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Transgender Woman Sues NYPD For Humiliating Her, Chaining Her Up For 28 Hours

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:35:14 +0000

A transgender woman has filed a lawsuit against the city and several police officers who allegedly humiliated her and chained her to a wall inside the station house for 28 hours after she was arrested in the subway. According to the lawsuit, which you can read in full below, Temmie Breslauer was arrested by an undercover cop last month for illegally using her father’s discount fare card at the 125th Street subway station. Breslauer, whose legal name is Todd, is a transgender person undergoing hormone replacement therapy and intends to undergo genital reassignment surgery. She alleges that police “targeted” her because of her appearance, and then prolonged her booking so they could torment her. [ more › ]

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Video: Subway Performer Sings Adele’s "Someone Like You"… Nails It

Cole Perkins — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:39:06 +0000

One of this season’s greatest Saturday Night Live sketches was when they paid notice Adele’s “Someone Like You,” and its ability to make everyone cry ( video ). So naturally, when this subway performer at 86th Street beautifully belted out the tune, it got a lot of attention. He even tells the crowd afterwards: “I tell you, if you ever see someone do that song and they don’t drop a tear, don’t give ‘em shit, don’t give ‘em nothin’, because that song is nothin’ but love.” Watch below, and make sure you’ve got a Kleenex handy. [ more › ]

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Grand Central Drowns Out Occupy Wall Street Protesters With Train Announcements

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:20:00 +0000

Grand Central Terminal was relatively quiet and uncrowded last night at 5:15, and if not for the heavy police presence, you wouldn’t have known that protesters were about to start making noise about a grab bag of political issues. Last time Occupy Wall Street raised their voices in the station a handful of demonstrators were swiftly arrested. But the widely-replicated video of cops collaring a woman for shouting was bad optics, so this time the authorities played it smart—letting the rabble rousers yell to their hearts’ content, while effectively drowning them out with an unbroken stream of announcements over the terminal’s p.a. system. [ more › ]

At $3.8 Billion, 1 World Trade Center Is The Most Expensive Building In The World

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:15:00 +0000

As One World Trade Center has passed the 90th floor of its construction, it’s reached another milestone: It’s now costing more than $3.8 billion. The Wall Street Journal reports that it’s the “world’s most expensive new office tower, according to people familiar with the matter. The new figure [is] up $700 million from the latest public estimate.” [ more › ]

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Is OWS Livestreamer Snitching Or Reporting?

Cole Perkins — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:58:01 +0000

In our coverage of last night’s Occupy Wall Street march, we noted that a masked protester struck a man operating a camera that was livestreaming. That man is Tim Pool, a well-known if extremely divisive documenter of Occupy Wall Street. Pool records everything he sees—including protesters releasing the air out of the tires of NYPD squad cars during the eviction of Zuccotti Park. Last night, Pool’s presence was especially significant considering the aggressive tactics of some of the protesters: is he a valuable outlet for transparency or a self-promoting “snitch” who has been less than candid about his motives? [ more › ]

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Video: Bottles Tossed In Clash Between NYPD & OWS

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:08:07 +0000

Approximately eight people were arrested during an Occupy Wall Street march last night held in solidarity with the protesters detained in Oakland over the weekend. At times the march became violent, as several protesters out of the nearly 300 who attended hurled glass bottles and other projectiles in the police’s direction, and the NYPD responded by forcefully shoving their way into large crowds of people and arresting those in the vicinity of the bottle-throwers. [ more › ]

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Le Bernardin’s Eric Ripert Gives His Airport Dining Picks

Cole Perkins — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:25:48 +0000

Former Playboy enthusiast and Le Bernardin chef Eric Ripert of Top Chef fame gave his favorite airport dining spots to the Wall Street Journal, and shockingly Cinnabon didn’t make the list. Correctly noting that “there’s always time to eat in airports, because flights are always being delayed,” Ripert chooses the pizza joint Crust at LaGuardia for their “thin crust, well seasoned, good-quality ingredients,” and Bobby Van’s Steakhouse at JFK. If we could eat the sense of helpless rage, we wouldn’t need a $40 steak. [ more › ]

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Booze, Arrests At "Occuparty" In Williamsburg Last Night

Cole Perkins — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:00:33 +0000

An “Occuparty” at a half-finished apartment complex at Driggs and North Eighth Street in Williamsburg was broken up by the police last night, as a “few dozen” protesters moved trash cans, chanted and pondered a march down Bedford Avenue. While the Daily News and the Post both report arrests and injuries to the police, the NYPD couldn’t confirm how many or what the charges were, and declined to say whether or not any service members were injured. [ more › ]

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2nd Ave Subway Blasting Will Stop In Time For More Blasting

Cole Perkins — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:10:33 +0000

Upper East Siders who enjoy “sleeping” and “resisting the urge to collapse into a weeping ball” may get some relief: the MTA’s Capital Construction president told CB8 on Thursday that the blasting of the Second Avenue subway should cease by the end of the year. While those who live around 72nd Street may be able to retire their earplugs by New Year’s Eve, the Post reports that blasting work at the site of the new station will begin on 86th street in April, and could last through 2013. They’re gonna need more Sinatra. [ more › ]

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NYC Street Photographer’s 1950s Photos Found, Headed To Queens Museum Of Art

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:30:00 +0000

Starting February 5th and running through May 20th, the Queens Museum of Art will be showing off the work of photographer Frank Oscar Larson , who documented the streets of New York in the 1950s. They’re in possession of “several thousand historic negatives hidden from sight for 55 years,” and will bring 65 of them in print form to their “1950s New York Street Stories” installation. Larson was a Queens banker who had a “lifelong passion for photography” and yielded a tremendous images of everyday life in 1950s New York. [ more › ]

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