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From the Gothamist Newsmap: A jumper up at W 25th in Manhattan, a home invasion robbery on 17th Ave in Brooklyn and a CO incident at Garrison Ave & Bryant Ave in the Bronx. Since the real [...]
plemeljr's Flickr Mayor Bloomberg might not be a fan of grace periods, but he is an avid supporter of running to re-fill your Muni-Meter. The Mayor, along with Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, put out a request today for "100 professional gut-busters" [...]
After almost two years of waiting for DOT analysis of a proposed cycle track for Dyckman Street in Upper Manhattan, advocates this week were promised ... more waiting.
Dyckman at Nagle Ave. Photo: Dry Fly Guy/Flickr
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Just weeks after a horrifying murder on the D train in which straphangers were locked in a subway car with the suspect until police arrived, a Gothamist tipster describes a scary — though thankfully less violent — [...]
Tales of a Flaneur's Flickr The owners and managers of M. Slavin & Sons' fish distribution center in Brownsville have been hit with a federal lawsuit accusing them of subjecting black employees to a torrent of racist, sexual harassment. According to' [...]
Photograph by ryan muir on Flickr In Albany, someone needs to take remedial accounting: Apparently the state miscalculated how much the MTA would get from a payroll tax associated with the bailout and it turns out the transit agency is getting [...]
via Triborough's flickr The bus lane on 42nd Street isn't quite living up to its name, the Daily News reports. The lane is supposed to be dedicated to the M42 bus — which just last month was called out as the' [...]
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has vowed to dedicate the next four years to food. She has a dream that the city can create jobs, improve food quality, support local farmers, and improve the environment by bringing NYC's "food infrastructure" [...]
"Standing in the Middle of the Stuy Town Oval," from Marianne O'Leary's Flickr. When the state's highest court ruled in October that the new owners of Stuyvesant Town should not have raised rents beyond certain set levels while also receiving tax' [...]
Photograph by dietrich on Flickr A Treasury report suggests that the government will, as the NY Times reports, "recover all but $42 billion of the $370 billion it has lent to ailing companies since the financial crisis began last year, with" [...]
Hundreds of demonstrators protested over the weekend against the plan to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other suspected 9/11 plotters in a Manhattan civilian court.
On Saturday, protesters rallied in Foley Square in front of the federal [...]
Photograph of a conductor on a Coney Island bound Nostalgia Train last year by j.reed on Flickr
Nostalgia Train fans, this is your month! NYC Transit is running the 1930s-era Nostalgia Shoppers' Special on the V line between Long Island City' [...]
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Fine, the snow didn't stick, but snowflakes did come down starting yesterday afternoon, after a rather miserable rainy wet morning. One person told NY1, "It's like winter, might as well feel like winter." Indeed! But in' [...]
Mayor Bloomberg says that if the City Council's planned five-minute grace period for parking violations goes into effect, there will be "chaos" on the streets. Based on this Daily News article, that already seems to be the case [...]
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With a state appeals court's 3-2 decision to call NY State's seizure of West Harlem land by way of eminent domain "unconstitutional," the land owners who sued are thrilled. Nick Sprayregen, a storage business owner, [...]
A rally was held in Union Square last night to support same-sex marriage. Erin M's FlickrYesterday City Council Speaker Christine Quinn urged angry New Yorkers to keep the blame focused on the politicians who voted down a bill legalizing gay' [...]
