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NYC should appreciate and take notice of what’s happening in BrooklynTo: New York NBA fans ...

New York City's Parking Rules Have Turned Me Into A Sociopath “I’ve never seen you happier,” my wife told me one day last week. She shook her head and rolled her eyes. As I started to do a little dance around our living room, she looked at me with bewilderment. The reason for my burst of happiness? I had parked our car and wouldn’t have to move it for more tha...

Hector Figueroa Wants To Make The Democrats Fight BackThere is one reason why building workers in New York City can make a living wage: the Service Employees International Union’s 32BJ local. The union is the size of a small city, it’s vocal, and its president wants a wholesale reimagining of Democratic party politics in the Trump era....

Are You Prepared?

There’s a bigger lesson here than “Fuck Uber.” ...

Craziest People In New York City Located

You can rent yourself a perfectly spacious one bedroom apartment in Brooklyn or Queens for well under $2,000. Or not!...

The Hard Work Is About To Get Harder

Zucotti Park is beautiful in the holiday season. Delicate strings of white lights coat the trees where, just a few years ago, thousands of angry people stomped and plotted and harangued the world during the Occupy Wall Street encampment. Across the street to the east, the warm lights of the Brown Br...

Oh Damn, Hell, Rent Might Go Down In Brooklyn, Sounds Bad

Terrible news my friends: They have built so many new apartments in beautiful Brooklyn that rents might not go up as fast as they usually did. Uh oh, darn it, shoot!...

How Do You Sustain A Museum Built Around An Atrocity?

It is difficult, for a number of good reasons, to wake up on any given day and resolve to visit the 9/11 Museum. That it is struggling to lure local visitors may not surprise you. A new Wall Street Journal piece details the museum’s attempts to cope: a new marketing campaign, advertising on the subw...

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Danny Jacobs Wins The Middleweight Championship Of Brooklyn

There’s the hometown guy. And then there’s the hometown guy....

by Hamilton Nolan|the fights

|Mon Dec 07 2015

Hopes and Fears published a really fun story about a lucha libre community in the Bronx, and the regular people involved who lead double lives. Be sure to scroll through the gorgeous photos. [Hopes and Fears]...

by Samer Kalaf|lucha libre

|Thu Nov 12 2015

Skateboarding Taco Hit By Car

What else do you need to know? Just look at the headline again. ...

by Samer Kalaf|what

|Mon Apr 13 2015

Reports: Thabo Sefolosha Broke Ankle While Resisting Arrest

Atlanta Hawks players Pero Antic and Thabo Sefolosha were both arrested for obstructing police and disorderly conduct after Indiana’s Chris Copeland was stabbed at a New York City nightclub early Wednesday morning. Now, multiple reports claim that Sefolosha broke his ankle during the incident, and ...

by Samer Kalaf|thabo sefolosha

|Thu Apr 09 2015

Girl Asks If She And Five Friends Can Stay Over For All-Star Weekend

This year's NBA All-Star Weekend is Feb. 13-15 in New York City. Be sure to book a hotel room if you plan on attending. Oh, and if there are, say, six of you, don't ask your friend if you can all crash at his place for the weekend....

by Samer Kalaf|six of us

|Fri Feb 06 2015

Tennis for Savages

Nice piece by Corey Kilgannon in the Times today on Joseph Durso, handball champion:...

by Alex Belth|Corey Kilgannon

|Sun Jun 09 2013

John Calipari Is Having A Really Great Spring Break In The Big Apple

Earlier this week, after failing to get a nod for the Big Dance, the Kentucky Wildcats–the winningest team in the history of the men's NCAA tournament—lost to Robert Morris in the first round of the National Invitation Tournament. It was a low point. But you know who's cruising right along, content ...

by Emma Carmichael|john calipari

|Thu Mar 21 2013

Waiting In Line For The Sports Guy

ESPN's Bill Simmons brought his "The Book of Basketball" signing tour to annoying East Village bar Professor Thom's last night and our NYC Deadspin operatives waited in line so we wouldn't have to. Bless their little hearts....

by Dashiell Bennett|Deadspiniteam

|Mon Jun 17 2013

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