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Right, the townhouse a developer paid two holdout tenants $25 million to leave. (Google Maps) Two tenants who refused to move out of their apartment in a 10th Avenue townhouse in Manhattan hit pay dirt last year when developer Tishman Speyer agreed to pay them $25 million to scram. The pair, Gary Schwedock, 58,…
Police received a report of that a man with a gun had threatened another student, Officer Leeloni Palmiero said. No shots or injuries were immediately reported. The school, in a tweet posted shortly before 11 a.m. ET, said the college’s main campus was on lockdown because of “police activity.” “Police activity on campus. Main campus…
Venezuela, a country that is struggling to import food and keep its currency from falling to worthless lows, has just “minted” the world’s largest chocolate coin. The candy money, made to look like a one bolivar coin, weighs a massive 870 kilos [1,900 pounds] and measures six feet in diameter. It was presented to the…
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said at least nine of its staff have been killed in an overnight bombing of a hospital in the embattled Afghan city of Kunduz. The attack early on Saturday also wounded 37 people, including 19 MSF staff, the medical charity told Al Jazeera. Officials of MSF later told Reuters…
The world is awash in personal wealth: $153.2 trillion in total, according to Allianz’s new Global Wealth Report 2015. That’s enough to pay three times the world’s sovereign debt, the debts of each nation. The report, which measured 2014 wealth, found 2014 was the third consecutive year in which global wealth grew more than 7%….
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said this week that he doesn’t think the Washington Redskins should change their name, adding he doesn’t believe the pro football team’s name is offensive to Native Americans. “I don’t think they should change it,” he said in an interview with ABC’s Rick Klein and ESPN’s Andy Katz. “But again,…
A café that specializes in novelty breakfast cereals has been targeted in protests against the gentrification of London’s East End. Paint was thrown at the windows of Brick Lane’s Cereal Killer Café, and “SCUM” was written across the window. A nearby real estate agent was also attacked. Customers were locked inside to protect them from the demonstrators. Several…
If you want to know Ahmed Mohamed — not the hoax bomb suspect or the vindicated celebrity, but the motormouth kid with a schoolbag full of inventions and a head full of questions — ask a teacher. Ask at Sam Houston Middle School, where the boy from Sudan mastered electronics and English, once built a…
A 33- year- old woman Olawunmi Oyebode has been arrested and remanded in prison custody at Kirikiri for assault. This happened one week to her wedding in Lagos State , western Nigeria . Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http://quicksense.net/ Her journey to prison started after she was arraigned before a Magistrates ’ Court sitting in Isolo…
Opponents, proponents, and the mayor himself weigh in on whether or not de Blasio’s vision for New York City is paying off. Fog hovered over Jamaica Bay that morning, November 12, as dozens of grieving families gathered for the memorial service in Rockaway Park, along the water in a far precinct of Queens. They had…