Blogger Doxes Journal-News Staff After Paper Publishes Map of Westchester Gun...
Early Monday morning, The Journal-News published an interactive map containing the names and addresses of every handgun permit holder in Westchester and Rockland counties, which was either a bold...
View Article5 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before January 1
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27 Screening: Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom at MoMA Released in 1975, the year that Pasolini was murdered, Salò, which is based on the Marquis de Sade’s book 120 Days of Sodom, tells...
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Whale Beached in Breezy Point Presumed Dead
The beached whale struggling in the water near the shore in Breezy Point yesterday. (Photo: Getty) Residents in Breezy Point, which was devastated by Hurricane Sandy, were hoping the rescue of an...
View ArticleTop Ten Biggest Office Leases of 2012
Condé Nast and Interpublic Group were the gifts to New York that kept on giving, as the former added 138,773 square feet to the 1 million it inked last year at One World Trade Center and the latter...
View ArticleHow Chuck Schumer Helped Negotiate the Biggest Leasing Deal of 2012
The five-year saga involving the General Services Administration and 1 World Trade Center reflects both intractable Washington gridlock and the lurching progress at the building formerly known as the...
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Political Reporter Kasie Hunt is Leaving the AP for NBC
AP political reporter Kasie Hunt is going to NBC News, where she will join the Washington, D.C., bureau as an off-air reporter/producer covering politics. "She will leverage her considerable experience...
View ArticleThe Best of Betabeat: A 2012 Retrospective
As 2011 came to a close, we looked back at our most popular posts. But this year, we’re a little older (a mature year and nine months!), a lot wiser, and thought we’d try something a little different....
View ArticleBill Thompson Blasts Mayor Bloomberg and His ‘Partner’ Christine Quinn For a...
Mayoral candidate and former comptroller Bill Thompson had harsh words for Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn after a report from the Independent Budget Office highlighted...
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After the Ball Drops: A New Yorker’s New Year’s Resolutions
The Big Ball (Getty) I gave up on New Year’s resolutions years ago. Keeping them is futile, which leaves me defeated by the end of January and more despondent than necessary during the already dark...
View ArticleInstagram Reportedly Loses 25% of Active Users, but We Doubt It’s Due to...
“Rage Against Rules,” declares a bolded headline in The New York Post today, which collected stats from App Data to paint a portrait of a flailing Instagram. The Post claims that following the terms of...
View ArticleRumor Roundup: Media Snapchat Sexting Ring Gets TechCrunch Hot and Bothered
Oh you fancy, huh? Turns out doing PR for Tumblr, despite the site’s numerous recent outages, has its advantages. Katherine Barna, who works in communications for the blogging platform, got the chance...
View ArticleCuomo Pushes House to Make Vote on Sandy Aid ‘A Slam Dunk’
Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a statement this afternoon urging the House of Representatives to quickly approve the White House-backed $60.4 billion Hurricane Sandy supplemental aid package. The Senate...
View ArticleThe 2012 Designer Dozen: New York’s Best New Architecture Is a Celebration of...
It has been an exciting year for architecture in the city, with bold projects unveiled and getting underway: the new Cornell tech campus by Thom Mayne and SOM, a vastly re-imagined (and boldly so)...
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Who Watches the Woodies?: Times Square Elmo Reaches Breaking Point
Times Square Elmo moving to warmer climate. (Getty) We're not going to lie: those costumed characters in Times Square give us the creeps. We would rather work from home than have another eerie run-in...
View ArticleYear in Review: NYO’s 10 Best Celebrity Encounters
Though The Observer frequently rubs elbows with the rich and beautiful, 2012 has been especially bountiful in its celebrity run-ins. From fighting with James Franco to having lunch with Kathie Lee...
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Could Patrick Ewing Be Coming Back to New York?
Patrick Ewing circa 1985. (Photo: Getty) After over a decade playing and coaching in other cities, Hall of Fame center Patrick Ewing might have a shot to return to New York, the home where he spent...
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The Best Internet Comedy Videos of 2012
This is some funny sh*t (YouTube) Comedy, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Also the ears of the beholder, unless you are a mime comedian, in which case please leave, we have no money for...
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George H.W. Bush’s Break With the NRA Ignored in Gun Group’s Gift Shop
A picture promoting the NRA presidential coin set from the group's online store. (Photo: NRAStore.com) In 1995, President George H.W. Bush gave up his lifetime membership in the National Rifle...
View Article‘Think Before Including Emoji in Every Text:’ NYC Techies’ New Year’s...
2012 was quite a year for the New York tech community. Several NYC startups scored monster exits, while others raised millions to up their chances of scoring a ping pong table for the office. Whether...
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Barclays Is Brooding, the UES Is Booming, Sandy is Brewing: The Best Real...
Here are our favorite real estate stories from the pages of The Observer this year. On the Waterfront, There’s No Place Like Home: Mayor Bloomberg’s Tidal Wave of Development Washes Out When the...
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