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Verizon Adds $2 Fee For Month-To-Month Credit Card Bills

Verizon Adds $2 Fee For Month-To-Month Credit Card Bills

Verizon! In the latest example of a corporation trying to nickel and dime its customers, the telecom giant has announced a new "$2 payment convenience fee" for people who, well, want to pay their bill. Basically if you are the kind of person who can't commit to auto-paying your phone bill and like to pay online or on your phone, well, your bill is going to be going up two bucks a month starting on Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, January 15. more ›

Jets Need Win Against Suddenly Hapless Bills

Jets Need Win Against Suddenly Hapless Bills

The Jets have had a week and a half to think about suffering two losses in the span of 96 hours. On Sunday, they'll take the field against the depleted Bills, who started the season as a surprise but now have regressed into the hapless team that has resided in Buffalo for the past 10 years. more ›

Jets Travel Upstate to Face Bills In Critical Game

Jets Travel Upstate to Face Bills In Critical Game

Before this 2011 season started, the Jets' game this week at Buffalo appeared to have all the makings of a trap game. A game against the perennial AFC East champion Patriots looms next week, and the Bills have given the Jets—and almost all other teams—no trouble in recent years. But the Bills—not the Patriots and not the Jets—sit in first place in the division, and this week's game in Orchard Park, N.Y., may be as important as the home game against New England next week. more ›

Despite History, Jets Should Have Their Way With Bills

Despite History, Jets Should Have Their Way With Bills

Last season at Giants Stadium, Mark Sanchez played his worst game of his career against the Bills. He threw five interceptions and the Jets lost in overtime. The Jets did manage to win the game "at" Buffalo -- it was played in Toronto -- but the Bills have a recent history of success against the Jets despite a recent history of stinking. This year, the Jets are good enough and the Bills are bad enough that it shouldn't be a problem. more ›

Changes Proposed For Carriage Horse Industry

Changes Proposed For Carriage Horse Industry

Yesterday the City Council's Consumer Affairs Committee held a hearing regarding carriage horses and how proposed bills may help transform the industry, which is under constant scrutiny by animal rights groups. more ›

Con Ed Is Screwing Us All

Con Ed Is Screwing Us All

Shocking. Con Ed reportedly charges the highest residential rates of any major utility in the 48 contiguous states. The only people who pay more live in Alaska, Hawaii, Fishers and Block Islands. more ›

Jets Head North (Way North) to Face Bills

Jets Head North (Way North) to Face Bills

At 5-6, the Jets can still delude persuade themselves they are in the playoff hunt. With their two toughest opponents, the Colts and the Bengals, scheduled for the end of the year and thus likely to be resting players, the Jets' schedule looks manageable. Of course, the Jets are 5-6 for a reason and haven't looked capable of reeling off a six-game winning streak. Could that change? more ›

MetroCard Machines Too Old for New Counterfeit Bills

MetroCard Machines Too Old for New Counterfeit Bills

Time to start setting aside some of those counterfeit bills we ordinarily unload at the peep shows and save them for the subway! The MTA is reportedly "in a mad dash" to update more than 1,600 MetroCard machines throughout the city because they soon won't be high-tech enough to spot the newest generations of rubber money. A new MTA report warns that without an upgrade, the machines "have the potential of accepting up to $60 million in counterfeit bills annually." And then once the machines become self-aware, who knows what they'll accept as payment? The MTA board will vote soon on a plan to fix obsolete machines electronically, which is expected to cost $3.3 million dollars. The Post reports that physically replacing the slots would cost more than three times as much. And a spokesman for NYC Transit tells us the upgrade isn't just about anti-counterfeiting measures, but also intended to accomodate new bill designs issued by the federal government. more ›

Stripper Catches Crook Using Counterfeit Bills

Stripper Catches Crook Using Counterfeit Bills

A discerning dancer at a Times Square peep show nailed an ex-con earlier this month for trying to pay her with phony $10 bills. The unidentified stripper was plying her trade at Gotham City on Eighth Ave, where women perform private dances from behind a glass partition. It was around 2:20 a.m. on May 5th when she noticed that the two ten dollar bills handed to her by customer Michael Harris seemed to be fakes made with an Ink Jet printer. After calling the manager, he confronted Harris, who has done time on a drug conviction. According to court documents obtained by the Post, Harris proceeded to freak out and spilled 21 more bills into the aisle, later telling cops, "I panicked so I dumped them." He was subdued until the arrival of the NYPD and the US Secret Service, which has exclusive jurisdiction in counterfeiting investigations. Apparently, counterfeit money is often passed at peep shows and strip clubs; one employee tells the Post, "It happens all the time." And Gotham City isn't safe from this joker yet—he's currently walking the streets on $2,500 bail. more ›

Video of the Day: Post More Bills

Ever want to post a bill on one of the city's walls only to find a Post No Bills sign standing in your way? Well the Post More Bills campaign is turning it all around. They claim "There is no hidden program, there is no bigger meaning, other than to spreading Bills far and wide and bring a bit of playful relief in our visually saturated media environment." And hey look, that American Apparel billboard is finally gone. more ›

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