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Share.. Daily Beast has it~! The NYPD, back In February 2008, cracked down on Canal Street’s “Counterfeit Triangle,” a tourist trap where street vendors peddled designer knockoffs. Rolex even gave a personal thanks to Mayor Bloomberg for “recognizing the pervasive crime of counterfeiting.” In Miami, however, artist Luis Gispert took the counterfeit crackdown as his [...]

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Share..Who said Broadway was a thing of the past? The week before last, Broadway box offices were oh so very bustling and booming as eleven different musicals made more than one million dollars each. The Broadway League said on last Monday that total grosses for the week that ended on Sunday rocketed to $28.9 million; [...]

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Share..March 25, 2011 marked the 100-year anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire that claimed the lives of 146 workers in the garment industry, mainly Italian and Jewish immigrant women, in New York City. The disaster ultimately led to the implementation of better working standards and safety regulations. Some excerpts from Women’s Wear Daily 1911 coverage [...]

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Share..There is something about the autumn that gets the creative blood flowing in us. We see some of this manifested in the Festival of Sukkot. As Jerusalem Post’s Jordana Horn wrote: “An international succa-building competition based in New York City has pitted famous and not-so-famous artists and architects against one another in an attempt to [...]

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Share..Cecilia Attias, the former first lady of France, officially made New York her home at Thursday night’s inaugural gala dinner for the Cecilia Attias Foundation for Women. Mrs. Attias divorced Parkozy in 2007 after 11 years of marriage. The following year she married Morocco-born and New York-based global events planner Richard Attias, who recently founded [...]

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Share..They grow up too damn fast, do they not? Well the eldest Jonas, Kevin, 22, got hitched to one Danielle Deleasa on Saturday night, leaving the Jonas bachelors at two and subtracting. The couple told People Magazine, “We’re so happy that we’re finally married and we were able to share the special moment with family, [...]

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Share..Madonna is being sued by her New York City neighbor, for either being a party animal, or a work-a-holic Diva… one or the other. The lawsuit which Karen George filed on October 9th, reads: “Madonna and one or more of her invited guests repeatedly dance to unreasonably high-decibel, amplified music, causing noise and vibration through [...]

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Share..He survived a plane crash one year ago only to be found dead in his apartment on Friday in New York City. Adam Goldstein, otherwise known as DJ AM, is dead at 36. A crackpipe and prescription drugs were found in his room near his body, found face down on the floor. Authorities have not [...]

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Share..New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) is a very special place. Its exhibitions are always unique and extremely intriguing, and it has acquired a very high reputation worldwide. The MET also has its own esteemed store where you might find truly rare jewelry designs, such as this Egyptian knot ring. It is made of [...]

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