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Earlier this month, a squirrel in the Bronx bit an MTA worker’s finger, sending her to the hospital. Now, it appears squirrels have developed a taste for salty, delectable people flesh—a second MTA worker has been attacked by a squirrel, this time in the train car of a Coney Island-bound Q train. It’s unclear whether…
NOT long after Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, said he would pay $250m of his own money for the chronically loss-making Washington Post, in August 2013, he sat next to the newspaper’s editorial-page editor, Fred Hiatt, at a dinner. It was a perfect opportunity to influence the Post’s line, but Mr Bezos reportedly preferred…
Imagine two of the worst New York real estate nightmares consolidated into one: Such is apparently the case for Ari Teman, the man whose Chelsea apartment made headlines last year after his Airbnb guests turned his sublet into a “XXX Freak Fest orgy.” Thanks to all that drama, Teman now says he’s found himself on the city’s infamous…
Wednesday Martin’s book “Primates of Park Avenue” has had the effect of “dropping a bomb” on the Upper East Side, leaving some of the wealthy mothers she befriended “furious and afraid.” A source whose child attended the 92Y Nursery School with Martin’s offspring said a guessing game has emerged about which glossy, manicured moms are…
In her 26 years in New York, Wednesday Martin has lived in nearly every neighborhood, from Long Island City to Soho to the West Village. Nothing, she says, prepared her for the Upper East Side. “It’s the most fascinating and alienating and completely separate world I’ve ever encountered,” Martin says. “This is a separate tribe…
[if lte IE 9]>< ![endif] Google Publisher Tags Google Analytics End Google Analytics /.off-canvas TEMPLATE T1 BODY The Blackstone Group LP, the biggest landlord in the country with tens of thousands of residential units, is investing in Oakland, becoming the largest real estate player yet to arrive in the burgeoning city. New York-based Blackstone (NYSE:BX)…
Go into any house in England and you will be offered some tea. Barge in. Just walk in to a nana’s house. “Oh, sorry,” the nana will say. “Can I get you a cup of tea?” The nana will walk slowly to the kitchen. She will boil a fresh kettle of water and warm a…
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Photo Mayor Bill de Blasio presented his housing plan in Brooklyn on Monday. Credit Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times New York City will commit $8.2 billion in public funds to a 10-year housing plan that could transform the cityscape from Cypress Hills in Brooklyn to the shores of the Harlem River, while providing affordable homes…
The Department of Justice will continue to do everything in its power to help the city of Chicago combat gun violence. These new agents are a sign of the federal government’s ongoing commitment to helping local leaders ensure Chicago’s streets are safe. – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder In July 2014, seven agents from the…