“George Putnam was not a nice guy. Amelia Earhart, however, was a terrific person. The thing is, you don’t get women going to the moon, which is happening, we don’t get so many of the women aviators in this world, without George Putnam, a Machiavellian narcissist who did things like fake his own kidnapping, pretend […]

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The head of a legal services group that provides public defenders and other lawyers for the needy tried to induce a union delegate to help bring in a new management-friendly union in exchange for a lighter work load, according to a charge submitted to the National Labor Relations Board on Friday. The Association of Legal […]

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The MTA has mapped out the East Harlem properties it still needs to acquire via eminent domain before stretching the Second Avenue Subway from the Upper East Side to 125th Street, according to court records. A petition filed Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court lists the lots and buildings that the transit agency says are necessary […]

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NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch has ordered department officials to inform two officers before a crucial deadline next Friday that disciplinary charges will proceed against them after their involvement in last year’s fatal shooting of 19-year-old Win Rozario, according to a department spokesperson. The charges stem from a Civilian Complaint Review Board vote last week to […]

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Department of Homeland Security police officers arrested 11 local elected officials inside Lower Manhattan’s federal building after they had demanded access to immigration enforcement’s shadowy holding area on the building’s 10th floor.  The arrests at 26 Federal Plaza happened after an hour-long standoff, with the lawmakers refusing to leave the hallway outside the lockup, banging […]

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