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Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'Fear'

June 1, 2008

Photograph of onlookers watching the scene yesterday at 331 East 91 Street by Diane Bondareff/AP Friday's fatal crane collapse at East 91st St. and First Avenue was a horrible shock, but the sad truth is that neighborhood residents had been worried about the crane for a while. Much like the residents where a crane on East 51st Street collapsed on March 15, damaging buildings, completely leveling a townhouse and killing seven people, neighbors near......

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January 15, 2008

For starters, before anyone freaks out, the U.S. Homeland Security threat level is actually just "Elevated" (yellow), though it's "High" for airplane flights. The threat level in NYC is "High" because we're just vigilant like that. However, freaking out over things like threat levels is apparently bad for your health, according to a new study in the Archives of General Psychiatry. Over 2700 adults were studied to " examine the degree to which acute stress......

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