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Newman pointed to the city’s emerging status as a hub of the tech industry as a large reason why the company’s grown so much in New York. Facebook, Twitter and many others have either set up or expanded offices in the city over the past year, with Mayor Michael Bloomberg cheerleading the growing tech scene.
In December, Bloomberg declared Cornell University as the winner of a $100 million bid to build a state-of-the-art engineering and applied science graduate school on Roosevelt Island.
In addition to their new staffers, Google also acquired four New York-based companies in 2011: Zagat, AdMeld, NextNewNetworks, and RightsFlow. It was unclear how many staffers from each of the companies were absorbed into Google.
Most of Google’s New York employees sit on the fifth floor of the Chelsea building, where they have access to amenities like a massage parlor, scooters, a catered cafeteria, and a “jam” room where staffers can play music.

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The Nuns’ Jennifer Miro: An Appreciation By Jack Boulware
[Editor's note: Jack Boulware is the co-author, with Silke Tudor, of Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day.]
If we’re talking the birth of Bay Area punk, there are as many points of view as there were people in the clubs. This timeline is the one generally agreed upon: The city’s first true punk club show — The Ramones, Savoy Tivoli upstairs, August 1976. The first local punk act — Former stripper Mary Monday, with her band the Bitches. The first punk single — “Hot Wire My Heart” by Crime, 1976. The first band to play Mabuhay Gardens — The Nuns, December 1976.
Punks don’t necessarily have a long lifespan. Nearly all the Ramones are gone. Mary Monday moved to Alaska and died. Three members of Crime are dead. And last month, one of the scene’s founding females, Nuns keyboardist Jennifer “Miro” Anderson, passed away from cancer in New York. She had been playing in a version of The Nuns more or less continuously since the age of 18.

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Gym Bunnies Are Not Feeling Terry Richardson’s New Equinox Ads (PHOTOS)
Noted downtown NYC fashion photographer Terry Richardson and luxury pick up spot/NYC gym franchise Equinox are catching flack over the gym’s new campaign!
Raging gym members gathered their torches and pitchforks and headed to Facebook to complain about Terry’s new ads for the gym, which feature skinny models in mundane and provocative poses.
In one ad, a rail thin brunette model does a crab pose in a black, backless dress while a clothed cameraman stands between her legs in what looks like a checkered and wood carved lobby of a gentleman’s club. Text under the models read FLEX APPEAL. There’s lots of side boob action in that scene which is intended to evoke voyeurism.
In another image two models are locked in embrace on a bed, both in their underwear. Text in that scene reads ENDURANCE.

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Today, in a studio on the 16th floor of a Manhattan high-rise, Ehlers dons a light blue tank top and black tights that cling to her slim, toned frame. Hair up, her expressions remain focused, even while laughing at the scene she finds herself in. She stands well over 6 feet now, the extra inches courtesy of a pair of black patent leather platform heels that lace up nearly to the top of her knees. It’s Wednesday night – time for her stripper class.
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“Looking back, it was bizarre to be living in that situation,” Smith says, emphasizing that she suffered no abuse or wrongdoing during her stay there. “I mean, they were strippers. It just wasn’t an ideal situation for a child to be in.”
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At the age of 18, she got a job as a dancer at a local club. Her 10-year journey through the seedy underbelly of strip clubs began.

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By Aman Ali NEW YORK, Jan 8 (Reuters) – Police released a sketch of a third unidentified victim in the hunt for a possible Long Island serial killer preying on prostitutes advertising…
By Aman Ali NEW YORK, Jan 8 (Reuters) – Police released a sketch of a third unidentified victim in the hunt for a possible Long Island serial killer preying on prostitutes advertising…

