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Everyone Loves LLCs! Foreigners Aren’t the Only Fans of Limited Liability Corps.
LLCs aren’t just popular with foreign buyers. You don’t have to be a foreigner to see the appeal in purchasing a piece of real estate under a limited liability corporation: as the Observer and many...
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Lawrenceville School Ex-Student President: Martyr or Misquoted College Freshman?
The Lawrenceville School (Photo: Facebook, Lawrenceville School) On June 30th BuzzFeed published an article titled “What Happens When a Prep School’s Black Student President Mocks her White Male...
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Programming Note: Independence Day
This is Frankster. He danced in City Hall on Thursday. (Photo: NYC Mayor’s Office) Politicker will be taking the day off for Independence Day. We’ll be back up and running on Monday, barring the sort...
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tvDownload’s America: Television’s Year of Americana
Is there anything more American than television? From families gathering around a behemoth black-and-white to watch the Ed Sullivan Show, to binge-watching Orange is the New Black on your iPhone while...
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Independence Day, Observed From Across the Pond
In the United States, we don’t look at the other side of Independence Day too often—but from across the pond hails one of the holiday’s best and icy-cold songs. The Comsat Angels, variously thought to...
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tvDownload’s America: The Best Explosions Ready to Stream on Netflix
Don’t kid yourself into thinking the best part of July 4 is the family, friends or any sort of familiar companionship. The best part of July 4 is the excuse to wantonly blow shit up, all in the name of...
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Let’s Not Allow the Power of Independence Day’s Message To Be Diluted
America. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images) Every Fourth of July there’s talk about patriotism and what it means to be an American. We can complain about the NSA, the IRS and a host of privacy...
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‘True Blood’ Season 7, Episode 3: Flashbacks and Ass Cracks
800 years young. (HBO) Before I get to re-capping, I have to say something: True Blood finally did it. They killed off a character that really resonated with I think not only me, but every single...
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Homeless Find Voice Through Writing
The board at the front of the class. (Photo by Lauren Feiner) “Writing is healing,” the teacher wrote in caps with a black marker on poster paper. He stood in front of five students Wednesday...
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“Secret” Upper East Side Bookstore Gets the Boot
“I’m a secret bookstore” (Courtesy of Michael Seidenberg Facebook page) Upper East Side bookstore, Brazenhead Books, may soon be heading for its dénouement. Michael Seidenberg, who has been operating...
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Andrew Cuomo Signs Medical Marijuana Bill Into Law
Andrew Cuomo. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images) These are high times for medical marijuana advocates in New York. Gov. Andrew Cuomo made New York the 23rd state in the nation to allow marijuana for...
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‘Halt and Catch Fire’ 1×6: Cabbage Patch Catharsis
Lee Pace in Halt and Catch Fire. In “Landfall,” Halt and Catch Fire’s most engaging and well crafted-episode since the pilot, the expected results of MacMillan, Howe and Clarke’s extreme character...
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Mister Softee Under Fire by 7,000+ New Yorkers
(Photo by Zoran Milich / Getty Images) Turns out the charming jingle of the Mister Softee trucks, an icon of summer since 1956, is hated by a slew of NYC residents. In the past four years, 7,031 noise...
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Andrew Cuomo Calls Latest Fred Dicker Column ‘Absurd’ and ‘Silly’
Kathy Hochul. (Photo: Facebook) Gov. Andrew Cuomo mocked a New York Post report today that said the governor wanted to keep his running mate, former Congresswoman Kathy Hochul, out of the campaign...
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Just a Quick Note on That Fireworks Drone Video
When you hear the words “drones” and “explosions” in the same sentence, your first thought is probably not this amazing video. Shot in the middle of a fireworks display, this video captured by a small,...
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Beer Is the New Champagne
Beer-based cocktails are creeping onto menus all over town this summer and it’s no surprise, these drinks are thirst-quenching, refreshing and perfect for a quick slurp after work. If you need...
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Bill Bratton Would Not Consider an Increase in Homicides a Failure
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton. (Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty) Police Commissioner Bill Bratton is still optimistic the city can close out 2014 with under 300 homicides–but if murders or shootings...
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Everything We Know About the Star of ‘One Man Breaking Bad’
American actor Miles Allen is bringing his solo act One Man Breaking Bad to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, in which he races through all six seasons of the hit show Breaking Bad in an hour, playing all...
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Disgraced Wall Street Honcho Sells UES Pad to S. District Chief Justice for...
Not a bad place to hole up. It can seem nowadays that we live in an era in which, roughly once a decade, a new crop of financial industry villains—some real, others merely scapegoated—comes to the...
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Overpriced and Underserved: How One Group is Fighting Food Deserts in NYC
An example of the produce available in a single a Fresh FoodBox for $10. (Courtesy of GrowNYC) In a city that seems to have a grocery store or fruit stand on every block, it might be surprising to...
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