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Photo by Erin. The D.C. government is hardly the only entity taking advantage of the city’s hot housing market to turn a tidy profit. More than a quarter of all homes sold in 2015 passed hands in less than three years, according to data published by District, Measured. Problems with unscrupulous house flippers (and…
A federal appeals court has upheld the “core provisions” of New York’s SAFE Act and a Connecticut gun control law, both passed following the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut and challenged in court by gun-rights activists on constitutional grounds. A three-judge panel from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on…
Beautiful photos of the Mexican Temple of Santiago have been circulating online, showing the church reappear from the water like a lost ruin of Atlantis. The Grijalva river in Chiapas, Mexico has been suffering from a drought over the past year which has caused the water level in Nezahualcoyotl reservoir to decrease by 25 meters (82…
Photo Traditional neon signs in Hong Kong, like the one shown here, have been eclipsed by ones made with LEDs. Credit Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times HONG KONG — For nearly four decades, a giant neon cow suspended above a steakhouse in Hong Kong’s Western District was a neighborhood landmark. It was…
Maryland will soon begin recalling license plates with the Confederate flag on them, after a federal judge on Thursday lifted an 18-year-old injunction keeping them in circulation, Attorney General Brian E. Frosh said. The state was stymied in its attempts to pull the Sons of Confederate Veterans plates in the 1990s when the U.S. District…
gallery js end gallery js start of gallery code fullscreen Back in June, the pumpkin carving process began for New York’s most intense pumpkin fest, The Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze at Van Cortlandt Manor in Croton-On-Hudson. The spectacular display features thousands (somewhere around 10,000 this year) of illuminated pumpkins, all carved by a small team…
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio took aim at Uber this summer, trying (and failing) to set a cap on the number of its for-hire cars operating in the city. The ride-share service has drawn criticism on a number of issues — including its labor practices — but the mayor said his main concern…
The new owner of the Village Voice is keen to invest in the storied New York City weekly newspaper, he told Billy Penn on the afternoon that news broke of his acquisition. Peter T. Barbey, the 57-year-old CEO of the Reading Eagle Company, said his plans are to add staff until the weekly is “as…
paging_filter The Village Voice has been sold to a new owner, marking the beginning of the latest chapter in the history of the storied weekly newspaper co-founded by Norman Mailer in 1955. Voice Media Group announced Monday that it has sold its flagship title to a company controlled by investor Peter D. Barbey of the…
HEY, IT’S FRIDAY, LET’S GET DRUNK, LET’S GO TO THE BAR, LET’S DO AWESOME SHOOTERS AND SIT AROUND AND SOAK UP ONE ANOTHER’S AWESOMENESS, TGIF AMIRITE? Oh, huh. pic.twitter.com/9zipHDsv1J — Dave Price (@DavePriceTV) October 9, 2015 Indeed, an opening of the heavens beckons. The National Weather Service has issued a “Severe Thunderstorm Watch” that’s…