Alleged Silk Road Creator ‘Dread Pirate Roberts’ Indicted on Hacking, Money...
The alleged creator and owner of now-defunct online drug emporium the Silk Road, Russ Ulbricht, has been indicted by a Manhattan federal court. Known by his cool guy nickname Dread Pirate Roberts, Mr....
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The Other Wilpon: Mets Scion Scoops Tribeca Loft for $4.04 M.
Clara Samuelsson and Scott Wilpon (Patrick McMullan) With the exception of that wee little Madoff affair—which cost his family a few hundred-million dollars—fate has been kind to Scott Wilpon. Nephew...
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Local News Anchor Survives Near Miss With Speeding Car On Air (Video)
Kristin Thorne, about to be hit by a car. (WABC)When you think of TV newspeople, you probably think of glamour and gravitas: Your Peter Jennings, your Edward R. Murrows, your tipsy aunt Kathy Lee. What...
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‘What’s the Literary Equivalent of Katy Perry?’ And Other Questions Pondered...
Teddy Wayne and Jesse Eisenberg at The PowerHouse Arena. At the Powerhouse Arena in Brooklyn Thursday night, during a party for the paperback release of Teddy Wayne’s The Love Song of Jonny Valentine,...
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Twinsies! Prospect Park Zoo Debuts Too-Cute Marmosets
New wildlife comes to BK. (Photo by Julie Larsen Maher) Mama's got a new pair of … marmosets? The Prospect Park Zoo unveiled the fluffy twin marmosets that were born this past November. The pair's...
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Meat Slog: Hugue Dufour Plays the Very, Very Long Game at the New M. Wells...
M. Wells Steakhouse: Calling out the bullshit excesses of the genre My name is Hugue Dufour. First name “huge” but with a hard “G,” like “big deal.” I am a chef from Montreal, where the streets are...
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Gawker Throws Party To Celebrate Robyn Doolittle’s Crazy Town
New York is looking less crazy all the time. We had a mayoral candidate who sexted? Twice? Toronto’s mayor smokes crack and is still in office. Mayor Bill de Blasio eats pizza with a knife and fork? So...
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Borowitz Lite: A Twitter King Scales Back His Online Presence
Andy Borowitz. (Photo via Getty Images) Before heading uptown to a book party at Andy Borowitz’s spacious West End apartment last night, I checked his Twitter feed to see if he’d said anything...
View ArticleSaparn Exec Arraigned, Suspected in Theft from Dozens of Other Buildings
Saparn Realty‘s Alan Gorelick was arraigned today on felony charges of grand larceny (one count) and criminal possession of a forged instrument (nine counts) today in Manhattan Supreme Court in...
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10 Phrases You Are Going to Hear at New York Fashion Week
Remember thou art mortal. Your ears look pretty! At least, I hope they do, because they're going to be bombarded by these 10 phrases from fashionistas at every single show you go to for the rest of the...
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Mercer me! Hotelier Richard Born Drops $18 M. on Absurdly Fancy Spread at...
Does your Fifth Avenue floor-through look like this? Richard Born has made a career out of providing other people with places to lay their heads—from the budget-conscious bunks of the Pod Hotel to the...
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Chuck Shumer Freaks Out Over Russia Depriving U.S. Olympians of Chobani Yogurt
You'll be having none of that, America. Add Greek yogurt to the list of things Russia hates. As if American Olympic athletes and NBC reporters don't already have enough to worry about with all the...
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Snow Way! Winter Storm Leads to Salty Shortage
The mush is here to stay. New York is starting to remind us a lot of “that” relative we never wanted to stay with as a kid. First there is the un-entertaining games, then it took forever to leave, and...
View ArticleIs Winter Storm Disrupting Real Estate Business in NYC? [Updated]
It has been just brutal outside, a mess of snow, sleet, rain, ice and slush, requiring acrobatic skills to jump from snow mound to snow mound. While surfaces are icy, subway service has been...
View ArticleGetting Our Feet Wet: New York’s Preeminent Sidewalk Slush Pics
Leaping, utilizing props, stopping to strategically navigate and just going for it were some of the techniques New Yorkers used to combat the knee deep slush following last night's snow storm. Here, we...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Publishes Style Guide, Teaches Us How To Spell ‘Vine-ing’
Somewhere in between publishing all those crazily addictive and horribly inaccurate quizzes (we are SO not the cheers beers emoji), BuzzFeed published a style guide. They’re hoping to standardize the...
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The Port Authority Might Make the Commute to Newark Airport Tolerable by 2024
Soon you'll be able to stay in one blue plastic seat all the way to Manhattan(Sean Marshall/Flickr) It is a pilgrimage every New Yorker inevitably makes. The well-heeled among us shell out $70 for a...
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A Piers Morgan Trans Primer: What the Janet Mock Incident Taught CNN About...
Janet Mock on CNN. It's been a big couple days for everyone's favorite Taran Killam impression, Piers Morgan. On Tuesday night, the Brit had on trans advocate Janet Mock to discuss her new book,...
View ArticleBill de Blasio Names Wife Chair of the Mayor’s Fund, Gabrielle Fialkoff...
Mayor Bill de Blasio today formally clarified his wife’s role in his administration, confirming previous reports indicating she would likely chair the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City. He also...
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Welcome to the (Walter) White House: Bryan Cranston Goes All the Way…
Michael McKean as J. Edgar Hoover, Bryan Cranston as L.B.J. and Brandon Dirden as Martin Luther King, Jr., from left, in 'All the Way.' If you’ve been following Bryan Cranston’s small-screen adventures...
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