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See Crazy Photos From Coney Island's New Year's Polar Bear Swim

Emerald Catron — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 22:06:57 +0000

The Coney Island Polar Bear Club’s annual New Year’s swim looks like a great time. People in costumes, swimming, having fun. We probably should’ve gone, but there was that whole hangover thing to deal with. Which makes us wonder, does jumping into the freezing Atlantic ocean cure a hangover? If so, we’re totally there next [...]

Big Trouble at This Year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

Jeremy Fenech — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:00:27 +0000

According to the New York Post, there was a lot going on behind the scenes of the 2012 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City that we would probably never find out about, and officials like it that way. To bad for them, the secrets are out. For starters, 67-year-old Robert Blasetti was marching [...]

Modern Day Prospector Finds Gold Rush in 'Them New York City Streets' [VIDEO]

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:00:48 +0000

San Francisco, 1849. Alaska, 1897. New York City, 2011? Is there a new gold rush in the Big Apple?

There is for Queens native Raffi Stepanian, who literally struck gold after discovering he could make up to $300 a day by ‘mining’ the sidewalks in Manhattan’s Diamond District for the tiny bits of gold, platinum and rare gems that fall from the clothes of workers when they leave their shops.