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To Do Tuesday: That Time of Year
Scarlett Johansson (Getty Images) It’s been a big year! Can you believe that when it began, Jean Dujardin was still a famous person, while Lena Dunham wasn’t, quite? As the cast of The Artist, Carly...
View ArticleMurder Suspect and Bath Salts Enthusiast John McAfee Claims He’s Innocent
John McAfee, creator of the anti-virus software your parents run on their desktop computer, is wanted by Belizean police for the alleged murder of his neighbor, fellow American expat Gregory Faull. Now...
View ArticleOn the Market: Gowanus Flood Waters Full of Sewage, Not Toxic Waste; Occupy...
Will someone really pay $25 m. for a Park Slope mansion that needs work? [WSJ] Bellevue will be (mostly) closed until February. [DNAinfo] Red Hook's Added Value farm starts the process of rebuilding....
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Hurricane Sandy Does Little to Dissuade Buyers From Lower Manhattan
Will prices drop in Zone A? Buildings along the southern lip of Manhattan are still pumping water from their basements almost two weeks after Governor Andrew Cuomo led a chorus of voices warning that...
View ArticleRIP: Loosecubes Is Closing on Friday
Pour one out: Loosecubes is done. The company, which allowed freelancers and floaters to rent desks and offices, is closing up shop on Friday. After the end of the week, all reservations are cancelled...
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She Sells Infrastructure by the Sea Shore: Chris Quinn’s $20 B. Disaster Plan
Speaker Quinn weathers the storm. (NYSUT/Flickr) "Millions of New Yorkers have stories" from the hurricane, Council Speaker Christine Quinn declared this morning during a soaring, post-Sandy speech at...
View ArticleNo, ABC Denver, Paula Broadwell’s Book is Not Titled ‘All Up In My Snatch’
With a 24/7 news cycle, it’s downright impossible for reporters to avoid making mistakes. But–especially when lifting something from the internet–sometimes a little fact checking goes a long way. Read...
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The Death of a Crazy Dream: Magnificently Complicated Fifth Avenue Spread Is...
Was the sky, or the wedding-cake ceiling, the limit? Amassing and connecting a melange of co-op apartments scattered about a coal baron’s Fifth Avenue mansion was an outlandish dream, even for Howard...
View ArticleWinklevoss Twins Lead $750K Investment in Shopping Startup ‘Hukkster’
The latest to hop on the shopping startup bandwagon: Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss. DealBook reports that the twins just led a $750,000 investment in New York City-based Hukkster. The service allows...
View ArticleStrange Twitter First: Israel’s IDF Tweets Announcement of Military Operation...
In what is surely a weird moment for Twitter, bastion of cat-fights between tech bloggers and hashtag memes entirely devoted to stupid crap people do when they drink, Israel’s Defense Forces today...
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This Is What Happens When You Take New York Times’s Trend Stories Too Seriously
Surprisingly, not a trend story. (The Onion) Poor Justin Peters. The Slate scribe probably hadn't heard about The Times Is on It Twitter account when he signed up to do what most of us would consider...
View ArticleA Guide to When Chelsea Galleries Are Reopening After Sandy [Updated]
After being hit by flooding from Sandy, galleries are getting back on their feet. Below, a list of when affected galleries are planning to reopen, and the shows they will be presenting. We’ll...
View ArticleCity Marshal Richard McCoy Extends Citywide Suspension on Evictions
Some city landlords are fuming at an announcement from New York City Marshal Richard McCoy today that all evictions remain suspended through this week as a result of Hurricane Sandy, and that “no...
View ArticleGerman Scientists Discover Gene Directly Linked to Aging; Next Up, Immortality?
Perk up, Peter Thiel: if our brains aren’t transplanted into robot bodies some time soon, we can always bank on human immortality. Researchers at Kiel University in Germany believe they’ve discovered a...
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Famed Old Masters Dealer Otto Naumann Buys Brand New Apartment In Yorkville
The couple doesn't want for wall decorations. Art dealer Otto Naumann has spent decades staring at very old paint in his gallery on East 80th Street (he's the man to call if you're in the market for a...
View ArticleSilverstein Properties Re-Opens 120 Wall Street
Silverstein Properties reopened 120 Wall Street this morning for the first time since Hurricane Sandy flooded the 600,000-square-foot building’s basement and damaged electrical distribution equipment....
View ArticleObama Hasn’t Planned a Meeting With Mitt Yet
This afternoon, President Barack Obama held his first solo press conference with the White House press corps since June 8. One question that came up during the lengthy grilling was whether President...
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Big Apple Idolatry: Channing Tatum is Sexy?
Channing Tatum, People's Sexiest Man Alive - Wait, does giving Channing Tatum People's "Sexiest Man Alive" superlative mean that it's not going to Ryan Gosling? Again? If not, why not, and why Channing...
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Pedro Hernandez Charged With 2nd Degree Murder in Death of Etan Patz
Julie Patz, on the Today show, two years after her son Etan's disappearance. A New York grand jury has indicted Pedro Hernandez in connection with the 1979 death of Etan Patz. Mr. Hernandez, a...
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David Geffen Snaps Up Denise Rich’s Fifth Avenue Penthouse for $54 M.
Ms. Rich's grand piano in her grand salon. Apparently, Dreamworks co-founder David Geffen doesn't take the biblical commandment "thou shalt not covet they neighbor's house" very seriously. He's gone...
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