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Eau de Eh? Smell Like Hudson Yards for 200 Bucks
This man knows how to sell perfume. Got a big date coming up? Naturally you want to smell like jackhammer debris and soldering iron residue. For a measly $200, you’re in luck. Perfumery Bond No. 9 has...
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Buy! Buy! Buy! Israeli High-Frequency Trading Kingpin Picks Up $30 M. Time...
How very ‘Wolf of Wall Street’. It is unlikely that Noam Stern Perry synchronized the purchase of his palatial new five-bedroom at 25 Columbus Circle with the release of Michael Lewis’ book Flash Boys,...
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Worker Falls Eight Stories to His Death at Dream Hotel
(Google Street View) A worker at the Midtown Dream New York Hotel fell eight stories to his death from scaffolding surrounding the building. Eyewitness say he landed on a sidewalk shed situated at the...
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Cold Lawsuit: Gateway Plaza Residents Are Suing Landlord for Arctic Temperatures
Frozen apartments. Brrrr, frostbite temperatures. Residents at the Gateway Plaza in Battery Park City filed a $100 million class-action lawsuit against the building’s landlords and...
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The Observer Redesign Bash Best Dressed List
Leigh Lezark Ms. Lezark What’s black and white and has everyone ogling it? The New York Observer’s new format. And Leigh Lezark’s thoroughly modern black-and-white Chanel dress. It’s from the...
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White House Sends Out Correction After Misspelling de Blasio’s Name
Mayor Bill de Blasio speaking to reporters outside the White House after a recent visit. The White House issued a second statement this evening praising Mayor Bill de Blasio’s pre-K push after...
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Pure Dopamine: A Conversation with Julie Klausner
For Molly Mulshine’s conversation with Julie Klausner, jump over to Betabeat.
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DA: Sour Court Stenographer Spent Years Typing Gibberish
The scale of justice tips towards boring courtroom jobs. How much do you hate your job? Enough to ruin the court transcript of a major mortgage fraud trail? No? Then you don’t hate your job as much as...
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‘Massive’ Attack: Gawker Goes After Whopping Word
Very bad words. (Wordle) In an attempt to hone Gawker’s editorial standards, Max Read, the site’s new editor, has sent out a memo banning “Internet slang.” “We want to sound like regular adult human...
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Bill de Blasio: ‘I Get to Learn About Worms, My Job Is Very Interesting’
Mayor Bill de Blasio at thee pre-K classroom earlier today. (Photo: Rob Bennett/NYC Mayor’s Office) Being mayor of New York City has its perks. Besides having a driver and running City Hall and all...
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The Great Micro-unit Debate Is Moot; Tiny Apartments Already Exist All Over...
New Yorkers already live small—Felice Cohen in her former apartment. (thetinylife.com) Martin Zelnik, a former member of the Rent Guidelines Board, recently weighed in on micro-units in Crain‘s,...
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Don’t Call Me A Socialite
Babe Paley (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) The sands beneath the New York social set are shifting. Charities are seeking more creative ways to raise cash than seated dinners, so there is more...
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Social Networks Don’t Have to Be Evil, Says Designer
Check out Jack Smith IV’s interview with Paul Budnitz at Betabeat.
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The MTA Really Doesn’t Like it When Employees Take Their Pants Off
One MTA employee didn’t get the message. (Photo: Facebook) Everything is more fun without pants. That’s why Improv Everywhere’s annual No Pants Subway Ride drew over 4,000 people this January. Because...
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Make Way for Luttways! House Flippers Drop (Latest) UWS Townhouse for $19.27 M.
Dana Luttway, left, with Lisa Mackessy. (Patrick McMullan) In 1996, when Dana Lowey, then a producer at The Geraldo Rivera Show, married David Luttway, a French investment banker, the pair gave no...
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Bill de Blasio to Mark 100 Days in Office With Major Speech
Mayor Bill de Blasio. (Photo: Rob Bennett/NYC Mayor’s Office) Mayor Bill de Blasio is planning what appears to be a major policy speech next week, according to an invitation obtained by the Observer....
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‘The Face’ Star Lydia Hearst Rings In Spring Style With the Observer
Editors, models and the generally fashionable gathered last night in a sales-office-turned-temporary-event-space to fête the Observer‘s new style section — and, of course, the first few days of being...
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Tough Girl: M.M.A. Champion Gina Carano Flexes Her Way Through ‘In the Blood’
Gina Carano and Amaury Nolasco in In the Blood. This two-fisted gut buster serves no other purpose than to act as a contrived vehicle for a female Arnold Schwarzenegger named Gina Carano, a real-life...
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Andrew Cuomo Releases ‘Top Ten’ List for David Letterman
David Letterman. (Photo: Getty) Gov. Andrew Cuomo will really miss David Letterman. After the Late Show host suddenly announced he would retire next year, Mr. Cuomo blasted out his own “Top Ten” list...
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Liberal Councilman Emerges as Gadfly for Mayor and Speaker
Councilman Rory Lancman. (Photo: William Alatriste/NYC Council) The City Council has always had its prickly, sharp-tongued and press-savvy independents. Among the roster of rogue lawmakers who have...
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