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Birthdays

100 Facts For Grand Central Station's 100th Birthday

By Kate Conger Fri., Feb. 1 2013 at 4:39 PM

Categories: Birthdays, Transportation

Sasha Patkin

Grand Central Station is turning 100 on Saturday! She's getting pretty old. To celebrate the landmark, we've compiled 100 fascinating facts about the historic transit hub. Many of them we discovered in Grand Central Terminal: 100 Years of a New York Landmark by The New York Transit Museum and Anthony W. Robins, but some were also gathered from our recollections and obscure Google searches.

The station is celebrating its centennial with a huge party this weekend; see our handy party facts for more info.

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Oops! 37 Percent of U.S. Births Unintended

By Victoria Bekiempis Tue., Jul. 24 2012 at 6:01 PM

Categories: Babies, Babies Are Not Accessories, Babies Are Not Boroughs, Babies Are Tiny Adults, Babies!, Birth Controlling, Birthdays, Women

In 1982, 37 percent of U.S. births were unintended, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

And guess what?

In 2010, 37 percent of U.S. births, the latest year for CDC stats, were ALSO unintended.

Meaning: Public health authorities have kindasortaTOTALLY failed at preventing unintended births.

So what's up?

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Happy Birthday, Kim Jong-un!

By Nick Greene Sun., Jan. 8 2012 at 2:02 PM

Categories: Birthdays, Celebrations, Happy Birthday, Nick Greene, Parties

If you're wondering why the trees seem to wave in celebration today and the skies shine with joy, it's because January 8th marks the birthday of the newest dear leader, Kim Jong-un. According to the Telegraph, the exact date of his birth was unknown and had to be discovered through "testimonies from Kenji Fujimoto, a Japanese chef who worked for the Kim family, North Korean defectors and Kim's childhood friends at the Liebefeld school in Bern, Switzerland, where he briefly studied as a teenager." Also, no one is sure if he is 28, 29, or 30 years old. An easy way to find out: Ask dear leader, as he is never wrong.

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Beyoncé Gives Birth; Wild Card Blowouts; Second New Hampshire GOP Debate

By Nick Greene Sun., Jan. 8 2012 at 9:51 AM

Categories: Birthdays, Early Links, Nick Greene, Republicans, Weather

Last night, Beyoncé Knowles gave birth to her and Jay-Z's child, Ivy Blue Carter. The Daily News reports the baby girl was born in Lenox Hill Hospital on the Upper East Side in a private wing and that "hospital workers placed tape over security cameras and are forcing employees to turn in cell phones when they arrive for their shifts." Ivy Blue is the couple's first baby. [NYDN]

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Happy Birthday, EV Grieve!

By Rosie Gray Wed., Dec. 21 2011 at 1:30 PM

Categories: Birthdays, BlogBeat, East Village, Local Journalism, Things We Like

EV Grieve's Twitter pic.

Today is a special day. One of our favorite neighborhood blogs (and Village Voice Web Awards judge), the excellent EV Grieve, turns four today. We've seen other local blogs come and go, but Grieve has stuck around and become an indispensable source for anyone interested in the rapidly changing East Village. We read the site every day and it's led us to some of our favorite local stories.

On the blog today, Grieve explains how the sausage gets made:

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Happy 75th Birthday, Henry Hudson Bridge!

By Ari Lipsitz Mon., Dec. 12 2011 at 5:52 PM

Categories: Ari Lipsitz, Birthdays, MTA

The double-decker Henry Hudson Bridge, which links Manhattan to the Bronx, is 75 today! Originally designed for a casual jaunt in and out of the suburbs, the bridge became a thoroughfare once commuters started moving north. The Riverdale Public Library is celebrating the bridge's dodrascentennial (thanks, Google!) with a month-long exhibit featuring Depression-era photographs of the bridge's construction.

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Andover's Rap Crew Was Not Invited to the Obama Hip-Hop Barbecue

By Rosie Gray Fri., Aug. 5 2011 at 3:20 PM

Categories: "Politics", Barack Obama, Birthdays, Fox News, Journalism, Oy to the Vey, Rosie Gray, Schools, That's Racist!

In case you missed it, President Obama threw a "hip-hop barbecue" yesterday for his birthday, which somehow failed to create jobs. Or so shrieks this headline from Fox Nation, Fox News' aggregation organ. Non-hip-hop artists Stevie Wonder and Herbie Hancock performed while "Rome burned" (look at the URL). The race-baiting and unethically edited aggregation have been mentioned elsewhere, so we'll raise a somewhat different question: where was Philips Andover's stable of up-and-coming young rappers during the Obama Hip Hop BBQ, such an important event in the genre?

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Birthers Use Barack Obama's 50th Birthday to Beat Birth Certificate Horse, Again

By Willis Plummer Thu., Aug. 4 2011 at 11:14 AM

Categories: Barack Obama, Birthdays, Birthers, Willis Plummer

Via Angela N.

We want to wish President Barack Obama, who is a Leo, a happy 50th birthday. Of course, not everyone is happy to let the president have his day. The birthers over at Death By 1000 Papercuts insist on making this day about the question of Obama's birth certificate.

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