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Our fair city may have dodged a bullet, as the so-called Blizzard of 2015 drifted eastward and spared the Big Apple most of the doomsday scenarios that meteorologists and, ultimately, public officials had predicted.
But as New Yorkers braced for the...
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A sped-up shot from "Aerial NYC" by Randy Scot Slavin
Randy Scott Slavin is something of a drone evangelist.
"People have never seen the inside of a volcano before. But drones have gone there," the filmmaker says of the airborne, remote-controlle...
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The snowpocalypse is behind us and, like a hastily arranged internet sexual encounter, it was short and deeply dissatisfying. Bored, hungry, and fearing for their lives, New Yorkers took to the internet in droves to try to find some companionship for...
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During recent emergency press conferences about Ebola and potentially life-threatening blizzards, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has had to share a little of the limelight.
That's because, just a little off to Hizzoner's right, a deaf interpr...
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The train schedule from last night until this morning
Following Governor Andrew Cuomo's directive for all state agencies to be prepared for Winter Storm Juno, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority stabled all of its passenger trains overnigh...
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As 2015's great blizzard fizzled into not much more than a moderate snowstorm, people started asking what went wrong. Subways were shut down, travel bans were instituted, alcohol was ordered by the truckload, and lots of sex was (or wasn't?) had...al...
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Garrett Broshuis struggled financially during his six-year tour in the minors. Now the recent law school grad has filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit accusing Major League Baseball of violating federal wage laws.
Garrett Broshuis remembers heading f...
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Subway trains resumed service at 9 a.m., and a Sunday schedule was expected to be in effect by noon. But while most of New York was asleep, many so-called "work trains" continued to run throughout the subway system, confusing some and angering others...
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Update, 12:11 p.m.
With New York having seen much less snow than anticipated, Mayor Bill de Blasio is defending the decision to institute a travel ban on all non-emergency vehicles -- even food delivery bicycles -- throughout the city. "The bottom li...
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Evidence suggests there will be no "blizzard babies." But, by all means, prove us wrong.
Mark your calendars, New Yorkers.The supposed #BlizzardOf2015 may have been a dud (at least in New York City), but approximately nine months from today we wil...
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A landmark 2009 reform of New York's drug laws seems to be working as more offenders are being diverted to treatment programs rather than languishing behind bars.
A study released by the nonprofit Vera Institute also finds that there has been less o...
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Every day, another app pops up to "disrupt" something painfully simple (like peeing). Invariably, the app goes public and, eventually, nets its child overlord enough cash to buy some seriously stupid shit. Sadly for our collective schadenfreude, not ...
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If ever asked, most insufferable snobs would probably credit fey, whey-colored genius Andy Warhol for turning boredom into an art form. Especially those movies of his where nothing happens for, like, nine hours. But New Yorkers of a certain age might...
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Here's a Google Map that shows where evidence of rats was identified in official reports by inspectors for all of 2014 and up to January 20, 2015. Click over to the map to also see the more than 7,700 restaurants cited as having evidence of mice du...
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For some reason, a traveler tried to carry this sickle in his carry-on bag at Newark Liberty Airport.
From expandable batons and "sword canes" to gun parts and a really terrifying-looking sickle, New York and New Jersey's Transportation Security...
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Reverend Billy, here pictured in Grand Central Station, is suing the MTA for allegedly accusing him of violence.
Reverend Billy Talen has filed a notice of intent to sue the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for $500,000, accusing the agency o...
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has approved a fare hike that will raise the cost of subway and bus rides by 25 cents starting on March 22.
The increase will see single-ride fares jump a quarter, to $2.75, and will apply to monthly and wee...
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Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a fixture in Albany for decades, was arrested earlier today for what the government says is a long-running, multimillion-dollar bribery and kickback scheme.
The criminal complaint, unsealed at 9:30 a.m. today, alle...
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Silver in 2013
Sheldon Silver's days as Speaker of the New York State Assembly could be numbered following his arrest on January 22 on charges of massive corruption and graft, into the millions of dollars.
But in 1994, when he was voted into the ass...
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On a gray December day, Peter Cullingford walks through his lot of "picture cars," or vehicles used on movie sets.
Growing up, Peter Cullingford never figured on someday owning a fleet of NYPD-labeled Crown Victorias, a New York Department of Corr...
