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Hm, I'm still uncomfortable with the fact that he changed term limit laws so he could run for a third term... I bet that's why his margin of victory was drastically lower.

Quoted: Billionaire Michael Bloomberg narrowly won a third term as New York City mayor after a surprisingly tight race with his Democratic challenger.

So interesting ... and a bit sad.

Quoted: Cantonese, formerly dominant, is being swept aside by Mandarin, the lingua franca of more recent immigrants.

Ugh, for REAL!

Quoted: BIG cities like New York are both deeply convenient — two steps to the deli for milk in the morning — and deeply inconvenient. It is possible to live in the same city as the person you are dating, and have to travel an hour, or even two, to get together.

This is so nuts!

Quoted: Wintry weather has arrived a little early in some eastern states, with parts of central Pennsylvania getting more than 4 inches of snow.

Oh, so sad!

Quoted: The director of 1980s coming-of-age films like “Sixteen Candles” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” has died in Manhattan of a heart attack at 59.

It'd be interesting to see how these families fare once they leave New York City.

Quoted: New York City, which has struggled with a seemingly intractable problem of homelessness for years, has paid families to leave the city as a way of keeping them out of the expensive shelter system.

Quoted: Moses, who was instrumental in shaping modern New York City, is depicted in Caro's Pulitzer Prize-winning book as a power-hungry bureaucrat who, while never elected, had more control over public works than most mayors and governors ...

Are New York drivers angry? Yes. Aggerssive? Definitely. But it's really a function of the amount of traffic. You have to drive aggressively if you're going to get from point A to B. In terms of skill, I'd say if you can drive in N.Y., you can drive anywhere in the U.S.

Quoted: New York has overtaken Miami to be voted the U.S. city with the angriest and most aggressive drivers, according to a survey on road rage released on Tuesday.