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BTS Takes New York: How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Join The BTS ARMY @BTS_twt #BTSARMY
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Bronx residents say they discovered multiples nooses hanging from trees in Van Cortlandt Park on Thursday night. The NYPD declined to open an investigation, claiming the knots were leftover piñata string
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The BTS ARMY Has Been Camping Out Near Central Park Since Last Week To See K-Pop Sensation #BTSArmy #BTS
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The amazing news is true—Gothamist is returning!
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. @Gothamist is making a comeback! We’re excited to announce we’re acquiring the news site in a deal with our fellow public radio stations @KPCC and @wamu885 .
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At least two people were hospitalized and 29 protesters were arrested in the NYPD's crackdown on an MLK Day march Monday night. The aggressive show of force comes one month after Mayor de Blasio vowed to reform the department's policing of protests.
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A new report argues that it costs an average of $383 a night to house a family in a shelter or hotel, but only $72 a night if that family is placed in a two-bedroom apartment using a rental assistance program.
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The NYPD has stopped tens of thousands of pedestrians since Mayor Adams took office — claiming someone “fit a relevant description” or "other." Just 5% were white — an even starker disparity than the height of Mayor Bloomberg's "stop and frisk" era.
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Michael Cohen Gets The Crappy Subway Ads He Deserves (and we spoke with the person behind them, who says there's more to come) (Help #BringBackGothamist here )
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BTS Art Project Brings Giant Aluminum Tube Sculpture To Brooklyn Bridge Park @BTS_twt #BTS @bbpnyc
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday met with organizers of Stand Up to Violence, a first-of-its-kind program in New York that has shown a nearly 60% reduction in gunshot injuries.
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Thousands Of NYC Tenants Kick Off Historic Rent Strike, Distressing Landlords
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Union Square's Giant Metronome Is Now A Climate Crisis Countdown Clock
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NYC appears to be empty today.
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New York City's public libraries may have to cut staff, hours, branches and programming as they face potential multi-million-dollar budget cuts in Mayor Eric Adams’ plan to curtail city spending.
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NYPD overtime pay for extra officers in the subway went from $4 million in 2022 to $155 million this year, according to city records obtained by Gothamist.
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Bronx-born hip-hop star Cardi B will pay the funeral costs for the 17 victims of the January 9th blaze in a high-rise apartment, including repatriation costs for victims whose remains would be sent for burial to The Gambia.
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Cosmic Phenomenon Alert: Jupiter And Saturn Form "Great Conjunction" For First Time In Nearly 400 Years
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New York City residents overwhelmingly say they support the right-to-shelter mandate requiring the city to provide shelter to anyone in need, according to a new poll.
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'We Hope It Ends': Tourists Flood The 'Joker Stairs,' Frustrating Locals
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Feline Good Photos Of Stolen Bodega Kitten, Reunited With 10-Year-Old Boy
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Badlands National Park Has Gone Totally Rogue And Started Tweeting Climate Facts
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Nobody: Mayor Eric Adams: The rats may be listening
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BREAKING: Federal investigators raided the offices of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, a large NYPD union, on Tuesday morning. A spokesperson says the FBI was carrying out "a law enforcement action in connection with an ongoing investigation."
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Videos: Intense Thunderstorms Unleash Purple Lightning On NYC, Statue Of Liberty
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'It's The Center Of The Universe': Revelers Explain Why They're Camping Out In Times Square For New Year's Eve (And #BTS )
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Caught on tape, NYPD officers disparaged an arrested woman as a “liberal c--t" before saying, “maybe that 18 hours that you spend on that f-----g cage in the back will change your mind about life a little bit."
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BTS rode the NYC subway for the first time—and shut down Grand Central Terminal for a special Tonight Show performance 💜 #bts #btsarmy
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Mayor Adams: New York City is the ___ of America
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Lena Dunham On Kanye's ' #Famous ' Video: 'It Makes Me Feel Sad & Unsafe'
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Photos: All The Best Cosplay On Comic Con 2018's Opening Day #NYCC18
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Emergency exit gates at three subway stations will soon take 15 seconds to open, MTA officials announced Monday, as part of an effort to crack down on the “super highway of fare evasion.”
