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• Jump Onto the Tracks to Save a Stranger?

  January 3, 2007

• Coney Looking Good for One More Ride

  September 20, 2007

• Hed of the Day--So Far

  July 22, 2008

• Daily Flog: Wall Street's broken brokers go for broke; McCain's lie is buried by meltdown news

  September 15, 2008

• F.I.T. "Coke Queens" Our New Media-Resistant Heroes

  December 11, 2008

• Protect Ya Neck: Queens Trains Lose NYPD Patrol

  Inhabitants of the Q-boro should take extra precaution when riding the rails after January 5. According to the New York Post, the Queens Transit Task Force, responsible for protecting late-night trains, is shutting down. The MTA, having mismanaged its way into a budget crisis, has already announced plans to jack fares and cut service. And we doubt they'll be able to afford the $100 million it would take to keep the trains clean. We thought that if our commute had to be more difficult and expens

  December 29, 2008

• Same-Sex Couple to Trade Vows on Top of Empire State Building

  In September we told you about Brides.com's Valentine's Day competition, for which the Conde Nast magazine would pick 14 couples whose stories compelled them and arrange for them to be married or commitment-ceremonied at the top of the Empire State Building. This year's winners have been announced. There are some Empire State angles (one groom-to-be has the ESB tattooed on his arm), but the selection emphasis seems to be on diversity: there's an older couple, a fatter couple, an interracial coup

  January 19, 2009

• Post Helps Readers Find Bad Jobs

  "I'd be a fool to argue that jobs are plentiful these days," says Tory Johnson at the New York Post, but she does know 20 companies who are hiring. The jobs in the first several paragraphs -- offered by small tech-intense companies like etsy.com who have not yet run through their venture capital -- seem okay and you might be safe at them for months before investors pull the plug. At other companies the Post cites, the allegedly available jobs are in specialized positions like "project control s

  February 26, 2009

• Cop's Partner Turns, Says He Raped East Village Woman

  The New York Post says the one of the cops who took an East Village woman back to her apartment while she was stumbling drunk last December, then made a couple of suspicious return visits, has told investigators that his partner raped her. This contradicts Officer Franklin Mata's earlier claim that Officer Kenneth Moreno (pictured), a married 17-year NYPD veteran, had consensual sex with the woman, despite the extreme intoxication she exhibited in surveillance footage. The cops apparently covere

  March 4, 2009

• Are We in a Police State?

  April 11, 2000

• It's Deregulation, Stupid

  August 19, 2003

• 20 Questions

  January 6, 1998

• India Ink

  May 26, 1998

• Talk Supe

  January 23, 2001

• The Patriotism Enforcers

  January 1, 2002

• In School: The 'Success' of Failure

  February 5, 2002

• French Kiss

  March 11, 2003

• Torturegate

  May 4, 2004

• City to Sell Naming Rights to 7 Sorta-Landmarks

  Strapped for cash, the city turns to its traditional wellsprings of vitality. No, not the grit and determination of its people -- rich people who want their names on things. The New York Post has a preliminary list of seven city sites for which naming rights will be offered for sale. Thankfully, nothing too iconic is on the list, though fans of the sport might be disturbed that the Central Park Tennis Center will not, as would have been done in olden times, be named after an inspiring local tenn

  June 1, 2009

• Quick Hits

  Medical headline of the day: "Diet is Important Indicator of Health." Gorbachev and the Rockin' Russians versus Zombie Stalins. Or maybe you'd prefer to hear a solo on a drum kit made out of ice. The 15 Stupidest Puns from the New York Post's Front Page. New York magazine is creeped out that the people who had sex at Plato's Retreat have since aged. Hey, kids -- it'll happen to you.

  March 27, 2009

• "Coke Queens" Resurface, Charge Seduction by Cops

  We have missed the "F.I.T. Coke Queens" Mickenzie Dippenworth and Christine Scafa, and are pleased to see them in the New York Post today, crying no fair on their December bust for dealing because the undercovers "seduced" them. "They complimented the women's cleavage," the Post soberly reports; "they boasted of their penis size." The gendarmes were allegedly very insistent about paying for the coke the dazzled Fashion Institute of Technology students offered them for free, at least at first. In

  March 30, 2009

• PD Roundup: Nut Kill, Suicide, Coverup, Cameras Cleared

  Lots of cops in the news today. Yesterday officers tried rubber bullets and tasers on knife-wielding, deranged Mauricio Jacques yesterday, and when that did not dissuade him from his stated mission to kill his wife and children, the cops shot him dead. Also this weekend, a cop shot at his cop wife and her alleged cop boyfriend before shooting his cop self; though the survivors deny romantic involvement, the dead cop's sister showed the New York Post a voucher indicating that the man was taking

