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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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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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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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Boobs Are "Like Two Bad Kids"
Boobs Are "Like Two Bad Kids"
The NY Times has at least two stories about bras today. There’s a Styles section piece on small breasted-women feeling empowered while the New York section has an interview with bra store owner Linda Becker, who says of breasts’ changing nature, “All through life your breasts change....
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The Onion Sums Up Summer In the City
The Onion Sums Up Summer In the City
Photograph by Jim Kiernan At the end of a brutally hot summer filled with bedbugs , Mosque debates and cat fashion shows , The Onion reports that New Yorkers have finally realized that the city is “nothing more than a massive, trash-ridden hellhole that slowly sucks the life out of every one of...
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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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New York On Skunk Alert?
New York On Skunk Alert?
Raccoons, coyotes, opossum… all nothing compared to nature’s walking stink bomb: the skunk . And word is their population in the city is on the rise. City Room reports that residents of northern Manhattan and the Bronx are fed up with their unwelcome guests, which they believe have multiplied...
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Drunken Man Takes Leisurely Drive On Queens Boardwalk
Drunken Man Takes Leisurely Drive On Queens Boardwalk
Rockaway Boulevard A Queens dad was arrested this week under Leandra’s Law after cruising down the pedestrian-only Rockaway Beach Boulevard completely drunk with six kids in tow. Doesn’t he know one should always hitch a ride to Rockaway Beach? Renato Bernal, 41, had almost one-and-a-half...
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Rupert Murdoch Loves A "Fat Pig"
Rupert Murdoch Loves A "Fat Pig"
When you’re done reading the Lindsay Lohan cover story, you can also read about Rupert Murdoch vs. Arthur Sulzberger media war in Vanity Fair. According to a summary of the story , VF reporter Sarah Ellison spoke to Andrew Neil, who was editor of Murdoch’s Sunday Times. Neil says, “Americans...
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