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• Madison Square Garden Told to Fix Penn Station or Move Out

  The Planning Commission voted to extend the arena’s operating permit for 15 years, during which time the arena’s owners could either make plans to move or substantially improve the transportation hub.

  
  I’ve been told it was a sin that they tore down the original Penn Station. The current one is just miserable.

  05/23/13

• 'Operation Swill:' N.J. raids bars to see if they are passing off cheap liquor as premium brands

  The investigation found that the businesses filled premium brand bottles with cheaper liquor “to fool the customer and increase their profits,” the agency said. “The customer paid for the premium brand, but was instead … poured the non-premium brand.”

  Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa said the investigation was spurred by information from citizen complaints, confidential informants and “new technology used to test samples taken covertly from the licensed establishments” by division detectives. He would not elaborate, pending a press conference scheduled for 11 a.m. today in Trenton.

  Most of the bars targeted were TGI Fridays

  05/23/13