  April 13, 2009

• Teen Pirate Makes Splashy Debut in New York

  The sole surviving Somali pirate, Abduhl Wali-i-Musi, came into New York last night in preparation for his federal trail on hostage-taking and piracy charges. Photos show the teenage pirate to be near-skeletal, but smiling nonetheless, perhaps because even American prison represents a significant improvement in his quality of life. The New York Post writers are fascinated by his smile ("JOLLY ROGER"), probably because the conservative paper strives to portray criminals as coddled whenever possib

  April 21, 2009

• Times Saves Globe, Murdoch Mulls Charging for Online Papers

  The New York Times' financial troubles have been widely reported, especially by the fun-loving guys and gals at the New York Post, who avail a "Pinch-o-Meter" to track the degree of woefulness suffered by the paper and its publisher. But the Times had a rare piece of decent news today: they got concessions from unions at the Boston Globe, one of their holdings, and will be able to keep that paper going a while. And there is some, well, interesting news at the Post, too: they're thinking about ch

  May 6, 2009

• 2nd Flyover Narrowly Averted by Quick-Thinking FAA, Mayor

  Another socialist White House flyover! This time involving some of Obama's fellow-traitor Navy flyers! Also, this one never happened: It was cancelled at the last minute by the FAA , which probably thinks everyone's had enough agita for one term, and had the presence of mind to ask the Mayor's opinion, which was negative. Nonetheless the New York Post is Outraged! "AGAIN?" screamed their headline. "MILITARY WANTED TO FLY ANOTHER PLANE OVER THE CITY... the military tried to take another pointle

  May 11, 2009

• Luxury Hotel Planned for Ground Zero

  Good Grief! Stymied in its plans to glut the World Trade Center site with more office space, the Port Authority is now planning to build a luxury hotel overlooking the site, the New York Post reports today. Yes, you too can soak up the lingering grief emanating from the place once known as Ground Zero, and gawk at the milling tourists from the comfort of your hotel room, which will be equipped with a flat screen television, his and hers bathrobes and a mini-bar with which to drown your sorrow

  May 13, 2009

• MTA Wants Payouts Banned to Riders Who Get Themselves Hurt

  The New York Post says "the chronically cash-strapped MTA has become a money train for riders filing personal-injury lawsuits." Personal injury claims against the Authority rose to $57.6 million last year. The Post focuses on cases like that of Dustin Dibble who, while "blotto," fell on the tracks, got hit by a train, and reaped $2.3 million. And the MTA's lawyer says there is a "small, but not insignificant" number of people who try to get hit by trains, presumably hoping to live out their whee

  May 26, 2009

• Prisoner Tape Offered as Evidence Against Rockefeller Drug Law Reform

  The Staten Island District Attorney's office posts, and the New York Post and Staten Island Advance circulate, a tape of a prison inmate bragging that when he gets out, thanks to the misguided repeal of the Rockefeller Drug Laws, he will return to a life of crime. "Now that I know that I'm never gonna face no real time?" he asks rhetorically, "I'm gonna do what I gotta do to wipe my ass." He details his criminal record, which he believes will render him eligible for a drug treatment program in l

  June 8, 2009

• LaGuardia Geese Will Be Gassed, Shot, and Falconed in New Safety Program

  Congratulations to the New York Post, which has received action on one of its crusades, an early call to get the LaGuardia Canadian geese that brought down Flight 1549. The cause was taken up by state senators including Hiram Monserrate, and the Post kept up the pressure till it bore fruit: now the city will send avicide squads to 40 parks near the Queens airport to "to trap and gas as many as 2,000 Canada geese over the next few weeks." A thorough AP report tells us that even the Audubon Soci

  June 12, 2009

• Oh Thank God: "Alleged Photos" of Sanford Lover (Update: Alleged Photo Allegedly Not Her!)

  We need something to get our minds off Michael Jackson and onto the scandals of the living. So thanks to Bitten and Bound for posting what it says are "alleged photos" of Maria Belen Shapur, the alleged lover of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford. And The Swamp has an alleged photo of the alleged lover as an alleged Argentine news correspondent in 2001, allegedly. Neither looks much like the image reproduced by our favorite source, the New York Post, yesterday, so we're withholding judgment -

  June 26, 2009

• Michael Jackson Autopsy Secrets!

