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A Renter's Guide to Manhattan

Aww... It's the class of 2008! All growed up and coming to NYC for that awesome career and super apartment like in Friends or Sex and the City? Sorry, little camper, we don't serve your kind! "The thousands of new graduates who will be driving the engine of the city’s rental market from now until September will quickly learn that renting in New York is not like renting anywhere else. The second shock is likely to be how small a Manhattan apartment can be. It is not uncommon in New York, for example, to shop for a junior one-bedroom or a convertible one-bedroom, neither of which is a true one-bedroom at all but really a studio that already has or can have a wall put up to create a bedroom." More »

12:20 PM on Sun Apr 20 2008
By ian spiegelman
7,890 views, 36 comments

Latest by n/a: We'll take em in Woodlawn (BX). It's a thousand a month for a 1 BR. I'm only inviting you so that your disposable income will support better take out options. Not because I like you. Oh and enjoy the more »

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TV Reporter Attacked By Racist Crowd In South Carolina

Oh, this is just bad. A black female reporter in South Carolina was standing on a street covering a crime story when she was attacked by an entire white family, yelling racial slurs [CNN]. The reporter, Charmayne Brown, was thrown down on the ground, punched, and, it appears, strangled a bit. The entire attack was caught on tape by another (white) TV crew on the scene. Which raises the point: WAY TO JUMP IN AND STOP THE ATTACK, RIVAL TV CAMERA CREW. Jesus. News is a rough business. The entire ugly video is below—Brown's own (black) cameraman helped pull her to safety, and she is fine. More »

10:22 AM on Wed Mar 12 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
12,387 views, 101 comments

Latest by The Brain: Catfight. Rrreow! more »