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Lights Flicker Back To Life On the Lower East Side and East Village
Brightness falls (Ilja Cornelisz, instagram) The Lower East Side is celebrating as electricity flows back to the long-darkened streets. Who knew a working traffic signal could be such a wondrous,...
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A little over an hour ago, the lights surrounding City Hall came on. The Village and Lower East Side had already come back, and it was only a matter of time for us. The Observer ducked outside to see...
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A Sandy Silver Lining? Still No Murders After the Superstorm
Courtesy, Professionalism and Raincoats. (Getty) One of the few bright spots to Hurricane Sandy, besides a new found appreciation for a subway system we too often loathe, is that crime is down, and...
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Some Subways Now Go to Lower Manhattan
Click to enlarge or click here for the full .PDF At a press conference at the 69th Regiment Armory in Manhattan this morning, Governor Andrew Cuomo and MTA Chairman Joe Lhota announced most subway...
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War on Women or Year of the Woman? Across US, a Record Number of Female...
Elizabeth Warren: Leading the pack (Getty) After the last big “Year of the Woman” in American politics – 1992 – galvanized by Anita Thomas publicly accusing Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment, it...
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Broad Channel Crossing Must Be Rebuilt, Leaving Rockaways Without A-Train for...
The damage done. (MTA/Flickr) The Broad Channel A-train crossing is at right. (Bing Maps) The Rockaways have been one of the hardest hit areas of the city following Superstorm Sandy, with lives lost,...
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Subways Back to 84 Percent Monday Morning, But No L or G-Train Service Until...
The pump train, working it in the Cranberry Tunnel. (MTA/Flickr) Update, 9:12 p.m.: Service has been restored on the J-train into Manhattan, but service on the B/D/F/M line remains suspended because of...
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Photos From the Great Brooklyn Gas Chase
New Yorkers' search for gasoline continued today, with some motorists waiting on line for hours for as little as a gallon of petrol as filling stations grappled with supply shortages and power outages...
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MTA Chief Joe Lhota Wants to Look to Europe and Asia for Infrastructure...
What, me worry? Not if we build the right stuff. (MTA/Flickr) MTA chairman and CEO Joe Lhota has thrown his support behind Governor Andrew Cuomo's call for stronger infrastructure to protect New York...
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Extell Development Thanks Everybody for Cleaning Up Its One57 Crane Mess
Extell wants to say thank you. (Getty). Last week was a difficult week one for many businesses that call the city home. Among them Extell, whose 26,000-pound crane boom dangled perilously over West...
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Arianna Huffington Welcomes Baby Namesake
Arianna Huffington. (Photo via Twitter). Is there anything more flattering than finding out on Twitter that someone has named their newborn daughter after you? Ivan Kahn, the founder of a tutoring...
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Lloyd Blankfein, Big Real Estate, Diane Von Furstenberg, Vogue Among Major...
Don't forget all the blood donors. (Mayors Office) Mayor Bloomberg just announced that more than 10,000 people have donated more than $32 million to the Mayor's Fund for New York City to help with...
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Let the MT-Hate Resume: First Fare Hike Hearing Tonight in Brooklyn
Maybe we can raise the fares while nobody's looking? (MTA/Flickr) Even though it started with a shutdown of service, Hurricane Sandy has probably engendered more love for the MTA then the transit...
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The Greeks Are Throwing Fire Bombs Again Over Austerity Vote
The situation in Greece: With Parliament set to vote today on austerity measures that would raise $17 billion for the cash-strapped government, protestors lobbed Molotov cocktails at police, who...
View ArticleVia Airbnb, You Can Now Host New Yorkers Displaced By Sandy
Hurricane Sandy drove many New Yorkers out of their homes and, given the impending Nor’easter, at the worst possible time. Something like 20,000 to 40,000 people need somewhere to stay. Hoping to help...
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Yours for Just $1.9 M.! HSN CEO Mindy Grossman Sells Out of UES Co-op
This couple's beautiful apartment could be yours. Call now! (Patrick McMullen) When Lauren Muss and John Matteson saw the two-bedroom, 2.5-bath co-op for sale at 180 East 79th Street, they must have...
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Mold News: Sandy Leaves Toxic Trouble
Flooding at Gowanus Grove. No snorkeling, please. Not long after Hurricane Sandy had picked up a good part of the East River and dumped it on Greenpoint, Reuters photographer Gary He stood on the...
View ArticleElection Night Numbers
Did you watch the election coverage last night? Looks like a lot of people did--66.8 million, to be exact. An estimated 66.8 million people tuned in during prime time to watch the states become red or...
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To Do Thursday: Comedy For a Cause
Robin Williams (Getty Images) The New York Comedy Festival began last night with Ricky Gervais at Town Hall, but those who aren’t quite ready to laugh might be swayed by a good cause. We’ll be headed...
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Buildings Commissioner Robert LiMandri: ‘We Knew the Crane Wasn’t Going to Fall’
Secured. (Getty) Before Hurricane Sandy even reached the Five Boroughs, the city was thrown into chaos when its prevailing winds knocked over the boom of the crane hanging off the side of the...
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