Italian-American heritage groups and residents of the Jersey shore are threatening boycotts over a new reality series, Jersey Shore, which MTV is promoting as a look at nine of the "hottest, tanne...
Continue reading "Italian-American groups, Jerseyans object to MTV's Jersey Shore "guidos"" >Anthony D. Marshall, who is awaiting sentencing for looting the estate of his Alzheimer's-afflicted 105-year-old mother Brooke Astor, is asking the court to dismiss his conviction on the most seri...
Continue reading "Also, he's an orphan" >Alaska's former governor talked to the press about her otter-skin purse, the president's communist tendencies, and side dishes for an open-air liberal roast at the Gridiron Dinner this week, but s...
Continue reading "Sarah Palin: birther?" >This is turning into a trend. Like our own two robbers on Staten Island, the young man at left helpfully provided the police with a picture of himself taken with the cell phone he stole. ...
Continue reading "Another genius robber" > [...]Post-election New York is going to be significantly less energy-efficient than pre-election Mayor Bloomberg promised it was going to be. Bloomberg announced Friday that he's backing down on a majo...
Continue reading "Bloomberg goes less green" >Police are announcing the arrest of 29-year-old transit cop Shawqi Ahmed for raping an 18-year-old girl in Brooklyn last week. ...
Continue reading "Transit cop arrested for rape" > [...]It turns out there's a constituency for selling Staten Island after all. If you spot him the votes for C Montgomery Burns, Charles Montgomery Bunrs and CM Burns, fictional billionaire Charles Mont...
Continue reading "Monty Burns wins mayoral write-in vote" > [...]Tom Brokaw and his wife Meredith were involved in a three-car collision in the Bronx which left one woman dead on Friday. Suejas Estrada of the Bronx swerved to avoid a coil of cable on the Bruckn...
Continue reading "Quick hits" > [...]Keisha Jones of Brooklyn got hold of a prescription pad and found a pharmacy which doesn't focus too hard on discussing possible complications to dispense an ulcer medicine which can cause abortio...
Continue reading "Brooklyn mother of four tries to get rid of her husband's other'" [...]Raymond Lee, 67m of Park Avenue in the Bronx, was last seen on Wednesday leaving his home. Lee, who is african american, 6'2" and 160 lbs, was wearing a brown jacket, grey shirt, khaki pants and ...
Continue reading "Have you seen: a missing senior in' [...]El Museo del Barrio, the East Harlem museum of Puerto Rican, Latin American and Caribbean cultures, has abandoned its attempt to defang the word "spic" by using it in the title of their current hi...
Continue reading "Museo del Barrio renames "Spic Up/Speak Out!" poetry series" [...]A spokesman for one-man public option wrecking crew Max Baucus confirmed today that the divorced Senator from Montana is in a "mature and happy relationship" with a former aide. The problem is, ...
Continue reading "Baucus embraces private option" >Gus, Central Park's neurotic polar bear, and a few of his friends at the Central Park Zoo are celebrating Christmas this weekend ...
Continue reading "Things to do this weekend for (mostly) free" >The Department of Transportation is actively considering installing the red-light camera requested by a local church hours before a couple of parishioners were killed at the intersection of Third ...
Continue reading "DOT considering traffic camera at hit-and-run intersection on Staten Island" >The Obama administration is suggesting a voluntary ban on lobbyists serving on 915 Federal Advisory Committees which consult with federal agencies on government policy. The lobbyists, one of whom ...
Continue reading "Quick hits" > [...]Among the emergency measures Governor Paterson is proposing to close New York's budget hole is an additional $10 million cut in the state's anti-smoking program, bringing funding down to $58 milli...
Continue reading "Paterson proposes cut in anti-smoking funds" >Bronx County, with a 13.3% unemployment rate, has joined Hidalgo County, TX as the US counties of their size with the greatest share of people receiving food stamps at 29%. Nationally, 1 in 8 adu...
Continue reading "The Bronx tops food stamp list" > [...]Treasury spokeswoman Meg Reilly announced Saturday that the Obama administration plans to step up their efforts to pressure mortgage companies receiving government bailout funds to modify loans an...
Continue reading "Feds plan to battle foreclosure crisis with social awkwardness" >The hot topic in Washington this week is President Obama's upcoming speech at West Point on Tuesday, which is expected to call for deploying 30-35,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. Just ahead ...
