A Buffalo Hospital Is On Lockdown After Deadly Shooting
A Buffalo, N.Y. hospital is on lockdown after a woman was fatally shot this morning, WKBW.com reports. Police are still searching for the suspect and a SWAT team has been called to the scene. The...
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Grab A Burger And Catch A Classic Film At This Hot New Chelsea Eatery
Burgers sizzling on the grill, old movies playing in the background, and a Tiki bar serving up drinks--welcome to Brighton, the eatery at the Eventi Hotel in Chelsea that opened last month. The space...
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Uber Wants To Win A Big App Contest To Get More New York City Users
Uber, the black car service locator and payment app, just submitted its NYC taxi app application last minute. Even though The NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) has been accepting applications...
View ArticleWATCH: New York Subway Conductor Appears To Be Napping On The Job
If you think you're safe on New York's subway trains, recent conductor behavior may make you reconsider. According to an WNBC News 4 New York report, a passenger recorded the conductor of an Uptown-1...
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Meet The Graphic Design Student Who Is Creating A Sandwich For Every State
Kelly Pratt, a Chicago design graduate student at Chicago Portfolio School, loves sandwiches. In an attempt to marry her love for design and good eats, Pratt has started a website called Stately...
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Baseball Like You've Never Seen It, As It Was Played In 1864
On Governor's Island, in New York City, men gather to play one of America's oldest pastimes. But unlike many local leagues, these men play baseball as it was in the old days. The Gotham Baseball Club...
View ArticleWATCH: TV Anchor Sue Simmons Really Doesn't Want To Leave WNBC
After a 32-year run at NBC's flagship station, Friday night was Sue Simmons final broadcast alongside co-host Chuck Scarborough on WNBC. As with most anchors' goodbyes, the local New York affiliate...
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A CUNY Business School Inflated Grades For Wall Streeters To Keep Them Paying...
An internal investigation at the City University of New York found that Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business purposely inflated the GPAs of about 15 students in their accelerated executive...
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HOUSE OF THE DAY: Rent A Synagogue-Turned-Mansion In The East Village For...
Some say that God is the only man who can own a house of worship. If you have $25,000 lying around and a love for Brazilian cherry floors though, you too can live in a four-story religious sanctuary,...
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Alec Baldwin Just Punched A New York Photographer, Tweets Super Angry Reaction
After obtaining a marriage license with fiancé Hilaria Thomas this morning in New York, Alec Baldwin socked a New York Daily News photographer who got a little too close to the actor.“I knew he was...
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A U.S. Attorney Wants To Seize And Deport A Million-Dollar T-Rex Skeleton
A T-rex skeleton sold at auction for $1,052,500 is now facing deportation for allegedly being illegally imported. U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara filed a civil...
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Rosenwach Tank Has Stayed In Business For 150 Years Doing Something That's...
Six workers are swinging axes, hauling timber and throwing around an arsenal of power tools perched high above an old building on Harlem's 125th Street. With no scaffolding or supports, they're a rare...
View ArticleThe Top 100 Early-Stage Investors In New York: The Complete A-Z List
Josh Abramson James Altucher Phin Barnes John Borthwick Mike Brown Jr. Marissa Campise Brian Cohen Dennis Crowley Anil Dash Owen Davis Chris Dixon Mike Duda Anu Duggal Eliot Durbin Esther Dyson...
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The 15 Most Expensive Cities For Prospective Homebuyers
It may be a buyer's market, but the median home prices in some of America's hottest cities are anything but cheap. New York City actually falls second to San Francisco as the most expensive...
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Gorgeous Photos From The Wild Music Festival That Took Over Randall's Island...
This weekend The Governors Ball held its second annual event on Randall's Island (last year it was on Governors Island) and it was a huge success. The two-day festival was jam-packed with music on two...
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The (Near) Billion-Dollar Club: The 11 Most Valuable Startups In New York
There have never been so many high-value startups in New York. Three startups have had $100 million+ exits this year, including Buddy Media which was acquired for $800 million. At least 11 others are...
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Retired Lawyer Looking For Easier Living Scaled Back To $3 Million Penthouse
Who knew stairs were such a dealbreaker? After James Freund retired from big law firm Skadden Arps, his wife decided it was time for a change. Two years prior, in 2005, the couple has swapped its $5...
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An Unemployed Man Missed His Job Interview To Save A Baby From An Oncoming Train
It sounds like something out of a Hollywood script, but an unemployed Brooklyn man might as well add "Consummate Hero" to his resume. Delroy Simmonds missed a job interview Tuesday after jumping in...
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One Of New York's Oldest Law Firms Is Getting A New Head Honcho
The man who steered one of New York's most notable law firms through the recession will give up his position early next year. Evan Chesler will step down in January 2013 as presiding partner of...
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Historian Explains How Lunch Breaks Became A Thing
Modern clockwatchers treasure their lunch break, but there was a time it didn't exist at all. In an interview with Edible Geography, Laura Shapiro, co-curator of the New York Public Library's Lunch...
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