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Burn One Down: Smokers Triumph as Smoking Ban Goes Down At UWS Condo
Celebrate good times. (Photo via Getty) And when the smoke cleared at the Vaux building, at 372 Central Park West… well, it didn’t. After a protracted battle with the condo board, residents opposed to...
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Friday 13th Tattoo Tradition Hits Manhattan
Tattoo artist and owner of Fineline, Mehai Bakaty, inks a customer on Friday the 13th. (Meredith Carey) It’s a (un)lucky day to get a tattoo. Friday the 13th is here and with it the decades long...
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Jimmy Scott, Distinctive Jazz Vocalist, Dies at 88
Jimmy Scott, whose abnormally high voice and quavering intonation made him one of jazz’s most distinctive male vocalists, died yesterday in his Las Vegas home. He was 88. His death was confirmed by a...
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Phrosties Are Just Glorified Alcoholic Slurpees
@Phrosties, old Instagram account (Courtesy of @Phrosties-Instagram) It turns out Phrosties aren’t as bad as we all thought. The unregulated alcoholic drink, which debuted this past spring, quickly...
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‘Orphan Black’ 2×9: Community Cervix
Orphan Black (BBC)It’s all about power. Deep down, underneath everything. We all know that. And so many of our big TV shows love to remind us of it. Game of Thrones. House of Cards. Who has the power,...
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PETA Protests “Cruel Carriage Trade” with Mock Crime Scene
New Yorkers protest the treatment of carriage horses like Blondie (Photo: Ashley Byrne, PETA) In case you hadn’t heard enough about horses in the past few weeks… This morning, PETA protested outside...
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New York Archeologists Discover That Bitters Will Save Your Life
Drink cocktails, save the children (Chelsea Nesvig/ Flickr) Old New York does it bitter. Archeologists unearthed the remains of an Elixir of Long Life while excavating the construction site for a hotel...
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Tech Mogul’s Wife Accuses Hubby of Fraud
Starnette Swartz, 67, the soon-to-be ex-wife of Jerome Swartz, 75, the inventor of the bar-code scanner and self-checkout lanes, is suing her former flame for “massive fraud” because he excluded her...
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In Memoriam: Remembering Those We Lost in ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 4
So, a whole ton of people died this season on Game of Thrones. Which, as history has taught us, is sort of Game of Thrones‘ thing. But, like, a lot of people died this season. Fan favorites, villains,...
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The Trials of James Joyce: Kevin Birmingham’s Stately, Plump New Bio of...
The first edition of Ulysses was bound with a now-famous blue cover. Kevin Birmingham’s The Most Dangerous Book, about the obscenity trials and complicated publishing history surrounding James Joyce’s...
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Wife Tricked into Fake Marriage, Scammed out of Tribeca Apartment
Here come the lies. (Observer) Sometimes putting a ring on it just doesn’t cut it. Especially when there’s a $2 million Tribeca apartment on the line. When clothing designer Anya Ponorovskaya married...
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Rivera and Camara Put Up Immigration Bill They Admit Won’t Pass This Session
The immigration press conference in Battery Park City today. (Photo: Center for Popular Democratic/Flickr) Four days before the legislative session in Albany ends for the summer, Bronx State Senator...
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Keeping Up With ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians,’ Episode 10×2
What happened to the #WorldsMostTalkedAboutFamily this week? We endeavor to faithfully sum up what happened on this week’s episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians. Khloe tortured Kourtney’s...
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Veselka Turns 60 and Slashes Prices to Original Fare
Cupcake at Veselka When Veselka—the East Village’s premier 24-hour Ukrainian diner—opened in 1954, nothing on the menu exceeded $1.60. Bigos and Mashed Potatoes, the Ukrainian specialty that topped the...
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NYC Medical Examiner Cremates Wrong Body
The ME’s office is now under investigation for possible misconduct. (Mario Tama/Gettty Images) The wrong man was cremated in the latest mix-up at the city Medical Examiner’s Office, the New York Post...
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Working Families Party Backs Challenger to Martin Dilan
State Senator Martin Dilan. (Photo: NYS Senate) The union-backed Working Families Party has endorsed Williamsburg activist Debbie Medina in her Democratic primary challenge to six-term Bushwick State...
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For New York Times Newsroom, a Fruit Cart
The New York Times newsroom got a fruit cart, according to the many New York Times staffers who tweeted about it. Because really, the only thing that beats being able to eat an apple at your desk is...
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Shakespeare in The Parking Lot Celebrates 20th and Final Anniversary
Few (if any) survive the final act of a Shakespearean tragedy. And now, for the acting troupe behind Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, the intermission is over and that unfortunate climax is quickly...
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Bill de Blasio Is So Excited About the World Cup He’s Got a Jersey
Mayor Bill de Blasio. (Photo: Twitter) Mayor Bill de Blasio is hoping he has a little more luck with the players in red, white and blue who don’t have to wear ice skates. A few minutes before Team USA...
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No. 2 and Trying Harder
Illustration by Kirsten Ulve One afternoon in early February, the new speaker of the City Council stood with Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to announce that the scandal-plagued Puerto Rican Day...
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