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Early Addition: Mapping NYC's Deep History Of Riots
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Ben Yakas
Published Dec 5, 2016
Modified Dec 5, 2016
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- A history of major NYC riots and protests in one handy map.
- The NY Post went all-in for their investigation into an alleged brothel on Smith Street in Carroll Gardens.
- A$AP Rocky is countersuing his NYC landlord.
- A strange divide: the Times reports that the Japanese government is obsessed with climate change...except young people there don't really care.
- Is 2016 the year culture died?
- Millennials love RVs now!
- A Queens man was arrested after allegedly stabbing his wife to death with a kitchen knife on street corner.
- Uh, The Atlantic wants to know if Jews are white anymore.
- The Outline has finally launched with some very good content (and also with some unfortunate website design).
- Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Network, which is more prescient than ever.
- Tom Cruise is not the mummy (...or IS he?) in The Mummy reboot trailer.
- And finally, here's a boy bonding with his giant cat:
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