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“Nazi-like” pattern of behavior by the PEPs

March 1, 2011 The Community Board met tonight to discuss the proposed demolition of the Winter Garden stairs and the alleged assault of BPC resident Adam Pratt, first reported by BatteryPark.TV on January 29th. The Pratt incident was the last … Continue reading

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Is the NCAA corrupt?

March 31, 2011 The best journalists in all of sports, in our opinion, are Bryant Gumble, Bernie Goldberg, and the others on the cast of HBO’s Real Sports. They just aired a special on corruption in big time college football … Continue reading

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Japan now becoming a Chernobyl

March 28, 2011 httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfOaaqfyFP0 March 27th, 2011 As we predicted when the Japan nuclear crisis first began, the situation is deteriorating and now on par with Chernobyl. It will likely be many times worse than Chernobyl given the numerous reactors … Continue reading

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Comparing radiation leaks from major nuclear events

March 15, 2011 Now that the multiple nuclear reactors in Japan are in meltdown, possibly on the scale of Chernobyl in 1986, the key safety questions are “How will this radiation accident compare to other previously documented events, such as … Continue reading

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Battery Park City park rangers assault BPC resident

January 29, 2011 At approximately 12:00 PM on January 29th, 20011, according to eyewitness Theresa Shabbos who lives one floor above 2 South End Avenue, local resident Adam Pratt was walking his small dog and arrived at the southeast corner … Continue reading

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Taxi driver violent behavior on the rise in NYC

March 6, 2011 According to ABC Channel 7, a taxi driver who refused to take a group of males from Manhattan to the Bronx drove instead to the Midtown North NYPD precinct. The group explained the situation and the police … Continue reading

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“Doctor” Drew has Narcissistic Personality Disorder

April 6, 2011 “Doctor” Drew Pinskey has given up all pretenses of professionalism and is now diagnosing celebrities based on short TV sound bites. Most notably, he did this with Charlie Sheen recently. The academic psychiatry community frowns upon this. … Continue reading

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Leno revives The Tonight Show after Conan leaves

February 4, 2011 Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien are not on speaking terms, but Conan should be blaming himself for why his Tonight Show failed. A chart of the ratings lat year showed a huge dip once Conan took over. … Continue reading

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Awesome video from a jet of the Shuttle launch

February 26, 2011 The Space Shuttle Discovery took off for the last time on February 24th. Someone on a commercial jet took this video. Enjoy httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE_USPTmYXM (more…)

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It’s about jobs, stupid

February 12, 2011 HBO’s Bill Maher suggested to guest Arianna Huffington that President Obama has the 2012 election “in his pocket” because the list of GOP wannabes is so lame. She correctly replied that the high unemployment rate is untenable … Continue reading

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Bill Maher says that Glenn Beck and Palin have peaked

February 5, 2011 On February 4, Bill Maher made an interesting observation on his HBO show. He said that Glenn Beck’s comments on the spread of unrest on Northern African were embarrassing even for Fox viewers and that Sarah Palin … Continue reading

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Overthrow the Caps Lock

February 2, 2011 Awesome. Google is leading the way to eliminate the annoying Caps Lock forever! Kill the Caps Lock. Kill the Caps lock. May the Egyptian unrest spread to the keyboard. “Numbers lock” and “Insert” keys are next. We’re … Continue reading

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Bill Maher is a super genius now

January 29, 2011 We take back all of our criticism of Bill Maher. On his HBO show, he criticized President Obama for his pretentious pronunciation of the Taliban as “tollybahn”. Bravo! We concur. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwVoFactT8I January 11, 2011 Bill Maher made … Continue reading

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NYC to start the first tidal-power-plant

January 4, 2011 Progressive Mayor Bloomberg might be close to having New York City become the first city in the U.S. to be powered by turbines that spin on tidal currents. The NY Times is reporting that 30 more turbines … Continue reading

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Housing prices dip in Q4 2010

January 4, 2011 The WSJ is reporting that Manhattan home sale prices fell in the fourth quarter of 2010, and that the picture is not expected to be brighter in 2011. This comes on the heels of bad nationwide housing … Continue reading

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Busted: Snow plow operators sitting idle

Update: January 3, 2011 The New York Post is now reporting that the sanitation department bosses were not only shirking their duties after the blizzard, but bought beer and got drunk in their cars and trucks. December 31, 2010 After … Continue reading

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Misguided Gothamist article critical of the NYPD dealing with skateboarders

December 26, 2010 The Gothamist is an online blog about New York City news and events. They quite often have good posts. However, we noted one recent post that was misguided, and unfortunately represents the views of many. The Gothamist … Continue reading

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Did Rick Sanchez make another anti-Semitic comment on ABC?

October 8, 2010 Today, on ABC’s Good Morning America show, fired CNN anchor Rick Sanchez made a highly-coached, insincere, mea culpa about his comments that Jews run the media and comedian Jon Stewart is a bigot. However, did he work … Continue reading

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Skateboarders assault food vendor near the Ritz Carleton in Battery Park City

October 2, 2010 On Saturday, October 2, approximately 20 skateboarders, many from Brooklyn, were performing jumps, damaging the granite benches and walkway in front of 17 Battery Place.  Across the street is the family tourist area of Battery Park, Statue … Continue reading

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BPC is the star of Wall Street 2

September 27, 2010 The #1 film at the box office this weekend was “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps”, the sequel to the Academy Award winning film of 1987, Wall Street. Most of the film was shot in Downtown Manhattan, and … Continue reading

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