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LIPA: Hurricane Followed By PR Shitstorm As Military Could Soon Take The Reigns

For the Long Island Power Authority, if the rains, wind, and flooding of Hurricane Sandy didn't get you, the public relations shitstorm it left in its wake will. And it has, as outraged customers -- and even elected officials -- are fuming about how long it's taken the utility company to restore pow ... More >>

Charles Schumer Proposes No-Ride List for Trains

​It's been a busy couple days in train news, what with the PATH and Second Avenue subway tunnel breaches, plus that mishap on the PATH that injured 30. There's also a new call from Senator Charles Schumer to increase rail security, which comes after reports that Osama Bin Laden may have been p ... More >>

New York Serial Killer Update: Tenth Body Discovered on Long Island Beach

​A day of searching the Long Island coast near Jones Beach has turned up not just one, but two additional bodies, both thought to be victims of the New York serial killer who has been tied to four bodies already, all Craigslist prostitutes, with another six found nearby. Newsday reports that t ... More >>

FOIL'd Again: Why Doesn't the NYPD Want You to Know Anything?

It was hard to feign much surprise last month when the New York Times slapped New York's finest with a lawsuit, accusing the department of habitually withholding information and flouting government transparency laws. In fact, as any reporter would certainly know, one of the city's toughest agencies ... More >>

The World's Most Expensive Bowl of Noodles; Food Trucks Hired to Cater Holiday Parties

​Apparently, the role of the cheesemonger involves more than sales -- it's also about calming our fears over the ickiness of cheese. [Wall Street Journal] Niu Ba Ba in Taipei serves the world's most expensive bowl of noodles for the equivalent of $324. It's made with beef from four countries ... More >>

The Black Nile: An American Pilgrim Pulls a Huck Finn Through the Heart of Darkness

​As a young reporter for the old New York Newsday, Dan Morrison was one of those who smoldered under a double yoke. Stories were crammed into tight tabloid inches. And even at that liberal daily, he had to hold much of his fire about what he saw and thought during the often comic-book reign of ... More >>

BlogBeat: Gothamist Sells Out to Cablevision, James Dolan Presumably Excited to Ruin Another News Outlet

​Gothamist -- the New York City metro news blog and subsequent locally-based "Ist" properties -- long a punchline among bloggers who poked at its overly excitable tones about the varying news minutiae it covered, finally gave themselves something to giggle over: a long-rumored multi-million do ... More >>

Crime Beat: Roundup -- Thug Who Slugged 101-Year-Old Woman Gets 75 Years; Cat-Roaster Cops Plea. And On and On.

Rose Morat• Thug robber who slugged 101-year-old Rose Morat, terrorized other old women gets 75 years in the slammer. Judge: "A man doesn't throw a left hook and a right hook into the face of a 101-year-old woman." (Post) • Teen cat-roaster in the Bronx nonchalantly pleads to it, faces tw ... More >>

The Nation's Newspapers Slammed By Circulation Plunge

How New York City's Seven Newspapers Are (Nearly) Surviving

Print is undead—and NYC is the only city where you can still read all about it

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 repo ... More >>

Swimmer Feared Lost in Rockaway Waters

​Another swimmer in the Rockaways appears to have died. Heyward Patterson, also known as Winky, had a few drinks and took a dip with friends near 15th Street Beach in the early morning hours and vanished. He was on disability and living with his mother. The Coast Guard has been searching the w ... More >>

Brooklyn Dumpster Pools Publicized, Ruined

Earlier this month, Inhabitat pushed out the story of MacroSea's Gowanus dumpster pool parties. This weekend -- cannonball! New York Times, Daily News, Newsday, WPIX, et alia are suddenly all over it. These tales of MacroSea's reclamation of ordinary trash dumpsters into sanitary swimming tanks ... More >>

Statue of Liberty is Booked Up for the 4th; Enjoy Heartwarming Stories About It Instead

After announced previously, this 4th of July weekend America will reopen the crown of the Statue of Liberty to visitors. If you haven't reserved tickets already via the official website already (warning: there are others peddling tickets, either as scalpers or as scammers), forget it -- at this wri ... More >>

Small Fancy Foods & Big Spoiled Food

Spoiled food alert: The latest in food safety scares is JBS Swift Beef's expanded recall of 380,000 pounds of meat products potentially contaminated with E. coli. Some 24 illnesses in multiple states prompted the investigation in the products. [Newsday] Oh, no they didn't! The Nestle plant at the c ... More >>

Somebody Got Murdered: Rule 1, Don't Mess Around with Guns

View Larger Map DATE: Saturday, June 13, 10:28 p.m. LOCATION: 7511 15th Ave., Brooklyn A Long Island teenager is dead after a gun went off and struck him in the head while his friends were playing with the firearm at a party in Brooklyn. Phillip Levy, 17, of Wantagh, is dead, and his friend, 33-y ... More >>

New York Times Snags WaPo's Powell

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Paper-Trained? No.

Post and Daily News get serious only in their petty war with each other

Missing Ink

Newsday Shakeup Could Signal Power Shift

Network Problems. Please Stand By.

Kerry gets poked in the eye during the thrashing of CBS

Passionate Conservatism

Karl Rove's Republicans swerve right on the way to the middle

A Torturous Test for Bush's Judge Picks

High-Stakes Tests

Left behind due to the school system's failures, third-graders learn they're dumb

The Puppet Chancellor

Joel Klein claimed that the axed 'social promotion' dissenters resigned. This was a lie.

The Purple Prose of Tyros

Oy, oy, oy: How to write a bestseller with sex and extra cheese

Pressure Drop Newsday Foreign Editor Sparks Culture War

It's Deregulation, Stupid

What the GOP Won’t Say About the Blackout

Letters

Get Your Hood On

War Reporting Is Risky Business

Rage Before Race

How Feminists Faltered on the Central Park Jogger Case

Crime Pays

The Gospel According to John Gotti

Did the Mayor Make More 'Racist' School Remarks?

Dance Without Me

Supreme Court Redeemed

A Jolt of Justice for All Voters

Is the Supreme Court Disgraced?

A Judicial Coup d'État?

'Newsday' Inches Back Into NYC

They'll Take Queens

Giuliani Owes NYPD an Apology

A Cop: ‘People Are Tired of Being Harassed’

Inspecting Ourselves

Media Critics’ New New Thing

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Sports

Pataki May End Your Life Early

A Grave Threat to Our Hospitals

Sweetheart Deal, Bitter Wounds

The L.A. Times's Eccentric Ex-Publisher Appears in a Bold Cameo

Here come the machine's judges

Dirty Work

Newsday's Dumbest Editorial

The 'Honor' of Working at the White House Requires Total Loyalty

The Case Against Hate-Crime Laws

Federalizing Hate Crimes Will Increase Double Jeopardy

Pataki Uncovered

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