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June 2, 2015 Liam Mathews

Some prisoners at Rikers do a thing called “splashing” where they fling bodily fluids at corrections officers. You know, like Miggs in Silence Of the Lambs. The Department of Corrections unveiled a proposed budget yesterday that calls for $733,248 for forensic testing to “test department uniforms as a result of splashing incident,” the Observer reports. […]

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May 14, 2015 Liam Mathews

Your worst suspicions about hotel, hospital, and restaurant linens are probably true, according to a report compiled by City Councilman Ritchie Torres and advocacy group CLEAN NYC and reported on by the Daily News. The report states that of the 50 industrial laundries in the metro area, only 5 are certified by industry groups to […]

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April 30, 2015 Liam Mathews

DNAinfo has suggested that Box Kite’s “‘spro & tonic” is New York City’s “coffee drink of the summer.” According to DNAinfo’s Emilie Ruscoe, who mustered up the courage to try this concoction, the ‘spro & tonic is: a cold, bubbly concoction that’s made by adding a shot of espresso to a glass of tonic water. […]

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