Stop and Frisk, A Koran Competition, and a Stolen Atlas Recovered
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Anthony Weiner will announce he's running for New York City mayor sometime this week, but he won't get the Clintons' official support or endorsement, Politico's Maggie Haberman reports.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
As the street sweepers clear the glitter from the sidewalks and our cities fade back to their dull, non-rainbow colors, we bring you some dispatches from pride weekend.
The Washington Post's Sarah Kliff noted Tuesday that New Yorkers can expect to live longer than the rest of America, and a look at the data she used from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation reveals just how much longer: about three years.
The initial report came in around 4 p.m. on Monday. An explosion on a yacht named Blind Date sent 21 passengers adrift off the coast of New Jersey, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
President Barack Obama was joined by former President Bill Clinton at a trio of campaign fundraisers in New York Monday night, collecting at $3.6 million, according to The Associated Press, and offering these quotes in return.
The City University of New York's project on 1940s New York launched today charting 1940's census information ...ooooh my gosh $30 dollar rents!
There's a made-for-the-tabs story on the covers of the New York Post and New York Daily News today, and ostensibly, it's about breasts. But really, it's about much more than that.
In other news from the Giuliani-Romney New York pizza tour of 2012, an iron-lunged protester awkwardly interrupted a press conference by repeatedly shouting, "Mitt Romney, you're a racist!"
A decade and six months after the Twin Towers fell in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the World Trade Center site is once again home to New York's tallest building.
This week New York is running an excerpt from Jeff Himmelman's Yours in Truth, a biography of legendary Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee that's got one high profile critic—The Post's Bob Woodward—comparing the author to the master of dirty tricks.
Somehow a baby going through security at Newark's Liberty International Airport didn't get screened properly on Friday. Surely this kind of thing must happen from time to time, right?
For a candidate like Romney, viewed in some Republican circles as a consolation prize in an election year in which stronger and more conservative politicians took a pass, Tuesday’s turnout could help “express’’ the enthusiasm gap, if it exists.
There's a final gentrification push in the land of Williamsburg, according to The New York Post, that may make the starving artist extinct, or possibly just make the starving artist move to Bushwick.
The mistakes in Girls are only notable because the show gets so much about the city right, at least the version of the city known to a very particular subset of young New Yorkers.
The Village Voice is not for sale. But somebody needs to save it, and that means somebody needs to find a way to buy it.
Sure, it's an informal survey, but a New York Times reporter's finding that eight black college students he spoke to have been stopped by police a collective 92 times is still a disturbing reminder of how the NYPD wields its stop-and-frisk tactics too heavily against the city's minorities.
Say what you will of Alec Baldwin; he makes great tabloid fodder. And so, the Post slaps him on their cover with the headline "Dirty Rock"—even though the story within is more about his alleged stalker than about Baldwin, himself. What do we know about this alleged stalker?
Terrible, terrible news: East Hampton's 2,900 non-resident beach parking permits have sold out completely in record time this year. What are beach-going New Yorkers to do?
The big news the nation has been waiting for finally arrived today: Williamsburg, the Brooklyn neighborhood that's been the white-hot galactic center of the past decade's so-called hipster subculture, is finally getting a Whole Foods.
We're back in business with the Mommy Madam story: Jaynie Mae Baker, the matchmaker accused of being Anna Gristina's second in command, turned herself in Tuesday.
With Thursday's news that another of the four Republican senators in New York who voted for gay marriage had lost the support of a local conservative committee, we're starting to see the contours of the case against them, which isn't based on their gay marriage vote—or so the opponents say.
One way the New York Police Department is trying to deflect blame for this whole Muslim spying story: Tattling on their colleagues in New Jersey.
Yet again, we're shown that gay marriage is one of those topics on which social and fiscal conservatives don't quite align.
After reports surfaced that the New York State Senate would not honor Whitney Houston, New York State Senate GOP spokesman Mark Hansen told PolitickerNY, "[W]e never sought to block the resolution and it’s something that we’ll take up when we return."
In another bit of negative Ray Kelly-related news that doesn't involve Islamophobia, the New York Police Department has announced a record number of on-the-street "stop-and-frisks" in 2011 with the overwhelming majority of them for black and hispanic males.
Newt Gingrich basks in the sun as he stares longingly at the Statue of Liberty in a new ad asking for donations, only a week after taking shots at "elitists" who "ride the subway" like the filthy degenerates they are.
Fox 5 TV anchor Greg Kelly, son of NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, will not be charged with rape. His lawyer told the Daily News, "They are not pressing charges."
Do you love Mad Men like we love Mad Men? Have you been waiting so long for the show to begin its fifth season that you barely even remember where we left off?
Not sure if you guys have heard, but NBC has a new show called Smash that's premiering tonight. It's about putting together a Broadway musical, and you should watch it. Really, you should!
"Fixies (fixed gear bikes) are considered to be a strong indicator of hipsterness," argues Rohin Dhar at the Priceonomics Blog.
New Yorkers, next time you moan about how long your commute is (i.e., when your leave work today), don't make your complaints aimlessly. Aim them straight at the subway lines that could've taken you home faster if only they'd been built!
Rats and roaches and other assorted vermin aren't knocking New Yorkers like they used to, as the average life expectancy of a newborn today in New York is 2.4 years higher than the national average.
The New York Times goes deep on the testy relationship between the mayor and the governor.
Mark Meckler -- co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, one of the largest Tea Party groups in the country -- has gotten to know that his Second Amendment rights are more nuanced than he'd probably like after after being arrested for trying to bring his pistol onto a flight from LaGuardia Airport in New York.
What exactly is the saddest/funniest thing about The Wall Street Journal's landmark new article "Cool Arrives in a Slice of Chinatown"? Let's try to figure that out.
That irritatingly metallic voice telling New York subway riders to "please be patient" while your train's being delayed for what seems like an ungodly amount of time will soon be phased out for something more apologetic.
It seems there's a New York poets group chiefly populated by young attractive gay men (and their rich older benefactors) looking to get it on. Alas, you're not invited.
On the surface, bankers like to project tough, no-nonsense personas, but judging by how they're reacting to the protesters outside their offices, they are pretty easily spooked.
A New York restaurant is using plates looted from Saddam's palaces
The number of protesters is set to grow with addition of at least nine unions
In a new poll of Jewish voters in Florida he beats Perry 82-2
A modern protest requires dealing with both topless women and worried mothers
United Against Nuclear Iran rolls out scary billboards and hotel boycotts
A walk through of the New York mayor's gaudy townhouses
A bad omen for Obama, a bad candidate, and "the jews" are all thrown around
Bob Turner defeated Democrat David Weprin in Tuesday's special election
The only way to confirm them is if they actually happen
The threat is of potential car bombings in New York or D.C.
New York's governor is urging residents to abide by evacuation orders
Upstate counties have been hit much harder than the relatively unscathed city
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