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The National Weather Service has issued another one of their classic caps-lock WEATHER WARNINGS, this time hectoring all humans in the northeast, mid-Atlantic and beyond to brace for a blizzard of wicked blizzarded proportions. A Blizzard Watch will officially be in effect in NYC starting Saturday morning at 6 a.m., and is expected to remain…
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser delivered an apology to the residents of the District after the city failed to adequately prepare for an inch of snowfall Wednesday, which caused significant delays during rush hour. (WUSA9) As we’ve proved before, we’re not good at snow. And on Wednesday night, we proved it again in utterly humiliating fashion,…
Prospect Lefferts Gardens. Photo by Barbara Eldredge Yes, it’s true, the mind-boggling Brooklyn real estate boom of the last three years slowed in the fourth quarter, just as real estate agents predicted. No, not everyone will agree, but the numbers have spoken. It’s great news for buyers, who could use a break, and not bad for…
New Yorkers are taking to Craigslist to find a cuddle partner for the weekend’s snowstorm. View Full Caption Wavebreak Media Ladies, when the season’s first snowstorm hits, there’s no reason to hibernate alone. New York’s Craigslist Romeos are only too happy to host you for a weekend of earthly delights, from cooking together to #netflixandchilling — because “going…
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s latest idea for how to make America great again? Force Apple to build its products in the US. Trump, in a Monday speech at Liberty University in Virginia, said he’d “get” Apple to build its “damn computers and things in this country instead of in other countries.” Now, Trump didn’t…
Facebook and the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, or TRAI, are engaged in a snippy epistolary argument as the agency prepares to write new policy that would affect Free Basics, Facebook’s discounted internet offering. Now, in the manner of a passive-aggressive spat between roommates, Facebook has accused the agency—or at least, someone within the…
Hot Octopuss Times Square may have cornered the market on romantic love, but the corner of 28th Street and 5th Avenue has become the go-to place in NYC for fans of onanistic self-love. London-based sex toy company Hot Octopuss opened the “GuyFi” booth at that location this week as a way for men to…
The controversial “poor door” at a luxury Lincoln Square tower is finally open — and creating New York-style financial apartheid. Tenants who were chosen to live in one of the 55 low-income units in Extell’s ritzy 33-story building recently started trickling in through the poor door — and many are disturbed by the glaring disparities….
This “West Village Corrugated Can” will cost you $99.95. View Full Caption Anthropologie For $99.95, you, too, can introduce a bit of New York City trash history into your home. Upscale clothing retailer Anthropologie is advertising a “handmade” tin can that comes with either rope or wooden handles, for sale online, as a “West Village Corrugated Can.” Initially priced…