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Cafe Figo, First Avenue, 2pm Hipster Chick 1: Anyway, it starts at 11. Wanna go? You can be my plus one. Hipster Chick 2: I’m sick of being everybody’s plus one. When do I get my name on the list? Hipster Chick 1: Blowing the promoter always helps.

Via Craiglist NYC: my name is william and i am a 29 year old gay male from pennsylvania and am ObSeSeD!!! with lAdY GAga! i have 2 tickets for the 1/21 show at Radio City Music Hall (my fav venu haha) and i want to go with a woman and am willing to give up 1 ticket for her for …

Both of the men who brutally gay bashed Jack Price in Queens last October have been indicted on hate crimes charges. You may recall that local thugs counter-protested the anti-bashing rally that was held at the site of the assault several days later, holding signs in support of his vicious attackers and saying Jack Price “had it coming to him.” …

NYC’s MTA has launched a new site which for the first time provides real-time updates on service interruptions and delays. And the new site includes a smartphone ready function. The authority’s older mobile site posted maps only as PDFs, a clunky format that often takes a while to load on hand-held devices. “On the Go,” which features a fresher, streamlined …

Twilo, Limelight, Roxy, Lure, Tunnel, Sound Factory. And a couple of dozen more. Embiggen Next Magazine’s map of the gay bars that have closed in Manhattan in the new millenium. I miss the Dugout most of all. I enjoyed the Lure and Roxy, but hadn’t been to either in quite some time when they closed. Somehow I visited almost every …

If you’re suffering through a painful breakup, a NYC performance artist called the Death Bear will come to your home and remove all evidence of your former love. We all have someone or something we would rather just forget. Things fall apart. Love hurts. Dreams die. But when you summon Death Bear to your door, you can rest assured that …

The MTA is dragging their feet on repairing the rotting and crumbling edges of midtown’s subway platforms, even though their own report nine months ago showed that the wooden edges in some stations are falling apart. The crumbling conditions can be found on platforms for the downtown F at 34th Street and the uptown B and D at 47-50 Streets/Rockefeller …

Gothamist just posted this photo of the Circle Line tourism boat navigating the icy Hudson. Last week the Coast Guard started icebreaking operations on the Hudson, using a fleet of five ice cutters to clear a shipping channel, primarily for the tankers that are delivering heating oil to upstate residents. The Bayonne-based Coast Guard cutter Sturgeon Bay has its own …

Vanity Fair has published a lengthy series of quotes from people who were around during the early years of disco, including Judy Weinstein, Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Ian Schrager, Gloria Gaynor, Nile Rodgers, and Fran Lebowitz. The piece by Lisa Robinson opens: It became known, and ultimately reviled, as Disco. But the music that surged out of gay underground New …

Gothamist reports that not only is Jersey Shore’s Snooki getting $10,000 just to appear at nightclubs, last night she did the weather in NYC. Dig the cleavage tug. Tonight she judges the Fist Pumping competition at the Hard Rock Cafe in Orlando. SRSLY.

The Drenched pool party returns to Times Square’s Grace Hotel tomorrow. The last one was mobbed and I had a blast (although I was one of the few non-swimmers, preferring to hover safely in the two bars that overlook the pool.) The best part was when the upstairs coat check got full and folks had to change into their bathing …

In 2009, NYC saw the fewest number of murders since comparable records began being kept. The city’s police department says the 2009 year-end total was 466, down from 523 in 2008 and 496 the year before. It’s the fewest since comparable records were kept in the 1960s. Overall crime is down in the city 11 percent from last year and …

The White House is angry at the Weatherproof clothing company for installing a Times Square billboard that implies the president is endorsing one of their jackets. Outerwear company Weatherproof used a recent news photo of the president in front of the Great Wall in Badaling, China, for the advertisement, with the tagline “A Leader In Style.” The White House said …

Friday-Sunday this weekend in NYC the 12th annual Postcards From The Edge benefit for Visual AIDS will take place in West Chelsea. Postcards From the Edge is a Visual AIDS benefit show and sale of original, postcard-sized works on paper by established and emerging artists. All works are sold on a first-come, first-served basis. The works are signed on the …

Today openly lesbian NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn was re-elected by a near unanimous vote of her fellow council members. There wasn’t much doubt about the outcome, but the vote got rowdy as supporters of her only challenger, Charles Barron, who got one vote, yelled things like “sell out,” after many of the votes were cast. On hand for the …

For the last decade New Yorkers have bemoaned the Disneyfication of Times Square with its mall chain restaurants, its themed nightclubs, and its now well-scrubbed and well-fed middle American patrons. And with the below news, the Disneyfication of Times Square has become complete and literal. Disney is going theme park with its new Times Square retail store. Perhaps trying to …

Walgreens, Second Avenue, 9pm Woman In Scrubs: I like to keep an unscratched $5 Lotto ticket on my desk. It feels like a mystery savings account. Female Friend: You should upgrade to a $20 ticket. Then you can pretend it’s a trust fund.

This fall NYC will become one of the last places in the country to finally update to a non-mechanical voting system. After years of delays and missteps, the city’s Board of Elections is expected to choose new electronic voting machines on Tuesday that will be rolled out in time for the September primary. In so doing, New York City will …