Chef Daniel Boulud, the man behind the famous $50 truffle-topped, foie gras and braised short rib-stuffed hamburger, is planning to bring his upscale, fine dining downtown to a new restaurant on the Lower East Side. DBGB, a play on the chef’s name and the famed CBGB’s, is slated to occupy Avalon Chrystie Place at 299
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Chef Daniel Boulud, the man behind the famous $50 truffle-topped, foie gras and braised short rib-stuffed hamburger, is planning to bring his upscale, fine dining downtown to a new restaurant on the Lower East Side. DBGB, a play on the chef’s name and the famed CBGB’s, is slated to occupy Avalon Chrystie Place at 299
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Just one dead body found floating in the Hudson River doesn’t really count as news, but two corpses? Now you’ve got a story. Yesterday, police discovered the body of a 43-year-old Asian man floating in the water off of Lower Manhattan. Just one day before, another was recovered off a pier near Nyack. Police said
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Just one dead body found floating in the Hudson River doesn’t really count as news, but two corpses? Now you’ve got a story. Yesterday, police discovered the body of a 43-year-old Asian man floating in the water off of Lower Manhattan. Just one day before, another was recovered off a pier near Nyack. Police said
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The three men arrested in connection with last Monday’s tragic Crown Heights traffic stop police shootings were arraigned on first-degree murder charges yesterday and ordered held without bail following the death of Russel Timoshenko, one of the two police officers shot during the attack. Timoshenko died Saturday from his injuries with his parents at his
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Ten people, including administrators, teachers and students, have been indicted in a scam at Touro College, in which individuals allegedly paid former administrators up to $25,000 to create or alter college and graduate school transcripts. Former Manhattan campus director of admissions Andrique Baron and the school’s computer center director, Michael Cherner, are believed to be
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Ten people, including administrators, teachers and students, have been indicted in a scam at Touro College, in which individuals allegedly paid former administrators up to $25,000 to create or alter college and graduate school transcripts. Former Manhattan campus director of admissions Andrique Baron and the school’s computer center director, Michael Cherner, are believed to be
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The National Labor Relations Board began a trial Monday investigating employee complaints against everyone’s favorite neighborhood retailer, Starbucks. The coffee super-giant is accused of engaging in anti-union discrimination, including firing pro-union employees, intimidating union activists at four Manhattan locations, banning workers from wearing union pins and giving unfair negative performance reviews. “In my view it
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We may have a Little Italy, a Little Brazil, a Curry Hill and China and Korea Towns, but it looks as though “New York” is the best Brits are going to get. A proposal to officially co-name a section of the West Village spanning Greenwich Avenue between W. 12th and 13th Streets “Little Britain” was
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Rudy Giuliani is a fraud using his false reputation as the hero of 9/11 to win his way to the presidency, according to a scathing documentary released yesterday by the International Association of Fire Fighters. The IAFF accuses the Mayor of mishandling the attack and being more concerned with his reputation than its victims. They
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