Dan Rosenblum

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.

Bio: Dan Rosenblum is a regular contributor to Capital. He has written for The Jersey Journal, The Mott Haven Herald and the Hunts Point Express. Read more at DanRosenblum.com.

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Dueling rallies between Rangel and Espaillat on a Dominican-American theme

A month before the voters in Charlie Rangel's district vote in a primary that pits him against (among others) State Senator Adriano Espaillat, the two candidates held competing Washington Heights rallies six blocks away from each other. More

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on May 25th, 2012 4:38pm

 
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In a heated debate, experts, scholars, and administrators discuss a plan that would radically reshape the New York Public Library

"Is it conceivable that they could do something different? Yes,” Marx said. “But it's at least as conceivable that if we do not pursue the plan, that the $150 million disappears and we go back to the drawing board for a future administration that may be less able or less amenable to be supportive of that kind of investment."

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on May 23rd, 2012 10:20am

 
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Friends of Tom Allon gather in Midtown, via Stuyvesant and Cornell

Tom Allon, the owner of a chain of community newspapers who is running for mayor in 2013, spoke to 40 potential donors yesterday at a birthday fund-raiser at the rooftop cafe of Midtown's Kimberly Hotel. Many of the attendees had gone to school with Allon at Stuyvesant High School or Cornell University. More

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on May 22nd, 2012 11:19am

 
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At the inaugural Great GoogaMooga, food, bands, long lines, and trash-talking from Anthony Bourdain

Colicchio said the best food-truck scene was in Austin, Texas, and Huang said Portland, Oregon. Both agreed that there was a bizarre focus on a corporate customer-base for New York’s food trucks. “[You] park your truck in front of some corporate headquarters at lunch and they’ll line up," Huang said. "What’s that? Only in New York. Everybody else’s food scene’s for like the street kids, you know? Ours are for corporate America.” More

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on May 21st, 2012 1:35pm

 
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Foye says an era of lowballing public-works costs and overpaying 'starchitects' is over

Even as the organization he heads is planning to spend $30 billion on capital projects, Port Authority executive director Patrick Foye said the public is no longer willing to take government agencies at their word about how much it costs to build things. More

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on May 14th, 2012 1:11pm

 
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At City Hall, an Asian-American group angles for funding and the attention of nearby officials

As a parade of city politicians cycled through their rally at City Hall Park, the “13% and Growing Coalition” found themselves this afternoon, both literally and figuratively, in the center of New York’s political geography. More

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on May 9th, 2012 3:54pm

 
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Bloomberg says he didn't read the 911-response report but he takes it seriously

While acknowledging some criticisms of the new 911 system were legitimate, Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the $2 billion system against reports that it has created inefficiencies and longer response times. More

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on May 8th, 2012 4:55pm

 
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The year Derby Day broke in Brooklyn

“I love the fact that the Kentucky Derby’s a lot like Hollywood,” Jamie Hook said, finishing a Mint Julep at Pete's Candy Store in Brooklyn. “Like, nobody knows anything, and yet there are these people that make careers off on the strange thing—the erudition of knowing something about which nothing can be known.”

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on May 7th, 2012 1:42pm

 
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'Quotas exist': Former NYPD officers discuss the data-driven department

It isn’t hard these days to find mayoral candidates critical of police quotas, stop-and-frisks and the level of outside oversight of the New York Police Department.

But something less common occurred last night, as six former police officers and one active one candidly discussed their views of the problems that data-driven policies cause for the department and the public. More

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on May 4th, 2012 4:50pm

 
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On the Upper West Side, Dan Rather finds an audience for his campfire tales

Da"But what I've tried to do, as I've said to you is tell you stories that I tell my friends and family when we're around the fireplace or outside around the campfire and just tell stories. Yes, I do include the circumstances under which I left CBS News, a low time in my life, but let me say it to you directly, I'm not complaining and I'm well passed it. But I've seen rain I've seen fire, I've seen sunny days, and yes, starry nights. And life goes up and down and I fully understand that."

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on May 3rd, 2012 9:26am