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New Yorkers Would Breathe Sigh of Relief for Doomed 7 Train Exension to New Jersey If They Knew About It

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by Jane Smith

12:08 am, 04/04/2012

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  We all know there’s nothing New Yorkers love more than giving more bridges and tunnels to the bridge and tunnel crowd. Joseph Lhota, Chairman of the MTA, essentially put the kibosh on an extension of the 7 train into [Read More]

1:23 pm, 04/02/2012

A Brooklyn Whodunit | Monday Links

New York City’s Coming 911 Scandal

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by Jay Emsey

12:04 pm, 04/02/2012

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The Bloomberg administration is trying to suppress a damning report of the city’s inadequate and bloated 911 response system. One New York Post source calls the report, “nuclear.” [Read More]

Manhattan’s Union Square Has a Curfew Now

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by Jay Emsey

1:31 pm, 03/23/2012

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Union Square opened in 1882 and now has its first curfew ever. The new sign apparently went up last night. [Read More]

10:30 am, 03/21/2012

Another Bus Comes Every Fifteen Minutes | Wednesday Links

Occupy Wall Street is BACK

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by Jane Smith

12:17 am, 03/20/2012

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  Everyone pick up that poster-board and thick marker again and head back down to Zuccotti Park, cause Spring is here! Not freezing your extremities off makes it way easier to protest, and with election season ramping up, there is [Read More]

Tier 6 Passes Assembly

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by Jay Emsey

1:47 pm, 03/15/2012

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State lawmakers were up all night in Albany, and passed another sharp reduction in state worker pension benefits around 7:30 this morning. The vote is part of a Big Ugly: a cute Albany term for a mass of unrelated bills linked together by government leaders in a back room deal. [Read More]

1:47 pm, 03/14/2012

Redistricting News and Hipster News | Wednesday Links

“It Happens All the Time”: Stop and Frisks in New York City

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by Jay Emsey

12:45 pm, 03/13/2012

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AnimalNewYork’s Bucky Turco caught a New York City stop and frisk on video Friday night. With nearly 700,000 such searches performed by NYPD officers a year, it’s not that difficult to catch a glimpse of the phenomenon. Of course, it helps to be in right neighborhood. [Read More]

12:23 pm, 03/12/2012

All Power in the Hands of the SPECIAL MASTER | Monday Links

6:54 pm, 02/24/2012

New York City Not the Suicide Hot Spot We All Thought It Was | Friday Links

12:49 pm, 02/17/2012

Gale Brewer Brews Buzz for Manhattan Beep Run | Friday Links

9:14 pm, 01/27/2012

Fracking Really Is Worse Than It Sounds | Friday Links

5:41 pm, 01/18/2012

Budget? Fudge It | Wednesday Links

Can I Recycle…50% of NYC Teachers? | Friday Links

  Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s baby Blue Ivy was born in a Lenox Hill Hospital room that makes us want to run into traffic.   NY Times reporter Jim Dwyer believes New York State can still have affordable energy after a [Read More]

by Max Paige-Vieux

5:30 pm, 01/13/2012

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1:30 am, 01/06/2012

Cuomo Wants To Tamp Out Bloomberg’s Trampy Food Stamp Finger-Printing | Friday Links

4:30 pm, 01/04/2012

The State of the State of the State | Wednesday Links

11:49 am, 12/28/2011

A Very NYC News Roundup | Wednesday Links

3:57 pm, 12/23/2011

Albany De-occupied | Friday Links

11:54 am, 12/21/2011

Kruger Quits, Pleads Guilty | Wednesday Links