Continue reading "Senate report: Bush, Rumsfeld let bin Laden get away" > [...]Volunteers of America's 109-year-old Sidewalk Santa program is taking place online for the second year this christmas. The non-profit VOA says they can't afford to pay and administer the formerly ...
Continue reading "Sidewalk Santas aren't coming to town" >Pedro Espada sent letters to workers at his perenially-investigated Soundview Healthcare Network in October instructing them to "immediately" contact Soundview lawyers Hafetz & Necheles if they'r...
Continue reading "Espada intimidates some Soundview Healthcare employees" >Happily, we avoided post-Thanksgiving Wal-Mart deaths on Long Island this year, but we did get a fire. According to Newsday, 2,000 shoppers and employees were evacuated from the WalMart on Old C...
Continue reading "Westbury Wal-Mart evacuated for christmas tree fire" > [...]Rep. Patrick Kennedy is scheduled to speak Monday at Brown University about healthcare. This marks Kennedy's first public appearance since he and then Rhode Island Bishop Thomas Tobin went public ...
Continue reading "Quick hits" > [...]It makes a sort of twisted sense that Allmir Lekperic would try to find a way to wiggle out. Lekperic, 26, was driving with a suspended license when he allegedly struck and killed an elderly Stat...
Continue reading "Staten Island hit and run was a family" [...]Periodically, one or the other of the partners in New York City's nervous marriage with parts north threatens to leave. This time, a State Senator from solid red upstate has weighed our value as a...
Continue reading "Upstate wants a divorce" > [...]Police are looking for information about the man in the picture, who's accused of a sexual assault and robbery at four in the morning last Sunday on 14th Street and Ave B. He's described as six fe...
Continue reading "Have you seen: a Manhattan rapist in" [...]Model trains travel from New York to the North Pole at Grand Central Station. Sadly, the bizarre holiday laser light show on the reverse zodiac roof of the main hall doesn't start until Monday. Th...
Continue reading "Things to do this weekend for (mostly) free" > ' [...]Despite the strenuous objections of local Republican lawmakers, some residents of Thomson, IL are hoping that the Obama administration will go through with rumored plans to move the Guantanamo det...
Continue reading "Local residents, politicians divided on Gitmo move to Illinois" > [...]After parading his somewhat tarnished national security street cred, ruling out a gubernatorial run and floating a run at the Senate, America's former Mayor has gone to ground in Florida and isn't...
Continue reading "Rudy for Senate: he won't say, aides say no" > [...]According to the News, Mayor Bloomberg made his Democratic opponent formulate plans to deal with emergencies Bloomberg knew didn't exist. He also delayed the release of the fetching photo at left ...
Continue reading "Quick hits" >The Senate Ethics Committee admonished appointed lame duck Roland Burris for his incomplete testimony to an Illinois investigation into his dealings with the office of then-Governor Rod Blagojevic...
Continue reading "Obama's replacement admonished by Senate Ethics Committee" > [...]Tom Ruskin, an investigator for the Schuler family, says that Taconic mom Diane Schuler couldn't have been drunk and high when she crashed her car driving the wrong way down the Taconic because sh...
Continue reading "Taconic mom's family floats McDonalds defense" >Animal Control has set traps for what the Public Safety Department is calling a coyote or a coyote hybrid on the grounds of the Rochdale Village cooperative complex in South Jamaica. ...
Continue reading "Coyote spotted in Queens" > [...]President Obama has named former presidential press secretary and current Fox News correspondent Dana Perino to the Broadcasting Board of Governors. The BBG controls overseas US media outlets. ...
Continue reading "Obama appoints Dana Perino to Broadcasting Board of Governors" > [...]Former NY1 political reporter Dominic Carter was found guilty of third degree attempted assault on Friday in the beating of his wife. Ramapo Justice Arnold Etelson found that Mrs. Carter's injurie...
Continue reading "Dominic Carter convicted of attempted assault" >No-0ne knows where accused D train killer Gerardo (Jerry) Sanchez spent his Friday, but it started badly. ...
Continue reading "Next day stories: the D train murder" > [...]The daily ballet of personal space issues on public transportation triggered a fatal stabbing on the D train yesterday. ...
Continue reading "Empty seat struggle on the D train leads to death" >The South Carolina State House Judiciary Committee announced Friday that an ad hoc legislative committee will formally consider a resolution calling for the impeachment of disgraced Governor Mark ...
