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Extra, Extra: High Brooklyn Rents Scaring Off Prospective Buyers
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Ben Yakas
Published Apr 11, 2013
Modified Apr 11, 2013
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- Horrible: officials are trying to find the owner of a dog that was found abandoned at a school in New Jersey and had its ears cut off.
- Riff Raff, the white rapper who was one of the inspirations for James Franco's character Alien in Spring Breakers, will play art dealer "James Franko" on daytime soap One Life To Live, which is a play off of Franco’s guest stint on General Hospital.
- Louis CK did another Reddit AMA today, and it was fantastic.
- Will Google Glass change the way you date for the better? Will it make dating obsolete? Will it turn you into a conehead?
- A Manhattan peace officer was arrested after she reportedly got into a fight at a Midtown gym and punched a patron in the face.
- An NFL player who was pictured carrying a dude while shirtless says he's not gay, not that there's anything wrong with that.
- The Daily News goes full-Buzzfeed with this photo gallery: sports balls replaced by cats.
- The Staten Island 9/11 memorial was vandalized...again.
- Seriously, don't fuck around with beavers people: a fisherman in Belarus was bitten to death by a beaver, and all he was doing was trying to take its picture.
- It's the same old story all over again: Brooklyn real estate prices are too high, so buyers are returning to Manhattan.
- And finally, a pig and a cat find harmony playing together:
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