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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

Slumlords

Williamsburg Landlord Trashes Tenant's Apartment While She Was Out

By Ben Sin Thu., May 3 2012 at 5:15 PM

Categories: Slumlords, Williamsburg Ridiculousness

Ben Lockhart

We've covered some wacky slumlord stories these past few weeks, but this one takes the cake.

On April 26, Jamal Alokasheh, landlord of a Bedford Avenue apartment, broke into a female tenant's home and demolished the place--ripping the doors off, taking apart parts of the roof, and placing the bathtub in the kitchen--according to a report by the Brooklyn Paper.

The tenant, Jadwiga Bronte, knew Alokasheh was going to enter her apartment, but she claimed he was supposed to be making minor renovations, like fixing the leak.

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Crime

If You Give Directions, You Might Get Robbed at Gunpoint -- Even in Williamsburg and Bushwick

By Victoria Bekiempis Wed., Feb. 8 2012 at 7:25 PM

Categories: Brooklyn, Bushwick, Crime, Crime and Punishment, Gangs, Gunfire, Guns, Muggings, Robberies, Shootings, Subways, The Black Market, Victoria Bekiempis, Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Williamsburg Ridiculousness

Hey, New Yorker! Yeah, YOU! Now you finally have good reason to be that asshole -- you know, that guy or gal who doesn't want to give directions. It could be dangerous!

Cops say the four scumbags pictured here are preying on the city's good Samaritans -- they'll stop and ask you for directions and rob you while you're distracted.

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Art Stunts

Seanna Sharpe, Aerialist, Arrested For Stunt on Williamsburg Bridge

By Joe Coscarelli Tue., Jul. 12 2011 at 9:01 AM

Categories: Art Stunts, Joe Coscarelli, Williamsburg, Williamsburg Ridiculousness

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At around 7 p.m. on Monday night, the Brooklyn aerialist Seanna Sharpe, along with her magician friend Savage Skinner, scaled about 300 feet on a tower of the Williamsburg Bridge and began performing on a 90-foot silk rope without a harness. A crowd of about 100 gathered, the Wall Street Journal reports, but after about 30 minutes, the NYPD showed up and arrested both artists. But not before something of a police chase!

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Religion

Williamsburg Rabbis Push Summer Tank Top Ban

By Joe Coscarelli Tue., Jun. 14 2011 at 3:37 PM

Categories: Joe Coscarelli, Religion, Video, Williamsburg, Williamsburg Ridiculousness

Old-world beliefs are alive and well in Williamsburg, mostly the province of superficial young people these days, but also still a neighborhood with large pockets of religious families. The Central Rabbinical Congress, a group of leading Hasidic rabbis, has kicked off a poster campaign in South Williamsburg recommending "women to avoid wearing tank tops, T-shirts, and clingy dresses." The signs are entirely in Hebrew except for the words "tank tops."

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Smoking

"Cool" New "Williamsburg" Cigarettes Very Concerning Despite Not Actually Being Cool

By Jen Doll Fri., Nov. 12 2010 at 2:25 PM

Categories: Bad Publicity, Jen Doll, Nanny State, Smoking, Williamsburg Ridiculousness

This just in! People who are against smoking, and especially people against kids smoking -- including, specifically, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (talk about working at an organization with few detractors) -- are quite concerned that those new Camel cigarette packs featuring awesomely cool and rebellious "hipster neighborhoods" like Williamsburg (and for that matter, Austin and Seattle) are going to attract kids because they make cigarettes "seem cool."

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'National' 'News'

Your Thursday Evening Recap: Squirrel Hits Wall

By Jen Doll Thu., Nov. 11 2010 at 7:24 PM

Categories: 'National' 'News', Bad Publicity, Celebrities, Jen Doll, We're Doomed, Williamsburg, Williamsburg Ridiculousness

Today in news that seems to indicate the world is slowly continuing to cycle on its axis of crazy -- which is reassuring, really:

• Dick van Dyke was (allegedly) rescued by a group of friendly porpoises after falling asleep on his surfboard in the middle of the ocean. The man is officially his own folk tale.

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Williamsburg

AOL Dubs Bedford Avenue "Safest NYC Neighborhood"

By Jen Doll Fri., Nov. 5 2010 at 7:28 PM

Categories: Brooklyn Shit, Crime, Jen Doll, Williamsburg, Williamsburg Ridiculousness

AOL's WalletPop site has revealed the safest neighborhoods in America's major cities based on neighborhood and FBI crime data. Guess what!? Bedford Avenue has ranked as one of those cozy locales, where your chance of becoming the victim to a crime is but 1 in 500 each year.

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Shit We See on the Street

Scene From the L Train: Help JJ Find His Halloween Love, Kristy (or Krissy, or Kristie)

By Foster Kamer Mon., Nov. 1 2010 at 1:15 PM

Categories: Foster Kamer, Love, Shit We See on the Street, Sometimes We Do Nice Things, We Love a Mystery, Williamsburg Ridiculousness

Via enginesroar.

Halloween: The night (or nights) where single New Yorkers inevitably fall in love with handsome and/or "slutty" costumed incarnations of other New Yorkers, maybe for a night, maybe forever. But with all of those costumes and parties and all that booze, some of those connections are bound to be lost forever, unless, like one young man did, you take action.

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VICE

VICE Magazine vs. Real-Life Haitian Voodoo Zombies: The Second-Dumbest, Amazing Way VICE Has Spent Money (Video)

By Foster Kamer Fri., Oct. 29 2010 at 1:40 PM

Categories: Awesomeness, Foster Kamer, Monsters, Scary Things, VICE, Video and Tell, Williamsburg Ridiculousness

Last Halloween, the sealant-huffing organization behind hipster bible VICE magazine threw themselves a 15th anniversary party in a warehouse in Williamsburg, filling it with booze, skateboard ramps, bands, and wasted barely-legals from all over the land, claiming to have spent $250,000 on it. It was a shitshow of epic proportion likely to never be replicated. Ever. So how does VICE follow up this year?

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Hipsters

Intellectualizing Hipsters is the New Hipster Intellectualism

By Foster Kamer Mon., Oct. 11 2010 at 4:55 PM

Categories: Featured, Foster Kamer, Hipsters, There Tao Lin There Is Your Village Voice Post Are You Happy Goddamnit, Things Bloggers Blog About, Things People Say, Things That Are Tired., Williamsburg Ridiculousness, n+1

Does the idea of hipsters as a sociological group or hipsterism as a sociological trend really merit the studying of hipsters as if they were an anthropological goldmine waiting to be excavated for crucial insights into the contemporary human psyche?

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