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Dead Body in East River Discovered By Louis C.K. (Video)

Louis C.K. on Late Show. One of the greatest indignities in the world, we imagine, is having your corpse used as the punchline in a bon mot for a celebrity on a late night show. But that didn't deter...

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City Council Overrides Mayor’s Veto of NYPD Reform Bills

The City Council has voted to override Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s veto of two controversial bills aimed at reining in the NYPD’s controversial use of stop-and-frisk. Despite aggressive attempts by Mr....

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The Daily Beast Adds Editor’s Note To Story About Prison Rape

The Daily Beast added an editor's note and changed some of the most offensive parts of a controversial story it published this afternoon titled "How Will Chelsea Manning Be Treated in Prison" after the...

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Eliot Spitzer and Scott Stringer Apparently Now Best Buds

Comptroller rivals Eliot Spitzer and Scott Stringer, who have been hurling insults and waging one of the nastiest battles of the election season, today claimed in a televised CBS debate that they’re...

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Mayoral Hopefuls Flaunt Their Russian Ties in Little Odessa

Uttering Russian phrases and offering paeans to Soviet military strength, the Democratic candidates for mayor battled for the affections of elderly Russians at a forum in Brooklyn earlier tonight. All...

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Morning Media Mix

(Illustration by Lauren Payne.) "Like MacArthur I shall return," New York Post editor in chief Col Allan compares himself to Gen. Douglas MacArthur in an email to Capital. Mr. Allan, kind of like...

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Get On Your Feet: 10 Reasons We’re Going to Miss Steve ‘Sweaty’ Ballmer

The sad news broke this morning that Steve Ballmer, the long-time CEO of Microsoft, will be retiring within the next 12 months. He did some stuff for Microsoft and then he did some other stuff but the...

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Time Warner Is Offering Free Antennae and Amazon Gift Cards to Make You...

One could say that Time Warner subscribers have been living ~under the dome~ since early August, when the cable provider cut off access to CBS. In an effort to justify that $150 monthly bill, Time...

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VMA Writer Tasked With Making Celebrities Funny Has Hardest Job Ever

The wit of starlets, teen idols and tabloid punching bags at the Video Music Awards is never left to chance. A small team of comedians and writers has been punching in to Barclay’s Center for the week...

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John Catsimatidis Hits Joe Lhota With Attack Ads

“$15 to cross a bridge? What was Joe Lhota thinking?” So asks an incredulous narrator in one of two new commercials launched by Republican mayoral hopeful John Catsimatidis. In a first, the ads take...

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Bill Thompson Rides the Dov Hikind Express Through Midwood

Assemblyman Dov Hikind wanted every last soul in Midwood to vote for Bill Thompson. The Brooklyn pol, a powerbroker in the Orthodox Jewish community, aggressively escorted the mayoral candidate Mr....

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Baghdad on the Hudson: Iraq Investor Buys Bruce Willis’s Old Trump Place Pad...

A bit more tranquil than the Tigris. For his day job, Sanjay Motwani is the president and portfolio manager at Sansar Capital Management, which is one of the largest private equity firms in Iraq....

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Times Public Editor Will Stay Mum on Maureen Dowd

Maureen Dowd (photo: Getty) Don't expect Margaret Sullivan, The New York Times' public editor, to join those calling for columnist Maureen Dowd to be axed over what they charge is a serial pattern of...

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Amid Anger Over Anti-Abortion Post, Buzzfeed Says It’s Still Figuring Out...

BuzzFeed came under fire today after the viral site ran a post slamming Planned Parenthood. "8 Outrageous Things Planned Parenthood Was Caught Doing," submitted by a community contributor, the...

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So Much for Modular: Rockaways’‘Superstorm-Resistant’ Bathrooms Can’t Even...

The bathrooms are already falling apart and it's not even Labor Day. Rockaway Beach's stylish metal bathrooms made an impressive debut when they opened at the beginning of this beach season, seven...

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Google Ideas: Buy a Painfully Pink West End Co-op

It may take the blood of a thousand virgins to exorcise this apartment of its interior decorating demons. Google Ideas director Jared Cohen once gave a speech titled, "Don't pursue ideas with obvious...

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Anthony Weiner Proclaims Himself a Pro-Women Candidate

Former Congressman Anthony Weiner, who has come under repeated fire from women’s groups and feminist leaders for his online sexting habits, is touting his credentials fighting for women’s rights. In a...

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To Kill an Anonymous Commenter: Huffington Post’s New System Cites Harper Lee

The extended metaphor.Last Friday, The Huffington Post announced that it would be doing away with its anonymous commenter accounts, a move that marks a recent trend in digital publishing outlets to...

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Should Subsidized Housing Residents Downsize to Accommodate Other Low-Income...

HPD is trying to move Section 8-voucher recipients into smaller units. A good New York City apartment is hard to find and even harder to replace. And so New Yorkers display an unbending will when it...

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Bill de Blasio Insists He’s Very Decisive

Bill de Blasio says he’s decisive, no matter what the The New York Times may say to the contrary. This morning, the paper of record ran a front-page story examining the mayoral candidate’s leadership...

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