Topic: New York City
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10 Places to Find Peace and Quiet in Manhattan
True silence may be impossible to find in New York City, but these spots are as close as you can get.
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Maybe What Your City Needs Is a Ridiculous Fuzzy-Suited Mascot
In the municipal mascot department, it seems that North America can't compete with Asia.
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Probably Offensive Street Art of the Day: Fatties, Step to the Right
A direct, if rude, way to attack America's obesity epidemic.
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What Salamanders Can Teach Us About Urban Evolution
We have built a city up around them, but amphibians and mammals alike have persisted by genetically diversifying.
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The Kindness of Cities
Studies suggest city dwellers are meaner than their suburban counterparts. Here's what the researchers don't understand.
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Lawsuit Challenges NYPD Patrols of Privately Owned Apartment Buildings
Plaintiffs allege the policy leaves black and Latino residents 'under siege in their own homes.'
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Why a Pedestrian Avenue Makes So Much Sense for Midtown Manhattan
Despite initial skepticism, a 6 ½ Avenue would merely legitimize behavior that is already happening.
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Why I Love My City
Here Is New York Transit
It's where rich and poor, wise and weird, picker and non-picker unite.
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This Week in Bans: Miniskirts Outlawed in Indonesian Cities
Also, Hong Kong bans pregnant "birth tourists" from the mainland; New York City's public schools try to avoid using test words like "dinosaur" and "Christmas"; and Britain bans... something.
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The Imaginary Monsters of U.S. Cities
Sure, the sticks have Sasquatch and the Jackalope. But what creepy cryptids lurk in thriving American cities?
