Yesterday was a sad day for the once-illustrious Village Voice, which lost two of its legendary muckraking reporters, Wayne Barrett and Tom Robbins. Barrett, who has been with the paper since the Koch administration, says he was let go for budgetary reasons; he'll move on to become a fellow at The Nation Institute, a liberal nonprofit media group. And this morning Robbins, a dogged and indispensable political reporter who first started at the Voice in '80s, tells us why he resigned. [ MORE]  | Photograph of toppled gravestones at Washington Cemetery by Yana Zhuravel With a lot of public disgust over questionable snow plowing during and after the blizzard (not to mention the trash "pick-up"), it's hard to imagine how much more the Sanitation Department could be vilified. But now it turns out... [ MORE ] |  | Was this Norman Bates's New York City vacation home? Sort of looks like it! Guess where this photo was taken, and we'll update later with the answer. UPDATE: This house was located at 2505 Palisade Avenue in the Bronx (Spuyten Duyvil to be exact). The photo was taken on... [ MORE ] |  | Over the past few weeks, the PATH system has been unveiling some of its new courtesy posters over Twitter. And when they unleashed this poster of kittens on the public, reactions have ranged from "SRSLY, please tell me these new posters aren't real" (via) and "Totally in favor of... [ MORE ] |  | NYCMayor's Office As part of the residual blizzard-related-news trickle, the Daily News asks whether or not New Yorkers should be raising their pitchforks in anger at Mayor Bloomberg, because he may not have even been here. He might have been in Bermuda! And not left a Deputy Mayor in... [ MORE ] |  | America, we did it! The homeless man that was interviewed by a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch—Brooklyn Native Ted Williams, the man with the golden voice—now has a slew of job opportunities, and will be in New York later today to make at least one big television appearance. Williams... [ MORE ] |  | Photo taken on Havemeyer Street by Ryan Griffin Good news Williamsburg: you are finally getting some authentic all-organic food! Next time you need to buy a "callind card," be sure to pick up one of these organic cheese steaks, or organic buffalo wings, or organic french toast slathered in... [ MORE ] |  | Flickr user pixbymaia In a response to City Councilman Dan Halloran's claims that Sanitation workers confessed to intentionally slowing down during last week's blizzard, federal prosecutors have reportedly opened a criminal probe into the allegations. The Brooklyn and Queens DA's offices have also started their own investigations into the... [ MORE ] | | |
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