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Extra, Extra
Today's late breaking links: an anti-poverty program only kind of works, a Paterson pal gets paid for not going to work, hipsters slide on buildings, how the Amish get news, a perfume poisoning, and James Franco bones up on Queer Cinema.
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Bloomberg on Gay Marriage: I Could Get GOP Sens to Change Teams
Mayor Bloomberg thinks that he could strong-arm local Republican state senators into voting for a gay marriage bill, but he doesn't seem to believe that the Democrats have the cajones to bring Governor Paterson's same-sex marriage...
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Gambling Legal In Manhattan
Of course it is — in private residences. So sure enough some condo developers are betting they can move some units by putting a "poker lounge" in the basement of their building at 254 Park Avenue...
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Is ACORN's Atlantic Yards Connection the Real Scandal?
ACORN at a rally for Atlantic Yards. Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner's quid pro quo relationship with community organizing group ACORN is public knowledge, but now that the group is on the hot seat for those...
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Local Businesses Love Smith Street!
The city’s commissioner of small business services says that he has not seen as high a concentration of local chains anywhere in the city outside of Smith Street in Brooklyn. The Times checks in on the Carroll/Cobble...
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Shameless Bike Lane Block, Courtesy Rite Aid Truck
Courtesy reader "Vince." Believe it or not, we don't publish every egregious bike lane blocking photo that lands in our inbox, but this one's just too delicious to pass up. Taken on the Eighth Avenue bike...
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Land Use Committee Looking for Ways to Ditch the BQE Ditch
After Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez obtained $300,000 in public funds last year for a study to explore possible solutions on what to do with the BQE Ditch, the area along the Columbia waterfront between Cobble Hill and Carroll...
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State Senator On Slashing Girlfriend: It Was An Accident
AP Photo/Craig Ruttle Today in Kew Gardens opening arguments were heard in the bench trial of State Senator Hiram Monserrate, who faces three counts of felony assault against his girlfriend, Karla Giraldo. The Daily News reports...
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Obama, President and Potato Owner, on Letterman Tonight
Photo by Charles Dharapak/AP President Obama and citizen Letterman look like they got along famously today during the taping of tonight's show. Even though he's attained rock star status amongst many, word is that Barack didn't...
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Tabloids Duel For Best Gadhafi Stories
AP Photo/Ben Curtis The Daily News tells us that the red carpet laid out for Gadhafi's welcome at the Libyan Mission was peed on by a "politically incorrect pooch," calling the act a "stream of consciousness...
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New Miss Coney Island Crowned At Burleseque Beauty Pageant
At the 7th Annual Miss Coney Island Burlesque Beauty Pageant last Friday night, contestants Rita Menweep, Fifi Dupree, Gigi LaFemme, Queen La Quefa, Little Miss Lixx, Pandora, Leroi the Girl Boi, Glenn Marla and Minnie Tonka battled...
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Dirty Preggo Comments Provide Fertile Ground for Lawsuit
December Martin is suing publishing house McGraw-Hill on sexual harassment charges, claiming she was driven out of her position as Chief Information Officer. Martin claims that when she became pregnant last year, one of her supervisors told...
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The Stuff at the Bottom of the Bronx River
The Bronx River (not to be confused with the Bronx Swamp) used to be famous for the smell, which, in the immortal words used by journalist Guy Trebay, "could gag a maggot." It always made me...
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Ghostbusters Revisited
If you haven't taken the time to revisit all the Ghostbusters landmarks, and we're guessing that even with this handy map, you haven't—then head over here. The Scout has a side by side comparison of movie stills...
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Cops Crack Down on Bicycle Rental Companies
Mike Dillingham's Flickr The real New York Post (not the far superior, global warming hoax edition) is reporting that the NYPD has cracked down on illegal bike rental vendors. Apparently, you need to be licensed to...
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Ponzi Schemers Get $80M Out of ATM Machines
Two men were arrested by local feds for an ATM Ponzi scheme that netted them over $80 million dollars by soliciting investments towards cash machines they claimed to own but didn't. While they could face up to...
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Pooper Scooper Law Also Applies to Pregnant Teens
If you're pregnant, and your baby daddy is being deployed to Afghanistan, and besides, you were totally going to pick up your dog's poop in a minute... should you still be fined $250 for not doing...
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Will Maloney Make LES Seniors Walk 3 More Blocks for Stamps?
Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney met with the NYC postmaster to discuss the possibility of closing the Pitt Station post office as part of much-needed budget cuts. The USPS points out that Knickerbocker Station is only three-tenths of a...
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Bloomberg Bids to Buy Businessweek
Bloomberg LP is sniffing around for new acquisitions in business media. And now they have placed a bid to buy Businessweek, according to Jon Fine of Businessweek itself (via Fishbowl NY). It's not certain that the...
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Brooklyn: the Ugly Duckling Borough?
Before declaring it the place to be, some Brits color Brooklyn as the "dowdy sister; solely the route to JFK Airport; the Tooting of New York—where people live by necessity, and work to escape from;" and of...