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The controversial “poor door” at a luxury Lincoln Square tower is finally open — and creating New York-style financial apartheid. Tenants who were chosen to live in one of the 55 low-income units in Extell’s ritzy 33-story building recently started trickling in through the poor door — and many are disturbed by the glaring disparities….
This “West Village Corrugated Can” will cost you $99.95. View Full Caption Anthropologie For $99.95, you, too, can introduce a bit of New York City trash history into your home. Upscale clothing retailer Anthropologie is advertising a “handmade” tin can that comes with either rope or wooden handles, for sale online, as a “West Village Corrugated Can.” Initially priced…
With tonight’s GOP debate looming, it is time to think about who you would have on your side in a REAL fight. 14. Ted Cruz Let’s be clear here: Ted Cruz is not just the worst presidential candidate to have on your side in a bar fight. He is the worst possible human being to…
John Judis has a lengthy analysis in Vox this morning dissecting the quiet sense of demographic inevitability that has come to define the long-term outlook of Democratic politics. Judis, ironically enough, was one of the original progenitors of the notion that “the groups in the population that are likely to vote for Democrats are growing,…
Hillary Clinton speaks to supporters at a campaign event in Denver, Nov. 24, 2015.Photo byRick Wilking/Reuters Hillary Clinton’s sense of style has been criticized for as long as she has been on the national political scene. One of the uglier forms this mockery has taken, most often in barbed private jokes and comments but…
Idris Elba did not receive an Oscar nomination for his performance in “Beasts of No Nation.” Stuart C. Wilson / Getty Images The nominations for the Academy Awards were announced this morning, and based on the data going in — from gambling sites like Paddy Power, which published early odds for top category winners, and…
On Thursday afternoon, hackers accessed the Twitter and email accounts of infamous “playboy” Dan Bilzerian due to a flaw, the attackers say, in AOL customer service. A professional poker player, Bilzerian is “Instagram famous” for frequently posting pictures of himself with stacks of cash or half-naked women, sometimes both. The reason hackers chose to access his account,…
Christian Ott, a young astrophysics professor at the California Institute of Technology, fell in love with one of his graduate students and then fired her because of his feelings, according to a recent university investigation. Twenty-one months of intimate online chats, obtained by BuzzFeed News, confirm that he confessed his actions to another female graduate…
American politicians constantly speak of the middle class. Democrats, Republicans and even many independents all insist their policies defend it. But what does it really mean? This question is rarely asked. What exactly is the middle class? A new study suggests that the U.S. hardly even has one. More than half of Americans — 56…
Twitter’s Brainstorming Notes for Potential New Features. Should we increase the character limit of tweets to 142 characters? No. Increase the character limit of tweets to 145 characters? No. No one wants this. No Twitter user in the history of our platform has ever encountered the problem of trying to cut down a tweet that…