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Ah Ha! Moment: Armstrong Confesses to Oprah

Two people had a discussion last night that has been a long time coming. A question was asked and with an answer in the affirmative, their entire relationship changed. Though the description sounds like a delightful marriage proposal, this was actually a television interview. "Yes." With one word ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Tapes Reported Mea Culpa with Celebrity Confessor Oprah Winfrey, But It May Not Be Enough

The final act in the Shakespearean drama of cycling great Lance Armstrong is about to begin, with the airing this week of his admission to who else but Oprah Winfrey--the celebrity confessor--that he indeed took performance enhancing drugs during his professional career. This is news only in that ... More >>

Lance Armstrong Resigns From Foundation, Loses Nike and Michelob Endorsements in Doping Scandal

Disgraced Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong resigned today as chairman from the cancer foundation he helped create, and learned that Nike had cut ties with him in the wake of a damning report about his use of banned performance enhancing drugs. Armstrong will remain on the board of the Livestr ... More >>

With OWS Support, Advocates Plan Rally to Protest Post Office Closures

In the age of who-uses-paper-for-anything-ever-anymore, there's one casualty in New York City that has activists from across the five boroughs up in arms: the post offices. This month, a group of advocates are rallying together to bring attention to the United States Postal Service's plan to poten ... More >>

Councilwoman Letitia James: Family of Elderly Woman Burned Alive Have Been Victimized Twice

During a recent press conference, the family of an elderly Prospect Heights woman burned to death by a man they said she once helped discussed their loved one's legacy and the financial challenges they have faced since arriving in NYC to plan her funeral. Accompanied by Councilwoman Letitia James ( ... More >>

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Prepare For Major Postal Service Cuts

​The United States Postal Service--that thing that puts L.L. Bean catalogs in your mailbox--is preparing to make massive cuts that will go into effect next spring. The changes will amount to around $3 billion worth of savings for the USPS and only mark the start of what is going to be a long c ... More >>

David R. Yale, Queens Man, Issues Pink Slip to Citigroup CEO

Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit, still unaware of his termination. ​We got an interesting e-mail this morning from a man in Bayside, Queens. David R. Yale, a 67-year-old consultant, is firing Vikram Pandit, the CEO of Citigroup. Yale mailed a pink slip to Pandit that notifies him of his terminati ... More >>

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David Horvitz Wants to Fill Sallie Mae's Mailbox With 100,000 Checks for 58 Cents

​David Horvitz is $58,412.10 in debt after getting an MFA from Bard College. A Brooklyn-based artist who's currently "not working," he has a grand plan that might also count as a crowd-sourced experimental art project, a project that he has recently released to the Internet: Help repay his stu ... More >>

9/11 Anniversary; Swedish Terror Arrests; Cliff Robertson Passes Away

​Commemorations of the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks are being held around the country to remember those lost a decade ago. At the site of the World Trade Center memorial--which opens to the general public tomorrow--President Barack Obama and President George W. Bush will spea ... More >>

United States Postal Service, Like United States, is Broke

It was either Cliff or Newman, and I chose Cliff. Deal with it.​The U.S. Postal Service reported a $3.1 billion quarterly loss on Friday and, at its current financial decline, won't be able to make the $5.5 billion payment for its retirement fund due next month. Politico reports that unless Co ... More >>

U.S. Postal Service May Cut More Than 30 NYC Post Offices to Save Money

​Today in things we don't really worry about until we order something from Amazon, the Post Office, which lost $8 billion last year, is considering closing 1 in 10 retail outlets and is studying 3,653 local offices, branches, and stations throughout the U.S., many of which could be replaced by ... More >>

U.S. Postal Service Tries to Stay Relevant by Increasing Social Media Presence

The 2012 Cherry Blossom Centennial Stamp​Yesterday, the dying government institution that is the United States Postal Service made one last attempt at staying relevant by offering sneak-peeks of new 2012 stamps over Facebook and Twitter. They will post a new stamp every weekday for some undete ... More >>

Anthony Weiner 'Replica Underwear' for Sale on EBay

​Clinging to the zeitgeist, an enterprising eBay salesperson known as "colbymercury," has taken to the online auction house to offer up a fine pair of Anthony Weiner Replica Underwear, starting bid, $0.99. (Buy them now for $499.99!) As for the description of the fairly average-looking gray bo ... More >>

Postal Service Rather Insensitive About Hipster Attachment to 11211 Zip Code

​As Joe pointed out last week, certain Williamsburg residents are now being informed by mail that they will be losing their 11211 zip code. This is a big deal, because even though almost no one actually gets mail anymore these days, except for horrible junk mail we don't want anyway, zip codes ... More >>

Williamsburg Hipsters Robbed of Prestigious 11211 Zip Code

​A letter from the U.S. Postal Service informed Williamsburg residents -- hipsters and real people alike -- that the zip code designating the Bedford Avenue gentrification haven will switch from 11211 to "the sadly less palindromic 11249," as one resident put it to Gothamist. The reasoning act ... More >>

Lance Armstrong and His Accusers: Processing the Unthinkable

Lance Armstrong, flanked by two guys accusing him of nothing. Yet.​During Lance Armstrong's recent comeback, the Voice kept a fairly close eye on him. Despite what some commenters seemed to believe, we actually have admired the man and his incredible cycling exploits. For years, of course, Ar ... More >>

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NY Times gets to Lance Armstrong/US Postal Service/Fraud Story 5 Years Late

​I was struck by something seeing today's New York Times story about how, if new allegations about Lance Armstrong being a doper while he was racing for sponsor U.S. Postal Service pan out, he's got more than a cycling license to worry about -- there are serious fraud repercussions that could ... More >>

New Yorkers Are Really Bad at the Census

Just do it. Like, now.​Who cares what time it is. Do you know where your census is? If you're like us, you have not the vaguest idea. You think you mailed it last week, but that whole week was a bit of a fog, and now it's so hot (like, record-breaking hot) that it's hard to make sense of any ... More >>

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Lance Armstrong Unleashed: A Brief Guide to the Tour de France

Tomorrow, Lance Armstrong begins cultural learnings of the Tour de France for make benefit glorious nation of Kazakhstan.The 7-time champion is making his return to the Tour as part of a rocky comeback that has included a broken collarbone, some flashes of brilliance, and steadily improving results. ... More >>

Mon Dieu! French Tourists Start New York Trip with Car Chase

It was, she said later, like something out of a film. Moments after Ester-Ethy Mamane landed at JFK yesterday, she and four other French tourists, including her 60-year-old mother, were guided into a waiting van that was supposed to shuttle them into town. The trouble started a few minutes later, as ... More >>

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New Stamps: Old TV, Liberal Activist Judge, Poe, Others

The Post Office has announced its commemorative stamps for 2009. Alaskan and Hawaiian statehood are honored, which should please Sarah Palin and Barack Obama, and four stamps depict stages in the career of Abraham Lincoln on the bicentennial of his birth. Literature is represented by Edgar Allen Poe ... More >>

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