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Last Night's Action: Rangers in Pain
Thrashers 5, Rangers 3: Henrik Lunqvist returned, but it wasn't enough for the Rangers, who lost without Chris Drury and Brandon Dubinsky. The former has a concussion and the latter has a broken hand. Not good....
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Extra, Extra
Photograph by jphillipobrien2006 on Flickr From the Gothamist Newsmap: A suspicious package at Hamilton Pl & W 142nd in Manhattan, a barricaded EDP at 30 Ave V & W13 St in Brooklyn, and a jumper down...
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Warhol Painting Rakes In $43.7 Million At Sotheby's
It was Andy "Warhol's night" at yesterday's contemporary art auction at Sotheby's. One of his first silk-screen paintings, "200 One Dollar Bills" yielded a surprising $43.7 million: While the bidding started at $6 million, the price...
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"Tubby Temptress" Speaks Out About Steve Phillips Affair
The 22-year-old former ESPN production assistant whose affair with former Mets GM and baseball analyst Steve Phillips hit the front pages of the tabloids was on Good Morning America today. Brooke Hundley said, "I did things...
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Washington Square Park Loses Its Mounds
Courtesy Curbed They finally did it; they finally killed those weird and almost iconic asphalt mounds in Washington Square Park, destroying them with the cool efficiency of a doctor lancing a boil. Which they most certainly...
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FIT Brings You To Williamsburg For $55
A true Williamsburg fashionisto Earlier this year a reader spotted a tourist group coming off the Bedford Avenue L in Williamsburg. So it shouldn't come as too much of a shock that there's now a course...
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If There's Cash, Paterson May Rethink License Plate Fee
Naturally, not many people are happy with the state's decision to change license plates and charge $25 in the process. Governor Paterson said he'd nix the fee—if there was some other way to generate $129 million,...
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Send Us Your New York Views
The view from Gothamist HQ in DUMBO: the Verizon Building! Italian illustrator Matteo Pericoli "has executed an intimate collection of drawings — glimpses of the city, as seen from the windows of prominent New Yorkers." CityRoom takes...
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Restaurant & Bar Radar: From Bar Henry to Northern Spy
Click on the images for the scoop on Bar Henry, Sushi Uo, Mermaid Oyster Bar, Manhattan Inn, Northern Spy Food Co., and Má Pêche....
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Video: Close Encounters Above Central Park?
Are aliens checking out Manhattan? One man says he filmed a "red craft" UFO for four nights straight this month, and has some footage to back up his claim. He says he filmed from The Great Hill...
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Kittens "Saved" By Goldman Sachs Fat Cats
When word got out that some kittens born at Goldman Sachs' Battery Park City headquarters were essentially abandoned by the firm—the bank allegedly reneged on earlier promises to have its employees adopt the kitties and pay...
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Empire Diner Will End With Coffee Shop Invasion
jpchan's Flickr The iconic Empire Diner in Chelsea is being taken over by the team that operates the obnoxiously fashionable but beautifully staffed Coffee Shop in Union Square. The owner of the property will not be...
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Belgian Teen Arrested After Liaison With 14-Year-Old Girl
The father of a 14-year-old Connecticut girl filed a missing persons report with police after his daughter left the house Saturday morning and didn't come home that night. The unidentified girl wasn't answering her cellphone, but...
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Mysterious Gravestone Becomes Less Mysterious
The mystery is being lifted little-by-little around James Jackson, whose tombstone was recently unearthed in Washington Square Park. In under a week it was theorized that Jackson resided at 19 East George Street (the former name...
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Nestle Opens Water Store Targeting Hispanics in Bronx
Nestlé Pure Life brand spokesperson Cristina Saralegui Dios mio; on Saturday Nestle is opening its first U.S. "Nestlé Pure Life Mercado del Agua" (Water Store) to "bring the benefits of Nestlé Pure Life Purified Water to...
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The UWS Gets Its Very Own Apple Store
New York's newest Apple Store, at West 67th and Broadway, is officially opening up its doors this Saturday at 10 a.m. (we're told they will be giving out t-shirts). We're about to head inside for a special...
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Subway Cars: From Factory to Ocean Floor
It's time for your annual subway reef moment of zen. Last November the Today Show gave us an up-close look at the watery graves that some subways will meet. Now the NY Times points out that tonight's...
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Chinatown Business Struck Again By Vehicle
Yesterday, a truck hit a Chinatown business near the Manhattan Bridge—and it was the second time this year wireless store has been hit. The Post reports that a "runaway cement truck" which "apparently lost its [brakes]...
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Statues in NYC Favor Men
Did you know that of the 150ish historical statues in all of New York City there are only five of real women? According to NYC Statues, Joan of Arc was the first, and the others are Eleanor...
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Access-A-Ride Renders Bike Lane Inaccessible
John Del Signore/Gothamist If you spend enough time riding a bike around New York, you learn to steer clear of those insane Access-A-Ride drivers, who are employed by NYC Transit to provide transportation for people with...
