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Just a few hours ago Greek PM Tsipras addressed his nation imploring then to “remain calm” and reassuring them that their “deposits were safe.” It appears the Greeks did not believe him. Many were wondering where the Greek bank lines were for the past several months. Turns out the local depositors were merely waiting until…
AddThis Button Begin NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Aiming to curb gender bias and harassment in New York City, officials are readying a plan that would require businesses to convert one-person restrooms into gender-neutral facilities. Legislation is being introduced that would require publicly available, single-occupancy restrooms in both public and private buildings to be designated as…
Greek banks are to remain closed and capital controls will be imposed, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says. Speaking after the European Central Bank (ECB) said it was not increasing emergency funding to Greek banks, Mr Tsipras said Greek deposits were safe. Greece is due to make a €1.6bn (£1.1bn) payment to the International Monetary Fund…
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly is fed up with people discussing racism in the wake of the Charleston church shooting.On Wednesday night’s broadcast of The O’Reilly Factor, he denied that there was “an epidemic of racism” in the U.S. and suggested that liberal “race baiters” were making it up.The self-proclaimed white supremacist who admitted to killing nine African-Americans in…
[Rendering via VisualHouse.] There are a lot of really, really expensive apartments poised to enter the market in the next few years (we’re lookin’ at you, 220 Central Park South and Nordstrom Tower) that will join the ranks of the city’s already-inundated luxury market. A few questions have been floating around for a while: when’s…
The greatest threat to world security is currently bed bugs, which reportedly stormed the United Nations this week. UN spokesperson confirms that BED BUGS have been found in the Secretariat. June 24, 2015 It’s a bedbug’s world and we’re just livin’ in it and tryin’ to negotiate peace through diplomacy in it. Advertisement But they…
(Gothamist) Less than 24 hours after Albany’s Three Men in a Room announced their “framework” for a deal that leaves the city’s rent regulations mostly unchanged for the next four years, a crowd of protesters gathered outside Governor Cuomo’s Midtown office to voice their outrage and concern for the future. “I’m exhausted, frustrated, and honestly…
A family has been forced to flee their new $1.3 million home in Westfield, New Jersey, after repeatedly receiving threatening packages from a person who calls themselves “the Watcher,” according to a lawsuit filed against the previous owners of the home. CBS New York reports that the packages are from someone who claims the six-bedroom…
Over the past few weeks, a 25-year-old named Tyrelle Shaw allegedly struck at least four Asian women in Manhattan in the face with heavy objects concealed inside a bag, in what appeared to be random attacks, according to the NYPD. On Monday, Shaw was found dead in an elevator shaft on the Upper East Side, a hanging that…
Sitting in his surgical gown inside a large medical suite in Reston, Va., a Vienna man prepared for his colonoscopy by pressing record on his smartphone, to capture the instructions his doctor would give him after the procedure. But as soon as he pressed play on his way home, he was shocked out of his…