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Harlem Is Getting the Biggest Free Public Wi-Fi Network In the U.S.
Here's some good news. Harlem is about to get the biggest free public Wi-Fi network in the entire country, spanning a whopping 95 blocks. Soon there won't be anywhere in the city where you can't get online.
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New York City Extends Smoking Ban To E-Cigarettes
New York's City Council has approved extending the city's strict smoking ban to include electronic cigarettes, which emit a vapor. The measure was pushed by outgoing Mayor Michael Bloomberg and backed by public health advocates in the city. It comes just weeks after New York became the first major city to raise the age for buying tobacco to 21.
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Lights Out: Bloomberg Bans E-Cigarettes in Last Days as Mayor
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will sign his final bills into law today around 2 p.m., including new restrictions on e-cigarettes.
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After the Times Square party comes the cleanup
Shortly after the ball dropped in Times Square, cleanup crews got to work with brooms and blowers to clear the confetti paper, pizza boxes, streamers, popped balloons and empty soda bottles littered on the sidewalks and push them into the street after the massive New Year's celebration.
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A Cold Exit for Mayor Bloomberg
It was a cold awakening for former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who spent his first day as a civilian listening to speakers skewer his legacy, as he looked on, stone-faced in the winter chill at his successor’s inauguration ceremony.
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Fighting a McDonald’s in Queens for the Right to Sit. And Sit. And Sit.
Shortly after New Year’s Day, Man Hyung Lee, 77, was nursing a coffee in his usual seat in a narrow booth at a McDonald’s in Flushing, Queens, when two police officers stepped into the fluorescent light of the restaurant.
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A Gorgeous Time-Lapse of Fall in New York's Central Park
Jamie Scott spent six months photographing fifteen color-saturated landscapes to make this video.
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Phone Booth Graveyard
The phone booths of New York City have all but disappeared, but their remained can be found if you know where to look
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New York City is using big data to predict fires
There are certain factors that make buildings in New York City more likely to have a fire, including average neighborhood income, the age of the building, and whether it has electrical issues.
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De Blasio Says New York Will Settle Suit Over Stop-and-Frisk
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Thursday that New York City had reached an agreement with civil rights lawyers who had challenged the Police Department’s stop-and-frisk practices, which would allow the sweeping reforms ordered by a federal judge last summer to be carried out.
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Entire 'Tonight Show' Staff Laid Off as Jimmy Fallon Moves Show From Burbank to NYC
All 164 employees are being encouraged to apply for positions in New York NBCUniversal plans to lay off the entire “Tonight Show” staff — all 164 Burbank employees — when the late-night talk show moves from California to New York City next month, TheWrap has learned.
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NYPD says it may use Google Glass to fight crime
If you’re a criminal on the run from New York’s finest, you may soon have to worry about yet another tool at the disposal of the NYPD: Google Glass. An unnamed New York City law enforcement official confirmed to VentureBeat on Wednesday that the NYPD has procured several pairs of Google’s connected eyewear, and it plans to test them in order to determine how the headsets might help police officers during their patrols.
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Cabbies who kill or maim in NYC keep licenses, return to work
The overwhelming majority of cabbies who killed and maimed passengers and pedestrians in the past five years are back behind the wheel. Of 16 fatal or serious crashes since 2009 examined by The Post, only two of the drivers had their licenses revoked, according to a review based on a Freedom of Information Act request.
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NYC's New Bathroom Clubs Will Let You Pay to Poop in Private
A new startup is betting that you can't find a suitable public restroom to relieve yourself—and that you'll pay top dollar for a cushy seat when the urge strikes. Posh Stow and Go is billing itself as New York's "first members-only day storage and bathroom facility," with memberships that allow you to pay-as-you-poo.
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A Church So Poor It Has to Close Schools, Yet So Rich It Can Build a Palace
Mater Dei Academy sits shuttered, blue drapes pulled across its windows, atop a hill in this working-class city. From its steps, you can peer across the mist-shrouded expanse of the Meadowlands to the distant spires of Manhattan.
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NY lawmaker: Parents should take parenting classes
New York state Sen. Ruben Diaz Jr. introduced a bill that would require parents of elementary school children to attend a minimum of four parent support classes. If parents don't go, 6th graders won't move onto 7th grade.
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Man dies, dozens hospitalized after carbon monoxide leak at New York mall
A restaurant manager died and one of his employees remained hospitalized after inhaling carbon monoxide at a Long Island mall, authorities said Sunday.
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In New York’s Strictest No-Parking Zones, Not Even the F.B.I. Is Exempt
At the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s counterterrorism compound in the Chelsea neighborhood, the urgent announcement sends special agents rushing to the streets. Has a secret terrorist cell been uncovered? A trove of bomb-making materials, perhaps?
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Spike Lee’s Comments On NYC Gentrification Spark Debate In Fort Greene - CBS New York
During a lecture at Pratt Institute Tuesday, the director and Brooklyn native said that white newcomers to neighborhoods like Fort Greene and Bedford-Stuyvesant are doing the wrong things.
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‘Flushable’ wipes clogging up drains citywide
There’s no flushing away this problem. A Brooklyn dentist says the moistened wipes he used in the bathroom clogged his pipes — and he’s making a federal case out of it. Sales of wipes have soared to $6 billion a year, with advertisers claiming the products are the best way to get clean — and safe to toss in the toilet.
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