Great Neck

Developer Builds a Fence Through the Children's Magical Garden

Backed by police, a team of construction workers entered the Children's Magical Garden on the Lower East Side this morning, stepping over fresh plantings to erect a chain-link fence through the middle of the garden. The history of the Children's Magical Garden stretches back more than 30 years, to ... More >>

Oxycodone Epidemic: Feds, Locals Bust 100 for Dealing Prescription Pills, Including Two Doctors and a Nurse

The Feds and local authorities this week rounded up 98 people involved in the trafficking of prescription drugs like oxycodone, including two doctors and a nurse. Law enforcement officers executed dozens of search warrants, and sued a Brooklyn pharmacist to bar him from dispensing the highly addicti ... More >>

Hammer Officially Dropped On Prescription Drug Traffickers; Sweep Nets Nearly 100 Arrests -- Including Two Doctors

Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies dropped the hammer on the illegal prescription drug trafficking biz this morning in a sweep that netted nearly 100 arrests, including two doctors and one nurse practitioner.The most arrests occurred on Staten Island, where law enforcement officials s ... More >>

New York Post Prints Cartoon Of Muslims Complaining About Surveillance As Terrorists While Debate Rages On

As issues that arose following revelations of the NYPD's zealous surveillance of Muslims throughout the Northeast are still far from being resolved, the New York Post published a cartoon by Sean Delonas depicting those Muslims that see these actions as an invasion of privacy as bomb-making terrorist ... More >>

SAT Cheating Ring Brings Organized Nerd Crime Back to the American Consciousness

Sam Eshaghoff​Sam Eshaghoff, a 19-year-old student at Emory University, has been busted as the alleged kingpin in an SAT cheating ring after apparently taking the text for at least six students from Great Neck North High School in Mineola, Long Island, making between $1,500 and $2,500 a pop. W ... More >>

WTC 18th-Century Ship Discovery: A New York Media Personality Test

​New York media outlets are like high-schoolers in a crowded lunchroom -- a circle of nerds, a coterie of posers, cool kids, laid-back social floaters, and, of course, the junkies. Every so often, stories significant enough to report but light enough for playful interpretation truly reveal med ... More >>

Heat for Meat: Conservation Aside, Among Carnivores, Some Animals Are Less Edible Than Others

Could you eat this face?​ Last week, the food world went wabbit cwazy, as both the Times and the website Food Curated featured items on raising rabbit for food. The Times argued that this locavoric effort was the ultimate in shrinking and controlling the food chain, while Food Curated took a ... More >>

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SEC dumps chief 'enforcer' on Madoff scandal; Bernie reaches partial settlement with probers

From HedgeFund.net: The Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement chief is out as the agency faces anger over its handling of the Bernie Madoff alleged Ponzi scam. The SEC said Monday that Linda Thomsen, its director of enforcement, was leaving to return to the private sector. There have be ... More >>

Gary Ackerman's phony bluster: He and Congress pals deserve blame; his own district hard hit by Bernie Madoff

It's time to stop pinning the "news" tag on Gary Ackerman's angry outburst at the SEC yesterday for not stopping Bernie Madoff. Perhaps the most entertaining part of the House hearing, yes. But while the New York Democrat yelled at the SEC, whistleblower Harry Markopolos spoke more softly but cut d ... More >>

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Living the Political Life Fantastic

Surf, turf, and doughnuts: A state senator dines out on his campaign war chest

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Hellish Commute Part II: The MTA's Evening Update

Reader: Tom Ford's a Talentless Pimp

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Open House

Bhagavan Das, Chakra yoga, no meat, soy milk, and Jesse Friedman

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All in the Family

The Hissing of Summer Lawns

Complex Persecution

A Long Island Family's Nightmare Struggle With Porn, Pedophilia, and Public Hysteria

The Kid From Great Neck

Grown-Up Green Is Poised to Run ‘the City’

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They're Just Wild About Harry

Queens For A Day

Law & Disorder

EMERGENCY

The Democrats' bash

Virtually Fearless

Sit Back, Relax, and Enjoy the Therapy

Waking Andy Kaufman

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Give until it hurts

The boys can't help it

This Land Was Made For You and Me...

Ted Rosenthal's jazz-o-rama!

The ins and outs of college

Bare Facts

A Change Is Gonna Come

Ethnic Mysteries Revealed

Scrap Metal

Liberals On Loan

Lender that preys on poor fights the state­ with help from leading democrats

Foot Hawker

Tomorrowland

'Today we can't make up our minds how to live. We can't live in white spaces anymore even if we try. Our personalities are really showing through. There isn't one vision of how a house should be.'