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- More than a thousand rookie cops filled the Apollo Theater in Harlem to attend a four-day diversity lesson taught by some of the NYPD's most outspoken critics.
- A bill before the State Assembly could require mega-stores like Costco and Sam's Club to host reverse vending machines, where customers could unload their recyclables.
- A staffer for an NBC News contractor that published news of Tim Russert's death on Wikipedia before the network had a chance to notify his family was fired.
- It's not a done deal yet, but an MTA official admitted that capital improvements would probably be delayed and fares would increase due to budget concerns.
- "Hot enough to fry an egg" may soon be replaced with "Hot enough to enjoy a therapeutic massage" on the sidewalks of NYC.
- No nice public art gestures go unmolested. The Greenpoint facsimile of a girlfriend exiled to Connecticut was grey-washed by a grinch who wants her to stay there.
- There are the skinny jeans that hipsters wear; and there are the skinny jeans that make wearers appear more slim.
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No nice public art gestures go unmolested.
gee, who could have predicted that would happen?
1,000 rookie cops get four days of "diversity training" at the Apollo Theatre. Next up: 20 years of REAL diversity training to become veteran cops.
It's not art, it's fucking vandalism. Jesus Christ. The fact that it looks like something doesn't make it not spray painted on a door.