New York City
Rudy Giuliani Sure Likes Making Money |
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12:34 pm, 04/26/2012 |
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani travelled to Serbia last week, two weeks ahead of a pivotal national election, and met with the opposition party, former allies of nationalist war criminal Slobodan Milosevic. [Read More] |
8:50 pm, 04/20/2012 |
Queens Is Totally The New Florida Right Now | Friday Links |
That Didn’t Last Long |
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1:02 pm, 04/17/2012 |
A bill introduced by Democratic Senators Velmanette Montgomery (Brooklyn) and Keith Wright (Harlem) that would have taken control of New York City’s school system back from Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been shot down by Senate Republicans. [Read More] |
Quinn Inspires Controversy |
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10:22 am, 04/11/2012 |
Christine Quinn, a.k.a. Future Mayor, is under fire from a few of her constituents who are P.O.’d about the deal reached to develop the building that formerly housed St. Vincent’s Hospital. [Read More] |
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1:27 pm, 04/09/2012 |
Burger King Wants To Have A Food Truck Like The Cool Kids | Monday Links |
The $21 million sidewalk: Putting a price tag on privately owned public spaces |
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1:59 pm, 04/06/2012 |
If the owners get their asking price, this drab stretch of concrete, plus a loading area on the side of the building, will be worth nearly $21 million to them. That’s because the sidewalk is a privately owned public space, like hundreds of others around Manhattan — including Zuccotti Park, home base of Occup [Read More] |
Christine Quinn: Meet NYC’s Future HBIC |
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12:33 pm, 04/04/2012 |
Christine Quinn is someone whose name you should know. She is a Democrat and the current New York City Councilmember for New York’s 3rd District, a huge chunk of NYC’s West Side, including Chelsea, Flatiron and the West Village and Speaker of the Council. Quinn is also one of the most talked about potentials for the NYC mayoral race in 2013. [Read More] |
New Yorkers Would Breathe Sigh of Relief for Doomed 7 Train Exension to New Jersey If They Knew About It |
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12:08 am, 04/04/2012 |
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] |
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1:23 pm, 04/02/2012 |
A Brooklyn Whodunit | Monday Links |
New York City’s Coming 911 Scandal |
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12:04 pm, 04/02/2012 |
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] |
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1:10 am, 03/30/2012 |
NY is about to get Un-Healthy | Friday Links |
Manhattan’s Union Square Has a Curfew Now |
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1:31 pm, 03/23/2012 |
Union Square opened in 1882 and now has its first curfew ever. The new sign apparently went up last night. [Read More] |
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10:30 am, 03/21/2012 |
Another Bus Comes Every Fifteen Minutes | Wednesday Links |
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9:39 am, 03/16/2012 |
Goldman Sachs is Anti-Muppet | Friday Links |
“It Happens All the Time”: Stop and Frisks in New York City |
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12:45 pm, 03/13/2012 |
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] |
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12:23 pm, 03/12/2012 |
All Power in the Hands of the SPECIAL MASTER | Monday Links |
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9:01 am, 03/09/2012 |
Barron and Jeffries take on the Mann | Friday Links |
John Liu is in a You Know What Storm Without an Umbrella |
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5:20 pm, 03/08/2012 |
How the $%^& did this happen? [Read More] |
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11:25 am, 03/07/2012 |
Ominous Sounding SPECIAL MASTER Makes Congressional Lines Bow Before Her | Wednesday Links |
Dirty Dealings Alleged at NYC Car Washes |
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8:44 pm, 03/05/2012 |
It’s not always cool at the car wash, after all, and The New York Times reports that it’s often the boss, not employees, who are allowed to act the fool. [Read More] |
