Mayor Bloomberg’s Anti-Gun Group Gets Some Hollywood Help
In the wake of the killings in Newtown, Hollywood superagent Ari Emanuel is making a donation to Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the initiative co-founded by Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Mr. Emanuel, one of...
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Five Tips For Surviving Sniffle Season on the Subway
Achoo! Unless your holiday wishes include a vacation to the emergency room, you may want to watch what you touch on the subway—and whom you stand next to. Dr. Bruce Polsky, who serves as chairman of...
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Superior Ink Dries: Residents and Listings Return to Saltwater Damaged Building
Olly, olly oxen free! Earlier this month, the stars, titans of finance and assorted rich people who call Superior Ink home got some good news: the building, which was seriously damaged in Hurricane...
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Flat Tire! Prospect Park West Bike Lane Suit Returns to Court
Not so fast. (Getty) While it seemed like the bicycle backlash of a year ago had finally cooled off, and those larcenous lanes were here to say—won't someone think of the motorists!—the cold war is...
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Santa Claus Now a ‘Politically Incorrect’ Pundit on Fox News; Ruins Christmas...
Santa is here to deliver coal to the entire news station. (Fox News)For all their talk about how "confusing" it is for children to see gay characters on television (lest they grow up thinking that was...
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Jerry Seinfeld Answers New York Times Question: ‘What’s the Deal With Comedy...
Jerry Seinfeld know people will not be interested in this video. (NYTimes/YouTube)You know that phrase, "I could listen to him read a phonebook?" The implication is that said person is so talented,...
View ArticleThe Wit and Wisdom of Joe Lhota
Before MTA Chairman Joe Lhota announced he would be stepping down from his post to run for mayor, the former Giuliani administration aide was a prolific Twitter user. Though Mr. Lhota’s Twitter feed...
View ArticleScience Says Playing Hard to Get Works, We Say Shut Up Already Science
There is nothing Science likes so much as assembling its beakers and test tubes and hapless campus residents in service of confirming A Thing You Already Knew. Often, it’s a thing you were hoping maybe...
View ArticleThis Handy Vibrator Is a Great Place to Store Your Pitch Decks
USB drives, it seems, are never around when you need them. Not only that, they’re frequently boring looking, amounting to barely more than little pieces of plastic and metal painted monochrome colors....
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Jake Tapper is Leaving ABC for CNN
Jake Tapper, ABC’s senior White House correspondent, is leaving for CNN--where he will be the anchor of a new weekday program and CNN’s chief Washington correspondent. The news was first reported in a...
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Synagogue Loses Long Eviction Battle, Ordered to Vacate by New Year
The building in dispute. The Sixteenth Street Synagogue has called 3 West 16th Street home since 1945, but the shul has been told that it will not be allowed to ring in a New Year there—what would be...
View ArticleChristine Quinn, The College Years
On May 1, 1987, City Council Speaker and all-but-officially announced candidate in next year’s mayoral race Christine Quinn found herself in a makeshift boxing ring set up in the backyard of a...
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BIG News: Planning Commission Approves Durst’s 57th Street Pyramid Apartments
A tweaked north side for Durst/Fetner's 625 West 57th Street. (Durst/Fetner) Big, pointy apartments. (Durst/Fetner) When Douglas Durst began deciding, yet again, what to do with the almost block-long...
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Is This the Beginning of the End of a Moment at T?
Photo credit: Oliver Strand. Has the moment passed? Oliver Strand, T's coffee enthusiast and writer of the 'Ristretto' blog, posted on Twitter that today's post on the V60 Drip Scale from Hario would...
View ArticleInvestors Wonder About the Future of TechStars New York
At any startup accelerator, Demo Days are a relentlessly upbeat affair–a parade of promotional pitch decks and stats about market size that somehow always reach up into the billions. But in New York...
View ArticleQassam Cyber Fighters Still All Up In Your Online Banking
Earlier this week the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters announced new distributed denial of service (DDos) attacks on U.S. banks, part of what they’ve referred to as Phase 2 of their “Operation...
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Crash, and Burn: City Dismisses Prospect Park West Bike Lane Foes’ Unusual...
Dare ya! (Getty) It is clear by now, if it has not always been, that the opponents of the Prospect Park West bike lane do not trust the city's Department of Tranportation. They have insisted the...
View ArticleDoes Joe Lhota Have a Toll Hike Problem?
M.T.A. Chairman Joe Lhota made quite the splash earlier this week when he announced he will retire at the end of the year in order to contemplate a mayoral bid as a Republican. Right before he made the...
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The Daily Keeps Tweeting From the Great Beyond
The Daily, Rupert Murdoch's foray into iPad-only journalism, officially shut its virtual newsstand last Saturday. But The Daily's Twitter feed is still going strong, despite a lack of original content....
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Elle Editor in Chief Robbie Myers Gets Glossy Spread on UWS
Myers and Michielli. (Patrick McMullan) In the listing photos, Roberta Myers and Frank Michielli’s new co-op at 924 West End Avenue looks a little fuddy duddy. But the place, as they say, has great...
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