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Start-Up Visa Bill Starts Trouble

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The Carolyn Maloney campaign seemed none too pleased that the Congresswoman"s primary challenger was taking credit for a proposal to ease restrictions on foreigners who want to start a company in America
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Bedbugs on the Upper East Side

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“Rats on the West Side, bedbugs uptown is a line from Shattered, the Rolling Stones ode to New York. Who knew that Mick and the boys would be so prescient though? This week"s New York Magazine has a long form masterpiece about an invasion of things that go creepy crawly in the dark on the
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Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

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How I finally kicked my decades-long nicotine habit By Rosemary Kalikow “Don’t you want to be alive to dance at my wedding someday?” asked my 18-year-old son, Brett. My husband and I were up in Cambridge for the first parents’ college weekend. Brett was apparently majoring in Jewish guilt at Harvard. “How can a mother
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Hess Reflects on City’s Homeless Record, Looks to Future at Doe Fund

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By Charlotte Eichna Robert Hess seems to have always been helping people, whether it’s managing special needs housing in Philadelphia, running a thrift store for Disabled American Veterans in Baltimore—his hometown—or his most recent gig, New York City’s commissioner of homeless services. The Long Island City resident recently stepped down from that role to assume
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Lift the Cap And Help Our Public Schools

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How to educate our children is an incredibly complex and controversial issue. One of the few things that almost everyone agrees on is that the more choice parents have, the more likely there will be a better educational outcome for their child. In the more affluent neighborhoods of Manhattan, there are numerous very good schools,
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Friedman Remembered in Riverside Park

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By Samuel Chamberlain A plaque in memory of longtime Schwab House resident Dr. Bernard Friedman will be dedicated in a May ceremony in nearby Riverside Park. Friedman, who died Jan. 6 at the age of 93, was a popular resident who served on the co-op’s board of directors for 23 years. He was also remembered
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