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Clobbered Times Square Biker Vindicated
The biker who was body-slammed by a cop during a Critical Mass ride was cleared of all charges today.
Posted 09/05/08 in Daily Intel
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John McDonald Never Goes to Bed Before Midnight
The restaurant mogul and publisher of ‘City’ magazine fills out our quintessential New York questionnaire.
Posted 08/19/08 in Daily Intel : 21 Questions
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Times Square Club-Murder Victim May Have Lived If She Were a Celebrity
That's what fellow partygoer LisaRaye McCoy, a former CW star, surmises.
Posted 08/07/08 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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Accidents Happen … Even Within View of the Shake Shack
Hapless poopers in Madison Square Park? Porn kings threatening comedy kings in Times Square? Radicals burning good money in the East Village? The links in today's boroughs report must be clicked to be believed!
Posted 08/04/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Cool Nuns Will Build Houses for Environment, Old People
Generous nuns heed the earth in Bedford Park, an anti-Greek wind blows in the East Village, and sulfurous yet minty odor pervades Long Island City, all in the final boroughs roundup of this awesomely sunny July week!
Posted 07/11/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Victory for the Naked Cowboy! (Sorta)
We don't know about you, but our faith in the American justice system has been restored.
Posted 06/23/08 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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The Naked Cowgranny Takes Times Square
And we thought we'd seen it all.
Posted 06/20/08 in Daily Intel : Photo Op
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Wilhelmina Models President Sean Patterson Prepares His Own Cocktails
The modeling guru (and soon-to-be reality judge) answers our New York questionnaire
Posted 06/02/08 in Daily Intel : 21 Questions
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Scaffolding Already Up for Giant Waterfall Sculptures
Pesky squirrels in Astoria, a not-dead-yet beaver in the Bronx, and a baby born in the Port Authority. Furry little creatures abound in our daily boroughs report!
Posted 05/07/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Your Pencil May Be Your Key to the High Line This Summer
A shadow between porn hub Show World and its fate in Times Square, a chain barrier between "the 'SATC' house" and Carrie fans in the Village, bad blood between a rock bar and its neighbors in Park Slope … and just a click between you and our daily boroughs report!
Posted 04/29/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Les Moonves Has Bigger Fish to Fry Than Katie Couric
He's got to deal with Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman, who the 'Post' says is out for Moonves's neck.
Posted 04/22/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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Now THIS Is What We Call ‘Doing the Butt’
A new ad for an advanced Japanese toilet system has us confused, and a little backed up.
Posted 04/21/08 in Daily Intel : Intel
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Dude Picks the Exact Wrong Moment to Send ‘We Did It’ Letter

We don’t know what the chances of a coincidence like this happening are, but the fact that the letters and photos received on Capitol Hill yesterday and the Times Square bombing have nothing to do with one another is a total mindfuck. To recap: Yesterday afternoon, as many as 100 members of Congress received a holiday-card-like photo showing a man in front of the Times Square recruiting center that was bombed earlier that morning. On it was written the sinister message, “We Did It, Happy New Year.” Along with the card was what’s described as a “twenty-page rambling rant,” the kind reclusive cabin-dwellers write to Congress on a daily basis.Posted 03/07/08 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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Small Explosion Hits Military Recruiting Center in Times Square
Let's begin this post by saying there's no reason to worry, everybody is fine. (We've always wanted to write that — because let's be honest, when we start conversations with our mom that way she goes bananas.) See, there was a small explosion in Times Square early this morning, but nobody was hurt. Apparently somebody tossed an explosive device at a U.S. military recruiting center just before 4 a.m. today. The office's window was smashed, and a door was damaged. Traffic was interrupted for a while, but now it appears to be back to normal. The Department of Homeland Security says it's investigating whether it was terrorism-related, but according to NY1, there wasn't a sense of panic in the area this morning. Explained droll host Pat Kiernan: "It seemed people were annoyed by the nuisance as much as anything." Small explosion hits New York's Times Square [Reuters] Update: Mayor Bloomberg just held a press conference about this. It turns out that it was a bomb in an ammunition box. Bloomberg called the attack on the recruitment office an insult to our troops and added that "New York City is back and open for business." NYPD chief Ray Kelly said the device was not "particularly sophisticated" and explained that there is one witness who saw a suspicious hooded man on a bicycle passing the recruiting station just before the explosion.
