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Hey, if you are going to plug Chronic City, atleast mention that Jonathan Lethem is the author. ...

I wouldn't bother trying to argue with the one-comment account "donlane" back at 12. I read that comment "while AIPAC is very up front in the open about its lobbying" and thought, hmmm, those words ar...

...Nets should be in Newark... As long as the Newark Nets play near the train station and Malcolm Gladwell calls the games, I'm in. ...

Northeast corner of Mulberry and Prince, which is (or was last week) a parking lot, right? Supa! Ya got your Delicatessen on one corner, your Fluevog, your Shakeshack, and, um, Ole St. Patricks! Mark...

I was reminded today, after biking on the sidewalk, again, that, yeah, sometimes it's necessary. I try to coast through those areas, ready to stop, but I take the sidewalk if my life is at risk. I ack...

Ugh. Why Gothamist comments go downhill so fast? Again, I'll guess it's because The Manhattan Institute interns have a lot of time on their hands. Maybe taunting Gothamist readers is a just a game f...

... Limbaugh blows smoke all the time; almost nothing he says is true... For the last week or so, I've been listening to what I can take of Rush and, yup, it's hard to find much truth in his rants. ...

It seems likely that Limbaugh is, ahem, downsizing. He's going to sell his 5th Ave. penthouse in this market? (Or does he have two apartments in NY? He seems to say he's selling an apartment and a con...

Aw, drats. Chico and Pete are EV living treasures. (I wonder if Pete is planning on becoming Jario's assistant?) Really nice guys who do a lot of very generous things--above and beyond Chico's murals-...

Hmmm, I just checked again. And, well, various court documents spell it both ways. However, the indictment headers spell it the way you have it, Mazoltuv. (Proving once again TNH's rule that all gramm...

Just for the sake of blog professionalism... The court documents spell the bad doctor's name like this: Mazoltov Borukhova ...

Love this: ...Devin Harris had 26, the Nets shot 61 percent from the floor. This is the Knicks' third win in a row... Hey, that only looks like a Knicks win from across the river. ...

I'm sure someone around here knows the details but I _thought_ the story was that the books were given back to Andreas Brown by the anonymous person (the landlord?) who bought them for $400k at the au...

...budget deficit of $1.2 billion... That sucks but, ya know, it's a fraction of a fraction of the financial bailout crap. (And I haven't noticed any belly up executives riding the trains, seems like...

Every other block below 14th St. has a bunch of ConEd guys sitting around a smoking manhole. Hello, it snows in NYC. And, hello, there's a lot of salt around when it snows. Seems to me ConEd should in...