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Three Cents Worth: Why You Can No Longer Afford Your Manhattan Rent – Curbed NY

After a couple of years off, Curbed’s column Three Cents Worth makes its triumphant return! This week, real estate appraiser, Curbed graph guru, blogger, and podcaster Jonathan Miller looks at the what’s going on in Manhattan’s up-and-down rental market. The April 2016 Manhattan-Brooklyn-Queens rental report was published late last week and I thought I’d present some additional Manhattan rental charts. Rents in…

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Kesha free to sing, for now: Dr. Luke allows Billboard Awards performance after show of spite – Salon.com

The bad blood between pop star Kesha and producer Dr. Luke, her onetime mentor, has been getting nastier and nastier for years now. After a movement by fans to cut her loose from a contract they called exploitative (#FreeKesha), charges of the producer insulting her weight and provoked an eating disorder, and a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment…

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Microsoft Afterparty With Dancers in Miniskirts Draws Ire – Fortune

.entry-header March 18, 2016, 4:05 PM EDT E-mail Tweet Facebook Linkedin Share icons At the afterparty for Microsoft’s official Game Developer Conference in San Francisco Thursday night, the company hired dancers dressed in sexually provocative clothing, prompting some to accuse Microsoft of alienating women in the already male-dominated tech industry, reports Business Insider. Attendees posted…

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San Francisco Forces Out Police Chief After Officer Kills Black Woman – NYTimes.com

SAN FRANCISCO — Police Chief Gregory P. Suhr was forced out on Thursday after a fatal shooting of a black woman by a police officer, the third killing since December involving the police force, which is under federal investigation because of complaints of racial bias. Mayor Edwin M. Lee said he had asked for Chief…

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