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We Are the 1%: Lower Manhattan’s Luxury Condos and Upscale Retail May Only...
Are rising retail and residential rents pushing the inequality gap? Gleaming new skyscrapers. Swarms of young pedestrians. Cutting edge tech and creative office tenants. High-end retail. Sprouting...
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Identity Thieves Scammed Me and Experian: What Happens After Your Identity Is...
(Illustrations by Ariel Schrag) On Wednesday, Nov. 6, of last year, I, Raphael Kohan, walked into a Walmart in Secaucus, N.J., just beyond the Lincoln Tunnel from Midtown Manhattan. What happened...
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Upfront Season Picks Up Steam: Let the Games Begin With IFC and Fred Armisen!
Scott Aukerman and Reggie Watts bring back Comedy Bang! Bang! on the IFC upfronts. There is a magical time every year called the upfronts. No one can say exactly what part of the year it is, though …...
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New York Sees Modest Surge In Federal Funding for Affordable Housing, But...
Though faced with anemic budgets, the HPD continues to build affordable housing, like this development in the Bronx. Last summer, the Federal Sequestration sapped sorely-needed funds from Section 8...
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New York Finally Gets the 24/7 Cupcake ATM We Deserve
Just don’t try to cash your paycheck here. (PHOTO: Sprinkles Cupcakes/Facebook) Imagine: It’s 2:00am. You’re sad and depressed. Maybe you just got dumped. Maybe you had a tough day at work. Maybe you...
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Today Was a Good Day
A nice day (though not today). (Photo via Wikimedia Commons) Today was a good day. It was the first day of spring, and the eastern phoebe, a little brown songbird known as a harbinger of all things...
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Brace Yourself: 100,000 Tubes of Free Toothpaste to Flood New York
This could be you. Forever. (PHOTO: Melody Broyles/Flickr) Thanks to Hello Products, you’ll soon be able to brush your teeth 500 times per day! Representatives from the New Jersey-based company will be...
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Morning Media Mix
(Illustration by Lauren Payne) Get ready to pay a dollar more for People magazine. And then get ready to pay for other magazines, too. (New York Post) Speaking of Time, Inc. cost saving measures, the...
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Explorers Club Sues Johnnie Walker for Eponymous Line
(Johnnie Walker) Keep walking. Johnnie Walker had to drown its sorrows on Friday, when it got slapped with a lawsuit for a special “Explorers Club” line launched in late 2012. The plaintiffs in the...
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Cannonball! Wealthy Riders Hoarding All the LIRR Express Tickets
Goin’ off the rails on a wealthy train. (Youtube) If you aren’t a millionaire and you think it will be easy to secure a first-class seat on the Long Island Rail Road, think again, foolish plebeian....
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BuzzFeed Isn’t Selling Your Data From All Those Quizzes
You know all those BuzzFeed quizzes you reluctantly take because you just can’t resist the allure of talking about yourself on social media? Well, in what should come as a surprise to nobody, it turns...
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Recap: The Real ‘OMG’ Moment on ‘Scandal’
Who killed Laura Palmer/David/James?? (Oh, Jake.) (ABC) For all our lighthearted jabs at Scandal with employment guides and mock debates, there are still episodes, like this week’s “Kiss Kiss Bang...
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New York May Become First State to Incentivize Diversity in Writers’ Rooms
The staff of Late Night With Seth Meyers It’s hard being a not-white guy in a writers’ room. Most shows, especially those of a certain famous variety/late-night kind, have struggled with employing just...
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Dominique Ansel Furthers His Quest to Monopolize the Cronut
Do not defy the Cronut. Yeah sorry Kimye, but you are not the #worldsmosttalkedaboutcouple. In our world, it is doughnut and croissant. Dominique Ansel’s Cronut has spread from the Big Apple all the...
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Gramercy Park’s Rose Bar Debuts Sexy New Waitress Uniforms
A dress that might make you buy the waitress a drink. (Photo courtesy of Rose Bar) Make an effort before you step into the fire-lit, art-lined Rose Bar this spring. Chances are the waitresses are...
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Public Radio Drops ‘This American Life’; Ira Glass to Continue Being...
Ira Glass will not abandon you. (Showtime) Now that Public Radio International says that they’re dropping their distribution of America’s most hipster-beloved show, This American Life, it’s normal to...
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Al Qaeda Magazine Urges Attack on Times Square
One of America’s most crowded places 24/7 The NYPD is on alert after the Al Qaeda-affiliated online magazine “Inspire” published an article urging readers to set off car bombs, with Times Square as a...
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Sultanas and Salads
Naomi Campbell at the UN Women for Peace Second Annual March in March To End Violence Against Women(Photo: Owen Hoffmann/Patrick McMullan) “The role of first wives should be more official, if they want...
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Serenade at CMS
It doesn’t get better than an evening of Brahms in Manhattan, and that’s what patrons of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center enjoyed (Allegro non troppo from the Piano Quintet in F minor, to...
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To Do Sunday: Communal Supper at Chelsea Market
The James Beard Foundation hosts its annual Sunday Supper, a sit-down communal meal featuring Erik Battes of Morimoto, Sarabeth Levine of Sarabeth’s and 14 other chefs raising money for J.B.F. and...
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