Multiple Pols Arrested at LaGuardia Labor Protest
Police arrested New York Congressman Charles Rangel and 29 others, including City Councilmen Richie Torres and Antonio Reynoso, at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day-themed labor protest at LaGuardia Airport...
View ArticleMayor de Blasio Defends Local NYPD Crackdown on Jaywalking
Mayor Bill de Blasio declined to weigh in today on the case of an 84-year-old pedestrian who was reportedly beaten by cops who had been trying to give him a ticket for jaywalking at an Upper West Side...
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Sounding Off: New Yorkers Can’t Stop Complaining About Noisy Neighbors
Times Square has been deemed one of the loudest spots in NYC with bustling tourists, honking cabs and blaring sirens. They're going to tattle on you! In the past year, New York's 311 hotline received...
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Where Do Rich and Famous New Yorkers Live?
Want to orchestrate a meet-cute with Leonardo DiCaprio? You might try haunting Greenwich Village, where the mega-star just moved. Better yet, finagle an apartment in his building at 66 East 11th Street...
View ArticleChirlane McCray’s City Hall Role Slowly Takes Shape
New York City’s new First Lady, Chirlane McCray, will not receive a salary for her work at City Hall, the mayor’s office said this evening. However, her new chief of staff, former Al Sharpton aide...
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Crash! UES BOND Office Victimized by Wayward Driver
Ouch. (BOND) Agents at the BOND real estate brokerage, which bills itself as New York's largest independently-owned shop, were likely a bit miffed about having to work on Martin Luther King Day. (Then...
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Pussy Riot Is Brooklyn Bound
Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, sitting in a glass-walled cage in a court in Moscow. (Photo by NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/GettyImages) Two members of the Russian rock band Pussy Riot will...
View ArticleBillionaire Bronfman’s Charity Moving Despite Pending ‘Sunset’
The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies has signed a 6,413-square-foot lease at 445 Park Avenue in a relocation from its previous offices just a couple of blocks away at 110 East 59th Street....
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Welcome to the Machine: Machinal Is a Haunting Portrait of Life for Women in...
Frank Langella in 'King Lear.' (Photo by Johan Persson) Ruth Snyder, whom Wikipedia pithily if reductively identifies as “an American murderess,” was electrocuted by the State of New York at Sing Sing...
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The Number 25: Hollywood Impresario Trades Former Esquire Editor Fifth Avenue...
Lee and Linda Eisenberg (Patrick McMullan) Filmmaker Joel Schumacher contributed in no small way to the Hollywood iconography of the 1980s and 90s, directing Brat Pack staples St. Elmo's Fire and The...
View ArticleTwice IS Nice: Groom-to-Be Proposes to Fiancé With Graffiti Mural A Day After...
Breaking tradition, one tag at a time. A groom-to-be surprised his fiancé with a personal graffiti tag, where he asked for her hand in marriage, a second time. Amber, who comes from a Yemeni American...
View ArticleRename the Tappan Zee for Mario Cuomo
As work begins in earnest to replace the Tappan Zee Bridge with a new and more-durable span, it’s time to think about what the new bridge will be called. For now, of course, it’s simply called the new...
View ArticleThey Still Like Mike
You wouldn’t know it based on the rhetoric in and around City Hall these days, but New Yorkers have fond memories of Michael Bloomberg’s 12 years as mayor. A recent Quinnipiac University poll showed...
View ArticleMake a Fracking Decision
Last May, Governor Andrew Cuomo promised that he would make a decision on whether to allow fracking in New York by the beginning of 2014. A quick check of the calendar suggests that the governor‘s...
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Anthony Weiner Bashes ‘No Class’ Broker for Press Leak
Anthony Weiner during his mayoral campaign. (Photo: Mario Tama) Displeased with a New York Post story that ran this morning about his hunt for a cheaper apartment, ex-mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner...
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285 Kent Is Dead, Long Live 285 Kent: A Brooklyn Music Venue’s Last Act
Grimes performing at 285 Kent. At 11:30pm on Saturday, Jan. 14, the large concrete box of 285 Kent was packed well over its 350-person capacity and movement was difficult. The throngs of sweaty...
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Let It Blow? Artificial Snow Machines Blanket Central Park Mid-Storm
There's plenty of the real stuff, thank you. Don’t we have enough of the real stuff to go around? Never enough, according to Winter Jam. The event, planned for this Saturday, transforms Central Park...
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Performance Anxiety: Tourists Scoff at ‘Chaotic’ City Snow Theatrics
We're really bad at snow. (Getty) It’s snowtime! Tourists to New York City were treated to a frost-tacular display as Mayor Bill de Blasio "botched" his second clean up. Those visitors who made it to...
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Slip-Sliding Away: A Gallery of 5th Avenue Ice Trips
There are few things as publicly humiliating as falling on your face in the middle of the street. There are also few things as funny as looking at pictures of such graceless individuals. Circle of...
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This Is What Vogue Thinks Girls Do In Greenpoint
Now that Lena Dunham is a Vogue cover model, Greenpoint is now even more on the map. Until fairly recently the secret neighborhood was discovered on a semi-regular basis by only a few hundred brave...
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