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Pat Kiernan Likes Peter Pan’s Apple Doughnuts
Pat Kiernan (photo: Patrick McMullan) NY1's Pat Kiernan and his family moved to Williamsburg from the Upper West Side last year, where they bought a brownstone on Bedford Street. And now, like many a...
View ArticleDe Blasio Brandishes Boro Park Roots in Bid to Win Orthodox Jewish Votes
It’s good to be back home, or at least in your former City Council district. Bill de Blasio took his mayoral campaign down a busy business strip in the heart of Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community...
View ArticleCouncilman Proposes Cigarette-Style Warnings on Independent PAC Ads
City Councilman Brad Lander is looking to rein in exploding expenditures from super PAC-like groups with proposed new legislation that would slap cigarette-style warnings on their mailings, among other...
View ArticleBloomberg Deputy Goes After Bill de Blasio on NY1
Just in case it wasn’t already clear from the barbs on his Twitter feed, Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson is not a fan of Bill de Blasio’s vision for the city. During an appearance tonight on NY1, the man...
View ArticleLhota Says Catsimatidis Ads ‘Piss Me Off’
Tell us how you really feel, Joe Lhota. The former MTA chair joined his fellow Republican candidates at a mostly-genial mayoral forum tonight, where they lobbed bombs at common enemies like their...
View ArticleFormer Journalist Decides Teaching Dogs How to Use iPads Is More Stable Work
A couple of weeks ago, in the doldrums of August, the Wall Street Journal revealed that there are people (Manhattanites, obviously) who are actually willing to pay money for their dogs to learn to use...
View ArticleThe Real Story Behind ‘These Links From Our Partners’
A few years ago, I got an unusual request from Google. The search giant was working on an experimental program that encouraged retailers to feature links to products from other retailers on their...
View ArticleMayoral Candidates Release Competing Celebrity Videos
With just two weeks before voters head to the polls, two Democratic mayoral candidates are increasingly relying on celebrity surrogates to make their cases. This morning, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio...
View ArticleNordstrom Pays $102.5 M. for Midtown Flagship
Seattle-based luxury retailer Nordstrom has reportedly paid $102.5 million for the site of its future Midtown flagship store at 225 West 57th Street. The seven floor store will anchor a massive...
View ArticleOur Very Own Catfish: How a Creepy Stranger Co-opted an Observer Photo to...
On August 20, the Observer received an unsettling email from a grandmother in small town California named Cheryl Nagle. She asserted that a mysterious man on Facebook was infiltrating her community’s...
View Article‘She Wants to Throw Stones?’: Bill de Blasio Plays Defense as Rivals Charge
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, the surprising new front-runner in the topsy-turvy mayor’s race, is now getting a taste of his own medicine. After spending months slamming City Council Speaker...
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Alec Baldwin Gets Into Another Fight With Paparazzi
Alec Baldwin and Hilaria Thomas (photo: Patrick McMullan) Alec Baldwin has gotten into another physical altercation with a photographer trying to snap his picture, reports TMZ. But this time, at least,...
View ArticleSlideshow: Mayoral Candidates Display Questionable Stickball Skills
The Yankees won’t be calling these pols for a tryout any time soon. A squad of the city’s top candidates for office, including several mayoral hopefuls, took their awkward cuts at a stickball...
View ArticleEliot Spitzer’s Campaign Makes Justin Bieber an Issue
The increasingly negative race to become the next city comptroller now features pie charts referencing a certain Canadian pop sensation. Ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s campaign spokesman Hari Sevugan, who has...
View ArticleHasidic Power Broker Promises Bill Thompson 11,000 Votes
He claimed he was the 11,000-vote man. A power broker in the Hasidic Jewish community boasted today that his endorsement would deliver more than 10,000 votes to his chosen candidate, former comptroller...
View ArticleEmployees of Multi-Million Dollar Startup Can’t Stop Walking Into Glass Doors
Like a majestic bald eagle soaring through a church service, the employees of the San Francisco branch of the A.C. Moore Fan Club, also known as Brit + Co., simply can’t stop running into glass doors....
View ArticleCourt Rules You Can Be Held Liable If You Text a Friend While They’re Driving...
Back in 2009, teenager Kyle Best drove his car into a couple on a motorcycle, injuring the man and woman so badly that they each lost a leg. Mr. Best had been texting at the time. “I thank God that...
View Article#Fromentum Momentum Meets Social Media Backlash
Fro no! Mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio’s campaign has been bolstered by the very prominent role of his biracial family including, most notably, his 15-year-old son, Dante. But some feel that Mr. de...
View ArticleSurgeons Finally Devise Cure for Chronic Bitchface
South Korea, the leading capital for unnecessary surgeries performed on already beautiful young women, has developed yet another technique to fix a problem you never knew you had. The Atlantic reports...
View ArticleMayoral Candidates React to Latest NYPD Surveillance Report
Following new revelations about the NYPD’s surveillance of Muslim New Yorkers–including allegations that entire mosques were deemed terrorist organizations–the reaction in some quarters of city...
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