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About sixty-five miles east of New York City, in the southern part of the Long Island town of Brookhaven, there is a hamlet of around six thousand people called Yaphank. In Yaphank, there is a residential community called Siegfried Park, where the land is owned by a non-profit group called the German-American Settlement League. Siegfried…
Recently, the New York City Housing Authority sued St. Mark’s Bookshop, one of its tenants, on the ground floor of the First Houses, at 138 East 3rd Street, in the East Village, for more than $68,000 in back rent. According to court documents, NYCHA issued St. Mark’s its first rent demand on June 26th, 2015,…
Mike Baird, the premier of New South Wales, can’t have been prepared for this. Two months ago he was probably the most popular politician in Australia, presenting a wet Liberal surfer persona that gelled with the state’s better nature. There were travel concessions for asylum seekers. There was an earthy social media presence. Talking to…
Three people were stabbed and 13 others were arrested when a Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim erupted in violence Saturday, police said. A small group of people representing the Klan had announced that it would hold a rally at Pearson Park at 1:30 p.m., police said. By 11 a.m., several dozen protesters had shown…
Inglewood, CA — On Sunday, police responded to a call of a suspicious vehicle parked on Manchester Boulevard around 3:10 am. When police arrived, they engaged in a 45-minute long standoff before opening fire on the man and woman inside the vehicle, killing them both. In the news release on Monday, following the shooting, police…
The mayor of Inglewood was speaking out after a man and woman were shot and killed by police. Patrick Healy reports for the NBC4 News at 6 on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. (Published Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016) Both the man and woman who were mortally wounded during an officer involved shooting were unconscious when Inglewood police…
Based on a new study by the financial analytics firm SmartAsset, D.C.’s Metro ranks No. 1 in the best transit system in the nation, but riders are still skeptical. (Ashleigh Joplin/The Washington Post) Here’s what’s so great about Washington’s Metro system: you can have a trendline of declining ridership; you can have a safety record…
(Port Authority) The Port Authority is very disappointed that the Port Authority went $2 billion over budget on the $4 billion World Trade Center Transit Hub. So when the Hub opens the first week of March, do you think that means “party time”? Some grateful words over continental breakfast? Weary smiles over Amstel Lights?…
In 2008, billionaire venture capitalist and real selfish bastard Vinod Khosla paid $32.5 million for an 89-acre beachfront property in California. Now, he’s asking for $30 million just to let the public use the beach. To be clear, Khosla—whose Twitter bio reads “entrepreneurship zealot,” if you can fucking believe it—is not offering to sell his…
Mayor Bill de Blasio gave an upadate on the Legionnaires’ Disease outbreak in the South Bronx. Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Basset is to his right and Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito is on his left. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Jeff Mays MANHATTAN — Top officials at a Manhattan nonprofit gave themselves hundreds of thousand dollars…