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News Israeli Nightlife Icon Found Strangled in Manhattan Home
Savyon Zabar, an Israeli-born club operator and fixture of New York gay nightlife, was found strangled in his uptown apartment Wednesday morning, in what New York police have ruled a homicide. “He was really well known,” Carlos Arenas, who used to work the door at one of the clubs that Zabar managed and promoted, told…
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Fast Forward 94-Year-Old Manhattan Man Threatened With Pre-Hanukkah Eviction
Maxwell Levy seems to be due for a December visit from Scrooge, as his landlords attempt once more to evict the nonagenarian from his six-room apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. “They want to get my apartment because they can make a lot more money,” the 94-year-old, who has lived in the same building since…
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News More Swastikas Found on Manhattan’s Upper West Side
The swastika sighted this week on 104th Street and Broadway in Manhattan was one of several hateful scrawlings in the neighborhood, according to local reports. A number of buildings and phone booths between 104th and 105th Streets on Broadway were tagged with swastikas, “KKK” and “Nazi,” DNAInfo reported. All the graffiti appeared to be done…
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Fast Forward Another Swastika Found on NYC Building
New York’s hate graffiti wave got its Broadway debut on Wednesday, after a Manhattan woman found a swastika scribbled onto the side of a building on the Upper West Side. Neighborhood resident Lauren Monchik told the Forward she discovered the swastika on the building, located on the intersection of 104th Street and Broadway. She notified…
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Fast Forward CNN Reporter Pays Tribute to Sandy Hook Victims on 4th Anniversary
CNN political reporter Jake Tapper is commemorating the fourth anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre by tweeting out the names and photos of the 26 victims who perished in the shooting at the Newtown, Connecticut elementary school. The victims included 20 first graders and six educators, including Sandy Hook’s principal Dawn Hochsprung. The youngest victim…
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Community Still Single on the Upper West Side
A kindly old man in my UWS building elevator asked me if I was married. I politely said no, I am not now, and have never been, married. He looked genuinely shocked. “What is wrong with all the boys today?” he asked. What is wrong indeed! I have my theories. But let me tell you…
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Fast Forward Hubby Charged in Orthodox Upper West Side Woman’s Murder
The estranged husband of a successful Orthodox woman found dead in her Upper West Side bathtub in 2009 has reportedly been charged with her murder. Roderick Covlin, 42, pleaded not guilty to killing millionaire UBS financial advisor Shele Danishevsky, who whas found dead in her West 68th apartment by their nine-year-old daughter on New Year’s…
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News Jerry Nadler Voted In Favor of Iran Deal — and Will Survive To Tell
The last time Jerry Nadler faced a serious threat to his congressional seat, Bill Clinton had never met Monica Lewinsky, Newt Gingrich had not yet been voted speaker of the House, Kurt Cobain had just died and Justin Bieber had just been born. But now, after more than two decades as the largely-uncontested representative-for-life of…
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