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Apparently a crew of three “artists,” plus assistants, dragged a four-foot-tall plaster-like bust of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden up Fort Greene Park and on top of the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument last night (Sunday night), and adhered it to one of the top columns. They also adhered letters spelling his name to the bottom of…
@heyybrighteyes/via Twiitter A photo posted to Twitter shows firefighters arrive at the entrance to the No. 7 station at Vernon/Jackson Aves. in Long Island City. More than 500 straphangers were evacuated from a No. 7 train inside the tunnel under the East River on Monday morning after a mechanical issue led the tube to fill…
Churros Union Square Subway Station View Full Caption MIDTOWN EAST — Ana Alvarado has been arrested seven times for selling churros in subway stations over the past two-and-a-half years, but she continues to do it to feed herself and her two kids, she said. Once police arrest Alvarado, they confiscate the churros and take her…
Three women were arrested last week for selling churros in the station without a license, NYPD said. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Heather Holland, Shutterstock/Glen Price UNION SQUARE — Police arrested three women in the Union Square subway station last week for peddling churros without a license, the NYPD said. The women were all arrested on the L…
The much-cherished fry shop was destroyed during yesterday’s terrible East Village fire. Don’t you want these right now? Photo: Shanna Ravindra In the immediate wake of yesterday’s terrible fire in the East Village, a lot of people quickly recognized that the affected buildings included the one housing Pommes Frites, the tiny, much-loved Belgian-fry spot that…
Incoming NYU students can expect to shell out roughly $71,000 for tuition and expenses next year. An awful lot of that money is going to pay for administrators, President John Sexton’s Fire Island beach house, and the pricey Manhattan real estate the university is sucking up like a satanic vacuum. So where will they find…
Photo A mural by Max Spivak at the base of the 5 Bryant Park office tower in Manhattan includes shapes that appear abstract at first, but closer inspection reveals them to be textile makers’ tools, like a T-square, above the entrance. Credit Michael Appleton for The New York Times The shadows of West 40th Street…
Photo Fire officials said a blast occurred on Second Avenue on Thursday afternoon; calls began streaming in at 3:17. Credit Joseph Burgess/The New York Times Firefighters were on the scene of an apparent explosion on Thursday afternoon in the East Village, and a building at the location appeared to have been partially destroyed while another…
fe474.global.media.bf1.yahoo.com compressed/chunked Thu Mar 26 19:48:41 UTC 2015 NEW YORK (Reuters) – A building collapsed on Thursday in New York City’s East Village neighborhood, police said. There was no immediate information on possible injuries, said a spokesman for the New York Police Department. (Reporting by Laila Kearney, Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst) Content preferences Done Building…
Here’s a timely reminder to be extra careful when entering a taxi—or anything that appears to be a taxi. A Redditor believes he stumbled upon a fake cabbie ripping people’s credit cards off with a skimmer this week. “I got into a normal NYC taxi today, but when it was time to pay, the driver…