Posted 03/06/08 in Daily Intel : It Just Happened
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Steve Aoki Is Much Happier Now That He Quit World of Warcraft
Name: Steve Aoki.
Job: D.J., designer, Benihana heir, and celebrity friend. Aoki will be spinning this Saturday night at Room Service.
Age: 29.
Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
Malcolm X.
What's the best meal you've eaten in New York?
Cabana.
In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job? Run a record label, clothing line, and studio time when I'm in L.A.Posted 02/22/08 in Daily Intel : 21 Questions
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Glenn Beck Drinks the Blood of Small People Who Are Different Than He Is
Name: Glenn Beck
Job: Glenn is the author of the best seller An Inconvenient Book and host of the third-largest radio talk show in America (on 1450 AM, here in New York) and a self-titled show on CNN Headline News.
Age: He just turned 44! Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional? Teddy Roosevelt. What's the best meal you've eaten in New York? Anything from Ollie's Noodle Shop in Times Square. In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job? Same thing as you, except my cubicle is connected to radio and television networks.Posted 02/12/08 in Daily Intel : 21 Questions
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The Army Occupies East 103rd Street; Residents Displeased
East Harlem: There's outrage over a new Army recruiting center on East 103rd Street, on the heels of Army promo teams here this summer that included gals in camo midriffs and short shorts. [NY Latino Journal] Jackson Heights: Starbucks is here! Gentrification officially begins! [Curbed] Northwest Bronx: So many parks are being repaired here that there's no place for the massive youth baseball league to play this spring! [Norwood News]
Posted 02/11/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Flatbush to Rise?
Bedford-Stuyvesant: Guess which dark lord lives in this sleekly hideous black fortress? It's your dad, Luke Skywalker! [Newyorkshitty] East Village: Big-time developer Ben Shaoul thinks the East Village will always be "gritty and inexpensive and arty," even though he's renting $7,500 marble-bedecked apartments here. [NYO] Flatbush: Look for some major redevelopment on shabby Flatbush Avenue, where the Pintchik family, long the owners of the local hardware store, own about $100 million in property and are readying to class it up to the level of Park Slope or Cobble Hill. [NYS]
Posted 02/07/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Ivy League Grad Will Rub Your Shoulders, Write Your Biography
Astoria: Councilman Vallone, if you thought you could just put that preconstructed, toxin-belching smokestack there on 37th Street and nobody would notice, you were sadly mistaken. Oh, and "you're slowly turning the area into a ghetto," too, by the way. [Queens Crap] Carroll Gardens: If you give this "Ivy-educated" author, psychologist, educator, and editor a free place to live, he (she?) will be your shrink and write your memoir. Yeah, we've heard that one before. [Pardon Me for Asking] Harlem: They're standing by original funk-soul brother Bill Clinton up here, especially with that Obama being "a nice white middle-class guy." Ouch! [NYT]
Posted 01/30/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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Bed-Stuy Invades Bushwick
Bushwick: Have Bedford-Stuyvesant landlords pushed the media to join them in identifying Bed-Stuy locales as part of trendier Bushwick? This blogger says that this fire really took place in the Stuy, but that's not how the news reported it. [BushwickBK] Chelsea: The old-school drunks still gather at the old-school Peter McManus Cafe, but after 7 p.m., THE KIDS arrive. Beware! [Vanishing NY] Clinton: Folks from the 34th St. Partnership are trying to build a bike parking lot (isn't that crazy!) on 33rd Street between Eighth and Ninth. If you have the $200,000 they need to pay for it, let them know. [Gothamist]
Posted 01/17/08 in Daily Intel : Neighborhood Watch
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