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TwitPics: 2009 New York City Marathon
Region: New YorkOver 40,000 people took part in the 2009 New York City Marathon, running through Manhattan, Queens and Central Park on Sunday. While this years race turned out to be an historic one, with Meb Keflezighi becoming the f... more
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Preparing for a Pandemic, State Health Departments Struggle With Rationing Decisions
Region: New York
Spanish Flu Ward, 1918 This story was co-published with the New York Times. New York state health officials recently laid out this wrenching scenario for a small group of medical professionals from New York-Pre... more
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Mayor Bloomberg Launches $20K NYC BigApps Contest
Region: United States
Mayor Bloomberg announced today the NYC BigApps competition, a contest to build the most useful software application for the city of New York. The highest prize if $5,000 and dinner with the Mayor-- though substantia... more
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Guy on Bike High-Fives Cab Hailers in NYC
Region: New York
A new viral video on YouTube features a cyclist riding through New York City, high-fiving oblivious taxicab-hailers as he passes. Watch below as Nathaniel Kassel bikes through the streets of New York City, greeting u... more
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Stimulus Bucks for Slumlords?
Region: United StatesNew York City slumlords are getting stimulus money [1], reports the Daily News. According to the paper, millions of stimulus dollars have gone to landlords whose properties have serious housing code violations, from broken... more
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GroundReport's Field Guide to NYC Entrepreneurship
Region: New York
Want to get started as an entrepreneur in New York City? GroundReport CEO Rachel Sterne asked the NYC Twitter community for their thoughts on why New York is the ultimate startup city. The tweets helped struct... more
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VIDEO: The Recession Hits the Catwalk at New York Fashion Week
Region: New York
With a 1.6 percent decline in retail sales in January and 27.6 percent fall in the U.S. luxury fashion segment sales, it is no surprise that the recession has affected New York's fashion week. This eight-day affair, ... more
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Video: New York Celebrates Obama Victory
Region: New York
It was worth the struggle of waking up this morning for the revelry in New York City last night. Scenes of celebration from the streets of Manhattan. more
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Vito Fossella Admits to Affair and Love Child
Region: New York
Republican New York City Congressman Vito Fossella admitted this morning to fathering a 3-year-old daughter in an affair with a woman who is not his wife. The mother is the same woman who picked him after a DUI arres... more
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Last.FM at Glasshouse in Tribeca - ball-pits, and scrobbling I can believe in.
Region: New YorkI should have taken my own photo, since I was sitting closer to Last.FM at the Glasshouse event Thursday, Feb 28th on 75 Murray street in Tribeca. Instead I had to steal this one from from a flickr stream. A clearer ... more
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