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Airbnb Will Probably Get You Evicted and Priced Out of the City
Renting your place on Airbnb might help you pay your rent, but it’s making New York City — and San Francisco, Montreal, Berlin and other popular destinations — even less affordable than they already are. The young and mobile love Airbnb. It’s a step up from crashing on a friend or a stranger’s couch without shelling a month’s rent on a three-day stay at a hotel. It’s also a great way to make up for rent that’s “wasted” on an empty apartment.
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Twitter Can Now Predict Crime, and This Raises Serious Questions
Police departments in New York City may soon be using geo-tagged tweets to predict crime. It sounds like a far-fetched sci-fi scenario a la Minority Report, but when I contacted Dr. Matthew Greber, the University of Virginia researcher behind the technology, he explained that the system is far more mathematical than metaphysical.
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Ban on E-cigarettes takes effect today
New Yorkers are no longer allowed to smoke electronic cigarettes in any place where smoking regular cigarettes is prohibited, including bars, restaurants, offices, parks and beaches.
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After Hour-Long Debate, NY Senate Votes on State Snack
The New York state senate passed a bill that would make yogurt the state’s official snack, but not without a surprisingly spirited debate Tuesday evening. Senators debated for nearly an hour on the bill introduced after a push from a fourth-grade class at an upstate elementary school, reports Buzzfeed.
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Cops dead from 9/11 illnesses outnumber officers who died in attacks
The names of police officers who died from ground zero-related illnesses now outnumber the 60 killed in the 9/11 attacks engraved on the New York State Police Officers' Memorial in Albany. The names of 20 officers have been added to the black granite memorial. They include 12 New York City officers and one from suburban Peekskill who died from illnesses connected to the attack. That raised the total to 71.
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Man Rescued Girl From Subway Tracks While Everyone Else Took Photos
NYU food service employee Joshua Garcia was standing on a Union Square subway platform with his coworkers and hundreds of other commuters when a teenage girl blacked out and fell onto the subway tracks Wednesday evening. While everyone else gawked and documented the frightening incident, Garcia jumped down onto the trackbed.
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The Manhattan Bridge Is Used By Thousands Every Day... But It Holds A Dark Secret. Look Closer.
Living anywhere in Manhattan means that you’re going to be paying a lot of money in rent. Almost every part of New York City is expensive. If you were to live near the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn, rent would most likely be anywhere between $1,700 and $3,000 a month. For people with low paying or minimum wage jobs, it would be impossible to live in this area.
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Autistic Hacker Helped FBI Nail Anonymous Boss
In an effort to identify leaders of Anonymous, the FBI arrested an autistic New York man and then used him as a cooperating witness to help snare a notorious fellow hacker who was subsequently indicted for his central role in a series of high-profile online attacks, The Smoking Gun has learned.
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How the Neighborhoods of Manhattan Got Their Names
For an island of only 24 square miles, Manhattan sure has a lot of neighborhoods. Many have distinct monikers that might not seem intuitive to the lay-tourist, or even to a lifelong New Yorker.
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Rent-Regulated Tenants Excluded From Amenities
Buildings are creating amenities for market-rate tenants only, leaving regulated renters out in the cold.
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The 9/11 museum's absurd gift shop
The museum at Ground Zero tells the dark story of the 9/11 terror attacks with spectacular artifacts and exhibits. It pays heart-wrenching tribute to the innocents and heroes killed that day. It also has a gift shop.
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Wingsuit fliers soar over New York
Four wingsuit flyers take to skies above New York swooping through the air at speeds of up to 120 miles before landing on a barge in the Hudson River
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Anton Purisima Files the Largest Lawsuit Ever Over a Rabid Dog, and It Could Bankrupt the World
New Yorker Anton Purisima claims a rabid dog bit him on a city bus. The result is the world’s largest ever lawsuit—and, if he wins, the awarding of more money than Planet Earth has.
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The Worst Day Of My Life Is Now New York's Hottest Tourist Attraction
Nearly 13 years after my sister's death, a reluctant Sunday visit to the 9/11 Memorial Museum, where public spectacle and private grief have a permanent home together.
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Why Do We Love Manhattanhenge So Much?
There's something magical about Manhattanhenge, the twice-a-year phenomenon when the sun sets exactly along the cross streets of New York City's prodigious grid.
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Visitors Fault Sept. 11 Museum’s Portrayal of Islam
After the vivid audio recordings, diagrams and personal artifacts that take visitors minute by minute through the Sept. 11 attacks, and before the images of recovery workers combing through rubble, a small section of the National September 11 Memorial Museum is devoted to explaining Al Qaeda and terrorism.
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Newspaper boys cool off in a New York City park fountain
April 1916. Photograph by Edwin Levick
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NYC Gamer Turns Bedroom Into Retro Arcade, Loses Fiancée in the Process
NYC resident Chris Kooluris has done something that most men can only dream of: he turned his old bedroom into a retro arcade. On one hand, it's the ultimate man-cave. On the other, he lost his fiancée for the sake of his vision. That's serious dedication.
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Yankees Draft a Kenny Powers Clone
With the 422nd pick in the 2014 MLB draft, the New York Yankees selected pitcher Kenny Powers...errr, Sean Carley, out of West Virginia. Powers is, of course, a fictional character played by actor Danny McBride in the hit HBO show Eastbound & Down, while Carley is a very real pitching prospect. He told Florida Today's John Torres that he'll be dropping the Powers look when he gets to the minors.
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Schumer's $100 Million Cure For The Heroin 'Epidemic' Is Snake Oil
Last week Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) asked for “an emergency $100 million surge” in federal funding to “to quickly combat the fact that New York City has become the hotbed for the East Coast heroin trade.” Schumer declared that “heroin trafficking and usage are at epidemic levels,” adding that “seizures of heroin in New York City in 2014 have already surpassed those of any previous year since 1991, which demonstrates an alarming trend that we must nip in the bud.”
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