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Every morning before his shift, Edwin Raymond, a 30-year-old officer in the New York Police Department, ties up his long dreadlocks so they won’t brush against his collar, as the job requires. On Dec. 7, he carefully pinned them up in a nautilus pattern, buttoned the brass buttons of his regulation dress coat and pulled…
It’s hard not to feel a little thrown when you walk into a public space that’s become a camp for homeless people. At first there may be a moment of shock that economic reality has shown up and made a park or plaza a more complicated place to stroll. But what most people hopefully feel is…
SHANGHAI Uber Technologies Inc is burning through more than a billion dollars a year in China as it wages a fierce price war against local rival Didi Kuaidi, its chief executive said. The company’s Chinese business boosted its valuation last month to more than $8 billion after raising more than $1 billion in its…
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Latest on Turkish airstrikes on Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq and aftermath of Ankara bombing (all times local): 3:10 p.m. A Turkish Foreign Ministry official say the ambassadors of the five permanent U.N. Security Council member states have been invited to the ministry separately and are being briefed on the…
Download the report: English, Français, Русский, العربية, Türkçe As the conflict in Syria approaches its 6th year, the humanitarian and medical toll of the violence remains appalling. Millions of people have been internally displaced, or have sought refuge abroad. Millions more are trapped in communities that are under siege or hemmed in by the closed…
It can be difficult to keep up with all the fads and trends in New York City dining, what with the green juices and the bone marrow and the tiny, tiny cupcakes. But the latest hot cosmopolitan trend is simple: It’s bowls, baby! “Hot, Skinny People Are Ditching Salads for ‘Power Bowls’,” the New York…
Ice-cream bandits are flipping their stolen desserts to bodegas, according to 13th Precinct commanding officer Deputy Inspector Brendan Timoney. View Full Caption Shutterstock/Keith Homan MANHATTAN — Your bodega ice cream may be hot. A string of ice cream thefts at Manhattan drug stores was motivated not by a love of dessert — although…
(Scott Lynch / Gothamist) You walk out of the cold into a tiny, steaming, jewelbox of a restaurant in the city, where there’s no room for a coat check and limited space for hooks, and once you get a seat, you naturally begin to de-layer. Off comes the hat, the scarf, the gloves, the…
Losing your wallet typically means spending a couple hours re-tracing your steps, canceling credit cards and accepting the fact that you’ll never get the wallet or its contents back. That was only partially the case for New Yorker Reilly Flaherty, who lost his wallet at a Wilco concert at Brooklyn’s Kings Theater last week, USA…
New data from the national traffic safety administration shows an ominous trend: traffic related deaths are up 11.3 percent for the first nine months of 2015, as compared to the same period a year earlier. Although the NHTSA warns that the data are subject to revision, and cautions that it’s too early to discern the…