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Three DJs will bring a party straight to dancers’ ears on Thursday, for the return of Lincoln Center’s Silent Disco. Silent Disco is a free, outdoor dance party at Hunters Point South Park. Music will not be blasted through speakers; instead, dancers wear headphones that they can tune to one of three DJ performances. “The…
When Google announced its list of 34 prospective new Google Fiber cities last Wednesday, some were baffled that the company had overlooked San Francisco. This is, after all, supposed to be America’s technopolis: its capital of the future. And yet, in comparison to some other cities in the country — and the world — San…
Russia ordered several internet service providers to block Wikipedia throughout the country after the volunteers who run the user-generated online encyclopedia refused to delete an article — then abruptly reversed its decision less than 24 hours later. Roskomnadzor, Russia’s communications watchdog, reversed its decision to order internet providers to block a page on Russian-language Wikipedia…
Nell Casey/Gothamist By now, you’d think straphangers would be prepared for anything whenever they willingly entered the platform for the L train, the city’s most punctually punitive subway line. Mechanical problems, heat waves, and love-ins have all plagued the beleaguered line this summer. And it was no different today, as straphangers embarked on an…
All summer, we’ve been witness to the completely ridiculous & sexist Times Square desnudas hysteria, wondering when the hell Mayor de Blasio started studying the Giuliani guide to governance. But while we’ve been busy focusing on the faux-moral outrage and hypocrisy of the crackdown—and the stories of the women who actually stand out there for…
RICHMOND, Va. — Last Monday, around 8 p.m., a guy walked out of Subway with his newly purchased sandwich. But he didn’t get very far before, police said, three teens robbed him at gunpoint. The teens were already inside the store, near 12th Street and Semmes Avenue in Manchester and they followed the victim out of the…
FILED UNDER: U.S., Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans FOLLOW NEWSWEEK Full site feed The worst of Katrina was an act of man, not an act of God. I heard something like that from every local I encountered in New Orleans earlier this year. No matter their age, race or religion, the people of this city pretty much agree that…
Katrina bus tours go all over New Orleans, but it’s illegal for them to go into the Lower 9th Ward, the area that’s been the slowest to rebuild. This week we go around talking to residents there about what matters the most to them (and what doesn’t) ten years after the hurricane. The episode we…
Somehow this is supposed to turn people *against* a higher minimum wage? http://t.co/KTRsXlMp4n pic.twitter.com/ff8qddakYc — Jody Avirgan (@jodyavirgan) August 26, 2015 On Monday, a billboard went up over Times Square ridiculing the call for a $15-an-hour minimum wage for fast-food workers. The billboard depicts a doofy good-for-nothing millenial shrugging his way toward a…
Some Photoshop concepts, no matter how ill-conceived, must be seen to the bitter end Things are reaching a boiling point in the sleepy crime-riddled hamlet of The Hamptons, USA. There have been Uber shortages, LIRR restriction, helicopter bans, and fornicating yupster Bros aplenty. Dr. NY Times is here to diagnose the problems, which they…