Cops caught an 18-year-old suspected of getting it on with horses at the Goshen Historic Track in Orange County. After a six-month sting, investigators used surveillance footage to nab Erick Rivera, who was hit with multiple charges for sexual misconduct with an animal and burglary [...]
Manhattan CB4's transportation committee passed a resolution last night in favor of speedier transit and improved pedestrian conditions on 34th Street. The vote followed a brief presentation from NYCDOT outlining several options for a second phase of transit enhancements on the crosstown corridor. It's still very early in the [...]
According to Dealbreaker, outgoing Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack told employees he's not taking a bonus this year "citing market conditions and the extraordinary assistance the government lent to the banking industry... Mr. Mack has now foregone a bonuses for three years in a" [...]
While our state senators tripped over their own dicks and lost the gay marriage bill, DC has been a churning gay-marriage-sanctifying machine. They got the second read of their marriage equality b...
Continue reading "D.C. Mayor Signs Gay Marriage Bill; Congress Next" >We reported on channel 8’s Evan Axelbank’s story on the Senate Democrats tax payer funded campaign outreach office on Wednesday.
There was a second part of the report– sorry no video link. Mayor Duffy’s staff and County Executive Brooks tell Axelbank that they’ve had no contact with anyone from [...]
Earlier this year the Board of Health began weighing a plan to require restaurants to prominently display a letter grade of A, B or C, depending on the sanitary conditions. (Those restaurants receiving Bs and Cs would be inspected more often than those inspectors'' [...]
Will NYPD cruisers and other bus lane blockers steer clear of the next transit improvement on 34th Street? Photo: Chris O'Leary.
State Inspector General Joseph Fisch found that Forensic Scientist Garry Veeder routinely gave trace-evidence results without actually performing the tests. The cost to law enforcement around the state will be steep:
This misconduct prompted an examination of Veeder’s 322 cases by outside forensic scientists which revealed a 29% deficiency rate. As [...]
[Ms. I is a second-year teacher in a high school in Brooklyn.]
As tends to be the case in major life events, my high school teaching career began when I least expected. Midway through the school year, I was welcomed into a wonderful school community. I shed tears of joy. For [...]
A Windsor Terrace grocery store manager came under fire from customers for installing and promptly removing a menorah and a Christmas tree he had placed in front of his store. For the second year in a row, Key Food manager Mike Jordings allowed Rabbi Moshe [...]
Islanders 2, Rangers 1: They didn't get shut out, but the Rangers deserved to. They played the entire game as if they were short-handed and didn't score a goal until 55 seconds remained in the third period. Jon Sim and Blake Comeau had the [...]
State Assembly member Micah Kellner, City Council members Melissa Mark-Viverito and Dan Garodnick, Council member-elect Margaret Chin, and State Senator Bill Perkins are among 19 local electeds calling on DOT and the MTA to implement "true BRT" and "complete streets" on First and Second [...]
With all teh attention on huuugh downtown projects like RenSquare, Paetec HQ, Midtown, RBTL etc, this is bad news -
If you didn’t like the edgy, ultra-contemporary design for the $45 million hotel and condo development planned for across the street from the Eastman Theatre, you’re in luck. | The [...]
The MTA board just voted to pass that new budget with service cuts. MTA Chairman Jay Walder "stressed the preliminary nature of this proposal," says Second Avenue Sagas, which live-tweeted the me...
Continue reading "MTA Passes New Doomsday Budget (Updated)" > [...]Only these records aren't ones to be proud of.
In today's Q poll, the New York State Legislature has its worst approval and disapproval rating of all' [...]
Don’t delay! Nothing says “Merry Christmas” like an Abort Obama T Shirt. The Zazzle website recently yanked its most offensive designs, but there are still plenty of good racist and violence-condoning pickings. If you wish, check out the deleted choices here.
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First, I like the way the Olmsted Conservancy has handled the Olsmsted parks under their charge in Buffalo…we have seen an improvement in all of them and they haven’t had the type of care and planning we are seeing in who knows how long.
Second, with [...]
The city and state have paid less and less to help kids get to school. Graph of contributions to the student fare program: MTA [PDF].
Hat tip to Ben Kabak at Second Avenue Sagas for plucking this graph from yesterday's urgent session of the [...]
Reed Business Information has been trying to sell off part of its U.S. business, and today it looks like it has entered into a partnership with Condé Nast-owned Fairchild Fashion Group regarding its jewelry industry trade magazine JCK.
In a memo sent to [...]
The city will debut a special limited-edition condom package next fall, and the Health Department is holding a contest to pick the new look. They're calling for designs that reflect NYC's "distinctive culture and style while also promoting safer sex." As they put it
The Department of Health invites you to design the next New York City condom. Yes, those rebranded LifeStyles condoms the city has been handing out like parking tickets for decades are getting a m...
Continue reading "Take the NYC Condom Wrapper Challenge! City Seeks Designs" > [...]Here’s Friday’s episode of WMHT’s “New York Now,” featuring Matt Ryan’s Bruno verdict analysis with the TU’s Jim Odato and Brendan Scott of the New York Post; yours truly talking with state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli about the New York’s fiscal condition; and Irene’s look at how the power of pork [...]
