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Early Addition: Should Taxis Have Panic Buttons?
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Ben Yakas
Published Apr 29, 2015
Modified Apr 29, 2015
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Published Apr 29, 2015
Modified Apr 29, 2015
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- Will taxi cabs start to get panic buttons?
- Brian Williams is apparently saying behind-the-scenes that he's "not going down without a fight and [is] threatening to make it really ugly."
- Finally, sewage booze.
- Citi Bike is coming to Park Slope and Red Hook in the next two years.
- A NJ transgender woman fatally jumped off the GW Bridge because of what she described as "constant transphobia."
- Scarlett Johansson and Kenan Thompson celebrate National Scat Day in her SNL promo.
- Amy Schumer has already released the music video of the summer.
- Oh hey, Cat Power had a baby.
- The BBC teaches you the subtle art of selling.
- Larry Wilmore covered the Baltimore protests and riots in depth.
- And finally, things got rowdy at the meeting of renters at the kitten condos:
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