Brooklyn Exercise Trends Have Officially Jumped the Shark
Brooklyn is changing the meaning of Pilates and yoga, one man and role-player at a time. Red Hook Pilates, which opened last month, is now providing the heavily female-dominated fitness craze a men’s...
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Does This Apartment Make Me Look Fat? As More Luxury Condos Partner With...
Shoes! Delivered to your house! Following in the footsteps of the Mark and Extell's Carlton House, which kicked off their partnerships with Bergdorf Goodman and Barneys last year, Elad has announced...
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Super Brow Sunday: Forget the Football for a Free Manicure
Get a manicure to match your buffalo chicken evening. Is it too good to be true? Completely Bare Browlab understands that the biggest game of the year isn't for everyone. Instead of enduring the Super...
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Welcome Back Bratton: Ladies Who Lunch Re-Greet Police Commissioner’s Wife
Police Commissioner William Bratton and Rikki Klieman Bratton. (Getty Images) Le Cirque, always a great place for socialite watching, was buzzing this afternoon, as New York's finest ladies turned out...
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Verizon Adds Service to 35 More Subway Stations, Eradicating Casual...
Shut up already. They took our trash cans, but at least we'll have cell phone service. After far too many years of underground dead zones and mundane subway rides, Verizon Wireless has added...
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A Compendium of Great McDonald’s Writing
The golden arches. (Photo via Getty Images) It was a good thing for the community of Flushing, Queens, when, last week, a resolution was brokered between the owner of a local McDonald's and a group of...
View ArticleCity Council’s New Transportation Chair Wants More Citi Bikes and Ferries
Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, the new chair of the council’s transportation committee, is hoping to bring more Citi Bikes and ferries to the five boroughs. But first he wants to override a mayoral veto....
View ArticleWhat a Racially Diverse Mean Girls Would Have Looked Like (Video)
Professional pretty person/ex-Kanye girlfriend Amber Rose decided to reenact not-even our favorite scene from Mean Girls ("Danny DeVito I love your work!" or anything with Lizzy Caplan, obviously,) for...
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Sentimental Education: Powerful Performances From Andy Garcia and Vera...
Vera Farmiga and Andy Garcia in At Middleton. This satisfying debut feature by Adam Rodgers, who co-wrote the smart screenplay with Glenn German, is not exactly flawless, but entertaining dialogue and...
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Half Past Dead: The Wait Is Cinematic Purgatory
The Wait indisputably falls into the category of Valium torpor. The Wait is 96 minutes of surrealistic gibberish about … well, absolutely nothing. At least nothing discernible by the naked eye or...
View ArticleNew Council Begins Work by Overturning Bloomberg Vetoes
In three unanimous votes, the City Council committees on Health, Safety and Transportation began their terms by moving to overturn vetoes from former Mayor Bloomberg. The committees, which met for the...
View ArticleWunWun App Will Now Deliver Anything You Want to Williamsburg and DUMBO
The delivery service that’s inspired outer borough jealousy since it launched is now available to Brooklynites. WunWun delivers everything from toothbrushes to bookshelves for free, free I tell ya. It...
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Crossing the Rubicon: Warburg Buys Out Boutique UWS Firm Rubicon Property
Frederick Peters, president of Warburg Realty. With three offices and 125 agents, Warburg Realty is hardly the sort of megafirm accustomed to snapping up other brokerages. In fact, up until today, when...
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Social Justice Advocates Reap Karmic Rewards with $7.17 M. Acquisition of...
Tired of those same old Walker Tower yet? Just when we were starting to think that every Walker Tower unit might be claimed by a movie star, music mogul or finance titan cloaked in a bland-sounding...
View ArticleCouncilman Levin Moves to Regulate Youth Football
Brooklyn Councilman Steve Levin, taken aback by the Esquire Network’s new Friday Night Tykes documentary series chronicling the intensity of youth football, is backing legislation to regulate the sport...
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Toboggan Is a Touchdown: NYers are Loving Super Bowl Boulevard (Video)
Super Bowl toboggan. (Sage Lazzaro/Observer Media) Super Bowl Boulevard opened today, drawing hordes of bundled-up New Yorkers and football fans to the closed-off, 13-block stretch of Broadway between...
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Fish Importer Pleads Guilty to Illegal Piranha Dealing
Piranhas can be dangerous. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images) Federal prosecutors have this criminal fish importer in their jaws. The importer, Joel Rakower, pleaded guilty today in Brooklyn’s federal...
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In Which Jerry Seinfeld and Tina Fey Drive Around Looking for Product...
Tina Fey and Jerry Seinfeld in cars, getting coffee. (YouTube) "How is a raven like a writing desk?" The Mad Hatter asked Alice. While the answer always perplexed me--"The higher you go, the less there...
View ArticleDe Blasio Heralds Stop-and-Frisk Lawsuit Decision in Brownsville
Standing in a Brownsville, Brooklyn recreation center, Mayor Bill de Blasio repudiated much of his predecessor’s public safety legacy this afternoon. With a host of elected officials looking on, the...
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