Meet New York's Most Dogged Russian Mob Reporter
When journalist Alexandre Grant began covering crime some 25 years ago, gangsters and roughnecks who'd decamped from the teetering Soviet Union roamed New York City's Russian-speaking neighborhoods,...
View ArticleHOUSE OF THE DAY: Incredible Three-Story Penthouse In New York City's Lincoln...
A three-story $42 million penthouse at 1965 Broadway has hit the market in New York City, according to The Real Deal. The penthouse in Lincoln Center has three separate entrances, 16 rooms, two...
View ArticleA Disease We Thought Was History Is Making An Alarming Comeback
We always fear the wrong things.We worry about dying in a plane crash, not a car accident — even though the latter has a far greater risk. So it goes with diseases, where Americans tend to fear distant...
View ArticleBillionaire Barry Diller Is Funding A $130 Million Floating Park In The...
Media mogul Barry Diller and his wife, fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, have committed to funding a floating public park and performance space on a pier in the Hudson River. Their pledge of over...
View ArticleUber Driver Sends Cancer Patient Abusive Messages After She Cancelled Booking...
An Uber driver in New York is accused of sending a female cancer patient a series of abusive messages after she decided to cancel her ride. Alexandra Craigle says she ordered an Uber car to drive her...
View ArticleUber's Top New York Executive Is Being Investigated After Using Uber's 'God...
Uber is investigating its New York general manager Josh Mohrer for tracking a BuzzFeed reporter's location without her permission, BuzzFeed reported Tuesday night. Mohrer used a tool called "God View"...
View ArticleAn Iraq War Veteran Wins National Book Award For Fiction
Phil Klay's "Redeployment," a debut collection of searching, satiric and often agonized stories by an Iraq war veteran, has won the National Book Award for fiction.Klay was chosen Wednesday night over...
View ArticleYoung Wall Street Hit Up This Sold Out Charity Event Last Night
Young New Yorkers kicked off the holiday season on Thursday night at the fifth-annual Toast To Wishes, a charity event organized by Make-A-Wish New York's under-40 board.The event took place at Marquee...
View Article13 Staggering Photos Of Buffalo's Historic Snowstorm
Snowfall in Buffalo broke records this week, with the city getting more snow in two days than it typically does in a year.More than six feet of snow has barricaded people in their homes and stranded...
View ArticleRising Temperatures Might Flood New York Towns That Were Just Hit With 6 Feet...
Washington (AFP) - Record-breaking snowfall that buried towns near Buffalo, New York, and killed at least 14 people posed a major flooding threat with temperatures forecast to rise.Areas of western New...
View ArticleLondon Is Losing More Ground To New York In The Battle To Be The World's...
London is losing even more ground to New York in the battle between the world's two leading financial centers, with the UK capital garnering even fewer votes in an influential survey than in 2013 and...
View ArticleNew York's Skyline Will Look Vastly Different In Three Years
If New Yorkers thought that construction during Michael Bloomberg’s tenure as Mayor was frantic, then what’s coming next might be quite a shock: courtesy of CityRealty, these images show the New York...
View ArticleAl Qaeda Just Released Its Official Biography Of A Notorious American Jihadist
A Twitter account linked to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) today posted a biography of slain AQAP operative Samir Zafar Khan, founder of the terror organization's English-language Inspire...
View ArticleThese Mesmerizing Time-Lapse Maps Show How VC Money Is Changing Major Cities
San Francisco is being flooded with startup funding. Rents are sky high, newly-formed companies are offering lavish perks, and storefronts across the city are transforming. Zillabyte software engineer...
View ArticleThis Is Being Dubbed The Most Expensive Thanksgiving Feast In History
Americans are used to spending a lot at Thanksgiving – feeding a crowd doesn’t come cheap, after all.But one New York restaurant has created a feast that could make you want to run away screaming when...
View ArticleHere's How To Escape New York City During A Doomsday Scenario
As the head of the NYC Preppers Network, New York City firefighter Jason Charles spends his spare time thinking about what would happen in the event of a catastrophe, planning for everything from the...
View ArticleThis New Steampunk Condo Development Is Proof That New York Is Over
This is the top for New York City. It's all downhill from here.A new condo building is going up in Manhattan's Hudson Square neighborhood — the triangle on the river between Tribeca, SoHo, and the West...
View Article'WE CAN'T BREATHE': Here Are New York Newspapers This Morning
Furious protests broke out in New York City on Wednesday night after a grand jury failed to indict a white police officer who choked a black man to death in July.New York Police Department officer...
View ArticleThis Is The Video Of New York Cops Strangling A Man To Death That Is Tearing...
The video below is at the centre of the Eric Garner case that is tearing America apart. There has been two nights of protests across major US cities because a grand jury in New York failed to charge...
View ArticleNew York's Street Trash Drives A Crazy Ecosystem Of Bugs
New York is one of many cities whose mythical allure claims that the streets are paved with gold. Sadly, you are more likely to be treading on – or at least wading through – the remains of burgers, hot...
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