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New Jersey Wants to Raise Its Smoking Age to 21, Too

By John Surico
Democracy Now! Hosts Cooper Union Debate

By Sydney Brownstone
Quinn on Street Fatalities

By John Surico
Hurricane Sandy Hotel Evacuees Evade Housing Crisis

By Sydney Brownstone
Liu Gives Back Dirty Cash

By John Surico
What to Do if You Get Vito Lopez'd at Work

By Sydney Brownstone
City Dragged Stop-and-Frisk Judge Through the Mud

By Ryan Devereaux
The New Yorker Launches Project Developed by Aaron Swartz

By Sydney Brownstone
Union Square is Getting a Massive Wi-Fi Expansion in June

By Sydney Brownstone
We May Have a Weiner in the Mayoral Race by Next Week

By John Surico

Gramercy Park: The Most Elite Neighborhood in New York

Bed Bugs in Gramercy Park Hotel?

By Rosie Gray Sun., Jan. 23 2011 at 10:43 AM

Categories: Bed Bugs, Gramercy Park: The Most Elite Neighborhood in New York, Hostile Takeover, Infestations, Rosie Gray

Bed bugs -- our indestructible nemeses who are biting more New Yorkers than ever -- may be causing issues in the super-swanky Gramercy Park Hotel. A disgruntled employee wrote to Gothamist, telling them that bed bugs had been found in guest rooms, employee lockers, and storage rooms -- and that the hotel is doing little to stop the infestation.

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Hollywood

The Social Network Cleans Up at the Golden Globes, Ricky Gervais Burns Them to the Ground

By Rosie Gray Mon., Jan. 17 2011 at 10:33 AM

Categories: Awards, Badasses, British Invasion, Hollywood, Hostile Takeover, Movies, Rosie Gray, Television, Things We Are Seriously Invested In, Winners!

Last night's Golden Globes were...weird. They were sad, they were awkward, they were kind of bleak and sinister, like a cocktail party gone on way too long, till everyone's smiles are forced and dresses rumpled. The Social Network did well, winning four awards, as did Glee, which took home three. What really mattered, though, was not the awards themselves, but Ricky Gervais' heroically churlish showing as host. Some high- and lowlights after the jump.

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Holidays

How You Should Feel About Columbus Day, Plus 9 Other Things to Know About Today's Semi-Holiday

By Jen Doll Mon., Oct. 11 2010 at 11:15 AM

Categories: Historical Shit, Holidays, Hostile Takeover, Jen Doll

Happy Columbus Day, if you choose to believe it's happy. If you do, and you're not working, you may want to check out the parade, which heads up Fifth Avenue from 47th to 72nd Streets, beginning at 11:30. New York gubernatorial candidates Andrew Cuomo and Carl Paladino are both expected to show. If you are working, or you hate parades, or you just prefer to hang with your computer, we will reward you with a steady stream of news items and the occasional entertaining nonsense. Like, 10 Things You Didn't Know About Columbus Day But Can Astound Friends and Family With...Today Only!

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Hostile Takeover

New Yorkers Plot Invasion of Arizona, Plus Boycotts. All Talk at This Point.

By Steven Thrasher Wed., Apr. 28 2010 at 2:01 PM

Categories: Civil Liberties, Featured, Hostile Takeover, Immigration

No, it's not yet like the state v. state fight in 2001, when the Yankees played the Diamondbacks in the World Series. But now that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has signed her state's draconian Senate Bill 1070 into law, a number of New York immigration activists and politicians are angry enough to cross the borders into Arizona for a little in-your-face action.

So far, a lot of this umbrage has been taken only via press release, as City Hall's Andrew Hawkins points out. We attended a protest rally in Federal Plaza yesterday at which the press outnumbered the demonstrators, and no elected officials spoke.

But several lawmakers plan to take their Big Apple attitude directly to Arizona.

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Fights

This Doorman Strike Would Be Scary, If We Had Doormen

By Jen Doll Mon., Apr. 19 2010 at 6:42 PM

Categories: City Life, Fights, Hostile Takeover, Jen Doll, Reasons to Live in NYC, The Fabulous Life, Unions

We at Runnin' Scared have far and few (okay, no) doormen between us. But that doesn't mean we don't understand the plight of the many wealthy New Yorkers facing the possibility of a doorman strike come 12:01 a.m. April 21. We are not like the snarky old New York Times, publishing how-tos on opening your door by yourself (offend your own readership much?). Hey, we're not here to make fun of rich people. Some of our best friends are rich people. And making fun of rich (or any) people is but an accidental byproduct of what we do, so don't go getting all self-obsessed.

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Adorable Animals in Trouble

SOS: Koala Kidnapped by NPR

By Jen Doll Fri., Apr. 16 2010 at 6:12 PM

Categories: Adorable Animals in Trouble, Hostile Takeover, Jen Doll, Pets, Power of the People

National Media Museum via Flickr Commons (via NPR)

Please save this koala, recently taken Patty Hearst-style by Claire O'Neill at NPR's The Picture Show. It's currently being lulled to a state of near-coma with back-to-back episodes of Car Talk, but soon, if nothing is done, it will begin to adulate Garrison Keillor and wear trench coats and tweed and tell meandering stories permeated with local color to all the koala kin.

If fact, we already see a resemblance.

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Fashion

Marc Jacobs to Open Bookstore in Biography's Old Digs. Residents Not Pleased, Duh.

By Mackenzie Schmidt Thu., Apr. 15 2010 at 3:30 PM

Categories: Fashion, Featured, Hostile Takeover, Mackenzie Schmidt

Vanishing New York

It's 3:40, have you found something to bitch about today? No?! Well how about this: Marc Jacobs bought out beloved West Village bookstore Biography Book Shop to build... another bookstore. A better bookstore. A Marc Jacobs bookstore. Racked reports that the designer's new outpost, his sixth acquisition in the area, will be the first to sidestep the standard protocol of $5 key chains and $400 everything else.

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