Did CB3 have a brain tumor for breakfast? Heathers, a popular bar on 13th Street near Avenue A, may be shutting its doors for good.  The bar’s long term disputes with its neighbors have come to a head, and the residents are not backing down.  With the bar’s future in the hands of the Community
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For the second year they have built it and they have come. By the hundreds in fact for the new Apple iPhone 3G. The three-gigabytes is twice as fast as the old, more expensive iPhone, and supposedly you can use your new phone anywhere in the world. Great. Now all you have to do is
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Yes! Yes! Yes!

Sex toys have changed from the do-it-yourself days when a kitchen appliance could, with a little improvisation, be used as a vibrator to a billion-dollar industry. Babeland, best known for giving the Rabbit to the masses (via Sex & the City), has been bringing city dwellers in New York, L.A. and Seattle the latest innovations in orgasm-inducing pleasure for nigh-on 15 years. And, as of last week, women-owned Babeland has officially made its next move and crossed the river to Brooklyn. 

Nestled next to a maternity store on the edge of baby-stroller-ville in Park Slope, the shop’s shelves were filled with sleek objects that looked more like Apple products than the G-spot seeking devices they were. Back in the day, most toys bore more than a passing resemblance to a penis, complete with wobbly bits, fleshy tones and even the odd blue vein or two. While Babeland still stocks a few dildos of this ilk, pride of place in the store was given over to rows of vibrators with dainty names like Le Petit Ami, Gigi, Delight, and Iris....

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Park Slope, the center of the stroller wars, will be getting a new toy store.  For the baby-boom area, that’s a good thing, right?  Well, not when the store sells sex toys, according to some.  Babeland, which also has two other stores in Soho and the Lower East Side, looks to open a new location
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There may actually be a glass ceiling for some men. New research from the University of New Hampshire finds that gay men working in management and traditional blue-collar jobs face wage discrimination when their salaries are compared to straight men in the same fields. To contrast, the research shows that lesbians face no similar wage
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One of the major criticisms of Governor Eliot Spitzer so far has been his failure to move on fixing the very troubled upstate economy. Today, Spitzer announced that the Office for Small Cities and Empire State Development (ESD) will provide more than $1.1 million in economic development aid to help businesses in Schenectady, St. Lawrence
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A new Manhattan Mini Storage ad on the West Side Highway (pictured) that uses allusions to coat hanger abortions to try to sell storage space has finally gotten the mainstream media’s attention. “Your closet space is shrinking as fast as her right to choose,” reads the large billboard at 44th Street and 12th Avenue. A
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If we’ve learned anything from our formative years, it’s that if you blow a piece of Bubble Yum too big, it’ll burst in your face and leave a stick mess after it breaks. The recent burst of the “easy lending bubble” is making buying the American Dream sticky.  On Monday, New York-based American Home Mortgage
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A new Spherion Employment Report finds that the New York Employee Confidence Index decreased 2.2 points to 56.7 in June,  a decrease they say is fueled by an increasing number of workers that believe the job market is getting weaker. Still, the index is 8.1 points higher than it was this time last year, indicating
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The investment arm of the Dubai government is close to an agreement to purchase Barneys New York. According to sources involved in the talks, the Jones Apparel Group is nearing a deal to sell the iconic chain to Istithma investments for a whopping $825 million price tag—about the price of 13 must-have handbags and six
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