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- Both NYU and Columbia announced that they have postponed their planned freshman move-ins this Sunday, because of Hurricane Irene.
- Three Queens blocks, from 83rd Street to 86th Street in Jackson Heights, are the most diverse plot of land in the city.
- With his new memoir on the way, get ready to see a lot more of Dick Cheney.
- A judge says that the public should have access to public school teacher evaluations.
- Actress Rose McGowan was once in a cult that prepared for the second coming of Jesus.
- According to a new book, the founder of Ikea allegedly actively recruited Swedes to take up the Nazi cause.
- A Chinatown vendor was arrested for selling an obviously fake cardboard purse that's used in Chinese funeral ceremonies.
- ABC has banned the commercial trailer for the new film Our Idiot Brother, even though it stars the always-affable Paul Rudd.
- A loose-lipped drug dealer lost out on a bid to get his conviction overturned because he yakked too much on a jailhouse phone.
- Wait...do tweets outrun earthquakes?
- Aww, this 94-year-old man has lived in Stuy Town since 1949, when his first rent was $75 a month.
Published Aug 25, 2011
Modified Aug 25, 2011
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