Posted by in New York on 03 12th, 2010 | No Comments
Happy Birthday Jack Kerouac, Queens "Recluse"
Happy Birthday Jack Kerouac, Queens "Recluse"
If Jack Kerouac were still alive, he’d be turning 88 today! The author and voice of the Beats made his way all over New York City during his lifetime (the Columbia Spectator just visited some of his old urban haunts)—but his life in Queens was never really well documented, even though he...
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Posted by in New York on 03 12th, 2010 | No Comments
CPSC Issue Sling Warning For Babies Under 4 Months
CPSC Issue Sling Warning For Babies Under 4 Months
From the CSPC site The Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a warning about infant slings today. The agency noted that babies under the age of four months do not have have much neck control, so they may suffocate from while in the sling. The sling-style carriers are popular, because they allow...
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Posted by in New York on 03 12th, 2010 | No Comments
Baby Slows Down Rush Hour Traffic
Baby Slows Down Rush Hour Traffic
A Brooklyn woman gave birth in the back of her livery cab in the Battery Tunnel yesterday morning, slowing down commuters and “freaking out” her cabbie. Park Sloper Maya Polton said her water broke at about 7:30 a.m., but she and her husband waited a little while before calling a cab to...
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Posted by in New York on 03 10th, 2010 | No Comments
Paterson Used State Airplane For Campaigning?
Paterson Used State Airplane For Campaigning?
Is it a weekday? Then there must be a new Paterson scandal to report! This time , Gov. Paterson allegedly used a State airplane for non-State activities last month, including campaigning in Hempstead and Rochester, the Voice reports . Paterson took the trip north on Feb. 20 to attend an outdoors hockey...
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Posted by in Real Estate on 03 10th, 2010 | No Comments
On the Market: Languishing Chelsea Penthouse Not Shy About Dropping Names
On the Market: Languishing Chelsea Penthouse Not Shy About Dropping Names
Click the image above to view the full photogallery. [First photo via Zivkovic Connolly Architects .] Celebrities just can’t stop pretending to call this epic five-bedroom penthouse in Chelsea’s 129 West 20th Street home! The listing doesn’t shy away from blabbing, pointing out that...
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Posted by in New York on 03 8th, 2010 | No Comments
Soda Tax Gathering Momentum
Soda Tax Gathering Momentum
As Governor Paterson returns to Albany today to headline a symposium about a revived penny-per-ounce soda tax , he’s picked up some more support from Mayor Bloomberg, who’s always up for taxing vice . “In these tough economic times, easy fixes to our problems are hard to come by,”...
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Posted by in New York on 03 8th, 2010 | No Comments
Stars Put On Their Oscar Finery For Inevitable Criticism
Stars Put On Their Oscar Finery For Inevitable Criticism
                                                        The Oscars unfolded pretty much as everyone expected (okay, maybe not in the best foreign language film...
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Posted by in New York on 03 8th, 2010 | No Comments
Cop: Superior Punched Me For Refusing To Write Tickets
Cop: Superior Punched Me For Refusing To Write Tickets
from dietrich’s flickr A Bronx cop claims a superior punched him for refusing to write bogus summonses. “I’m not going to give the bread deliveryman a ticket before going into the deli and telling him,” said Officer Anthony Minoia, 46, who is planning on filing suit against the...
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Posted by in New York on 03 7th, 2010 | No Comments
Paterson Pardons Immigrant Who Turned Life Around
Paterson Pardons Immigrant Who Turned Life Around
Yesterday, Governor Paterson announced that he was pardoning a Chinese immigrant who was convicted of muggings when he was 15 but then kept out of trouble and became a successful IT executive. Paterson said, “Qing Hong Wu’s case proves that an individual can, with hard work and dedication,...
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Posted by in New York on 03 4th, 2010 | No Comments
Naomi’s Rage, Married Boyfriend, Silent Driver
Naomi’s Rage, Married Boyfriend, Silent Driver
Naomi and her still married boyfriend Earlier this week Naomi Campbell hit 27-year-old driver Miodrag Mejdina, but he didn’t press charges after spending much of the afternoon at the 17th Precinct. The Daily News says “Coo-Coo” Campbell is now free to move on to her 11th victim, and...
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