  "Needle marks, scars, pills--and an almost bald head" blares the New York Post's headline today. It's no surprise that Jackson--who spent much of his adult life whittling away at his identity--ended up as a barely recognizable skeleton filled with puncture wounds and mutilation signs. With no weight, hair, or pigment, and nothing in his tummy except the remains of some pills, the self-proclaimed King of Pop had popped all right--he was like a deflated plastic doll, leaving nothing behind but an

  June 29, 2009

• Post Busts Ground Zero Hardhats for Drinking, Gets Two Fired

  What's the point of being on a construction crew if you can't have a liquid lunch? A few days back the New York Post watched as "three workers threw back eight drinks each" -- beers and shots -- "in less than an hour" during their midday break at Biddy Early's Pub & Restaurant on Murray Street which, the paper noted with outrage, is "two blocks from the sacred soil of Ground Zero." Hardhats expressed to the paper a cheerfully fatalistic attitude -- "We don't have to worry until someone severs a

  June 30, 2009

• OMG Are You Ready For the Michael Jackson Memorial?

  The Staples Center mayhem -- allegedly featuring the remains of the deceased -- is just hours away! The New York Post does some fine journalistic double-dipping, proclaiming "JACKO GHOULS EYE PROFITS OF DOOM" while announcing you can watch the memorial on their web site! Charles Foster Kane would be proud. We do not doubt their report that lucky recipients of lottery-drawn tickets to the affair (one winner's email is partially shown above; see the rest of it here) are selling them online for u

  July 7, 2009

• Tony Awards Committee Drops Critics from Voter Rolls

  The Tony Management Committee has stopped letting critics vote on the Tony Awards for achievements in Broadway theater, on the grounds that the reviewers have a conflict of interest -- as opposed to actual theater artists and producers who, we guess, monkishly abstain from allowing personal relationships to affect their choices. Even in the Times article that reports this, you can feel the objections straining to get out, and critics and arts reporters have denounced the decision. "We are, in

  July 17, 2009

• New York Post Revives Ancient Slur About Cops, Doughnuts

  The New York Post exclusive about one NYPD Sergeant Eric Turetsky, who allegedly sought and received confectionery largesse from a Dunkin' Donuts in the Rockaways, filching free donuts and coffee and the occasional sandwich, allows the paper to reproduce a picture of Chief Wiggum and use lines like "cram his face full of crullers." (As it happens, the accused was one of the whistle-blowers in the Abner Louima case back in 1997.) The story reenforces an ancient slur against police officers, as d

  July 20, 2009

• City Has Fined Workers, Sites $1.8 Million for Smoking on the Job

  ​We knew the city didn't like construction workers drinking on the job. They apparently don't like the workers smoking, either. In less than a year the Department of Buildings has doled out 932 violations and $1.8 million in fines, says the New York Post, some for smoking, some for failure to post signs telling them not to smoke. The Deutsche Bank fire, which was caused by a carelessly discarded cigar, has made them more sensitive about it...

  August 3, 2009

• Somebody Got Murdered: Chelsea Man Stabbed, Elderly Dad Questioned

  View Larger Map DATE: Monday, Aug. 3, 2009 at approximately 10:58 p.m. LOCATION: 426 West 27 Street, Manhattan. The police say a man, 50, was stabbed once in the chest Monday inside 426 West 27th St. He was declared dead 40 minutes later at St. Vincent's Hospital. The New York Post reports that cops are questioning the victim's wife and his father-in-law in connection with the murder. The Post says news video shows the father-in-law, wearing a blood-stained shirt, being walked into a precin

  August 4, 2009

• Vote for Our Stupid Headline in a HuffPoll

  ​HuffPo wants to know who penned the best headline for yesterday's subway masturbation story and we're proudly in the running. "When one of the top stories is a subway flasher, it's practically a field day for the local media. Here's a quick rub- er, rundown of the wit that is New York headlines -- VOTE for your favorite!" the online giant grins. Readers are being asked to pick between three heds: the New York Post's, "Lazy Cop Is A Jerk," 1010 WINS' "Woman Jerked Around By Cop?" and of

  August 13, 2009

• Old Subway Nudity Story Has Promotional Purpose

  ​If you were wondering why the New York Post waited till now to tell us about a naked photo shoot on the L train in June, it may be they learned that the Associated Press had the story too and didn't want to get out-tabloided. We welcome nearly all public nudity stories, of course, but the long delay somewhat cools our enthusiasm, as does the little tiny picture. You can see a bigger one at photographer Zach Hyman's site, and surprise! He has a show featuring at least one subway flash open

  August 20, 2009

• Few Save Surfers, David Blaine Brave Beaches During Hurricane Bill

  ​The closing of most local beaches on account of Hurricane Bill was mostly respected, but there are always a few brave/foolhardy souls who wish to trifle with the enraged god of the sea. At the open Orchard Beach in The Bronx this weekend, the Times found a few visitors. None of them were reported to go into the ocean, but surfing was implied. A 71-year-old was washed onto the rocks off Coney Island and rescued by police. At Montauk, Newsday estimates 2,000 surfers defied closings for a

