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Last Night’s Action: Yanks Sweep A’s
Last Night’s Action: Yanks Sweep A’s
Yankees 5, A’s 0: CC Sabathia had no trouble with the A’s. The Associated Press even posted a photo of the Yankees ace yawning in the dugout. He pitched eight innings of scoreless, one-hit ball before Jonathan Albaldejo finished the shutout. Curtis Granderson had two homers and Jorge Posada...
MTA Offers Plan For Hurricane Earl
MTA Offers Plan For Hurricane Earl
Photograph from reader Faith during the 2007 tornado The MTA just sent out its plan to deal with the possibility of transit issues related to Hurricane Earl. While Long Island would likely be harder hit than NYC—so there are LIRR service changes—the MTA is also inspecting drains in the subways...
Google HQ: The Latest Target For Bed Bugs?
Google HQ: The Latest Target For Bed Bugs?
Feeling lucky, Google employees? Then stay at work and ignore this tip we just got in from an anonymous source saying that bed bugs have been detected at Google’s New York offices on 9th Avenue. Twitter confirms ! More details to come… Read more here: Google HQ: The Latest Target For Bed...
Study: Pot Isn’t Really A Gateway Drug, Man
Study: Pot Isn’t Really A Gateway Drug, Man
But Ann Landers said it was… According to new research from the University of New Hampshire, marijuana is not the gateway drug your grandmother made it out to be. The study, which appears in the September 2010 issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior in the article, “A Life-course...
Video: Beach-Goers Go Black Tie
Video: Beach-Goers Go Black Tie
Last month the Improv Everywhere troupe made a Coney Island beach trip a black tie affair—at the time we posted a bunch of photos, but now there’s video to go along with it. One adorable older gent at the end of it tries to explain how it made him feel to witness the spectacle, saying: “At...
Paterson: Mosque Debate Has Bigots, Racists, Sane People
Paterson: Mosque Debate Has Bigots, Racists, Sane People
From a rally at City Hall yesterday (Mary Altaffer/AP) Governor Paterson discussed the Park 51 mosque and community center project on the radio today. Paterson, who was has previously offered to f ind a location other than 45-47 Park Place (two blocks from Ground Zero), told John Gambling on WOR that...
Biggest And Tiniest Dogs Coming To Central Park!
Biggest And Tiniest Dogs Coming To Central Park!
The Guinness World Records folk are bringing the new “World’s Tallest Dog” and “World’s Smallest Dog” to Central Park on September 15th. They’ll be meeting for the first time ever in the world’s most awkward puppy play date (is there a Guinness Record...
Linkage: Former Whitney President Sells for $4 Million Off; More!
Linkage: Former Whitney President Sells for $4 Million Off; More!
[Brooklyn's latest funky facade, via 'Stoner ] · Former Whitney Museum President Robert Hurst sells Fifth Ave pad for $4M off [NYO] · Latest funky facade finishing up on Brooklyn’s Windsor Place ['Stoner] · Manhattan co-op maintenance charges up 19 percent this year [Matrix] ·...
Hundreds of Neglected Animals Found In Two NY Homes
Hundreds of Neglected Animals Found In Two NY Homes
Marie Castaldo In two separate discoveries recently, nearly 200 abused, dead and neglected animals were discovered in New York. At one home on Long Island, the final count of came to 114 dogs, an emaciated pony, three goats, one cat and 11 additional, but deceased dogs (found in the kitchen sink and...
Say Goodbye To Wooden Subway Benches?
Say Goodbye To Wooden Subway Benches?
Photo via Vitaliy P’s flickr Just one day after we took a look at the disappearing iconic wooden benches of New York City’s streets, amNewYork warns that the benches underground may be on their way out as well. Sitting in the city will never be the same! The paper reports that a redesign...

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