Posted by in New York on 09 2nd, 2010 | No Comments
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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Posted by in New York on 09 2nd, 2010 | No Comments
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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Posted by in New York on 09 2nd, 2010 | No Comments
Owner Of Car Damaged By Jumper: "I Miss It. It’s My Baby."
Owner Of Car Damaged By Jumper: "I Miss It. It’s My Baby."
Photographs of the car—plus inset of Magill’s shoe, which landed on another car—from WABC 7 Maria McCormack lent her red Dodge Charger to her husband on Tuesday—only for the car to be totaled after cushioning the 39-story fall of an apparently suicidal man . She moaned to the...
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Posted by in New York on 08 30th, 2010 | No Comments
Brooklyn Mother: "Man In Uniform" Let My Daughter Die
Brooklyn Mother: "Man In Uniform" Let My Daughter Die
Briana Ojeda (WABC 7) The mother of an 11-year-old girl who died of an asthma attack on Friday says a man, whom she believes to be a cop, kept her from getting her daughter to a hospital. Carmen Ojeda’s daughter, Briana, began suffering an asthma attack in a playground in Carroll Gardens on Friday...
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Posted by in New York on 08 29th, 2010 | No Comments
Last Night’s Action: Offense Saves Sabathia
Last Night’s Action: Offense Saves Sabathia
Yankees 12, White Sox 9: CC Sabathia has saved the Yankees’ bacon many times this season, but this time the offense saved his. Marcus Thames had two of the Yankees’ four homers as New York picked up a critical game in Chicago. Mark Teixeira left the game with a bruised thumb, but that didn’t...
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Posted by in New York, Real Estate on 08 28th, 2010 | No Comments
Times-O-Matic Real Estate Radar: Some Absorption Rates; A Compulsive Buyer Settles Down
If reading The Hunt stokes your deepest hopes that someday everything in life could work out, then you, too, are obsessed with the New York Times Sunday Real Estate section . Join us as we venture into the depths of this weekend’s installment, figuring out along the way what the subtext of each...
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Posted by in New York on 08 28th, 2010 | No Comments
Ambassador’s 17-Year-Old Daughter Partied With Fake ID
Ambassador’s 17-Year-Old Daughter Partied With Fake ID
                      Early yesterday, the 17-year-old daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to Thailand fell over 20 stories to her death in Midtown, after a night of partying. While it’s unclear whether she was drinking (an autopsy is being performed),...
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Posted by in New York on 08 28th, 2010 | No Comments
Food Truck Takes Over Tavern On The Green
Food Truck Takes Over Tavern On The Green
Shuttered Tavern On The Green will be getting a taste of the city’s food truck trend now that the Parks Department awarded a one-year $100,000 concession to Mount Kisco based Ladle of Love —now with a new Rosh Hashanah menu ! The truck will be serving soups, sandwiches and salads as well...
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Posted by in New York on 08 28th, 2010 | No Comments
NJ Education Commish Asked To Be Fired For Unemployment
NJ Education Commish Asked To Be Fired For Unemployment
Bret Schundler The saga of New Jersey’s $400 million education funding SNAFU continues. When we last left off, Governor Christie was so upset over the mistake that he fired state Education Commissioner Bret Schundler. But now, Schundler says he asked Christie to fire him instead of forcing him...
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Posted by in New York on 08 26th, 2010 | No Comments
Cop Claims He Was Brutalized By Police
Cop Claims He Was Brutalized By Police
Some citizens are no strangers to the baton’s end of police brutality , but it’s rare for another cop to be the recipient of it. Yet that’s exactly what Larry Jackson, a six-year veteran assigned to the 110th Precinct, says happened to him last weekend. “To get my butt beat like...
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