tag:blogs.villagevoice.com,2009:/runninscared//112 2009-11-06T21:23:06Z Quick bits, direct hits, and reader fits on the Village Voice staff blog Movable Type Enterprise 4.21-en tag:blogs.villagevoice.com,2009:/runninscared//112.260089 2009-11-06 16:02:50 2009-11-06T21:23:06Z

After complaints during the campaign about their connection with Data and Field Services and related unfavorable press reports, the Working Families Party has retained the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom to "conduct a thorough review of...

Roy Edroso After complaints during the campaign about their connection with Data and Field Services and related unfavorable press reports, the Working Families Party has retained the law firm of Skadden, Arp...

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After the parade. Twitpic by Mzthicknflychic. Theeeee Yankees won! Doooooouuug Hoffman lost! The week was a mixed bag -- half fire, half dog poo. How 'bout them Yanks? They won one in Philly, then another, and were back home...

Roy Edroso After the parade. Twitpic by Mzthicknflychic. Theeeee Yankees won! Doooooouuug Hoffman lost! The week was a mixed bag -- half fire, half dog poo. How 'bout them Yanks? They won one in Philly, ...

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Not necessarily happy with today's Yankee parade: some Staten Island commuters caught in the crush of revelers who were making their way back to the Forgotten Borough afterwards. "'It was chaos,' says commuter who was stuck in overcrowded Whitehall Ferry...

Roy Edroso Not necessarily happy with today's Yankee parade: some Staten Island commuters caught in the crush of revelers who were making their way back to the Forgotten Borough afterwards. "'It was chaos,' ...

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​The city has agreed yesterday to pay $55,000 to settle a suit brought by the family of Stephen Cruz, which charged a school safety agent had kicked a bathroom door in on Cruz, cut his head, told him, "That's life,...

Roy Edroso The city has agreed yesterday to pay $55,000 to settle a suit brought by the family of Stephen Cruz, which charged a school safety agent had kicked a bathroom door in on Cruz, cut his head, told h...

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​Among other urgent business, the House of Representatives is considering today a bill, introduced by Jose Serrano of The Bronx, "Congratulating the 2009 Major League Baseball World Series Champions, the New York Yankees." Among the bill's many Whereases: "Whereas this...

Roy Edroso Among other urgent business, the House of Representatives is considering today a bill, introduced by Jose Serrano of The Bronx, "Congratulating the 2009 Major League Baseball World Series Champion...

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​A woman who choked her stepfather to death and cut off his penis after what she claimed were years of sexual abuse got the maximum sentence for second-degree manslaughter this morning -- 5 to 15 years -- though jury members...

Roy Edroso A woman who choked her stepfather to death and cut off his penis after what she claimed were years of sexual abuse got the maximum sentence for second-degree manslaughter this morning -- 5 to 15 y...

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​Upper West Sider Mark Andrew Moore told members of an investment club that he was chairman, president, and CEO of eS-prit International, an online health resource that was going to make scads of money, and offered them discount rates on...

Roy Edroso Upper West Sider Mark Andrew Moore told members of an investment club that he was chairman, president, and CEO of eS-prit International, an online health resource that was going to make scads of m...

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While the World Champion Yankees are fighting their way through lower Manhattan traffic this morning, a more somber ceremony is taking place in the Bronx, where the demolition of old Yankee Stadium has now begun in earnest. WCBS Radio helicopter...

Neil deMause While the World Champion Yankees are fighting their way through lower Manhattan traffic this morning, a more somber ceremony is taking place in the Bronx, where the demolition of old Yankee Stadiu...

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​Despite winning his third term, Mayor Bloomberg is still giving away money, offering an extra $850,000 to incoming Public Advocate Bill de Blasio to supplement his tiny budget, which had been cut by more than half by the Mayor and...

Roy Edroso Despite winning his third term, Mayor Bloomberg is still giving away money, offering an extra $850,000 to incoming Public Advocate Bill de Blasio to supplement his tiny budget, which had been cut ...

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​There seems to be a jumping epidemic in the city. Just days after that NYU student fell to his presumably self-willed death at the ill-starred Bobst Library, a newlywed has gone out the window of the Avenue Plaza Hotel in...

Roy Edroso There seems to be a jumping epidemic in the city. Just days after that NYU student fell to his presumably self-willed death at the ill-starred Bobst Library, a newlywed has gone out the window of ...

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