Ha! Hilarious - the dollar is so weak that in Jay-Z's last music video, he flashed a wad of euros!! Too funny.

Quoted: With the dollar near its lowest rate ever against the euro, many Europeans are looking at the United States as a cheap place to flex their strong currency.

Oh my god this makes me so sick. It's so cold in NYC, too.

Quoted: The dismal, surreal housing arrangement at 1277 Morris Avenue in the Bronx seems as much out of Kafka as Dickens.

Always thought it was interesting the manholes in NYC say MADE IN INDIA

Quoted: Foundry workers have few protections as they make manhole covers for Con Edison and a city department.

Ha!

Quoted: I called Stephen Colbert with a dare: if he thought it was so easy to be a Times Op-Ed pundit, he should try it. He came right over. I had staged a coup d’moi.

Ha!

Quoted: Relationships in which close friends begin having sex come with their own brand of awkwardness, according to the first study to explore the dynamics of such pairs.

So awful. For one drug conviction you get barred from public housing eligibility in NYC for life. This article isn't even about that - you can't even go visit public housing with a drug charge.

Quoted: The New York City Housing Authority’s newspaper lists former residents who are banned from its buildings.

Quoted: More than 10,000 demonstrators rallied today to protest the treatment of six black teenagers who were arrested in the beating of a white schoolmate last year.

Quoted: Seventeen people who earned degrees through a program for former prisoners will be honored in a ceremony at the C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center in Manhattan.