Continue reading "Mark Sanford may be out of the Governor's Mansion. Jenny, not so much." > [...]The police in the 52 Precinct are asking for help from anyone who has information about Hector Waites, 48, of 2287 University Avenue in the Bronx. Waites is 5'5" tall, 140 lbs., with brown eyes a...
Continue reading "Have you seen: a missing Bronx man" > '" [...]Douglas Hoffman, the independent challenger who lost and conceded and unconceded and re-lost the race to fill a traditionally Republican seat upstate, has given himself the weekend to decide if he...
Continue reading "NY-23: It's all over but the whining, the begging, and maybe the lawsuit" [...]Police find 61 pounds of cocaine in a sauna in Brooklyn A judge ruled that the TLC can use license fees to encourage green cabs. State Court Justice Jane Solomon decided against taxi fleet owners...
Continue reading "Quick hits" > [...]Did you maybe hear that the new Twilight movie is out? ...
Continue reading "Things to do this weekend for (mostly) free" > [...]If you're out Monday or Tuesday night, look up in the sky and watch the shooting stars. The Leonid Meteor Shower is going to be on view Nov. 16 and 17, and NASA says it's going to be quite a show ...
Continue reading "A thing'" [...]Police in the 40th Precinct are asking for help from anyone who may have seen Ola McLeod-Addison, age 86, of Morris Avenue in the Bronx. She's 5'6 tall and 110 lbs, and was last seen on Saturday m...
Continue reading "Have you seen: a missing woman'" [...]The Staten Island Republican primary to choose a candidate to compete for Vito Fossella's former seat, currently held by Democrat Michael McMahon, may take place between Michael Allegretti, the 31...
Continue reading "Republican 'mob' war for McMahon's seat" > [...]Plain clothes officers responding to reports of a bar brawl at the Norwood Palace Sports Bar on Fulton Street shot and killed bouncer Kevin White, 43, who was firing into the crowd at the bar as ...
Continue reading "Bouncer shot by police in Brooklyn bar" [...]The baseball season is over, and both Michelle Obama and prominent example of his terror-fighting judgment Bernie Kerik stepped on whatever good press Rudy Giuliani might have gotten from his swee...
Continue reading "Giuliani beats the 9/11 drums " >Sarah Palin, or maybe her ghostwriter, wrote in Palin's new book about sharing a hypothetical cup of coffee with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. On Meet the Press today, David Gregory passed t...
Continue reading "Hillary and Palin catch a cup of coffee, maybe" > [...]Brooklyn's Yuri (or, in english, George) Foreman, who came here from Belarus by way of Israel, defeated previous champion Daniel Santos last night to win the WBA Super Welterweight title. Foreman,...
Continue reading "Brooklyn rabbinical student wins WBA title" >Saturday's free flu clinics were much more popular than the kids-only version last week, with city officials reporting that more people had been vaccinated by 1 pm than the total number vaccinated...
Continue reading "Free flu shots " > [...]Under the watchful eyes of 150 members of the press, roughly 500 bidders crowded into a ballroom at the Sheraton and 1,100 registered online bidders competed yesterday for the chance to overpay fo...
Continue reading "Madoff swag auction brings in almost $1m" >A week after a transformer fire forced the evacuation of Ellis Island, it was evacuated again today for an hour and a half after a visitor found white powder on an audio headset. Visitors reported...
Continue reading "Ellis Island evacuated again" > [...]A state report says that Con Ed's flawed procedure for responding to gas leaks was responsible for the explosion which killed 40 year old Ghanwatti Boodram in Floral Park. Among other mistakes, th...
Continue reading "State report: Con Ed partly responsible for death in Queens explosion" [...]Now that he's been re-elected, Bloomberg's backing off the free cross-town bus idea -- The AP has a brutal fact check of Sarah Palin's book which goes beyond checking facts to calling out hypocr...
Continue reading "Quick hits and follow ups" >Detectives from the Brooklyn Special Victims Unit have connected the man in the sketch, who they were already seeking for sexual assaults in May and October, with a third sexual assault in June. ...
Continue reading "Have you seen: an armed Brooklyn serial rapist" > [...]NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Mission (LCROSS) probe discovered organic materials and "significant" amounts of water at the bottom of the Cabeus crater near the South Pole of the moo...
