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Foreclosure Fallout: The Brooklyn Real Estate Market Is Hot, But Tenants...
545 46th Street. These days, the housing crisis seems a distant memory in many areas of Brooklyn, as buyers arrive at overcrowded open houses in Park Slope and Cobble Hill, ready to sign a contract on...
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Classing Up the Joint: Posh Pot Startups Cashing in on Reefer Madness
Rodawg founder Josh Gordon with his father and investor, Larry Gordon. (Photo: Fernando Gomes) WeWork, a co-working space on Little West 12th Street, is a warren of glassed-in office cubicles populated...
View ArticleClass Warfare: Teachers’ Union Boss Michael Mulgrew Claims He Can Crown the...
It was just after Hurricane Sandy struck the city when the president of the New York City teachers’ union started getting calls from the prospective mayoral candidates. His home had been destroyed by...
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On the Page: Daniel Bergner and Patrick White
What Do Women Want? Daniel Bergner (Ecco, 224 pp., $25.99) In his new book What Do Women Want? journalist Daniel Bergner sets out to debunk some of our most fiercely guarded “fairy tales” about female...
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Gchat Is a Noble Pursuit: Tao Lin’s Modernist Masterpiece
Tao Lin. (Photo by Ulf Andersen/Getty Images) True, his characters are young people living in Brooklyn. And he writes about the internet. But we should stop calling Tao Lin the voice of his...
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The Cast’s the Thing: Jenny Schwartz’s New Play Lacks a Point, but Benefits...
Kate Mulgrew and Kathleen Chalfant in 'Somewhere Fun.' We learned two things about Somewhere Fun, a new play at the Vineyard Theatre, from Sunday’s New York Times. The first is that Jenny Schwartz, its...
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Pretty Interesting: Legislators Rally for Catwalk Kiddies
(Getty) The notion of exploitation in the modeling industry has become so familiar that it is a part of our cultural consciousness. Stories of teenage girls uncomfortably assuming prurient poses for...
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Judge Judy Sells $8.5 M. Pied-à-Terre at the Sherry Netherland
Swipe one of Judge Judy's artworks and you'll end up in a lot more than small claims court. Order! All rise! The judgments on Judge Judy might not be real, and the participants may only receive a few...
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Al Jazeera America Hires Michael Viqueira to Cover The White House
Michael Viqueira. (Photo via Twitter). Al Jazeera America has hired former NBC correspondent Michael Viqueira as its new White House correspondent, the network announced this afternoon. Mr. Viqueira...
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Kerry Lauerman is Leaving Salon, Dave Daley Named Interim Editor in Chief
Kerry Lauerman Salon's editor in chief Kerry Lauerman is leaving the website to partner with Lerer Ventures on a new startup, Politico's Dylan Byers reports. Mr. Lauerman, who joined Internet...
View ArticleJoe Biden Jokes About Always Beeing One-Upped by Frank Lautenberg at...
Friends, family, dozens of senators and other officials, including Vice President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, gathered under a Park Avenue synagogue’s stained glass dome...
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A Big Deal Goodbye: Alexei Barrionuevo On His Decision To Leave The Times
Big Deal real estate columnist Alexei Barrionuevo is leaving The Times. There are few things that The Observer loves reading about more than the lurid world of ultra high-end real estate. From Eastern...
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Freaked Out Woman Is Convinced Random Hawk Is Stalking Her Chihuahua
Please don't eat me! (Getty) A hungry, hungry hawk has been terrorizing an Upper West Side Chihuahua. Actually, it might be a falcon–but either way, one UWS resident is totally freaked out. In a note...
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Beloved Brooklyn Couple Who Hosted ‘Pursuit of Happiness’ Radio Show Found...
(via YouTube) Psychotherapist Lynne Rosen and her partner, John Littig, famous for hosting their self-help radio show “The Pursuit of Happiness,” were found dead in their Park Slope apartment on...
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Newsweek CEO Baba Shetty Steps Down
Baba Shetty (Photo via Twitter). Baba Shetty is stepping down as CEO of Newsweek/The Daily Beast after just nine months in the position, editor in chief Tina Brown wrote in a memo that went out to...
View ArticleAnthony Weiner Gets Into Shouting Match in First Confrontation Over Sexting...
He’s back. An explosive Anthony Weiner received his first serious criticism from voters over the sexting scandal that forced him to resign from Congress Wednesday night–sparking a shouting match that...
View ArticleFBI Raids Anonymous Member Behind Steubenville, Westboro and Revenge Porn...
In late 2012, an Anonymous member who went by the handle “KYAnonymous” quickly rose through the ranks of the hacktivist collective, at one point helming Anonymous’ biggest Twitter account,...
View ArticleAnthony Weiner Uses Yiddish and Hebrew to Woo Jewish Voters
Anthony Weiner is the only Jewish candidate in the mayors race, and he’s been going out of his way to remind voters of this, speaking at Jewish group forums, planning meetings with high-profile rabbis...
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Page Six Cartoonist Sean Delonas is Taking a Buyout
Mr. Delonas' latest cartoon. (Via The New York Post). Sean Delonas, The New York Post's veteran Page Six cartoonist, is taking a buyout after 23 years at the paper, he announced on his Facebook page....
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Citi Bike: A Nazi, Muslim Plot to Create a Dresden-on-the-Hudson, Says...
Yeah well, you know who else rode bicycles? When the Wall Street Journal got an aging member of its editorial team on camera to talk about New York City's new bike share program, we thought the...
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