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‘Doomocracy’ Is a Manic, Playful Tour of America’s Current Nightmare
It’s hard to think of any horror or dark absurdity this endless election season hasn’t already visited upon us. October alone brought a dozen sexual abuse and assault allegations against Donald Trump, persistent questions about Russia’s possible behind-the-scenes role in his campaign, plus a renewed FBI inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s emails, thanks to a separate […]
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Is NY Prepared for Climate Change’s Mental Health Crises?
In the days and months following Superstorm Sandy, as New Yorkers surveyed the damage to their property, moved into and out of shelters, and tried to find new homes for their children, at local and national helplines the phones stayed largely silent. At the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), the New York chapter hotline […]
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How Can New York Stop the City’s Worst Landlords?
When the trouble came to 90 Elizabeth Street, it arrived quietly, in a flurry of white papers. They blanketed the mailboxes and the front doors of many of the tenants in the modest Chinatown apartment building, a forbidding snowdrift of eggshell, piled with angry black type. When 43-year-old Betty Eng got home one spring afternoon […]
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Shia LaBeouf Was Trying to Drunkenly Feed a Lady Strawberries During his Cabaret Arrest
Back in June, actor, performance artist, and increasingly stark cautionary tale Shia LaBeouf went to take in a Broadway show, making it through at least several minutes of Cabaret at Studio 54 before he was arrested for smoking, yelling, and butt-slapping . Last night on Jimmy Kimmel, we got to hear LaBeouf’s version of the […]
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Here’s the NYPD Arresting an Audience Member Mid-Comedy Show, Then Heckling the Comedian
As a general rule, the worst thing that can happen during a comedy set is realizing you’ve accidentally stumbled into some kind of hellish Dane Cook/Daniel Tosh marathon. But it could be worse! You could, for example, be sitting in a comedy show around midnight at the Upright Citizens Brigade’s Chelsea theater when four members […]
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OWS Activist Cecily McMillan Found Not Guilty of Interfering with Arrest in Union Square Subway
A jury has found former Occupy Wall Street activist Cecily McMillan not guilty of interfering with an arrest in a Union Square subway station. McMillan was charged with obstruction of governmental administration on December 7, 2013, when two police officers said she interfered with their investigation of two people they suspected of turnstile-jumping. McMillan, who […]
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Famed Graffiti Artist Adam Cost Arrested by NYPD Officers Obsessed With Adam Cost
In the ’90s, legendary graffiti artist Adam Cost papered New York with his work, wheatpasting sly, hilarious, all-caps tributes to himself (“COST Fucked Madonna” was the best-loved one) on every available surface before abruptly going silent. In early 2013 or so, as we reported at the time, he returned, and suddenly Manhattan’s scaffolds and street […]
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OWS Activist Cecily McMillan Goes to Trial Again, Accused of Interfering With an Arrest
Former Occupy Wall Street activist Cecily McMillan, who was previously convicted of assaulting a police officer during a 2012 protest, returned to a much smaller courtroom this week. This time she’s accused of a misdemeanor, interfering with two police officers as they tried to question a couple suspected of turnstile-jumping in the Union Square subway […]
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First Lady’s Top Aide Rachel Noerdlinger Spotted at Department of Investigation Headquarters
For several weeks, New York news has been full of Rachel Noerdlinger, First Lady Chirlane McCray’s chief of staff, after DNAInfo reported on September 25 that she’s in a relationship with Hassaun McFarlan, 36, who has a lengthy criminal record. McFarlan spent time in prison when he was 15 years old after being convicted of […]
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This Halloween, Take a Haunted Canoe Ride Down the Fetid, Radioactive Newtown Creek
It can be hard to recapture the terror of Halloweens past, can’t it? The simpler time when the holiday was about extorting as much candy as possible out of your neighbors, then rushing home as fast as you could, fully convinced that a multitude of ghosts and demons were about to claw their way out […]