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The Eight-Day Week

To Do Friday: Bike Takeover

By Rachel Kramer Bussel 9:00am
Ethan Zohn, left, and Kyle Post.

Give your workout routine a break, and get fit for a good cause. Equinox cycling instructors will put you through your paces on 100 bikes they’ll use for four scheduled rides. This just may be your first pedal toward participating in their indoor team cycling fundraiser for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (essentially, a four-hour bike-athon). Read More

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Bill de Blasio Briefly Returns to the Campaign Trail

By Jill Colvin 9/26 7:28pm
Bill de Blasio speaking to a voter in Harlem this evening.

Mayoral front-runner Bill de Blasio finally returned to the stump tonight, greeting voters who lined up for the chance to shake his hand at a subway stop in Harlem.

After more than two weeks of carefully choreographed endorsement events, it was his very first meet-and-greet with voters since securing the Democratic nomination. And it was a very different scene from his early days, when the breezy candidate would hang around, chatting with voters. Read More

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‘Between Two Ferns’: Justin Bieber Edition (Video)

By Drew Grant 9/26 4:04pm

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Bieleber! (FunnyOrDie)

Did anyone else watch that Floyd Mayweather fight last Saturday? He’s such a good boxer, that guy! Pound for pound, he’s the best boxer in the world (or so says the people that know about these things). The best part of the fight though, in our opinion, was one when he walked out with Justin Bieber and Lil Wayne, because where else would you expect to see those two performers hanging out together? Is Justin Bieber even allowed to be out that late? Read More

sports

A New Stadium, but Still the Same Old Team

By Joe Kozlowski 9/26 3:19pm
(Photo by Getty Images)

Hockey calls to mind certain images. There’s a pastoral pond in Canada, filled with children wearing the jerseys of their heroes and shooting a puck into a milk crate. There’s a packed arena in a historic, northern city, filled with generations of champions and villains. And now, there’s Brooklyn. Read More

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Chris Anderson’s Drone Startup Just Raised Another $30M

By Kelly Faircloth 9/26 3:00pm
Mr. Anderson. (Photo: 3D Robotics)

Guess who’s still droning away? Former Wired editor in chief Chris Anderson has just raised a $30 million Series B for his startup 3D Robotics. Investors include Foundry Group, True Ventures, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and SK Ventures. It’s in addition to $5 million raised last year.

The company plans to use the money to “mainstream aerial robotics and surveying,” i.e., turning this hobbyist habit into something relatively affordable and approachable for those who aren’t lifelong subscribers to, well, Wired. The team is zeroing on commercial use cases, the big example being agriculture. Mr. Anderson said in a statement:  Read More

NYO

Go Long

By Michael Ewing 9/26 2:30pm
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People don’t always think of Long Island City when they think of up-and-coming areas around Manhattan, but with amazing views of the Manhattan skyline and a developing artistic community and bar scene, LIC’s time is coming. Read More

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