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  • Moscow safer than New York Russian minister

    Russian police reforms have proved so successful that, in some areas, Moscow outperforms New York on safety, Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev has boasted while on a visit to the US. Kolokoltsev made the claims during a meeting in New York late Monday with New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. "We have compared the crime situation in Moscow and New York, factoring in ...

  • Shocking lawsuit claims NY high schools admissions policy racially biased

    New York City high school admissions policies are racially biased against black and Hispanic students. A lawsuit filed in a federal civil rights complaint said that parents and activists have charged the school. According to the New York Daily News, in the complaint, filed with the federal Office of Civil Rights, the parents and their lawyers call for a federal investigation and overhaul of a ...

  • US charges three NYU researchers for taking bribes from Chinese company

    Three New York University researchers from China divulged results from a federally funded study to Chinese competitors in exchange for tuition, rent and other expenses. Federal prosecutors said that Yudong Zhu, a U.S.-educated NYU professor, and Xing Yang, a lab engineer, were released on bail after appearing in federal court in Manhattan to face commercial bribery and other charges. ...

  • Anthony Weiner launches New York mayoral bid

    Anthony Weiner's run for a renaissance is officially on.The ex-congressman whose career imploded in a rash of raunchy tweets two years ago said in ...

  • Conn. rail service returning to normal

    Metro North employees, in orange vests, help transfer westbound commuters at the transportation center in Bridgeport, Ct., to buses Monday, May 20, 2012, after a train collision on Friday injured 72 people and disrupted rail service into New York City. The commuters had arrived from New Haven by train and were being bused to Stamford, Ct., where rail service to New York was available. (AP ...


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Movie Review

Flesh for Frankenstein (aka Andy Warhol's Frankenstein)

Flesh for Frankenstein (aka Andy Warhol's Frankenstein)

Paul Morrisseys Flesh for Frankenstein, which was originally known as Andy Warhols Frankenstein even though Warhol did nothing but lend his name, is deliberately and unapologetically sensationalistic and in-your-face. In it, Morrissey consciously orchestrates everything to grandiose excess, from the free-flowing gore, to the cheesy dialogue, to the bad acting. Of course, theres much ... ...

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  • Too close Shock as bullet blasts into girls window landing in her hair — shes fine

    A 12 year-old girl got the scare of a lifetime Monday night, when a bullet went flying through her bedroom window and somehow landed in her hair without wounding her, cops said.The victim was in her bedroom around 9:00 p.m. when shots were fired near the Morningside Heights apartment on Seventh Avenue near Adam Clayton Boulevard, cops said.That’s when her sixth floor bedroom window was ...

  • Backpedaling Bike racks removed after Post’s queries

    City workers swooped in Monday night and yanked out part of a bike-share rack blocking the front of a West Village co-op - just hours after The Post called the Department of Transportation over complaints that an ambulance crew had trouble getting to a 92-year-old resident in distress.A good 15 feet of the 80-foot kiosk - with slots for 31 Citi Bikes - was hauled away, opening up access from the ...

  • Weiner’s running for mayor leaked video bares bid

    Anthony Weiner announced his campaign for mayor early this morning with - what else? - a leak.Shortly after midnight, the disgraced ex-congressman’s campaign accidentally posted online a 2-minute, 16-second video in which he throws his hat into the ring, lays out his platform - and even acknowledges the scandal that ended his days in DC."Look, I made some big mistakes and I know I let ...

  • Bill of Rights stuff

    They’re making a new "case" for the Bill of Rights.The New York Public Library will put its original copy of the historic document on public display in 2017, thanks to a new state-of-the-art case that will protect it from decay, the library was set to announce today. In 1896 a donor gave the NYPL an original copy of the Bill of Rights, which consists of the first 10 amendments to ...

  • Diet pro Cut sugar lose 17 pounds fast

    Now you can have your cake and eat it, too. Diet expert Jorge Cruise promises that you can eat pancakes, muffins and cakes in his new weight-loss book "The 100," as long as you substitute wheat flours with coconut and almond flours and flax meal. Losing up to 17 pounds in two weeks is easy as pie, Cruise claims, if you take in just 100 sugar calories per day - which one can calculate ...

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