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Bob Digi and Mr. Mef are currently in the studio working together on a new album.

It's been a bad several days for us New Yorkers who've had an up-and-down relationship with elevators.

Fat Americans earn significantly less than their skinny co-workers, and the gap is even worse for chunky women than for overweight men, a new study shows.

Twitter is not censoring Tweets related to NDAA, SOPA, Occupy Wall Street and Anonymous, according to claims by a growing chorus of observers, and the social media giant itself. But a number of Twitter users are not convinced.

Leaders of the Korean American community in New York, and especially its massive enclave in the Northeast Queens neighborhoods Flushing and Bayside, say Korean Americans have a unique perspective on Kim Jong Il's passing.

Christmas tree syndrome can cause a range of negative impacts on the health of holiday revelers who put them up in their homes

Rats are the grinches of this holiday season at one midtown Manhattan post office. They didn't quite steal Christmas, but they've eaten their way through a number of care packages, according to the New York Times.

NDAA and SOPA aren't even approved yet, but closures of the accounts of Twitter users who write on controversial topics such as Occupy Wall Street and the bills themselves seem to suggest that their effects may already be trickling down to the web.

The real purpose of the SOPA and NDAA bills is to target Occupy Wall Street, Anonymous and other web-based movements that have fueled revolutionaries both here and abroad.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has ruled that holiday decorations will not be hung this year in the Staten Island Ferry stations.

A new showdown between the NYPD and Occupy Wall Street protesters looms as the movement heads back to the private space next to Duarte Square at noon on Saturday, Dec. 17 (hence the #D17 Twitter tag), after being excommunicated from the site last month by its owner, Trinity Church.

The U.S. House of Representatives approved the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Wednesday evening by a vote of 283 to 136, with 14 members not voting. Find out how your Representative voted on the controversial bill.

The professional commentary and coverage of the National Defense Authorization Act (aka NDAA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (aka SOPA) has been coming hard and fast even since before President Barack Obama signaled he would not veto the NDAA. Much of the old-guard media has done appallingly little on the topic, so the blogosphere and web-based columnists are picking up the slack and churning out the most compelling content on these issues.

Civic Associations such as Don Capalbi's Queensborough Hill civic play a vital role in New York City life, creating a forum for citizens to air grievances and meet their elected representatives, and connecting the gentry to its government.

That's sure to be the rumor once (if?) the ubiquitous website goes back online after going down shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday amid news that the Obama administration will not be vetoing the bill.

New York University on Wednesday announced plans to offer an MFA program in game design, and a top game designer told the International Business Times that the new program should have a positive impact on the industry as well as the quality of games sold to the public.

Only two choices face those who were arrested for trying to cross the Brooklyn Bridge as part of the OWS movement on Oct. 1. Either admit you did something wrong, or to go back to court over and over again until your case is dismissed.

F&T Group President Michael Meyer says the future of New York - and of America as a whole - lies in large part in its ability to adapt quickly enough to the changing paradigm being posed by Asia's rising prominence.

Occupy Wall Street roared back to life on the streets of Lower Manhattan Monday morning in a protest that coalesced with 17 arrests in the Winter Garden of the World Financial Center.

Manhattan's criminal courthouse will be occupied this week by more than 700 men and women who are charged with a committing a range of minor crimes while participating in the ubiquitous Occupy Wall Street protests.

James McGinniss and business partner Barry Zucker met at Tom's Diner in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn one day last August to sip cherry-lime rickeys and hammer out the details of their long-shot plan to start a literary agency.

After attempting to have a child for seven years, Manhattanite Michal Lura Friedman finally became pregnant with fraternal twins nine months ago, only to die shortly after they were born, the Daily News reported.

While commuters queue at their local Starbucks for their first cardboard growler of coffee, addicts often don't have to leave the city's choicest neighborhoods to get their daily paper mouthwash cup of hot-pink methadone.

The Bronx Bombers considered instead being the Manhattan Bombers in 1915, according to a letter from that year that shows that the team's then-owners looked at a site in Times Square for Yankee Stadium.

Complaints of racial profiling against the NYPD are no new phenomenon, but evidence of a systemic trend of police officers targeting minorities in recent years should trouble New Yorkers of all stripes.

The original Manhattan is surging back to life ten years after the terror attacks of 9/11, and trends are showing the square-mile tip of the island south of Chambers Street is quickly surpassing its past glory.

Five playwrights are tackling the heady topic of Occupy Wall Street over a full brunch this Sunday at the Ensemble Studio Theatre.

The aggrieved students of New York City's public university system took to the streets of Manhattan Monday evening to protest tuition hikes many of them say will cripple their ability to afford to earn a college degree.

Emma Sullivan, avoid punishment for tweeting that Kansas Governor Sam Brownback sucked last week, will . Brownback apologized Monday and said his staff overreacted after her public school district said it would not pursue punishment for the teen's words.