Director Andrew Bujalski celebrates 10 years of 'Funny Ha Ha' with a big fan, Lena Dunham:
Andrew Bujalski's film Funny Ha Ha celebrated its 10th anniversary last night at Anthology Film Archives, with the director and one of his biggest fans, Lena Dunham, in attendance.
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In a move to preempt a conceivable move to close Brooklyn’s Fort Hamilton, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced a fall conference to look at possible ways to adapt the base to better prepare for cuts or closures.
Speaking to reporters at the base on Wednesday, Gillibrand suggested relocating employees of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and other groups to Fort Hamilton, transforming the 180-odd-year-old facility into what she called a “central federal-security hub for New York City.” More
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on August 18th, 2011 12:52pm“When you’re tall, you’re allowed to cry a little bit,” Jon Krawczyk said Thursday night as he stood on a downtown sidewalk before the newly installed cross at St. Peter’s Church. “How do you create something to replace something so beautiful? That cross was here and it meant so much to so many people.” More
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on August 12th, 2011 2:33pm“The risk ... is if you become dependent on that revenue, then you start to exploit the parks as much as you can for that revenue, because that’s your basement … I think the risk is that if a lot of our budget is dependent on how much revenue we bring in, that will start to turn the parks into a cash cow. We have a little bit of that now. We have some parks where revenue stays in the parks. As a long-term model it’s hard to say." More
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on August 11th, 2011 5:28pm“You at the negotiating table, and again I said to folks in Brooklyn at the picket lines this morning, I’ve never met a worker that wanted to go on strike,” de Blasio said. “I never met a worker that liked to be on the picket line. You don’t want to be here, but you weren’t given a lot of choice. Now it is Verizon’s turn to do something right and come to the table and actually give you decent wages and benefits. “Since we’re standing outside, I hope they can hear us,” he yelled.
“Can you hear me now?” someone yelled, mocking the corporate slogan, and a few people in the crowd laughed.
“If they choose not to protect the middle class, if they choose not to honor the people that have done the work and gotten into all that profitability, then I don’t think they deserve those federal tax breaks anymore,” de Blasio said. More
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on August 10th, 2011 3:07pm"When kids have nothing to dream about and they drop out of school, the easiest thing for them to do is to get into trouble with policemen who are not social workers and once you get into that system, the record is also clear that three out of four go back to the system," Rangel said. "The system’s not fair but that doesn’t help us, what’s fair and what isn’t fair."
Addressing himself to the staff, he cautiously expressed support for new plans for Michael Bloomberg and George Soros to fund half of a recently created program for minority youth. More
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on August 9th, 2011 11:19amThis afternoon, Assemblyman David Weprin was standing in front of Queens Borough Hall with his wife, two daughters and a host of elected officials. He was the only man on the steps.
Since being handed the Democratic nomination in a special election for Anthony Weiner’s open congressional seat in Queens and Brooklyn, Weprin’s events have tended to target Jewish voters (Ed Koch’s plea for the district’s Jewish voters to support Weprin’s Republican opponent as means of rebuking the White House on Israel policy necessitated that) and senior citizens, whose entitlements are in the crosshairs of the G.O.P.-controlled House of Representatives. More
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on August 4th, 2011 4:39pmDuring a hearing in June, as the city’s Panel for Educational Policy prepared to move on a plan to “co-locate” 22 charter schools in public-school buildings, most of the audience knew what would happen: Parents would yell, teachers would plead and union members would attack the Bloomberg administration. And then, after hours of testimony in the tightly packed auditorium of a Prospect Heights high school, the plan would pass as expected. More
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on August 3rd, 2011 10:28amOn Monday morning, the business improvement district representing Midtown’s Diamond District unveiled a study highlighting the economics behind the dense, jostling row of jewelers along 47th Street.
Those numbers showed more than 4,100 businesses employing more than 22,000 people while the district provides the city $4.2 billion in wages, profits and indirect taxes. The businesses provided an economic impact of $24.2 billion dollars in cost of materials, services, wages, rent and profits. The study also found that jewelry, diamonds and gold were three of New York State’s top four exports. More
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on August 1st, 2011 5:23pmRoosevelt Island wants to have a research and engineering campus, very badly. And so a number of local officials joined councilmember Jessica Lappin, whose district includes the 2.5-mile long stretch of Roosevelt Island, in a press conference that was a pitch to schools like Stanford and Cornell universities. More
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on July 28th, 2011 1:04pmThis morning, 86-year-old former mayor Ed Koch crossed party lines (as he periodically does) to endorse Republican candidate Bob Turner for Congress at a press conference this morning.
Koch has said that he is mostly doing so in order to register his displeasure with the White House over Barack Obama’s attitude toward Israel; he wants voters in what was until recently Anthony Weiner’s district to “send a message” to Washington by electing a Republican in the September 13 special election. More
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on July 25th, 2011 2:57pm
