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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Indians Not A Fan of Governor Paterson These Days
Indians Not A Fan of Governor Paterson These Days
Photograph of a Cattaraugus Indian Reservation protest of the proposed New York state cigarette tax to non-Native American consumers in Irving, N.Y. by Don Heupel/AP Indians in New York, upset with Governor Paterson’s attempt to tax cigarettes on Indian reservation, held protests and rallies yesterday....
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Severely Malnourished Girl Found Dead in Bushwick
Severely Malnourished Girl Found Dead in Bushwick
Police discovered the body of a 4-year-old girl weighing only 15 pounds this morning in Brooklyn. Apparently Marchella Pierce’s arms and legs were tied to her crib with twine and a jump rope; cops are questioning the mother, 30-year-old Carlola Pierce, who said she found Marchella’s lifeless,...
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Espada Jumps On "Stop The Sag" Bandwagon
Espada Jumps On "Stop The Sag" Bandwagon
Where to begin? A State Senator who threw Albany into gridlock for over a month last year, allegedly looted $14 million from his healthcare non-profit, threatened a 70-something blogger , and supposedly stiffed the tailor who makes his $1,200 suits is now telling youths to raise their image by raising...
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