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Extra, Extra: NYC Blacks Are Fleeing For The South
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Jen Chung
Published Jun 22, 2011
Modified Jun 23, 2011
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Jen Chung
Published Jun 22, 2011
Modified Jun 23, 2011
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- The Great Migration in reverse: Black middle-class New Yorkers are increasingly heading to the South.
- Oh, the silly things Manhattanites exiled in D.C. say.
- Terry Richardson posted photographs of Justin Theroux and Jennifer Aniston canoodling in Soho on his website.
- Would you spend nearly $2 million for this Bay Ridge apartment?
- Jackass star Ryan Dunn's blood alcohol was over two times the legal limit of 0.08.
- A mounted cop's lawsuit against the city over damaged pavement was thrown out.
- Man updates his Facebook status continually during police standoff.
- Jon Hamm is getting eight figures to continue to play Don Draper on Mad Men.
- Aw, the Daily News has a feature on Broadway star Sutton Foster's dresser, the one she singled out in her Tony speech.
- A pretty New York Harbor timelapse.
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