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Extra, Extra: Get To Know The Secret Cult Of Murray Hill
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Ben Yakas
Published Nov 2, 2014
Modified Nov 2, 2014
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Published Nov 2, 2014
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- A father and daughter were caught on surveillance video beating a man with a baseball bat in Philly.
- The women who make $70 'This Is What Feminism Looks Like' shirts make less than $1 an hour.
- 26-year-old takes expensive Uber, starts Kickstarter to pay for her ride.
- A woman has been accused of stabbing another woman with a stiletto at the Gansevoort Hotel.
- Man mansplains catcalling very poorly.
- A secret cult that believes they are descended from a "master Aryan race" on Atlantis have been operating out of a Murray Hill brownstone.
- A man carrying shotgun at Port Authority accidentally shot himself.
- Machetes are a legal weapon of choice.
- Yeshiva of Flatbush has hired monitors to specifically look for girls' exposed collarbones and calves.
- Yes, cops will shoot a person who jumps into an unmarked police car, steals a police weapon, and fires that weapon at the police.
- And finally, this puppy has a trick to show you:
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