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Extra, Extra: Carmelo Says He Can Coexist With Lin

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Behold The Hub, A 52-Story Residential Tower Planned For Downtown Brooklyn

The Hub (Dattner Architects) The Steiner family, which operates a successful film and TV production studio at the Brooklyn Navy Yards, today revealed the renderings for a massive residential tower planned for downtown Brooklyn. It will...
Reminder For 1, 2, 3 Riders: FASTTRACK Starts Tonight

Photographs from 4/5/6 FASTTRACK last month (MTA) We've mentioned it a few times already, but here's another warning: The MTA is shutting down the 1, 2, and 3 lines below 34th Street, Monday through Friday from...
Pepper-Spraying NYPD White-Shirt Tony Bologna Sued By OWS Protesters

Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna, the alleged NYPD official who discharged pepper spray on protestors during demonstrations on Saturday (Jim Kiernan / Gothamist) NYPD Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna, who was filmed pepper spraying a group of Occupy...
Apple Asks Independent Group To Audit Chinese Factories

A man stands near an Apple display in Shanghai, China (AP) Following the Times' damning investigative series on the human costs of its cheap electronics and Mike Daisey's scathing one-man show, Apple has announced that they...
Alleged Gangster Rapper Indicted For Murder He Tweeted About Getting Away With

A rapper who was indicted on drug charges in 2010 and accused of running violent drug gang out of the Gowanus Projects has now been indicted for a murder he tweeted about getting away with. Ronald...
Video: Watch This Guy Bait And Box Pigeons On Wall Street

We just stumbled across this footage of a man baiting and trapping pigeons on Wall Street last week... you know, during our afternoon search for fresh pigeon videos. The uploader, who did an amazing job soundtracking...
Jeremy Lin's Elaborate Handshake Becomes Minor "Linning" Meme

Looking for a... lin Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin—aka, the Most Linportant Basketball Player EVER (in the past week)—has really taken the city and nation by storm as balm for a struggling team and a lockout-bruised league....
NYPD Now Training Cops To Use "Find My iPhone"

This year the NYPD has had a few successes finding stolen iPhones using Apple's GPS-based "Find My iPhone" feature. So naturally the NYPD is now reportedly teaching cops to use the technology. Apparently last month the...
Elk Hotel, Relic Of Times Square's Seedy Past, Has Closed

The Elk Hotel's iconic sign (margotwood) Spending your lunchbreak in Midtown with a prostitute just got a little harder: the Elk Hotel, one of the last pay-by-the-hour flophouses that used to be so prevalent around Times...
Schumer Wants Airport "Passenger Advocates" To Deal With Inappropriate TSA Agents

(AP) In December, after a series of embarrassing airport security incidents involving elderly women, Senator Chuck Schumer called on the TSA to implement "passenger advocates" at airports. These advocates would, in theory, be summoned by passengers...
Even God Hates Valentine's Day: 6 Religions Kill Cupid

Beware! (screenshot) Valentine's Day is a garish, corporate shill designed to trick you into substituting commerce for Love, but don't take our word for it: it also just happens to be the Word of God. We...
Gay Marriage Passes 24-16 In New Jersey State Senate

Madison Galluccio makes an impassioned plea to let her two dads marry in the New Jersey State Assembly last week. And the complicated position that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has put himself in gets more...
Teen Fatally Stabbed In Williamsburg Parking Lot Football Game

(Google Maps) An impromptu football game in the parking lot of a Key Food in Williamsburg ended tragically for a Bronx teenager Saturday night. Edgar Soto, 17, was visiting the neighborhood with his mother to attend...
Cold Is Gone, Another Mild Week Ahead

Photo from T. Carrigan on Flickr Well, that forecast of snow was a bust, but at least it got cold yesterday. For the first time in nearly three weeks we had a colder than normal day...

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Recent Entries in News

Extra, Extra: Carmelo Says He Can Coexist With Lin

Behold The Hub, A 52-Story Residential Tower Planned For Downtown Brooklyn

The Hub (Dattner Architects) The Steiner family, which operates a successful film and TV production studio at the Brooklyn Navy Yards, today revealed the renderings for a massive residential tower planned for downtown Brooklyn. It will...

Reminder For 1, 2, 3 Riders: FASTTRACK Starts Tonight

Photographs from 4/5/6 FASTTRACK last month (MTA) We've mentioned it a few times already, but here's another warning: The MTA is shutting down the 1, 2, and 3 lines below 34th Street, Monday through Friday from...

Pepper-Spraying NYPD White-Shirt Tony Bologna Sued By OWS Protesters

Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna, the alleged NYPD official who discharged pepper spray on protestors during demonstrations on Saturday (Jim Kiernan / Gothamist) NYPD Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna, who was filmed pepper spraying a group of Occupy...

Apple Asks Independent Group To Audit Chinese Factories

A man stands near an Apple display in Shanghai, China (AP) Following the Times' damning investigative series on the human costs of its cheap electronics and Mike Daisey's scathing one-man show, Apple has announced that they...

Alleged Gangster Rapper Indicted For Murder He Tweeted About Getting Away With

A rapper who was indicted on drug charges in 2010 and accused of running violent drug gang out of the Gowanus Projects has now been indicted for a murder he tweeted about getting away with. Ronald...

Video: Watch This Guy Bait And Box Pigeons On Wall Street

We just stumbled across this footage of a man baiting and trapping pigeons on Wall Street last week... you know, during our afternoon search for fresh pigeon videos. The uploader, who did an amazing job soundtracking...

Jeremy Lin's Elaborate Handshake Becomes Minor "Linning" Meme

Looking for a... lin Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin—aka, the Most Linportant Basketball Player EVER (in the past week)—has really taken the city and nation by storm as balm for a struggling team and a lockout-bruised league....

NYPD Now Training Cops To Use "Find My iPhone"

This year the NYPD has had a few successes finding stolen iPhones using Apple's GPS-based "Find My iPhone" feature. So naturally the NYPD is now reportedly teaching cops to use the technology. Apparently last month the...

Elk Hotel, Relic Of Times Square's Seedy Past, Has Closed

The Elk Hotel's iconic sign (margotwood) Spending your lunchbreak in Midtown with a prostitute just got a little harder: the Elk Hotel, one of the last pay-by-the-hour flophouses that used to be so prevalent around Times...

Schumer Wants Airport "Passenger Advocates" To Deal With Inappropriate TSA Agents

(AP) In December, after a series of embarrassing airport security incidents involving elderly women, Senator Chuck Schumer called on the TSA to implement "passenger advocates" at airports. These advocates would, in theory, be summoned by passengers...

Even God Hates Valentine's Day: 6 Religions Kill Cupid

Beware! (screenshot) Valentine's Day is a garish, corporate shill designed to trick you into substituting commerce for Love, but don't take our word for it: it also just happens to be the Word of God. We...

Gay Marriage Passes 24-16 In New Jersey State Senate

Madison Galluccio makes an impassioned plea to let her two dads marry in the New Jersey State Assembly last week. And the complicated position that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has put himself in gets more...

Teen Fatally Stabbed In Williamsburg Parking Lot Football Game

(Google Maps) An impromptu football game in the parking lot of a Key Food in Williamsburg ended tragically for a Bronx teenager Saturday night. Edgar Soto, 17, was visiting the neighborhood with his mother to attend...

Cold Is Gone, Another Mild Week Ahead

Photo from T. Carrigan on Flickr Well, that forecast of snow was a bust, but at least it got cold yesterday. For the first time in nearly three weeks we had a colder than normal day...