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Rutgers Is Full Of Ninjas!
Who says Rutgers is a second-rate school whose most noble moment came when its women's basketball team was slandered by Don Imus? Whoever they are, they will be doing some serious re-evaluation of their stereotypes when the school lands in the world-renowned Guinness Book of World Records. On April 10, Rutgers will forever become known as the site of the "world's largest gathering of people dressed as Ninja Turtles." And it's not too late for YOU to participate, and score some free pizza while you're at it! The full flier for this historic event [via Philadelphia Will Do], is below. More »
the bronx
Birthplace Of Hip Hop Is A Future Tourist Attraction
Good news, hip hop fans! It looks like the City of New York is going to save the building at 1520 Sedgwick in the Bronx, a.k.a. Sedgwick and Cedar, a.k.a the BIRTHPLACE OF HIP HOP, from destruction [NYT]. It's where DJ Kool Herc first started throwing parties and cutting records in 1973, leading eventually to those sweet, sweet hip hop sounds. Bad news, hip hop fans: a nightclub in Kips Bay just agreed to pay a $35,000 fine for keeping out black patrons in "urban wear" clothing, but letting in white people in the same clothes. When will the struggle for equality in crappy nightclub admissions end? Below, a documentary clip on Herc and the founding of hip hop in the building. Do the knowledge, yall. More »
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City Records Show Three Years Of 'NYT' Building Debris Complaints
Everybody knows The New York Times' newly-erected skyscraper home has been plagued by falling glass, ice and vermin. In December, the Department of Buildings dropped by the place to investigate after what we thought was the third time debris was reported to have fallen from the building. Not so! A look at records kept by the Department of Buildings shows that people have been complaining about flotsam and jetsam raining from the Renzo Piano building since construction began in 2005—18 of the 33 complaints on record about the building are related to material flying off of it. Screwdrivers, bolts, steel, glass, i-beams, what have you. There was the time that wet concrete fell on to some NYPD cars below. Oopsies! And the time an entire window fell from the sky onto a car below. Then there's the succinct complaint from July 31, 2007: "Something fell off the building." You don't say? Yikes. After the jump, peruse the records. More »
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We'd Prefer To Set The Record For Staying Off The Subway, But That's Just Us
To follow-up on our transit transients who intended to break the record for
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