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A press conference will be held Thursday to announce the construction of the Hunters Point Library. Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, library officials, local families and business owners will meet at Center Boulevard and 48th Avenue at 9:30 am to announce that the project has been funded and that construction will soon begin. The 21,500-square-foot library…
(Tien Mao/Gothamist) Jimmy McMillan, he of perpetual office-seeking and a beard that would chagrin a topiary, is being evicted from his rent-stablized East Village apartment. According to the Daily News, the freewheeling leader of the Rent Is Too Damn High party has been served an eviction notice ousting him from his $872 per month St….
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has attacked eurozone austerity. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA The Bank of England governor, Mark Carney, has launched a strong attack on austerity in the eurozone as he warned that he single-currency area was caught in a debt trap that could cost it a second lost decade. Speaking in Dublin, Carney…
My bladder is the Murphy’s Law of organs. It’s not that it’s small, exactly; rather, it’s disagreeable; neurotic. It conspires. In cahoots with some quietly disgruntled fold of my brain, the devil bag demands emptying only when it cannot be plausibly emptied. It is as if there is a tiny agoraphobe peering out at all…
(Bloomberg) — The blizzard blowing through the U.S. northeast won’t drop as much snow as forecasters anticipated, sparing residents and clean-up crews the worst of the potentially life-threatening storm that some predicted. New York City may get no more than a foot of snow as the nor’easter tapers off Tuesday evening, compared to a forecast…
The great #Blizzardof2015 had already dumped several inches of snow on the greater New York City area by late Monday evening EST, and many transportation links, including subways, bridges, and tunnels, are closed in anticipation of an historic snowfall on the east coast. “Non-essential” travel is now banned in the city. Before nightfall, the falling…
Mayor de Blasio lifted the city-wide travel ban this morning after that devastating blizzard turned out to be just a bunch of stupid snow. There’s about half a foot in Central Park this morning—not the 24 inches or more that was expected—and current forecasts don’t call for much more additional accumulation today. And there is…
Title/Date/MetaFour years ago, when a huge winter storm socked New York City, the MTA and then-Gov. David Paterson, in the final few days of his tenure, got unlucky. For the first time in years, two subway trains — an N train in the Sea Beach line and an A train a few hundred yards outside…
Well, this is just brilliant. Racist adverts promoting hatred against Muslims are currently being run on buses in San Francisco – but someone has started covering them up with anti-hatred messages from Marvel’s première Muslim superhero, Ms. Marvel. The adverts were purchased by the American branch of the Freedom Defence Initiative – who, here in…
We did it. We made this … item. Way to go, us. So … I need an adult RT @andytoddcook: Wut? pic.twitter.com/sUxRupmKZS — Zach Harper (@talkhoops) January 26, 2015 Thoughts about this new menu item: 1. Presenting it with only yellow mustard on it should please the hot dog purists 2. This is a sandwich…