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Thousands of protesters are expected to meet in Times Square on Thursday night, then march down 7th Avenue in opposition to President Trump's interference in the Russia probe
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Staggering Surge Of NYers Dying In Their Homes Suggests City Is Undercounting Coronavirus Fatalities
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The Village Voice Is Officially Dead
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Behold Yayoi Kusama's Spectacular Takeover Of The New York Botanical Garden
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Cuomo orders Port Authority to assist detainees at New York airports as crowd at JFK continues to grow
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Mayor Eric Adams told at least one member of the City Council he would restore cuts to their favorite programs if they agreed to vote against a police transparency bill the mayor and NYPD officials vigorously opposed.
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The new Queens compost program has collected more than 12.7 million pounds of organic waste in just three months, proving that New Yorkers are eager to participate in the environmentally friendly effort. Read more:
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Mayor Adams has been nowhere to be found as parts of the city flooded and New Yorkers brace for high winds, freezing weather, and icy road conditions.
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UPDATE: The NYPD has interviewed the driver and five passengers inside the car that rammed marchers on Thursday, one of the counter-protesters told Gothamist. All were released without charges.
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More than 13,000 rent-stabilized apartments in New York City have sat empty for the past two years, according to a new review of state data. (1/3)
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This week, one New Yorker got on his fire escape, plugged in, and paid homage to Jimi Hendrix during the 7 p.m. cheer. Today, we're told Hendrix's sister Janie reached out to say she was delighted by the moment.
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An Emergency Field Hospital Is Going Up In Central Park As Coronavirus Cases Surge In NYC
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New York pharmacists can now dispense a year’s supply of birth control without a prescription to anyone in the state — including people who travel to New York from other states. Read more:
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More than 250 barbershop and salons across New York and New Jersey are participating in Shots at the Shop, a program where shop owners address vaccine hesitancy, educate clients about the process, and host clinics in or near their shops.
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Aaron Mostofsky, the son of a Brooklyn judge who participated in the U.S. Capitol insurrection, was arrested on Tuesday. Photos show FBI agents seizing fur pelts from the Midwood home.
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An influx of more than 100,000 migrants into New York City isn't unprecedented. Ellis Island processed 100,000 immigrants in just a single month in April 1907. Between 1996 and 2001, an average of 111,828 immigrants settled in New York per year.
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Photos: Spring Street Subway Station Gets Makeshift Bruce @Springsteen Tribute
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Carnegie Hall announced prominent Russian conductor Valery Gergiev will not conduct the Vienna Philharmonic this weekend. His close ties to Vladimir Putin threatened to overshadow the concerts; protests outside the hall were being planned for Friday night.
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Video: Mechanized Pizza Rat Prank Scares New Yorkers
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George Floyd Protest In Union Square Met With "Aggressive" NYPD Response, Multiple Arrests
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A rainbow for Pride! 🌈 (📷: @jenchung )
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Depeche Mode Responds To Richard Spencer: We Do Not Support The Alt-Right
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Photos: Inside The Big New Yayoi Kusama Show In Chelsea @davidzwirner
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Now entering its seventh year, the Jacobi program known as Stand Up to Violence is the first of its kind in the state to use a hospital-based approach that treats violence like a disease.
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Photos: Rainbow Appears Over NYC As 7 O'Clock Cheer Takes Place
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Monster Truck Carries Coffin In Biker Caravan To DMX’s Memorial At Barclays Center
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New York City could offer free transit fares to more than 760,000 low-income seniors and people with disabilities for $67 million a year, according to a report by the city Independent Budget Office.
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A black-and-white adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand will launch the 59th New York Film Festival. The film explores an older Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in what McDormand calls "their last chance for glory."
