Later today we will learn the field for March Madness and 65 teams will get a chance to win a championship. It’s an exciting day on the sports schedule and it leads into one of the best three weeks of the year for sports fans. [...]
Later today we will learn the field for March Madness and 65 teams will get a chance to win a championship. It’s an exciting day on the sports schedule and it leads into one of the best three weeks of the year for sports fans. [...]
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After news that 75% of cabbies had overcharged passengers at least once, some drivers are worried: Osman Chowdhury, who returned $500,000-worth of diamond jewelry left in his cab, told the Daily News, "I feel very" [...]
American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi says she’ll totally support her dad Joe DioGuardi's Republican bid for the senate, even though where politics is concerned, they’ve had their differences. "We don't always agree on every issue," she told the Post, equivocating when questioned about' [...]
A firefighter, an entrepreneur and a real estate broker bought up city domain names when they were cheap, and hope to make their fortunes selling them off. In 1994 when Leland Hardy purchased it, NewYork.com cost just a few dollars. Since then, would-be buyers [...]
The author of a new book about the CIA’s hallucinogenic drug tests during the Cold War says there’s evidence the agency used NYC commuters as their experimental subjects. He found documentation of the subway tests—which allegedly occurred in 1950—while researching his nonfiction account. "The experiment" [...]
I don't know about you, but when the rest of the country discovers one of our colorful local politicians it makes me want to take them off my iPod. Still, they just don't know Hiram Monserrate li...
Continue reading "Hiram Monserrate, the AP, and Burying the Lede" [...]
Photo by Remi Carreiro/Torontoist.
Chicagoist began a new series in their ongoing look at the battle to bring another Wal-Mart to the [...]
From Daily News cover The larger-than-life Jets coach Rex Ryan is working on his mid-section with some help from modern medical technology. The Daily News found out that "Ryan underwent weight-loss surgery Saturday at NYU Medical Center... A scheduled lap-band procedure was" [...]
The latest company being called out for their discriminating hiring practices is J. Crew (following the lead of Prada, American Apparel and scores of others). Today a rally will go down at 1:15 p.m. in front of their 5th Avenue location, after [...]
The News has some of the further adventures of former Representative Eric Massa in the Navy (briefly: if the stories are true, he's sexually harassed subordinates and has serious boundary issues)...
Continue reading "Eric Massa Proves We Need DADT, According to Someone Who Really Likes DADT" [...]
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A Brighton Beach apartment complex is cracking down on dog owners, fining them $100/month and threatening to take away their parking spaces if they don't get rid of their pets. A spokesman for the board of Trump Village—a sprawling' [...]
Last night, Jerry Seinfeld, NBC's maybe savior, appeared on Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update to join Seth Meyers to question recently resigned Congressman Eric Massa's decision making process. One line from Seinfeld: "I can't stop thinking, if that's snorkeling, what's scuba diving?"
Massa' [...]
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In a special new Sunday newspaper roundup, we discover that Jamaica has the best photo illustrations [...] 
According to a new study, sluggish emergency workers are taking longer to get to some NY areas. Of course it’s all relative: the worst delays are in Carroll Gardens where distressed New Yorkers waited an average of 33 seconds longer in 2009 and in the [...]
Last week was a difficult one for those of us engaged in the political arena. To no one’s surprise life goes on. The Massa story continues to play out. But there were other stories. The mayoral control debate is heating up and there is posturing, poor decisions on projects like [...]
Why has our profession, through its general silence -- or only spasmodic protest -- helped Fox legitimize a style of journalism that is dishonest in its intellectual process, untrustworthy in its conclusions and biased in its gestalt? Howell Raines [...] 
Mayor Bloomberg loves ladling out diet tips, but he's not about to give up his salty hot sausages. The Post reports that on his weekly radio show he called a recent proposal to ban salt in restaurants “ridiculous.” "You have to have" [...]
A northeast storm which knocked out power to almost half a million homes yesterday has left almost a quarter of a million Con Ed customers in Westchester and New York (live outage map), LIPA custo...
Continue reading "Over 230,000 Without Power in NY Area After Northeast" [...]
Photograph of suspect Mbarek Lafrem by David Karp/AP The construction worker who was arrested for the vicious beating of a woman in a Midtown bar's bathroom told the police he was acting in self-defense. According to court papers, Mbarek Lafrem [...]
It’s come out that another top aide to Gov. Paterson was involved in a domestic dispute, serious enough that officials were alerted. The Times Union reports that in 1995 Clemmie Harris, who at the time was a state trooper, got in a heated [...]
Cops are looking for two jewel thieves who posed as buyers, then bound and tied the employees at a Diamond District gem store, before committing a robbery at gunpoint. "One of the hawkers on the street who grab people brought the guys up," a security [...]
And now there are 8 ads weirder than Carly Fiorina's "Demon Sheep." "No-one knows from whence it came," according to the voice over for Fred Davis' latest shot at viral glory (video after the ju...
Continue reading "Carly Fiorina Presents Demon Sheep II: Bring Me the'" [...]
boogaloo66 on Flickr The Nor'easter that swept in yesterday left a lot of damages and three deaths in its wake. Two people were killed by a falling tree in Teaneck, NJ while a woman in Bay Shore, Long Island was also' [...]
For a second there I thought this woman in the photo was Ann Althouse. I was like holy crap! Why is Ann on the front page (gossip section) of the Daily News with this dude? Then I read the caption. [...] 
We caught up with New York Times Media Equation columnist David Carr after a panel he spoke on, titled, "Media Armageddon: What Happens When The New York Times Dies."
While Carr joked on Twitter that he would serve as the "mainstream media pinata" on [...]
Eric Massa will keep most, if not all, of the money he raised and will be able to use it to fund donations to other candidates, according to this Hornell Evening Tribune story.
The story speculates about what Massa will do with the money. If I had to guess, he'll' [...]
I hate to bring it up, but daylight savings time kicked in at 2 this morning. If you haven't yet, move your clock ahead an hour (the current time in New York is here). Think of it as one less hour...
Continue reading "Spring Forward" > ' [...]
Saturday, March 13th, 2010, isn't quite St. Patrick's Day. This matters not to the people of the City of Albany. They hold not two parades each year.
As luck would have it, the parade coincided with the Coffee Party's National Kickoff this year. I don't doubt them [...]
Intense Wind and Rain Blast the New York Region – NYTimes.com
A combination of driving winds and intense rains left hundreds of thousands without power and created serious obstacles to traveling distances both short and long around the New York metropolitan area on Saturday. Earlier in the [...]
Attorney General Eric Holder failed to tell the United States Senate about legal briefs he signed when the lawmakers considered his nomination for his current job. This according to a letter released on Friday.
Two of the briefs involved appeals to the Supreme Court for Jose Padilla, who sought release from [...]
What winds! NotifyNYC issued an alert saying, "All service on the Staten Island Ferry has been suspended in both directions due to severe weather conditions and high tides." The suspension, ordered by the U.S. Coast Guard and captain of the docks ordered, began at 5:30 [...]