Continue reading "NASA finds water on the moon" >As if we didn't already have more than our fair share of local unhinged self-dramatizing fame-seeking wannabes, we're about to get "balloon dad" Richard Heene. Heene and wife Mayumi got permission...
Continue reading "Balloon dad's coming to look for work" > [...]The outcome of New York's embattled eminent domain development projects is called into question by the economic development project which made them possible. The Pfizer research facility at the c...
Continue reading "Kelo outcome shows Atlantic Yards risk" > [...]Oreo, the pit bull terrier mix who survived a six-story fall from a Red Hook roof last summer, was euthanized by the ASPCA Friday despite protests, twitters, 2 death threats and over 2oo phone cal...
Continue reading "Oreo, RIP" >Jung's Red Book at the Rubin, w/admission ...
Continue reading "Things to do this weekend for (mostly) free" > [...]Creepy "preacher"/polygamous serial child molestation advocate Tony Alamo was, as predicted, sentenced today to 175 years for taking his underaged "brides" across state lines for sex. ...
Continue reading "Pedophile Evangelist Tony Alamo Sentenced to 175 Years" >Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that 5 prisoners accused of plotting the 9/11 terrorist attacks will be transferred from the the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp to face trial in a civil...
Continue reading "Quick hit: accused 9/11 planners to face trial in NY" > [...]Some folks are really unhappy about Brooklyn/Staten Island Democrat Michael McMahon's no vote on the health care bill. Some folks aren't. -- The city has made 700k WPA photos of New York address...
Continue reading "Quick hits" > ' [...]Political aggregator site Indymedia.us was served with a subpoena by the U.S. Attorney in Indianapolis demanding the IP addresses of all the site's readers, along with a order not to reveal the ex...
Continue reading "Aggregator site hit with subpoena, gag order" >International Speedway Corp. (ISC), whose plans to build a NASCAR track on Staten Island set off a "near riot" at a public hearing, announced the sale of the site to a Texas company at a $30 milli...
Continue reading "NASCAR abandons Staten Island" > [...]She says his behavior is mean spirited, malicious, sickening and sad, and she doesn't like him getting naked for Playgirl. He says she's a greedy, dishonest hypocrite and a neglectful mother and h...
Continue reading "Sarah Palin Invites Levi Johnston Over for Thanksgiving Dinner" > ' [...]Rocky Sanchez, 35, whose 17 previous license suspensions most likely contributed to his reluctance to talk to the police about his current one, ran across two lanes of traffic and jumped off the T...
Continue reading "Queens motorcyclist narrowly misses Darwin Award" >The NYPD's Most Wanted Fugitive, according to the police Crimestoppers.com website, was caught in Rocky Mount NC over the weekend by New York and Rocky Mount police, and the U.S. Marshals service....
Continue reading "Most Wanted NY criminal caught in NC" > [...]Rescue Ink, a group of extremely large animal rights activists with their own TV show, helped uncover a gruesome case of animal torture and killing on Long Island yesterday. ...
Continue reading "Tortured animals found buried in Long Island back yard" > [...]Mayor Bloomberg announced today that travel information questions which were previously handled by MTA call centers will now be handled at 311. Previously, 311 was forwarding the 370,000 MTA-relat...
Continue reading "MTA shifts transit updates to 311 " > [...]The Rev. Andrew O'Connor, who serves in what he describes as "the parish of Jennifer Lopez," has an untraditional sideline. O'Connor, who has been making patterns since he was 16, designs and manu...
Continue reading "Bronx priest turns to high-end fashion" > [...]The city has started renovation work on the Philip Johnson-designed New York State Pavilion from the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing Meadow Park. Volunteers have begun clearing weeds and debris from...
Continue reading "City moves in to preserve World's Fair pavilion" > [...]The Port Authority has announced plans to evict the Open Door Drop In Center, which provides showers and health services for homeless people, to make way for either the planned westward extension ...
Continue reading "Drop-in center threatened by city transit plans" >A Florida man whose defense said that he was too fat to have killed his former son in law was convicted of murder in Hackensack Superior Court. Edward Ates' lawyers argued that at almost 300 pound...
Continue reading "Fat defense fails in Jersey" >Ellis Island was evacuated yesterday after a transformer fire shut off electricity, trapping visitors in elevators. Jersey City Fire and Emergency Services Department responded to a call about the...
