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An expose from the Web site The 74 outs the “populist” outfit Hedge Clippers as a front for New York teachers’ unions in their war against education reform. Hedge Clippers supposedly targets hedge-fund leaders — but in fact aims mainly at a few who donate to charter schools and other school reforms that threaten union…
The company is anti-LGBT, Councilman Danny Dromm said. View Full Caption Flickr/scuddr ELMHURST — National chain Chick-fil-A plans to open its first location in the borough at the Queens Center Mall — but not everyone’s excited to eat more chicken. The company’s first Queens restaurant is set to open this fall, an effort to serve…
The Cloister Cafe’s men’s room, where stalls are enemies of friendship. View Full Caption Aram Zucker-Scharff Are you and your best friend close? The Cloister Cafe gets you. The medieval-themed restaurant and hookah bar at 238 E. Ninth Street has placed its toilets in their bathrooms side-by-side, uninhibited by walls — so that you and your…
Emily Weber and Alexander Telinde, a couple from Virginia, assaulted a transit police officer who was trying to give stop them after one jumped a turnstile, according to police and prosecutors. View Full Caption Facebook EAST WILLIAMSBURG — A young Virginia couple visiting New York City attacked a transit police officer, hitting him repeatedly with…
The county of Kings is playing an outsized role in New York State’s presidential primary race — particularly among Democrats. As the birthplace of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Brooklyn figures into nearly every one of his stump speeches. It’s also where former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has based her national campaign headquarters. Yet, even…
Mayor Bill de Blasio has ordered the New York City Board of Elections to investigate why more than 63,000 registered Democrats were dropped from the voting rolls since last fall. The request comes the same day a WNYC analysis revealed the largest decline in active registered Democrats statewide was in Brooklyn. But new data provided by…
This story is the final installment of What The Hell Happened In East New York? a co-production with The Big Roundtable, that that seeks to answer that question in two parts. The first is a four-episode podcast that chronicles Kevin as he unravels the issues with East New York, and ultimately, himself. The second is this:…
We’ve all been there, futilely swiping a MetroCard over and over while fellow straphangers silently (and sometimes not-so-silently) judge us. But, at least for most of us, TV cameras aren’t rolling while it happens. After a campaign stop in the Bronx Thursday, Hillary Clinton needed five swipes to successfully pass through the turnstile at the…
Cruz at lunch in the Bronx, likely explaining the menu. (Getty) GOP presidential contender Ted Cruz took some time off from dodging allegations that he murdered seven people in California in the 1960s to learn all about our New York Values firsthand, now that it turns out he needs us to vote for him….
Sometimes not all is as it seems. On the the streets of New York City, that can mean some of the iconic yellow cabs are in fact disguised NYPD cop cars—but how can you spot them? Motherboard yesterday published an article, based on FOIA requests, which saw the NYPD admit that it has at least…