  August 24, 2009

• Tony Avella Denounces Standard Hotel High Line Peep Show

  ​The New York Post continues to celebrate the nude performances regularly taking place in Standard Hotel windows overlooking the High Line. Today's article quotes a "friendly bellhop" at the hotel, who says, "We don't discourage it" -- that is, the peep shows -- "In actual fact, we encourage it," though Post reporters found that management does encourage guests to keep their curtains drawn from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. -- to ensure their privacy from window-washers. Christine Quinn makes some noi

  August 26, 2009

• Andrew Giuliani Growing Up, Wins First Golf Tournament as Pro

  It seems like only yesterday that he was a little boy, embarrassing his father during his first mayoral inauguration speech. And it was only yesterday, almost, that he embarrassed himself, getting thrown off the Duke golf team for being a pain in the ass and having his suit against them settled in a fanciful legal opinion. But little Andrew Giuliani, son of Rudolph, is advancing, and has won his first pro-am golf tournament, taking the 94th Met Open Thursday at Ridgewood Country Club by a singl

  August 28, 2009

• Somebody Got Murdered: Teen Shot and Killed in Brooklyn Public Housing Development

  View Larger Map DATE: Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009 at approximately 0434 hours LOCATION: In front of 2189 Pitkin Avenue, Brooklyn. The police say 18-year-old Taquan Crandall of Bridge Street in Brooklyn was shot and killed on Pitkin Avenue early Sunday. Crandell had been shot in the chest at the Fiorentino Houses, a public housing development. He was taken to Brookdale Hospital where he was declared dead. Crandall, the New York Post says, had a prior arrest record. If you know anything about this c

  September 8, 2009

• Major Mackerel Will Think Twice About Serenading the Neighbors Next Time

  ​Some former reggae stars are too charming for their own good. Major Mackerel's moment may have gone the way of Sluggy's, but he's still out in East Flatbush, singing the wrong songs in the direction of the wrong women, reports the New York Post:

  October 5, 2009

• New York City Wine & Food Fest Wrap-Up; Restaurant Workers Like to Light Up

  ​At TimesTalks, moderated by Frank Bruni on Friday, Anthony Bourdain talked about obesity: "If you're 5'8" and 400 pounds, that's not a lifestyle choice; that's a social problem," and Rachael Ray: "[She] sent me a fruit basket, and I'm just not talking shit about her anymore." [NY Post] Bourdain also spoke alongside David Chang at a talk called "I Call Bullshit!" The pair called bullshit on Gourmet folding, while Every Day with Rachael Ray thrives, pork belly, and Guy Fieri. Bourdain call

  October 12, 2009

• FDA Questions How Smart 'Smart Choices' Is; Matchboxes Make a Comeback

  ​Salman Rushdie is, allegedly, still obsessed with ex-wife, Padma Lakshmi, according to his ex-girlfriend, actress Pia Glenn. She said he could talk about the Top Chef host "day and night." [NY Post] Mill Basin Kosher Deli is celebrating its 36th year in business with discounts through the end of the month. One of the few kosher delicatessens left in Brooklyn, it's making a big deal about 36 because, in Judaism, multiples of 18 are good luck. [NY Daily News] The FDA has announced it will

  October 21, 2009

• The Nation's Newspapers Slammed By Circulation Plunge

  October 27, 2009

• "Monkeys in Mourning" Photo Lifts Our Spirits

  ​The New York Post tells us this lovely Monica Szczupide photo shows "more than a dozen grief-stricken chimpanzees joined in an extraordinary expression of mourning as an elder in their family was laid to rest at a West African animal sanctuary." Yes, very touching, circle of life and all that; but then we wondered: What's with the fencing? Then it occurred to us that the looks on the chimps' faces may not be expressive of mourning, and that the humans might be trying to keep them away fro

  October 28, 2009

• Competition: This Is Why You're Fat Today; Weight-loss Heavyweights Battle it Out

  ​Weight Watchers is taking its competitor, Curves, to court in response to an ad campaign the company is running on cable that denigrates Weight Watchers and claims that Curves' 30-day diet plan is "clinically proven" to work. [NY Post] Relief workers from the U.N. are sending food vouchers to refugees via text, for the first time ever. The four-month pilot program launched last week in Syria and aims to feed refugees from Iraq. If it works, texted food vouchers could be distributed to o

  October 29, 2009

• Clip Job: This Protesting Vietnam Thing Is Getting Serious

  ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 30, 1965, Vol. XI, No. 11 Four Indicted for Burning Draft Cards Four young draft-card burners were indicted last week for violating a Federal statute that makes it illegal to mutilate a draft card. They face a maximum of five years in jail and $10,000 in fines. They were not arrested, but were asked to appear in court on January 4. The draft cards were burned in protest against United States military action in Vietnam at

  November 6, 2009