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Investigators believe there are more people involved in the New York and New Jersey bombing plots than just Rahami, but they do not have a good idea who else might be involved, two U.S. officials told Reuters. There are more people involved in NY bomb plot: two U.S. officials Investigators have…
This piece from the Orientation issue of the Blue and White, written by Emma Bogler CC ’17, explains and explores the disappearance of the Columbia Daily Spectator’s City News Section and what this means for the paper and the student body as a whole in relation to the greater city. There’s this old joke about American journalism and its…
JJ’s also has a new ping pong table – and according to one person we talked to, it isn’t regulation In case you’re a first-year, a transfer, or someone with no friends at Barnard: it was announced last spring that Barnard students are now able to swipe into JJ’s as part of their meal plans….
To be Muslim in 2016 America is to feel like eyes are always on you; like a task as simple as driving a car could end in murder; like any given day you might need to plead for your life with a racist neighbor. Imagine that people who look like you, speak like you,…
inheritedlink: /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20160904/REAL_ESTATE/160909960&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&template=rwd& morning10: One World Trade Center sits at the heart of America’s most hallowed ground, a 1,776-foot-tall icon that concretely testifies to the city’s rebirth after Sept. 11, 2001. But as an investment for its owner, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, it has been a bust. Fifteen years after…
Photo A floating cage containing hundreds of oysters was pulled into Jamaica Bay from Bayswater Point State Park in Queens on Thursday. Credit Dave Sanders for The New York Times Torrential rain poured down on the team of scientists and conservationists on Jamaica Bay as their small boat slowly towed about 85 cages packed with…
Zaida Pugh (via Facebook); screenshot from video Zaida Pugh, the self-proclaimed “actress” who pretended to be a homeless woman and unleashed a box full of crickets and worms on a crowded D train last week as part of a viral “prank,” has been arrested, according to police. The NYPD tells us Pugh was arrested…
The NYC real estate market continues to squeeze both renters and buyers, yet vacant storefronts still plague even so-called “trendy” neighborhoods. There are several frustrating reasons for all of this conspicuous urban blight, which is one of the reasons why freelance developer Justin Levinson has assembled a comprehensive map of all the vacancies around Manhattan,…
A crazed woman trying to sell crickets and worms on a D train suddenly threw them all over the crowded car, sending it into chaos during the evening commute. The woman walked into the train car at about 6 p.m. Wednesday and made a pitch to passengers to try to get them to buy the…
It’s hot. The subways are crowded. People are peevish, sweating, and on edge. At times like this— when the social fabric of the city seems to hang by the thinnest of threads—it’s important to relax, take a deep breath, and contemplate exactly who you hate in this godforsaken underground tunnel maze, and why. [We will…