The Bloomberg Administration has waged an all-out war on smoking, doing the unthinkable seven year ago by banning butts from bars across the five boroughs. With its success (or failure, for those with a pack-a-day habit), cities across the... MORE >
Etsy is an online marketplace for every concievable variety of hand made craft, and their Dumbo office reflects its DIY ethos. Mashable took a stroll through the space, which Etsy has occupied for a little over a year. It's packed with... MORE >
So much for Karl Lagerfeld's Dubai dream. Like many things in the Emirate, it has proven too good to be true, falling victim to the city's collapse. Like the hundreds if not thousands of projects that... MORE >
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand led her keynote speech at the Empire State Pride Agenda's fall dinner with a reference to her Google... MORE >
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By | October 15, 2010 | 1:25 am
After weeks of uncertainty about whether Andrew Cuomo would or would not attend the Empire State Pride Agenda's fall dinner, the attorney general showed up to offer his remarks at a pre-dinner reception. "I hope you’ve heard that I’m running... MORE >
-- A few weeks ago, the Times' Big Deal was that Walt "Clyde" Frazier, the Knicks Hall of Famer, had bought three adjoining penthouses units at The Lenox Grand, located at 381 Lenox Avenue, at the corner of 129th... MORE >
"Am I boring you yet?" Paz de la Huerta cooed into the microphone, her inflection such that it could have been whispered in bed. She was reading an excerpt of the new Lydia Davis translation of Madame Bovary at... MORE >
Paul Ceglia claims that when Mark Zuckerberg did some freelance coding work for him back in 2003 he also signed away a majority stake in "The Facebook." Now he wants a federal judge in Buffalo to consider Zuckerberg's $100 million... MORE >
Dear Diary, I broke a perfectly good winning streak -- a four-session-long, 266-point gain -- all because some underqualified clerks have been throwing away, improperly signing and generally making a mess of foreclosure documents for the... MORE >
By The Dow Jones Industrial Average | October 14, 2010 | 5:10 pm