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The NYC office market was full of surprises — both good and bad — in 2024

Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for year-end reflection. But instead of letting statistics put you to sleep, we'll be sharing lots of our favorite fun facts and phenomena from the ever-entertaining world of commercial real estate. office redux. With so little space available and so much demand in Manhattan's best buildings, tenants are reluctant to […]

‘I’ve never seen it this bad’

Guardian Angels have announced they will resume patrolling New York City's subway cars following the horrific murder of a sleeping passenger on the F train last week. Since the horrific incident, “hundreds of citizens” have called on Guardian Angels to return to patrolling subway cars, the group, founded by Curtis Sliwa in 1979 in response […]

Flight passenger calls out fellow flyers for bad habit, shares fix for problem

One traveler took to social media to discuss why his fellow passengers on the plane didn't dispose of trash properly, and shared how to fix the problem. The memo, posted on the r/SouthwestAirlines forum, was titled “People's Favorite Trick to Put Garbage in Seatback Pockets.” Users said they had witnessed a “surprising number of people” […]

Iran’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year

2024 was not a good year for Iran. Many of its proxy armies across the Middle East have been decimated by Israel, puppet dictator Bashar al-Assad has been ousted in Syria, and archenemy Donald Trump has returned to the White House. The year of disaster for Iran really began on October 7, 2023, when the […]

Biden’s Pardons Concerning, Sets Bad Precedent

Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) said Monday on CNN's “News Central” that President Joe Biden's decision to pardon 37 of 40 federal death row inmates to life in prison without parole is alarming. He said it would set a precedent. Host Kate Bolduan said, “I want to hear about the breaking news we saw this morning […]

Fall of Assad, rise of Trump: Why 2024 was a very bad year for Iran

The fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria was the culmination of a particularly bad year for the Iranian regime. The Islamic Republic suffered major blows in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, weakening the power of the so-called Axis of Resistance. Iran's currency was officially the world's lowest value, Israel decimated its proxy forces, and the […]