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The Perry Avenue Historic District, a row of nine Queen Anne-style homes in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx, is New York City's 100th historic district. [...]
Just three months ago, Joe Lieberman explained his opposition to a public health insurance option by telling a Connecticut newspaper that he instead favored expanding Medicare—a less cumbersome, more affordable way to extend coverage to some Americans, he claimed.
"If you're 55 or 60 and you're without health insurance" [...]
Meanwhile, what the hell is Ben Nelson thinking? Farmers pay a helluva lot more [...]
[UPDATE BELOW] On the same day that a woman was killed while riding her bike in Greenpoint, protesters denounced the Bloomberg administration for removing a 14-block stretch of bike lane on Bedford Avenue in South Williamsburg. Approximately 15 cyclists braved the [...]
A 22-year-old man was shot and killed in a dispute over "bathroom rights" in a Bedford-Stuyvesant rooming house, according to the Daily News. Daquan Boyce called his mother late Saturday night and complained that another tenant in [...]
Last week's bike lane tsimmis on Bedford Avenue had a sad denouement yesterday, reports the Brooklyn Paper: A small band of activists braved the rain to protest the scrubbing of the markers New O...
Continue reading "Bedford Avenue Bike Lane Protest Modest; Lane Revival Not Looking" [...]My Favorite journalist Phelim McAleer is at it again. You may remember Phelim dared asked Saint AlGore a question about errors in his movie Inconvienent Truth at a press conference that AlGore put together. This time he asks Prof Stephen Schneider from Stanford University an Inconvenient Question about ‘Climategate’ emails.
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Twitter user WmsbgNews captioned this photo "DOT painted black the line painted by the Hipsters."
The saga continues: At some point last night or early this morning, the impromptu bike lane painted by activists on Bedford Avenue in South Williamsburg was [...]
Looks like Jenny Sanford has had enough. "The dissolution of any marriage is a sad and painful process," she says in a statement. But she's up for it: "I am now filing for divorce." "About ti...
Continue reading "Jenny Sanford Announces Divorce from Cheating Governor" > " [...]
A pair of Oscar-winning directors debut new films this weekend, but all anyone really wants to talk about is the King of the World. Thanks to some embargo-breaking reviews, the first (and second and third) word on James Cameron's Avatar has finally reached the masses. And, apparently, it's' [...]
Brooklyn cycling activists angry about the Bedford Avenue bike lane removal are in Copenhagen and waiting to confront Mayor Bloomberg when he arrives on Monday for the international climate change conference. Baruch Herzfeld, an Orthodox Jew who runs a South Williamsburg bike clubhouse, [...]
Two cycling activists suspected of repainting the Bedford Avenue bike lane turned themselves in at the 90th Precinct in Williamsburg yesterday.
According to the Post, 26-year-old Quinn Hechtropf and 24-year-old Katherine Piccochi were among the bikers who used paint rollers, spray [...]
Activists from Monday morning's guerrilla bike lane striping on Bedford Avenue say two individuals were indeed given summonses for criminal mischief, contrary to media reports published today. Police haven't yet answered inquiries from Streetsblog, but organizers of the action confirmed that two were charged.
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Connecticut prosecutors have decided not to charge the owner of a chimpanzee that attacked the owner's friend and employee, leaving the woman severely disfigured. According to the Hartford Courant, "Stamford State's Attorney David Cohen said Monday that an investigation" [...]
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Williamsburg cyclists got a new bike lane on Bedford Avenue yesterday morning, but they lost one last night when dozens of cars obstructed the cycling path on Kent Avenue. Just hours after biking activists repainted a [...]
For your viewing pleasure this morning, YouTube footage of yesterday's early a.m. direct action on Bedford Avenue in South Williamsburg. It's hard to say for sure, but it looks like the Hasidic bike lane painters chose to stay off-camera. After the jump, a look at the [...]
The recently re-painted Bedford Avenue bike lane
The biking activists responsible for repainting the Bedford Avenue bike lane have shared video of their actions with Gothamist. After the city controversially decided to remove the bike lane from a 14-block stretch of [...]
Photo: Gothamist.The guerrilla re-striping of a portion of the Bedford Avenue bike lane at 4:00 a.m. this morning was the work of both secular Williamsburg residents and members of the Hasidic community, according to Baruch Herzfeld, a local bike-shop operator and cycling [...]
