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Monserrate Defends Obama Rip-Off Logo, Cynthia Nixon Attacks
Monserrate Defends Obama Rip-Off Logo, Cynthia Nixon Attacks
At right, the Obama campaign logo and Hiram Monserrate’s “Yes We Can” party logo, which is obviously different. No, really! Yesterday ousted State Senator Hiram Monserrate held a press conference to formally announce his bid to get his old job back in a special election Tuesday. After...
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MTA Considers Saving Some Bus Routes
MTA Considers Saving Some Bus Routes
After a series of contentious public hearings in which four people were arrested, the cash-strapped MTA announced that is considering saving several bus routes that had been slated for elimination . According to the Daily News , a “small number” of bus routes might be spared, though a final...
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NYPD Probes Carroll Gardens Beating as Possible Hate Crime
NYPD Probes Carroll Gardens Beating as Possible Hate Crime
Carroll Gardens ( Daniel Krieger’s Flickr ) Police are investigating a possible hate crime that allegedly took place in Carroll Gardens shortly after 8 p.m on Tuesday, March 2nd. Investigators say the victim, an unnamed 22-year-old man, was severely beaten by five men shouting anti-gay slurs,...
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NYPD Probes Carroll Gardens Beating as Possible Hate Crime
NYPD Probes Carroll Gardens Beating as Possible Hate Crime
Carroll Gardens ( Daniel Krieger’s Flickr ) Police are investigating a possible hate crime that allegedly took place in Carroll Gardens shortly after 8 p.m on Tuesday, March 2nd. Investigators say the victim, an unnamed 22-year-old man, was severely beaten by five men shouting anti-gay slurs,...
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Mobsters Charged In WTC Extortion Scheme
Mobsters Charged In WTC Extortion Scheme
Photograph by Joe Woolhead/Silverstein Properties Prepare to be shocked, readers: The feds have charged eight members of the Colombo crime family with extortion, racketeering conspiracy, wire fraud conspiracy, and embezzlement of union benefit funds in connection with construction at the World Trade...
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Domino Dealt a Blow: Brooklyn’s Community Board 1 voted 23-12…
Domino Dealt a Blow: Brooklyn’s Community Board 1 voted 23-12…
Brooklyn’s Community Board 1 voted 23-12 against the redevelopment of the Domino Sugar factory on the Williamsburg waterfront last night, the latest public lashing of the 2,200-unit housing bonanza . The board’s vote is only advisory, and the developers—who are dealing with criticism...
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Brooklyn Bridge Park Watch: For $55M, City Nabs Control of Delayed Brooklyn Bridge Park
Brooklyn Bridge Park Watch: For $55M, City Nabs Control of Delayed Brooklyn Bridge Park
After a protracted squabble, state officials have agreed to hand over control of Brooklyn Bridge Park to the city in the hope of finally getting it done. The joint state-city Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation is set to approve the handoff today, the Times reports. So what does the city have...
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Linkage: Mob Joins WTC Fray; Developer Brings Williamsburg to Africa; More!
Linkage: Mob Joins WTC Fray; Developer Brings Williamsburg to Africa; More!
[The new 29-unit Astoria Windsor in Queens, via Curbed Photo Pool/Harris Graber .] · 8 indicted for kickbacks scheme and general wiseguy-ness at WTC [NYP] · Developer turns Johannesburg ‘hood into South Africa’s Williamsburg [NYT] · Twin towers: 1 World Trade Center and Dubai...
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Corey Haim, Dead At 38
Corey Haim, Dead At 38
Actor Corey Haim died this morning of an apparent overdose, TMZ reports. The LAPD confirms the 38-year-old was found unresponsive in his Oakwood, California apartment, where his mother was also staying—he was pronounced dead at Providence St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Burbank. The LAPD...
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Toyota Prius Vs. Stone Wall In Westchester
Toyota Prius Vs. Stone Wall In Westchester
Yesterday, a woman driving a 2005 Toyota Prius crashed into a stone wall in Harrison, NY. The Journal News reports that police say “a stuck accelerator pedal ’shot’ the vehicle forward. The floor mat had been tied to the seat base with plastic ties and had pretty much been ruled out...
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