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Louise Meanwell is said to have told her lawyer Stephen Turano that Cashman told her he was aware of steroid use in the Yankees clubhouse, but didn't care as long as it didn't harm the team's reputation, the document says.
Meanwell also told Turano...
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"Anne of Green Gables has appeared in popular costume play series," announces the English version of the priceless cat dress-up web-site Pet Office Cat Prin , right next to this photo of a white tabby dressed up as TV's Rhoda.
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Half of the guns that were seized. The mayor and his righthand man, NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly, have announced the details of the largest gun bust in the history of the city. Over 250 guns were seized, totaling nearly $160,000 in illegal merchan...
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melanzane1013 via Compfight cc The New York Public Library is the second largest library in the United States, and third largest in the world. It possesses over 53 million volumes, sees upward of 15 million visitors a year, and houses a Guten...
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Facebook New Jersey just became the second state in the Union to ban conversion therapy for minors. Telling teens they can overcome their gayness through therapy and prayer, a practice considered by just about everyone with half a brain to be rel...
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New York Times , for instance, dedicated much its New York section to detailing and assessing the three-term mayor's rule--from his sweeping quality-of-life accomplishments to his "tireless coddling" of Wall Street to his regular attendance at a...
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Meet the Press , we got to hear about stop-and-frisk from all angles, starting with Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who made it clear his feelings are extremely bruised by U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin appointing an independent monito r to mak...
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via Flickr It's pretty simple, really: If you want to beat the rap for a public urination ticket (or a ticket for pot possession, littering, spitting, or riding a bicycle on a sidewalk) all you have to do is wait for the right day and show up at a...
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via One of Extell's other developments on the Upper West Side Dear big developers: Not every tax break is worth a bad headline. Extell Development Company is building a 274-unit luxury condo building in the Upper West Side, with plans to put ...
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Every so often rightbloggers look at their cause and their Party and chart a new course of action to guide them back to victory. Though their efforts have of late been about as successful as those of Wrong-Way Peachfuzz , you can't say they're qu...
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shehan365 via Compfight cc When I moved to New York, I hoped I was coming to the big show. Boy , was I right . This political season we've endured enough big-tent theatrics to last a lifetime. But it will all be for nothing if you don't...
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Ch?kz via Compfight cc Did you know that when Nietzche wrote all of history happens in circles, that we are eternally bound to repeat the past in an endless cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, he was referring to delinquent bus companies in S...
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The bullying got so bad, the complaint noted, that Nicholas transferred to a school in Virginia, where his father lived.The suit, filed by the boy's mother Sulay Grant, seeks to hold the school, the city's department of education, and multiple school...
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Condren Rails A very cool vintage Trailways bus, not the one McCollum stole. But who could blame him if he had? Darius McCollum is what you might call a public transportation enthusiast. As a teenager in Queens, he'd cut class to be near the ...
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Last night published author and newly-minted New York Knick Metta World Peace treated Twitter followers to a new original story.
The as-yet-untitled work is a vaguely threatening, sometimes funny, utterly confounding work of magical realism. It's...
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istolethetv via Compfight cc Looks like the ludicrously titled production Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark has had another ludicrously gruesome onstage accident. NY1 reports that an actor got his leg caught in some sort of elevator contraption...
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a thing or two to say about the state of affairs in Washington, but I digress.) NY1's The Call got the loaded chamber on Tuesday when show host John Schiumo fielded a call from a woman known only as "Joan." Claiming to be from the Upper West Side,...
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kuyabic via Compfight cc New Yorkers: Beware. The dark underworld of ice cream truck operators has stepped out into the light of day. Yesterday two ice cream truck drivers got into an argument that quickly escalated into a knife fight. Both m...
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American immigration policy can be complex and subjective . So much so that a Queens man spent 49 months in detention because immigration officials may have misinterpreted the law. Gerald Nwozuzu, it turned out, had been a U.S. citizen the whole tim...
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a de Blasio meet-and-greet with drag queens . Here's the thing about reporters: They're incredibly contrary. (Also, not that hygienic, and so poorly dressed we should probably have our own clothing drive. But that's a different post.) So, when you...
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