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The COVID lockdown nearly killed NYC — and it was Andrew Cuomo who came close to destroying it

The COVID lockdown nearly killed NYC — and it was Andrew Cuomo who came close to destroying it

New Yorkers taken with Cuomo’s odious, I’m-your-hero oratory should remember how he screwed us over in 2020.

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Return of NYC dining sheds is a calamity waiting to happen — and the DOT must stop the insanity

Return of NYC dining sheds is a calamity waiting to happen — and the DOT must stop the insanity

The Department of Transportation’s petty bureaucrats -- who gave us infinitely extended bike lanes and ugly, traffic-congesting “plazas” –...

15.02.2025 4

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Forget global warming and rising NYC waters — New Yorkers still love living by the shore

Forget global warming and rising NYC waters — New Yorkers still love living by the shore

Who cares about hurricanes, New Yorkers love living by the shore.

15.02.2025 3

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New Yorkers are paying the price for the abuse of public-bathrooms

An increasing number of public bathrooms are being closed.

18.01.2025 10

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Forget crime, NYC remains the world’s greatest tourist town

New York City is a hellhole of unchecked crime, rampant homelessness, empty office buildings, and raging maniacs on every corner and subway...

04.01.2025 3

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NYC’s retail renaissance in full swing for the holidays: Let luxury and high-priced indulgence flow

It’s the holiday season. Ho, ho, ho — let luxury, excess, and high-priced indulgence flow. Spare me the “Tale of Two Cities.” If your heart...

14.12.2024 6

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NY’s new ‘luxury’ legal cannabis dispensaries are as bad, in their own way, as the creepy illicit ones 

What’s the harm in selling legal marijuana in a clean, nicely designed store? The glamor proclaim that ingesting psychotropic THC is just another...

25.11.2024 6

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Rampant NYC development killing Second Avenue’s character — and luxury is squashing food culture

The city should act before Second Avenue -- still Uptown’s liveliest avenue for strolling and noshing -- is starved for places to eat.

09.11.2024 3

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Let Penn Station live: Why I celebrate NYC’s ugly, overcrowded and dysfunctional labyrinth

Penn Station may never again evoke the glory of its disappeared original, but the new version is no longer deserving of widespread derision.

19.10.2024 4

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Forget the naysayers, NYC restaurants never went out of style

New leases on large restaurants are propelling New York's real estate scene to new heights.

05.10.2024 3

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Blame gutless City Hall for ugly scaffolding that’s a menace in NYC like nowhere else

Manhattan looks like a shabby, bombed-out wreck because elected officials are too chicken to tangle with the opaque scaffold-rental industry and...

21.08.2024 10

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City Council’s ‘nuclear bomb’ hotel union rules would wreck top restaurants, too

In addition to subjecting hotels to absurd new union-dictated rules, the City Council bill would also bring to an end a golden age of great places...

01.08.2024 20

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It’s last call for iconic Midtown bar Neary’s

Neary’s, the wonderful pub that Jimmy Neary launched at 348 E. 57th St. in 1967, closed its doors on Friday for the last time. Not surprisingly,...

21.07.2024 9

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