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Shame is a film about addiction, but what separates it from other movies on this subject is that the drug for Brandon (Fassbender) is sex. He gets his fix any way he can – one-night stands, prostitutes, internet porn – but his behaviour brings him no joy or satisfaction; just a constant, insatiable need for more. The cyclical, self-destructive nature of addiction is vividly realised by McQueen, who directs with a frank confidence throughout, but Shame starts to adopt a more operatic tone in its latter stages as Brandon is brought to his knees, and this threatens to unbalance the picture. The best moments are the quieter ones – a flirtation on the subway, a stunningly filmed late night jog – and there is plenty to admire in the two lead performances. Brandon’s desire, despair and self-loathing are etched on the face of the astonishing Fassbender, and Carey Mulligan brings a touching fragility to her role as his sister, while simultaneously nailing a show-stopping rendition of New York, New York. [Philip Concannon]

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The events of The Virgin Cure are recounted by a 12-year-old named Moth, a lively girl who deeply loves her wastrel of a mother, a “black Dutch” (a.k.a. Gypsy) fortune teller who barely keeps the two of them alive from the proceeds of palm reading and prostitution. One day, tired of having two mouths to feed, Moth’s mother sells her to a wealthy woman named Mrs. Wentworth. Moth is supposed to learn to be a personal maid but instead she becomes the appalling socialite’s personal punching bag. She soon escapes back to the street, where, unfortunately, she runs into her mother’s former landlord – it seems that Mother Moth kind of forgot to pay the rent but the forgiving land-lord is willing to accept in-kind payment in the form of sexual favours from Moth. His attempted rape is interrupted midstream by a young woman named Mae, who takes Moth to her home, a brothel, more commonly, and creepily, known as the “infant school.” Said …

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Jail guards busted
By REBECCA HARSHBARGER
Last Updated:
8:44 AM, January 8, 2012
Posted:
1:36 AM, January 8, 2012
Two off-duty corrections officers were arrested in separate incidents in The Bronx, police said yesterday.
Capt. Darrel Williams, 48, got into a vicious fight in Norwood and assaulted a man with a wooden plank outside 227 E. 204th St., near the Grand Concourse, about 4:55 p.m. Friday, cops said.
Williams, whose relationship to the victim wasn’t immediately clear, was charged with assault.
And Officer Preston Menefee, 46, allegedly tried to pick up a prostitute, who sources said was actually an undercover cop.
Menefee was cruising around Hunts Point when he stopped along Burnett Place about 8:40 p.m. Friday and made the illicit offer, police sources said.
He was charged with patronizing a prostitute.

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After receiving a tip from what officers termed a reliable source, an apartment on the 6000 block of Broadway Avenue was placed under surveillance as a possible prostitution house. Police said that on Dec. 29 at 5:31 p.m., officers witnessed a 37-year-old man allegedly enter the apartment and exit 20 minutes later.
Officers pursued the man as he drove from the apartment in his Corvette. He was brought into custody for questioning.
Officials then decided to send an undercover officer into the apartment. That officer told police that he was able to make a transaction for sexual favors. A surveillance team was sent in.
A 37-year-old Queens resident and self-employed cleaning lady, Quiroz-Verdugo Teresita, and a 33-year-old unemployed Union City resident, Lopez Luiz, were arrested at the scene. Teresita was charged with prostitution, and Luiz was charged with maintaining a place of prostitution.

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Written by Tony nominee Douglas Carter Beane (Sister Act, The Little Dog Laughed) and Lewis Flinn, and directed and choreographed by Tony nominee Dan Knechtges, Lysistrata Jones is the pop reimagining of the 411 B.C. Greek play Lysistrata, by funnyman Aristophanes, about a sex strike in wartime. The story is now placed in the realm of college basketball, with cheerleaders trying to inspire their team to victory. The plan of blonde, belting Lyssie (played by Patti Murin) is to withhold sex in order to motivate the boys. Or, as the girls sing it, “No More Giving It Up!”
(For parents looking for a content guide, Lysistrata Jones has the feel of a Disney channel movie, except there are side trips to a brothel called the Eros Motor Lodge, where a formidable madame played by Liz Mikel has one of the funniest unveilings you’ve ever seen. The band led by music director Brad Simmons, in plain view of the audience, above the action, even breaks up during the scene.)

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