Wakefield

Your Gateway Drug to Art

Chris Johnson | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Startups, Art, Wakefield, Jorge Colombo, Apple Products, New Yorker Covers, Apple, Arts News
Chris Johnson

You're coffee hunting, and you brush past a man on the sidewalk and think he's a tourist based on the way he's standing there looking at his phone. But he's no tourist. He's NYC artist Jorge Colombo and he's painting -- on his iPhone -- what may well be the next New Yorker cover (he's done several).

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Buon Compleanno, Sonar!

Chris Johnson | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Sonar, Startups, Nyc, Wakefield, Linkedin, Alfred Neustadter, Twitter, Ocean City, Rolodex, Facebook, Small Business News
Chris Johnson

Five and a half decades later, it's a different world -- one that sees, say, a couple billion mobile app downloads per month, and NYC-based Sonar is looking to make its own mark on how people link up.

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Cop Shoots And Kills Unarmed Man In The Bronx

Posted 02.03.2012

Read More: Video, Nypd, Wakefield, New York Crime, Ny News, New York News, Bronx, Ramarley Graham, New York News

For the third time this week, an NYPD officer has fatally shot and killed a suspect. 18-year-old Ramarley Graham was gunned down Thursday inside t...

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The Lancet Retraction Changes Nothing

David Kirby | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Wakefield, Cdc, Insel, Lancet, Iacc, Autism, Mmr-Vaccination, Vaccines, Healthy Living News
David Kirby

I believe that the public lynching and shaming of Dr. Wakefield is unwarranted and overwrought, and that history will ultimately judge who was right about a possible link between vaccination and autism.

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Bronx News Roundup, Dec. 30

Bronx News Network | Bronx News Network | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York-New York, Wakefield, Home News

An off-duty NYPD sergeant says he was racially profiled and roughed up by two police officers from the 52nd Precinct, while visiting his girlfrie...

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Woman Killed in Front of Her Kids

NBC NewYork | NBC New York | Posted 05.25.2011

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Woman Shot Dead in Wakefield section of the Bronx ...

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Bronx News Roundup for Jan. 11

Bronx News Network | Bronx News Network | Posted 05.25.2011

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This isn't really exactly a Bronx thing, but we couldn't resist: The New York Post reports that the city's new comptroller, John Liu, is requiring sta...

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Bronx Mom Shot Dead in Front of Children

Bronx News Network | Bronx News Network | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Daily News is reporting that a 30-year-old Bronx mother was shot dead this morning, as she took her two daughters to school.According to a press r...

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Satish Jagnandan Hands-down Winner of Handball Championship

NYMag.com | Peter Duffy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Handball, Handball Championship New York, Satish Jagnandan, Handball Championship, Hand Ball, New York Handball, Cesar Sala, Wakefield, New York News

Yesterday, the two best handball players in the city — Cesar Sala, an NYPD officer from Brighton Beach, and Satish Jagnandan, a school administrator...

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