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When we first saw this image of a duck entering the New York City subway system, we naively believed that he stepped right out of a children's book and was playing out his magical and triumphant story about a little duck in a big city. And what joy this duck was surely bringing to fellow straphangers as he waddled along to catch the N train to their yelps of "Only in New York!"

But moments later we discovered that our new feathered friend did not make a personal choice to ride the rails today, instead he was forced to by the corporate overlords of one of the nation's largest insurance companies. Yep, it's the Aflac duck. Read More

The builders of the Second Avenue Subway – that nearly century-old pipe dream on Manhattan’s East Side – would like to offer some good news:

For the first time in the project’s modern history, a shipment of rails is arriving.

For now, they are being deposited in a cavern at East 96th Street.

But the rails will eventually be placed on the first segment of the project, which runs from 96th Street to 63rd Street.

It is to be finished in late 2016. Read More

Time was when the Brooklyn of television shows was a pretty Bensonhurst kind of place. That was where Ralph Kramden and the rest of the Honeymooners cracked wise.

Today, the slice of Brooklyn portrayed on the small screen looks a lot like the Brooklyn that has grabbed the real-life cultural spotlight.

There’s the Greenpoint of “Girls,” the Williamsburg of “2 Broke Girls” and the Park Slope to which the jailed yuppie protagonist of “Orange Is the New Black” yearns to return.

“Brooklyn used to be kind of working class, or the place where the police had to deal with criminals and drug dealers,” Alessandra Stanley, a television critic for The New York Times, told us. “Now it’s young people being sophisticated.” Read More