Here in New York City, there is a man who can be seen wandering the streets dressed as a sad panda (or sometimes Spongebob Squarepants). Columbia student Michelle Tay interviewed the 62-year-old man behind the panda suit, and it's a real heart-wrencher.
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The New Republic has video of a fairly cataclysmic showdown between the good folks at Westboro Baptist Church (i.e., those lunatics who hate everything and feel compelled to be vocal/unpleasant about it) and a neighborhood full of gay-friendly, Jewish New Yorkers.
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The USS New York began its journey today to New York City for a commissioning ceremony scheduled for November 7.
Midtown NYC is reportedly full of these strip-cycles as a promotion for some stripper TV show. Didn't know stripper TV shows even needed stunt promotions like this but OK!
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This article was meant to be a scathing indictment for a common problem in New York City, people getting handjobs in massage parlors. But judging by the comments, she missed her mark. Some examples: “i wish she had mentioned the pricing in her post.” and “If I were married to this broad, I'd know the address of every hand-jobbin' parlor in the City.”
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Officials fear that if the factories leave, so will glamorous designers, threatening the city's image as a fashion capital.
Culture Buzz What would it feel like to walk amongst New York City's skyscrapers? Today marks the opening of “The High Line,” a park built atop an old elevated freight railway on Manhattan's West Side. I've been looking forward to this for years. Best. Park. Ever.
The June 1st New Yorker cover was finger-painted by artist Jorge Colombo using the Brushes app on his iPhone. Overall it took him just an hour to draw the scene outside Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in Times Square, and for the process nuts, there's a corresponding video that shows every streak - from start to finish.
These balloons were handed out at the Museum of Sex in New York to promote Exploring the Pleasure of Oral Sex, a new exhibit.
TV Buzz New York's Upper East Side can officially prepare for a tourist stampede, as the neighborhood will now be trapzed upon by denizens expecting to spot the stomping grounds of Chuck Bass and friends. Unlike the Sex and the City tour, visitors will be pointed less to cupcake shops and more toward STD hotspots.
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Everyday items in New York City dispense stories and anecdotes about growing up here. Fey public phones and French speaking sewer grates? That's old school, you guys.
Improv Everywhere's latest stunt: turning a New York subway platform into an art gallery. We're betting on this being the first gallery opening where everyone was forced to ignore the stench of hobo urine.
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Good luck falling asleep on the subway now, suckers! A new Tumblr has sprouted up full of pictures taken of people sleeping on the subway. They're just exposing the dozing.
Come, hear the song of Agent Pubit, the Anonymous agent who stormed Scientology's NYC headquarters greased up in Vaseline, his friends' pubes and nail clippings. He was charged with a hate crime for desecrating the Church of Scientology. Reeeally? Not for desecrating himself?
Some guy was caught getting naked in the subway, and for no particular reason at all! Once the train came….clothes back on. And that was that. Sometimes New York actually impresses me. This is one of those times.
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Check out this sweet photo set of New York City during the 1930's. The Chrysler Building has always been a personal favorite of mine.
Culture Buzz Artist Mina Karimi is organizing a recreation of the “Twist and Shout” scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in time for New York’s famed Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. Participants can choose any character from the original scene to impersonate, finally giving some of us a reason to borrow our mom’s shoulder-padded, triangular business suits.
Before Carrie Bradshaw and Gossip Girl, New York had its sh*t years, ridden with crime, bankruptcy, and violence. This vintage subway sticker, which warns commuters against the use of knives, guns, and bombs (!), brings to mind a simpler time when anyone with a vagina carried Mace, which - inevitably - had to be used it at least once. In an era where the worst thing you can do on the subway is drink a cup of coffee, traveling underground can still be a nightmare when the most rancid-smelling hobo in town decides to take a nap in the seat right next to you. For twenty minutes. In rush hour.
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