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Lana Del Rey Debuts Ten-Minute Music Video
It's astonishing people are still discussing Lady Gaga when Lana Del Rey exists; the controversial chanteuse today debuted a ten-minute video for her new song, "Ride," wherein she joins a biker gang,...
View ArticleGiuliani Blames Libya Attack ‘Cover-Up’ on Obama’s ‘Fantasy World’
You can officially count former Mayor Rudy Giuliuani among President Barack Obama’s critics over his controversial handling of last month’s attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. At a...
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The SPURA Has Landed: City Council Approves 47-Year-Old Urban Renewal Project
Goodbye desolation, hello development. (Flickr) Yesterday, in a unanimous vote 47 years in the making, the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area has finally been approved by the City Council. SPURA, that...
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Tech Alpha-Males Hoot Amongst Selves at Alphabird Speakeasy—and Mom’s Friend...
Co-founders Alex Rowland and Norlin. The Observer sipped its gin and tonic, watching as groups of middle aged men in tie-less suits mulled over the future of the internet—and their pocketbooks. The...
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The Two Park Avenues: Promotion of Documentary About Income Inequality...
A man on the South Bronx's Park Avenue. (Lisa Rinzler) We received a press release yesterday heralding the release of a new film. It read: "740 Park, the bestseller by Michael Gross, becomes Park...
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Sixty Out at Condé Nast [Updated]
Condé Nast has laid off sixty staffers this week. Self and Brides seem to be the hardest hit while The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Vogue have so far been spared. WWD (which is owned by Condé Nast)...
View ArticleThe Grindr for Jews as Reviewed by Its Target Demographic
The guilt that a Jewish mother imposes on her own children can knot up your stomach worse than fasting on Yom Kippur. And nothing brings out that motherly nag like the institution of marriage,...
View ArticlePatent Trolls Target 3D Printing, Seek to Limit Our Ability to Print Human Flesh
Apparently the advent of 3D printing technology is scary enough that before we’re even able to print out a new pair of shoes, patent trolls Intellectual Ventures have secured a patent that might...
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Upper East Side Straphangers Think Trash Can Removal Is Complete Garbage
Does litter stop if it doesn't stop here? (Stephen Nessen/WNYC) You can take away the garbage cans but can you take away the garbage? The MTA, in expanding its no trash can pilot program last month...
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Big Apple Idolatry: Lindsay Lohan’s Poll Bump
Lindsay Lohan. (Getty Images) – Lindsay Lohan is voting for Mitt Romney, which is probably going to hurt him in the polls even worse than last night's VP debate. – Speaking of LiLo and her presidential...
View ArticleJustin Bieber Trolls Everyone, Admits the ‘Stolen Laptop’ Claim was a Viral...
Yesterday morning, music news outlets across the Internet began reporting that human Girl Talk game Justin Bieber had his laptop and camera stolen at a concert in Washington state. On Wednesday, the...
View ArticleCity Hall Horse Race: We Won’t Have Mayor Mike to Kick Around Anymore Edition
It’s time for the latest installment of our weekly scorecard rating how next year’s potential mayoral candidates performed in the past seven days. This week, Mayor Michael Bloomberg tried to duck out...
View ArticleGreenpoint Giant! Park Tower Group Building Two of First Ten Rental Towers By...
It was about this time last year that The Observer had first heard that Greenpoint Landing, the just gigantic 10-building development at the mouth of Newtown Creek, was about to come back to life after...
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Cabbie Stabbing Charges To Be Dropped Against Former Morgan Stanley Banker
Remember William Bryan Jennings wild ride? Last December, after Morgan Stanley's Christmas party, the firm's former head of bond underwriting hailed a cab in Midtown and directed the driver to his home...
View ArticleRumor Roundup: Mo Koyfman’s Icelandic Bachelor Party, Attack of the Silicon...
Bjorking Your Bachelor Party As a sign of just how many bachelor parties an up-and-coming venture bro is obligated to attend, during a recent PandoMonthly panel, Thrillist Ben Lerer said if he had to...
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Looks Like Someone Shot a Window at Obama’s Denver Campaign Offices
Twitter/@SamTLevin As the march toward November 6th intensifies, things might get weird. For example: someone apparently fired a shot into President Barack Obama's campaign headquarters in Denver...
View ArticleFor Its Roosevelt Island Tech Campus, Cornell Pursues Some Cutting Edge Designs
When technology changes at the speed of a microprocessor or the flicker of a screen, in the time it takes to type in a password or hit send on an email, how can buildings be created to contain all this...
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The Food Is Great, But How’s the Accessibility? Feds File Suit Against Rosa...
The U.S. Attorney's office claims that not everyone can enjoy the food at Rosa Mexicana. (mlaca005.wordpress.com) Rosa Mexicana is a favorite of New Yorkers hungry for upscale guacamole and well-mixed...
View ArticleRNC Says Memo Blaming Tied Polls on ‘Deep Flaws’ in Gallup Methodology Shows...
After a new poll out today from Gallup and USA Today showed Mitt Romney pulling ahead of President Barack Obama by strengthening his standing with likely female voters in key swing states, the Obama...
View ArticleState Senator Says Mitt Romney Uses Immigrants Like a ‘Piñata’
State Senator Adriano Espaillat would really prefer if Mitt Romney would stop beating immigrant communities with a stick so that candy will come out, figuratively, of course. Thus, on the eve of the...
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