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With Park Lane Hotel Sale Pending, Helmsley Real Estate Empire Is Fading Fast
Tear down or keep up? Not even all the gaudy 1980s glamor in the world can stop the ravages of time. Empires rise and empires fall; the Helmsleys' carefully-assembled real estate one is no exception....
View ArticleRolling Stone Not Edgy Enough for Staten Island Pol
Assemblyman Joseph Borelli is thoroughly fed up with Rolling Stone‘s new controversial cover featuring “Boston Bomber” Dzhohkar Tsarnaev. In fact, the South Shore official is calling for all of Staten...
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Speeding Towards the Finish Line: Jeff Gordon’s 15 CPW Pad Finds a Buyer… But...
Black appears to be Mr. Gordon's favorite color. Two months after hitting the market, stock car racing champion Jeff Gordon and wife Ingrid Vandebosch have found a buyer for their seventh-floor condo...
View ArticleBloomberg Defends 911 System After Quinn’s Intern Scare
Mayor Michael Bloomberg sharply defended the city’s emergency response system today, one day after outraged City Council Speaker Christine Quinn was compelled to personally call Police Commissioner Ray...
View ArticleCNBC’s Jim Cramer Thinks Wall Street is Using Snapchat For Insider Trading
Last month, we heard rumblings that Wall Street banker bros were using Snapchat to send “weird shit” (that’s a neat way to describe “dick pics’”), but constantly aggravated CNBC host Jim Cramer thinks...
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(Illustration by Lauren Payne) Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who broke the news of the National Security Agency's extensive spying, has a book deal. He's writing a book about government...
View ArticleBill de Blasio Goes Underground in Bay Ridge
Stumping in a sweltering Brooklyn subway station this morning, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio brushed off the emerging chatter that his mayoral campaign, once launched with such promise, is stagnating....
View ArticleArea Man Utterly Unimpressed by Futuristic Face Computer
What’s that? You’ve developed a pair of computerized glasses that allow you to take pictures, record video, pull up directions, send messages and make calls all with a few simple voice commands? Well,...
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Midtown East Rezoning: Now With More Housing! (and Air Rights)
The area north of Grand Central Terminal still has the highest office rents in the city, but the building stock is aging. The new Midtown East rezoning proposal is out—"A" Applications, in Department...
View ArticlePete King Says He’s ‘Certainly’ Looking at Running for President
Late last night, Newxmax reported that Long Island GOP Congressman Pete King, not widely considered one of the top contenders for the White House for 2016, was nevertheless looking at running for...
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Building Sand Castles: Storm-Resistant Designs for Far Rockaway Revealed
Seeding Office's design includes a wavy boardwalk and windmills. Now that question raised repeatedly in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Sandy—should we be re-building or developing New York's...
View ArticleSomeone’s Trying to Raise $100K on Kickstarter for a Bitcoin Movie
Surely this is some sort of startup Singularity: Someone is trying to raise $100,000 via Kickstarter in order to make a documentary that would educate the world about Bitcoin and its global...
View ArticleWebsite Tells You Exactly How Hellishly Hot the L Train Platforms Are
According to Weather.com,it feels like an oppressive 106 degrees outside this afternoon, so you can imagine how diabolical the temperature is underground. But now you don’t have to: Thanks to “L...
View ArticlePete King Fund-Raises off Presidential Speculation
Hey, did you hear that Congressman Pete King might run for president? If you haven’t, Mr. King wants that to change. Hours after confirming his interest in the White House to Politicker today, Mr. King...
View ArticleCuomo Taunts Bloomberg Ahead of Rafting Battle
It’s on. Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Michael Bloomberg are set to face each other in an historic white water rafting challenge in the Adirondacks on Monday–and Mr. Cuomo is already eying victory....
View ArticleJack Hidary Claims He’s a Viable Mayoral Candidate
Tech entrepreneur Jack Hidary stormed into the mayor’s race this week with much fanfare, claiming to have already raised $450,000 and vowing to win the top job at City Hall. But Mr. Hidary, who says...
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The New York Times on Rosé: A Retrospective
It's summer, which means that it is officially rosé high season. And over the years, The New York Times has devoted a lot of ink to the warm months when it is socially acceptable (indeed, even...
View ArticleLatino Leaders Have No Love for Spitzer
Huddled in the shade on the steps outside of City Hall today, an Avengers-esque group of Latino leaders gathered to claim their allegiances to city comptroller candidate Scott Stringer, and, more...
View ArticleGoogle Glass Beta Tester Blew His Classmates Out of The Water With This Tesla...
What do you do if you’re a Google Glass beta tester and a Tesla owner? Aside from eating caviar for every meal, you hack together an app that controls the electronic car via the use of your face...
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Property Manager Pleads Guilty to Stealing $1.5 M. from Two Chinatown Buildings
11 East Broadway: One of the two buildings that Lin scammed money from. Building owners hire property managers precisely because they do not want the headache of running a building. Unfortunately for...
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