Yes, the New York Public Library swears, the old photo of the guy who looks scarily like Jay-Z really is an unretouched, un-Photoshopped image from 1939.
The man who inadvertently set off a sweeping police investigation when he hid his pistol under a cushion in a World Trade Center hotel lobby — minutes before the Boston Marathon bombing — was a tourist simply in a hurry to stow it and get back to his tour group.
Penknives, corkscrews, golf clubs and hockey sticks are some of the items that airline passengers will soon again be permitted to carry aloft, but, so far, still no more than a dollop of my favorite sharp condiment: deli mustard.
They have been bulldozed over by shopping centers, crept over by weeds and forgotten by time. Across the country, from Lower Manhattan to the Deep South, are unmarked slave burial sites. Now the Burial Database Project of Enslaved African Americans is trying to change all that.
It has incited protests and lawsuits, inflamed public debate and inspired other cities to develop anti-soda tactics of their own. But for all the hand-wringing, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s much-derided ban on the sale of large sugary drinks, unveiled in May, will go into effect on Tuesday exactly as the city proposed. Here's what you need to know.
Why not some other color? Why not burnt sienna, like a crayon? Why not light-medium robin’s egg blue, like a jewelry box? Why not magma orange, like a Lamborghini?
A whale about 30 feet long, possibly a humpback, washed up on the beach alive at Breezy Point in Queens on Wednesday morning, the police said.
This baby is so fresh she doesn’t even have a name yet, but she definitely has a number.
Only a matter of time until the Salvation Army raises all it's money through memes.
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