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Not surprisingly, considering New York's long-held fascination with the big gorilla, the city went ape for King Kong Monday. The supersized simian has captivated New Yorkers since he first stepped foot, a giant one at that, in the city in 1933, via the classic RKO film. His building-scaling, blonde-loving ways made him an instant legend. [Read More]
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Throughout the Victorian period, New Yorkers subscribed to the London, Glasgow and New York Lottery art unions. Advertised in local newspapers, encouraging colonists to ''invest'' a guinea for a chance to be in the draw for selected paintings, sculptures, engravings and other works of art, or facsimiles of the works of better-known artists. Arrangements fitted into a pattern. Artists Art Union
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New York is not adverse to cooperating with these casino cruise lines even though it provides a way for New Yorkers to play games of chance, including slot machines, in a casino. As long as New York obtains its docking fees, shipside business and on-shore purchases from the other gambling passengers. This is not a policy of prohibiting canino gambling, but of aiding and participating in making such gambling possible for wealthy New Yorkers.
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"As consumers, drivers, taxpayers, and workers, New Yorkers are paying more and more every year to support a lawsuit industry that has quietly begun to dominate — and distort — our system of justice," the report warns. "New York needs a legal system that throws away mottoes about 'an accident and a dream' — a system that meets the needs of the people, not of the trial bar."
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Cartoonography: Michael Maslin sketches his path of becoming a New Yorker cartoonist. Big Bang: Work by the Chinese installation and pyrotechnic artist Cai Guo-Qiang. Coney Island Days: Photographs of the boardwalk off season, by Robert Polidori. Your Eustace: The winners of the 2008 Eustace Tilley Contest.
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