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Adorable, Ominous Owl Found Tucked Into Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree
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NY Film Festival Unveils Hilarious Poster By "Filth Elder" John Waters
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Meet Dianne Morales, the self-described “Black-Boriccua, born and raised in Bed-Stuy” who is often labeled the most progressive among the eight leading candidates for mayor.
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Bodega Cat STOLEN From Sidewalk Outside Lexington Avenue Store
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Video: What The Heck Was Going On With The Empire State Building Lights Last Night?
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Every homeless person in the city has a right to be placed in a shelter. Why do some people ride the subway instead of going to shelters? "It's kind of tantamount to jail," one homeless man said of the shelter system.
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"You Seem To Have No Conscience": Activists Stop Crown Heights Landlords From Evicting Tenants
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Video: How Did This Rat End Up Inside A MetroCard Machine?
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Behold This Bizarre Blob Oozing Out Of The 23rd Street C/E Subway Stairwell
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Video: Lime-A-Rita Drinker Shouting Racial Slurs On L Train Gets Soup Dumped On Him
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Artist Tricks Tourists With Elaborate Monument To Staten Island Ferry Octopus Attack
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NYPL Lions, Patience and Fortitude, Are Now Wearing Masks Like Good New Yorkers
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The ASPCA Is Waiving Black Cat Adoption Fees For #BlackCatAppreciationDay
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NYC will withhold paychecks to NYPD employees who refuse to get vaccinated or submit to weekly COVID tests. The city's largest police union has threatened to sue—but legal experts argue vaccine mandates are within the legal rights of local governments.
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SEE IT: Cynthia Nixon Orders Cinnamon Raisin Bagel With... Lox And Capers
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Civil servants such as NYPD officers, firefighters and teachers will have to pay the $15 toll to enter Manhattan's congestion pricing zone just like all other drivers, a key MTA report obtained by Gothamist reveals.
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Man Caught With A Hundred Stolen Cellphones At Coachella After Festivalgoers Activate 'Find My iPhone' App
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Do You Know Balto, The Dog Who Helped Stop An Outbreak And Got A Statue In Central Park?
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'Why You Gonna Bite Me Like That?' Man Films Prospect Park Squirrel Biting His Finger
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The city paid out $114.5 million in police misconduct lawsuits last year — nearly double what it paid in 2020, according to an analysis by the Legal Aid Society. Such lawsuits have cost taxpayers more than half a billion dollars since 2018.
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Good morning NYC — here's a timelapse we took from the @EmpireStateBldg of the sunrise this morning (more coming soon)...
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New York City is poised to lose funding for 60 school psychologists and nearly a quarter of the roughly 2,000 social workers embedded in public schools, even as Mayor Adams has warned of an ongoing “youth mental health crisis.”
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"I don't think they're here because they want to be here,” MTA station cleaner Shafawn Simmons said in 2019 about those who live in the subway system. “I think they don't feel like they have a choice."
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Forty-nine people were shot over the course of 72 hours in NYC between Thursday and Saturday, compared to eight shooting victims over the same time period last year.
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After shutting down several blocks of Greenpoint — and bringing in dozens of officers, a helicopter and a drone — for a 12-hour stand-off, the NYPD arrested a graffiti artist who allegedly tagged a water tower with a Super Mario-inspired piece.
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BREAKING: New York State Assembly releases report that finds Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, used state resources in violation of state ethics laws and withheld information regarding the deaths of nursing home residents from COVID.
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The MTA has suspended @MetroNorth service on the Hudson, Harlem, and New Haven Lines—this is Grand Central Terminal 😯 (📷: @barb_leung )
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BREAKING: New York lawmakers passed a bill banning guns in Times Square, the subway system and dozens of other public places on Friday in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent concealed carry decision. Gov. Kathy Hochul quickly signed it into law.
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Shia LaBeouf ( @thecampaignbook ) Is Watching His Movies At Angelika Film Center Right Now
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Over 95 years ago, a Siberian Husky named Balto, along with a team of sled dogs, helped deliver an antitoxin to a small town in Alaska, preventing an outbreak. Celebrated all over the country, a statue of Balto was erected in Central Park.
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