deutsche Bank. CBS' March Madness ad money? Buzzer-beater quality stuff. And the new economic doomsda ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg's Girlfriend Diana Taylor Said (By Bored Press) to Consider Senate Run

​We thought the age of celebrity candidates ended with Jesse Ventura. Then, with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Then, with Al Franken. Then, with Caroline Kennedy, Mort Zuckerman, Larry Kudlow... Oh, who are we kidding, it never ends. Now we hear "multiple sources confirm" that Mike Bloomberg's girlf ... More >>

West Park Presbyterian Gets Landmarked -- and Locks Bums Out of Its Doorways

​After the 121-year-old West Park Presbyterian Church was landmarked this week, the New York Post complained in an editorial -- not only because the designation seems to preclude a real estate deal that would have replaced a church chapel with a condo, which could have financed needed renovat ... More >>

Weekend student vaccination centers open

​As part of Mayor Bloomberg's H1N1 flu plan for NYC, the Board of Health has opened vaccination centers this weekend in all five boroughs for middle school and high school students. Elementary school students above four years of age are also eligible for the free shots. Fifty private compani ... More >>

Rangel Under Investigation by House Subcommittee for Caribbean Trips

The House of Representatives is investigating five Democratic members for accepting "improper" travel arrangements, and our own Charlie Rangel made the cut. The Carib News Foundation sponsors an annual Multinational Business Conference on Caribbean affairs, and is said to have flown the lawmakers in ... More >>

Friday's Headlines: Piven Won't Be Punished for Fishy Story

HARKAVY is now blogging at The Smart AssetYour Friday New York headlines...Fishy outcome: Actors' union buys Jeremy Piven's sob story, won't penalize him for ditching play over 'mercury poisoning.'U.S. to buy up to 40 percent stake in Citigroup, just keeping it private, in desperate move to keep it ... More >>

Nissan crashes; hedge funds lick chops; incoming Israel govt. may take 'harder line'

Harkavy Plans are moving apace to purposely set up a "toxic bank" full of poisonous assets to further bail out those banks that had greedily and recklessly accumulated them. Call it Shitibank. And give it the naming rights to the new baseball stadium for the New York Mets, taking the moniker awa ... More >>

Dying GM Drops Yankee Deal, Sticks with Mets

Daily Flog: For the recession, some remedial English lessons

State secret: Is it Secretary's Day for Hillary?

Signs of the Great Depression

GROOVE TO THIS

Taye Diggs's latest explores the election season

Daily Flog: Terror and prayers in Denver, dead fish at a NY nuke, rent becomes a nationwide hit

Wednesday

Brian Brooks Moving Company: Worth Repeating

Everyday heroes in shining choreographic armor

TABLOIDED

I Lost It at the Guggenheim

New Yorkers Get Zip From New Mets Park

Google: The New Port Authority

A juggernaut gets ready to inject a big glob of silicon into New York City

'Real-life Mexicans not only don't care about those stereotypes, they embrace them'

Bob Kerrey's Buzz Cut

The Ambition Tax

Why America's young are being crushed by debt—and why no one seems to care

Poor Memorial

Insult to injury: Looking at the real problem behind the pseudo-solutions at ground zero

Nation

Riot Lit

From the Subprime to the Ridiculous

Mayoral Candidates Huff and Puff on Predatory Lending

Dotcom Hither

Silicon Alley Looks to Expand in Bloods' Long Island City

Dam Shame

Activists Target Global Financiers of Chinese Eco Disaster

Passion Fish

In New York's Turbulent Harbors, the Striped Bass Are Biting Again

Pat Jumps

Third Party Lock & Load