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Tower Heist: Téa Leoni Picks Up $5.1 M. Riverside Drive Bachelorette Pad
Téa Leoni picked up the Riverside Drive pad for $5.12 million—not exactly a tower heist. Actor and actress couple David Duchovny and Téa Leoni haven't offloaded their old New York City triplex yet...
View ArticleOn the Market: Freestanding Tourist Maps Rile Soho Residents; Affordable...
Judge denies developer's bid to dismiss Azure crane collapse suit. [TRD] Architect twins love each other, sharing a Clinton Hill apartment. [NYT] Exploring Brooklyn's cluttered but charming Japanese...
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Ruining the Shot: Would You Walk Through a Production Filming on the Street?
The Amazing Spider-Man II in Union Square. (via ShootBlueJays) Some New York residents feel that the number of movies and TV shows being shot in the city is reaching a critical mass. Basically every...
View ArticleCISPA, the Cybersecurity Bill That Has Internet Activists Up in Arms, Passes...
CISPA, the cyber-privacy bill facing opposition from open Internet advocates, passed the House of Representatives today with a vote of 287 for, 127 against and 18 abstaining. The bill will now move on...
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Someone at Macy’s Thought It Was a Good Week to Advertise a Sale on Pressure...
Poor timing. It's pretty common for social media managers to embarrass their employers by forgetting to cancel pre-scheduled tweets during national tragedies, and heaven knows targeted online...
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The Song Is You: The Fantastic Mistaken for Strangers Opens Tribeca Film...
Matt Berninger (left) and brother Tom (right) in Mistaken for Strangers. We did not expect to love Mistaken for Strangers, the "self-mockumentary" that premiered last night at the opening of the...
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DDG Ups Its Game: Bigger Projects, Including Some Uptown, on the Horizon
Pennsylvania bluestone (mined in upstate New York) is a favorite building material of DDG's Peter Guthrie. DDG Partners has been taking downtown by storm. The firm started out in the city doing small...
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The Real ‘Bag Men’? F.B.I. Publishes Photos of Two Boston Bombing Suspects
"Suspect 2" (Photo: FBI.gov) The Federal Bureau of Investigation held a press briefing today in which they released photo and video footage of two individuals suspected of being involved in Monday's...
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Philanthropy in Pink: Elton and Friends Sparkle At The Breast Cancer Research...
Tory Burch, Lisa Perry, Vera Wang and Jamie Tisch at The Breast Cancer Research Foundation's 2013 Hot Pink Party. ©Patrick McMullan Last night, Elton John, Liz Hurley and Kate Hudson headed up a...
View ArticleMeanwhile, Reddit Is Being DDOS’d
Reddit’s had a bumpy week. In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, the site’s amateur sleuths attempted to crowdsource a suspect, which landed an innocent high-school runner on the front page of...
View ArticleDemocrats Rally Against Vito Lopez’s First City Council Fund-Raiser
His mouth buried in a bullhorn, Lincoln Restler howled at the tinted windows in front of him. “I see you didn’t bring your daughters to dinner!” the Democratic activist shouted at a slew of dark-suited...
View ArticleOn the Market: Even MoMA thinks Folk Art Demolition Is Painful; Karl...
MoMA curator calls decision to demolish Folk Art Museum "painful." [Architect's Newspaper] Chicago River is now running into Lake Michigan after temporary re-reversal. [Atlantic Cities] Park performers...
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Interview With a Vampire: Hemlock Grove’s Bill Skarsgard on Being the Baby...
Bill Skarsgard in Hemlock Grove (Netflix) "So, what's it like living on abandoned island with your vampire family?" The Observer asked 22-year-old Bill Skarsgård, star of the new Netflix original...
View ArticleThe New York Observer Celebrates Young Philanthropists at the Dream Hotel
Last night marked the inauguration of The New York Observer’s First Annual Young Philanthropy Event. On the chic PH-D rooftop lounge of the Dream Hotel, amidst panoramic views of the city and...
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The Best Reader Reactions to Times Trend Story on Diaperless Babies
Babies without diapers. (Getty Images) The New York Times has a very good, very important story today about parents who don't diaper their children and let them urinate/defecate wherever they want...
View ArticlePete King on Boston Suspect: ‘What in the Community Radicalized Him?’
With the news that two of the suspected terrorists from last Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing have roots in the Russia’s Muslim-dominated Chechnyan region, Long Island Congressman Pete King says the...
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New Hashtag Pokes Fun at TMZ’s Racist Coverage of the Boston Bombers
Great headline, great everything. (TMZ.com) TMZ.com, your trusted source of all the news that's fit to vomit, had a hard-hitting exclusive today. "The older brother who was killed and suspected in the...
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With Ives’s Fourth Symphony, Philharmonic Presents Poignant, Searching Questions
Ives. For the past two nights, guests arriving at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall have found two harps and five extra music stands occupying part of the second balcony next to the stage. They sat...
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Will Queens Ever Be Able To Compete With the Borough of Kings?
It's a mansion. On an acre. In Astoria. During the last few decades, Brooklyn has shaken off the vinyl-clad, working-class outer-borough stigma so completely that it can be hard to remember a time when...
View ArticleFanboy Heaven: Amazon Will Let Viewers Help Decide Which Pilots Will Get a...
Fanboys of Firefly/Twin Peaks/Freaks and Geeks are probably infuriated to hear the news that Amazon will let customers decide which of its 14 newly produced Amazon Prime shows will be given a full...
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