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Ken Burns Brooklyn: Historian Buys in Prospect Heights for $2.75 M.
Ken and Julie Burns, with Uma Thurman, center. (Patrick McMullan) A Brooklyn boy by birth, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns made an apt breakthrough in 1981 with his Oscar-nominated adaptation of David...
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John Jeremiah Sullivan Responds to NYT Controversy Regarding Robert McCormick
John Jeremiah Sullivan’s New York Times Magazine cover story on blues singers Geeshie Wiley and L.V. Thomas, published in mid-April, has attracted a lot of attention for having used what some believe...
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The Associated Press Found Bushwick
Roberta’s, a restaurant in Bushwick that puts kale on pizza. It’s taken a while, but the Associated Press finally discovered Bushwick, a neighborhood in Brooklyn. Like Williamsburg, another...
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Mayor de Blasio Announces Contract Deal With Teachers Union
UFT President Michael Mulgrew. (Photo: Amanda Cohen) The city has struck a nine-year deal with the teacher’s union that will provide significant retroactive pay raises and usher in new classroom...
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To Do This Week: Nudity Watch and a 40-Mile Bike Ride
Michael Stipe Photo: Mauricio Duenas /AFP/Getty Images) Wednesday, April 30 Relive your favorite HBO show, or watch it for the first time, at Game of Thrones Bingo, hosted by Williamsburg bar and...
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The Green Goblin Is a Williamsburg Trust Fund Baby
We saw this guy at Over the Eight last weekend. (Facebook) The Green Goblin has been battling Spider-Man since July of 1964, or as he would say, “before it was cool.” Which only makes sense, because...
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NYC Accidentally Put $298 Million in Retirees Bank Accounts
It was like christams (Getty). If you wake up one morning to find some extra cash in your back account, don’t run out ready to blow it all on Waffogatos. The City of New York accidentally deposited a...
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Whoopi Goldberg, Carmelo Anthony and Oscar de la Renta Are All About Their...
Sunny Ozell, Whoopi Goldberg and Patrick Stewart. (Photo: Clint Spaulding/PatrickMcMullan.com) The French call it joaillerie and bijoux. New Yorkers of a certain stratum fancy the term “baubles.”...
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Brooklyn Borough President Boasts Booze at Borough Hall Bash
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams today. Alcohol is usually prohibited in court rooms. But if Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams joins in the festivities, there’s nothing wrong with little...
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Bronx Zoo Reveals Newest Lion Litter in the Most 90′s Boy Band Pictures Possible
Debut album cover. (Image via Facebook) In the animal kingdom, it’s always the 90′s. As a lion litter of three males and their sister turns 1 this summer, the Bronx Zoo decided it was just about time...
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Candy Crushed: Chelsea Thief Steals iPhone From a Baby
More like CryPhone. You ever heard the expression, “Like stealing an iPhone from a baby?” Yeah, us either. But this guy did. A thief stole a woman’s $400 iPhone 5 right out of her baby carriage as she...
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A Challenger Emerges for Assemblyman David Weprin
An invitation for State Assembly candidate Ali Najmi’s fund-raiser. (Photo: Facebook) A local attorney and activist is set to challenge Assemblyman David Weprin. Ali Najmi, an attorney and Democratic...
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Sam Chang’s Whitehouse Hotel in Contract for $12 M.
Sam Chang is selling Bowery’s Whitehouse Hotel and Hostel of New York, at 338 Bowery, and it is contract for $12 million, sources familiar with the deal told Commercial Observer. It wasn’t immediately...
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Real Estate for the 99%
Sharmilla Ramcharitar got it on her ankle. Though it was her first tattoo, the real estate agent seemed confident in the decision. “I plan to be with the company for life,” Ramcharitar said in a...
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Fruit of the Loon: Naked Cowboy Tapped for National Campaign
No one is better suited for this job. (Image via Facebook) Forget David Beckham for H&M — the new name in underwear universe is… the Naked Cowboy. Clothing brand Fruit of the Loom is launching...
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ADD TV: How Second Screens Are Ruining Television
The wrong way to watch. (Apple) I have a confession to make: I don’t really watch much TV. I listen to it, with one eye on my computer screen so I can read Twitter reactions to Game of Thrones or House...
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To Do This Tuesday: A Bejeweled Evening
Sophie Lasry(Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Mercedes-Benz) Shop for a cause as Marina B ambassador Sophie Lasry hosts an evening at the Marina B Boutique on 57th Street in support of British...
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Charlie Rangel Fund-Raises Off Fox News ‘Republican Attacks’
Former Congressman Allen West criticized Congressman Charlie Rangel on On the Record w/Greta Van Susteren. (screengrab) Congressman Charlie Rangel, who is facing a serious challenge in this year’s...
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Buzz Kill: It’s Really Easy for Minors to Buy Alcohol in Brooklyn
Narc. If we were high school students trying to get our #rage on, we would be getting pretty mad at Andrew Cuomo by now. Recently, the governor announced the results of a $147,000 decoy operation...
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PPPA, Part 3: How do we make change? Buy a Congressman?
In Episode 1 of “The Pied Piper of Park Avenue,” seniors from the most prestigious private schools in Manhattan walk out of school, fill a convoy of their parents’ SUVs with $6,000 of food and deliver...
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