Posted by in New York on 08 14th, 2010 | No Comments
Cigarette Tax Driving Smokers to Lives of Crime
Cigarette Tax Driving Smokers to Lives of Crime
One mugger and another mugging victim seem to realize the value of a good cigarette these days. On Tuesday, a career criminal was busted in Staten Island after demanding an off-duty cop buy him cigarettes. Antwan Webb and the cop had gotten into a car accident, and Webb yelled, “Take out your...
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Posted by in New York on 08 14th, 2010 | No Comments
JetBlue Memo Says Slater Lied About Dispute
JetBlue Memo Says Slater Lied About Dispute
Oh the fleeting star of celebrity. According to AP , JetBlue has yet to find anyone on Steven Slater’s flight who can confirm that he got into such a nasty dispute with a passenger. Slater claimed his grand, double-fisting exit was preceded by a fight with a rude passenger, but passenger reports...
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Posted by in New York on 08 11th, 2010 | No Comments
MTA To Be Sued For Violating Disabilities Act
MTA To Be Sued For Violating Disabilities Act
Flickr user bitchcakesny” The South Brooklyn Legal Center is planning a lawsuit against the MTA, claiming their bus and Access-a-Ride cuts are a violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act and that the subway is not a viable alternative. Attorney Koert Wehberg told NY1 , “A person in...
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Posted by in New York on 08 8th, 2010 | No Comments
At Least 13 Shot, Two Dead In One Night In The Bronx
At Least 13 Shot, Two Dead In One Night In The Bronx
At least 13 people were shot and two were killed in one bloody night in the Bronx. The shootings, which all occurred on Friday night and early Saturday morning, sent the boroughs crime rate soaring, and left local officials enraged. “Those responsible for these shootings must be prosecuted to...
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Posted by in New York on 08 5th, 2010 | No Comments
Joe Biden Is A Magnet For Car Crashes
Joe Biden Is A Magnet For Car Crashes
What’s up with Vice President Joe Biden’s motorcades? Last fall, a car from his motorcade (not the one he was in) got T-boned from by a cab , days after a fatal motorcade accident in DC and another accident in Albuquerque. This time—Biden was in town to chat with the Mayor and maybe...
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Posted by in New York on 08 4th, 2010 | No Comments
Protest Over Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Hilton Stay
Protest Over Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Hilton Stay
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be in NYC next month for the UN General Assembly meeting, which means the protest planning is well under way. The Post reports that one group, United Against Nuclear Iran , is upset that the Hilton Manhattan East is accepting “blood money” from...
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Posted by in New York on 08 3rd, 2010 | No Comments
Pols Want Action On Dangerous UWS Intersection
Pols Want Action On Dangerous UWS Intersection
          Yesterday, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal called upon the Department of Transportation to stop dragging its feet and “implement a swift solution to the public safety hazard at a dangerous ‘bow-tie’ intersection...
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Posted by in New York, Real Estate on 08 3rd, 2010 | No Comments
Condé Nast Is Moving Way Downtown—To 1 World Trade Center
Condé Nast Is Moving Way Downtown—To 1 World Trade Center
Photograph from the Port Authority As rumored/speculated , the NY Times reports that Condé Nast signed a tentative deal to moves its magazines to Freedom Tower One World Trade Center: “The 1,776-foot-tall skyscraper will be the tallest building in New York when it is completed in 2013. If the...
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Posted by in New York on 07 31st, 2010 | No Comments
Hedge Fund Honcho Hit With Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
Hedge Fund Honcho Hit With Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
Via Dealbreaker Looks like we can officially call today Sexual Harassment Saturday. Two former employees of Titan Capital have filed a suit against President Russell Abrams , saying he repeatedly hit on them and called them derogatory names. Danielle Pecile and Cristina Culicea were fired from the company...
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Posted by in New York on 07 31st, 2010 | No Comments
Security Guard Arrested for NBA Office Bomb Threats
Security Guard Arrested for NBA Office Bomb Threats
A former security guard of the NBA Properties office in Secausus, NJ has been arrested after making multiple bomb threats against the building. Officials say Jose Quesada, 19, left at least seven threatening voicemails, including one which warned , “Leave the building. It’s gonna blow up…No...
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