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Lakers 100 Knicks 90 : They hung in there for the first half, but they were simply outclassed in the second half. Los Angeles really blew things open by dominating on the boards, outrebounding the Knicks 60-36. Kobe Bryant “only” scored 34, a down night for him against the ...
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From the Gothamist Newsmap : Attempted abduction at Myrtle Ave & Adelphi Ave in Brooklyn, a suspicious fire at Chambers St & River Terr in Manhattan and a commercial armed robbery at Fordham Rd & Webster Ave in the Bronx.
Governor Paterson ...
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Cops busted a Clinton Hill crack and marijuana ring and nabbed 11 individuals suspected of selling drugs on the street, from an apartment building at the corner Putnam and Grand Avenue avenues, and out of a barbershop and two t-shirt stores. In an investigation dubbed " Operation Grand ...
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Grand Slam
A judge announced on Monday that he will likely throw out the conviction and dismiss the indictment of a Bronx man who was incarcerated for four years on rape charges that his accuser has admitted were made-up. Though he didn't immediately clear William McCaffrey's name, State Supreme ...
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MTV is readying to roll out their latest reality show, Jersey Shore , with promos already airing that describe their latest round of reality robots as keeping "their hair high, their muscles juiced and their fists pumping all summer long!" They also depict their Italian-American beach-going ...
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More than a week into deliberation on the fourth racketeering trial against one-time Gambino boss John Gotti Jr., the jury still hasn't come up with a verdict — and one of its members wants a vacation.
Eight days after lawyers rested their cases, the jurors continue to wrangle ...
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Are city cabbies making "sun tea" in their vehicles? Of the 44,000 TLC drivers on the streets, most working 12 hour days, you can imagine how difficult it is for them to find a place they can relieve themselves. So many allegedly "resort to going in the street or peeing in bottles stowed ...
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Brooklyn's Joe Tiralosi doesn't remember much about that day in August when he went to New York Presbyterian Hospital feeling sick and disoriented, then collapsed. But last week the 56-year-old father of two visited the hospital to thank doctors for not giving up on him just because his heart ...
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Vada Vasquez The 15-year-old Bronx girl who was put in a medically-induced coma after taking a stray bullet to the skull has spoken for the first time since the incident, eight days ago. A source tells the Daily News that Vada Vasquez's first word was "Mom." Her condition has been upgraded ...
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Hate all you want on Jimmy Fallon , but the guy does the best impersonation of Neil Young covering Will Smith's "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air." That is a fact.
And good luck getting that song out of your head. To help out, ponder this: What else should Neil-llon cover?
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A nonprofit organization accused of serving as a "front for the Iranian government" donated $100,000 to Columbia University just months before Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a controversial appearance at the school .
The Times reports that the embattled Alavi Foundation ...
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As you may have read in our newsletter , on this day in 1966 New York City experienced the smoggiest day in the city's history... and the details read like a horror movie. After 9/11, the NY Times touched upon three particularly smoggy years in the city, saying ...
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The City
Midtown Lunch 's Flickr Escolar, a fish famous for causing diarrhea and anal leakage , has been found masquerading as tuna at sushi restaurants, according to a DNA research study recently published by a group of scientists. The escolar was found five times during the brief research ...
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If you missed the American Music Awards this past Sunday night, and you probably did, then you didn't see ex-American Idol singer Adam Lambert's S&M; charged performance. To catch you up: at about 1:18 in this video you'll see Lambert grind a male dancer's face into his crotch, before the ...
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It's that time again—time for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. And one of the fun traditions to watching the balloons being blown up the night before . This year's Thanksgiving parade balloon inflation begins tomorrow at 3 p.m. and ends at 10 p.m., with the entrance at West 77th ...
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Spider-Man
Try not to think about bed bugs next time you watch a movie.
There's a classic he said/she said playing out at a Park Slope cinema, where moviegoers and theater management are arguing over allegations that the multiplex is infested with bed bugs.
Commenters on the messageboard ...
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It was parks commissioner Thomas P. F. Hoving who dubbed pigeons "rats with wings," a term that fourteen years later was popularized by Woody Allen in his 1980 flick “Stardust Memories.” So surely there's some blood on their hands in the war on the pigeon community in New York ...
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One of the undercover cops involved in the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old who was pointing a gun at officers fired eight rounds, according to the Post . Three officers contributed to the 15-bullet salvo ( up from 14 in yesterday's papers ) that left Dashawn Vasconcellos with 11 ...
