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June 29, 2015 Liam Mathews

Luxury real estate developers will no longer be able to receive tax breaks for including segregated affordable units in new buildings, the New York Post first reported, thus doing away with “poor doors.” The provision, part of the affordable housing bill passed in the Assembly last week, undoes a controversial tax measure, Section 421a, that […]

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Liam Mathews

Last Monday, the Center for Security Policy held their annual black-tie gala at the Metropolitan Club of New York. The Intercept’s Lee Fang was there, and he witnessed “a procession of speakers warning darkly about the threat posed by the religion of Islam.” A former Army sergeant who was eliminated from competition in the first […]

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Aymann Ismail

“Listen In” is a feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. Los Angeles-based beat master Knxwledge keeps up with the tradition of obscure samples and […]

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Liam Mathews

Unpaid internships are bad, and recently there’s been a shift away from them. Pretty much every large media company has had a lawsuit filed against it for underpaying/not paying interns. In terms of music, Warner Music Group recently settled for $725,000. But no terrible unpaid internship, music industry or otherwise, has anything on Dower Music […]

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Aymann Ismail

There was a lot to celebrate at this year’s Gay Pride Parade in New York City. Grand marshaled by Sirs Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi, the annual event took place just two days after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of same sex marriage as the law of the land, creating a joyous atmosphere that […]

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Liam Mathews

Over the weekend, Tribeca residents were disturbed by a very loud helicopter. It appeared at around 6 AM on Saturday, and was still in the sky above Hudson Street at around 8:30 Sunday night. Tribeca Citizen determined that it was filming for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2. The real story is not that Tribeca residents […]

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Keegan Stephan

On Friday, Black Lives Matter activists with the Never 21 collective infiltrated the ritzy 21 Club in Midtown Manhattan. Two members of the group posed as waiters and distributed “menus” to all of the patrons. The menus opened not to food and drink selections, but to lists of black children killed by police before the […]

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Liam Mathews

Alright, so, yeah…a guy named Jon Crow who lives in Park Slope (of course, right?) was tired of dogs peeing on his block’s trees and flowers, so he got some kiddie pools and plastic sleds, filled them up with sod, and put them out on the street for dogs to pee and poop on. Crow […]

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Liam Mathews

It’s Monday morning, but you don’t want the weekend to end. Especially this weekend, of all weekends. Even with the rain, the whole city felt like it was having a party thanks to Pride. But I got you. Because I saw a video on the NYC Reddit of a cop getting into it during yesterday’s […]

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Bucky Turco

Willow, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]

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