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The Great GoogaMooga Disaster Was Worth It, If Only for This Incredible Fake Menu (UPDATE)

Neetzan Zimmerman9 years ago9 years ago02 mins

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7 Train Service Will Shut Down for 8 Weekends in 2016, MTA Says – Long Island City – DNAinfo.com New York

Jeanmarie Evelly9 years ago9 years ago03 mins

The 7 train in Queens. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Jeanmarie Evelly LONG ISLAND CITY — This year’s resolution: take the bus more. The MTA is planning another round of 7 train service disruptions in 2016, with no trains running between Long Island City and Manhattan for eight weekends next year, according to the agency….

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Olive Garden is charging $400 a person for NYE dinner | New York Post

Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein9 years ago03 mins

That’s a lot of bread for no breadsticks. Dinner at the Olive Garden in Times Square on New Year’s Eve will set you back $400, and that’s not even the highest price among the chain restaurants that crowd the Crossroads of the World. Tourists and others who don’t want to mingle with the drunken rabble…

New York Builders Paying Huge Buyouts to Tenants in Their Way – NYTimes.com

MIREYA NAVARRO9 years ago012 mins

Tishman Speyer Properties, one of New York City’s most active real estate developers, had bought two parcels of land on the Far West Side of Manhattan to clear the way for a 2.8-million-square-foot office tower planned for Hudson Yards. Standing in the way, though, were the occupants of two apartments on the site. So this…

[UPDATE] Friday Night On The A Train: “I’m Going To Cut You And I’m Going To Get Away With It”: Gothamist

EMMA WHITFORD9 years ago07 mins

(via tipster) A straphanger taunted and lunged at two people with a tiny, sharp, pointy object on the A train on Friday night, threatening to cut them and get away with it while air kissing and waving at the subway passenger filming the incident. In a 2:15 video of the attack, the suspect dramatically…

The uncanny similarities between Rob Ford’s mayoral candidacy and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

John Filion9 years ago9 years ago020 mins

It’s uncanny! Toronto Mayor Rob Ford at a rally in the city, April 17, 2014, and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Dec. 21, 2015Photo illustration by Slate. Rob Ford by Geoff Robins/AFP/Getty Images. Donald Trump by Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images. Excerpted from The Only Average Guy: Inside the Uncommon…

Woman Jumps To Her Death From 230 Fifth Rooftop Bar, Others Keep Drinking: Gothamist

JOHN DEL SIGNORE9 years ago9 years ago06 mins

(Facebook) A woman stepped through some shrubbery, climbed a ledge, and jumped to her death during a party on the roof of the 230 Fifth restaurant and lounge in the Flatiron District. An NYPD spokesman said the woman, 30, “entered the establishment, went to the ledge of building, and jumped from 20th floor.” It’s…

Megarich Foreigners To Keep Bleeding NYC Dry: Gothamist

CHRISTOPHER ROBBINS9 years ago06 mins

Luxury real estate firms in New York City make a lot of money helping wealthy foreigners exploit the state’s tax lawsnow some firms overseas want to share in the joy of being richly rewarded middlemen. The Times reports that real estate companies from Germany and London are expanding here to explicitly target New York’s “ever-expanding…

Fla. Woman Faces 5 Years in Jail After Placing Confederate Flag on Black Co-Worker’s Desk – The Root

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.9 years ago9 years ago02 mins

A white Jacksonville, Fla., woman faces five years in prison after pleading guilty to lying to a federal officer about whether she’d placed an image of a Confederate flag on a black co-worker’s desk. Susan Thompson and the co-worker were federal workers at the Jacksonville office of the Army Corps of Engineers, according to Newsweek….

US stops British Muslim family from boarding flight to visit Disneyland | US news | The Guardian

Esther Addley9 years ago09 mins

A British Muslim family heading for Disneyland was barred from boarding a flight to Los Angeles by US authorities at London’s Gatwick airport amid concerns of an American overreaction to the perceived terrorist threat. US Department of Homeland Security officials provided no explanation for why the country refused to allow the family of 11 to…

What Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance, and Others Are Learning From Curtis Yarvin and the New Right | Vanity Fair

Mark Zuckerberg Finally Admits Facebook Content Is Worthless, Glasses are the new phones or whatever

Is That AI? Or Does It Just Suck?

Retailers Are Opening Themselves To Programmatic – But Will They Regret It? | AdExchanger

What we know about Google’s upcoming adtech antitrust trial – and how it might play out | The Drum

Fortune 500 brand ads seen next to porn & racial slurs, with IAS & DoubleVerify in the mix | The Drum

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The Great GoogaMooga Disaster Was Worth It, If Only for This Incredible Fake Menu (UPDATE)

7 Train Service Will Shut Down for 8 Weekends in 2016, MTA Says – Long Island City – DNAinfo.com New York

Olive Garden is charging $400 a person for NYE dinner | New York Post

New York Builders Paying Huge Buyouts to Tenants in Their Way – NYTimes.com

[UPDATE] Friday Night On The A Train: “I’m Going To Cut You And I’m Going To Get Away With It”: Gothamist

The uncanny similarities between Rob Ford’s mayoral candidacy and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

Woman Jumps To Her Death From 230 Fifth Rooftop Bar, Others Keep Drinking: Gothamist

Megarich Foreigners To Keep Bleeding NYC Dry: Gothamist

Fla. Woman Faces 5 Years in Jail After Placing Confederate Flag on Black Co-Worker’s Desk – The Root

US stops British Muslim family from boarding flight to visit Disneyland | US news | The Guardian