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The $30 Hot Dog Man Is a New York City Hero
Hamilton Nolan · 05/22/15 08:47AMIdeas: Worth It? Every Idea I Heard at the Atlantic Ideas Festival
Hamilton Nolan · 05/21/15 10:32AMWoman Gets 24 Years for Pushing Man in Front of Oncoming Subway Train
Aleksander Chan · 05/21/15 08:50AMNew Yorkers to Get Opportunity to Vote Down "Ugly" Public Art
Dayna Evans · 05/18/15 11:55AMSurveillance Video Shows NYPD Officer Shooting Hammer-Wielding Man
Taylor Berman · 05/13/15 02:39PMThe NYPD has released surveillance footage of an NYPD officer opening fire on man reportedly armed with a hammer in midtown Manhattan today. The video appears to show the suspect—who allegedly attacked four people on Monday—lunging at a police officer before being shot by her partner in the middle of 8th Ave.
Hammer-Wielding Man Shot by NYPD in Midtown Manhattan
Taylor Berman · 05/13/15 09:44AMCuomo Announces "Emergency Measures" to Protect Workers at Nail Salons
Aleksander Chan · 05/11/15 09:13AMIn response to last week’s New York Times reports about the dangerous work conditions, low pay, and racism running rampant in New York nail salons, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced late Sunday a series of “emergency measures” and vowed that the state would no longer “stand idly by as workers are deprived of their hard-earned wages and robbed of their most basic rights.”
Fancy Mayor De Blasio Thinks the Subway Runs Just For Him
Hamilton Nolan · 05/05/15 09:02AMNazi-Loving F Train Rider Fights $75 Ticket For Fleeing Pee Man
Aleksander Chan · 04/29/15 11:10AMEmpire State Building Gonna Be Lit Up Like a Giant Art Gallery
Dayna Evans · 04/27/15 02:15PMThe Empire State Building—the apple of our apple, the diamond of our city, the second best-looking skyscraper we have—is often lit up for some dumb occasion, like a Yankees win or Christmas day. On Friday, however, art will be the star as the building is illuminated with works from the new Whitney Museum.
Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island Evacuated Over Suspicious Package
Taylor Berman · 04/24/15 12:49PMAt Least One Dead After Crane Collapses in Midtown NYC
Taylor Berman · 04/24/15 11:58AMOK--Swedish People Run New York Now--That's How It Is?--I'm Shocked
Hamilton Nolan · 04/23/15 12:08PMYou Can't Get an Apartment Because Rich People Need Them All
Hamilton Nolan · 04/22/15 03:50PMWhat's Next in De Blasio's New York? Seatbelt Requirements in Taxis
Dayna Evans · 04/21/15 04:55PMFreewheeling rebels with nothing to lose, de Blasio and his safety cronies are coming for you. If the one thing keeping you in New York is the knowledge that riding shotgun in NYC’s taxis means the cool breeze blowing behind your neck and back, the life-affirming push of your hand against the dashboard during a stop made too short, and best of all, a chance to feel fear again, then you’re not gonna like the mayor’s latest: De Blasio is trying to make it illegal to ride in the front passenger seat of an NYC taxi without a seatbelt.
Uber Tried to Charge a Passenger $12,000 for Her "Car Ride from Hell"
Jay Hathaway · 04/21/15 04:25PMGothamist reports on the harrowing tale of a woman who got in an Uber and took the “car ride from Hell” to get from Williamsburg to Midtown East, after which she had to dispute a $12,000 bill for her trouble. Sure, surge pricing was in effect, but she didn’t know it was going to be platinum surge pricing.
So Many People Are Taking the Goddamn NYC Subway
Dayna Evans · 04/21/15 12:55PMThe MTA—our savior, our friend, our enemy, our betrayer—released data from an annual report that showed subway ridership surging 2.6 percent from 2013 to 2014, reaching levels not seen since the end of World War II. The neighborhoods with the highest increase in passengers were Bushwick and Long Island City, Queens.
90,000 New Yorkers Apply to Live In Poor Door High-Rise
Dayna Evans · 04/21/15 10:30AMWhen it was announced last July that NYC’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development approved a high-rise building with separate entrances for low-income and wealthy tenants, outrage dutifully followed. But now that applications for the building are open, the city’s housing problem appears to be worse than we thought.