Continue reading "Ellis Island reopens after fire" >The Bronx Zoo is celebrating its 110th birthday today, with cake, performances by their house performance troupe, and the rollout of three clydesdale horses. The Zoo, which back then was called t...
Continue reading "Happy birthday to Zoo" > [...]Reports released to the lawyers of some of the victims in the July crash which killed eight people on the Taconic contradict the husband of wrong way driver Diane Schuler, who said that his wife d...
Continue reading "Report: Taconic mom drank heavily and smoked pot" [...]The USS New York, an amphibious ship made partly with steel recovered from the World Trade Center, was commissioned by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus at the Intrepid Pier this afternoon, with Bl...
Continue reading "USS New York commissioned" > [...]Tishman Speyer and BlackRock, the owners of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village in Manhattan, turned over the main mortgage for the 11,200-unit complex to a "special servicer". Special servic...
Continue reading "Stuy Town/Peter Cooper mortgage changes hands " >Michael Mele, the Orange County convicted sex offender who police have been looking at pretty hard in the disappearance of Laura Garza, faces up to 3 years in prison for not registering his new ad...
Continue reading ""Person of interest" in Laura Garza's disappearance goes to'" [...]As part of Mayor Bloomberg's H1N1 flu plan for NYC, the Board of Health has opened vaccination centers this weekend in all five boroughs for middle school and high school students. Elementary scho...
Continue reading "Weekend student vaccination centers open" >Bank of New York Mellon is blaming a bank processing error for $189 million in pension payments for retired school teachers which disappeared Thursday night. UFT President Michael Mulgrew said tha...
Continue reading "65,000 city pension checks disappear" > [...]The half ton of recycled confetti provided to buildings lining the Canyon of Heroes in downtown Manhattan for the Yankees' victory parade yesterday turned out not to be enough for some people to s...
Continue reading "Private paperwork found in Yankee parade confetti" >Leaf peeper map of NYS What little there is left, we have here, and we're at peak leaf (according to the News, we owe that information to the city's official foliage monitor, Cori Carl). Local fol...
Continue reading "Things to do this weekend for (mostly) free"' [...]November 3, as it often is, is election day, and an awful lot of people suspect that most of us won't take advantage of it. Which, you know, not to be a hopeless politics geek about it, but I we...
Continue reading "Things to do on'" [...]A little more free media for Chris Daggett, who said this about being a spoiler on MSNBC this morning: "And I have had Republicans come in from Rudy Giuliani to Sarah Palin to Christy Mihos, who...
Continue reading "Palin says she didn't interfere in NJ-Gov, tells' [...]Prosecutors released a timeline of events following the arrest of detective Kevin C. Spellman after he allegedly struck and killed Drana Nikac with his Chevrolet Malibu in Kingsbridge Heights on F...
Continue reading "Suspected Bronx DWI cop wasn't alcohol tested for over five hours" > ' [...]According to the Post, America's Former Mayor was bumped from his favorite seats near the dugout in Yankee Stadium on the first night of the World Series to get him, and wife Judi, away from Miche...
Continue reading "Giuliani bumped from World Series seats for Michelle'" [...]It's official. In a statement released to the Watertown Daily Times, Dede Scozzafava urging her supporters to support her former Democratic opponent over de facto Republican candidate Doug Hoffman...
Continue reading "NY-23: Republican Scozzafava officially endorses Democrat Owens" > [...]Mike Bloomberg's favorite State Senate Majority Leader, Joe Bruno, " target="_blank">goes on trial Monday on charges that his use of his office to enrich himself amounts to theft of honest service...
Continue reading "Charity begins, or doesn't, with Joe Bruno" >Brian Schroeder, 26, turned himself in to police yesterday evening in connection with yesterday's fire in the 9/11 Memorial Chapel. Police sources tell the Post that Schroeder, a texan-born gradua...
Continue reading "Next-day stories" > [...]In the wake of yesterday's suprise announcement that Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava was dropping out of the race for the open congressional seat in NY-23, a number of powerful state unions, ...
Continue reading "Local paper: Scozzafava supports Democrat" >The FDNY are saying that a fire in the Memorial Park where unidentified remains of 9/11 victims are stored was deliberately set, an act Mayor Bloomberg calls "craven and contemptible." The remain...
Continue reading "Bloomberg calls fire at 9/11 chapel arson" > [...]A source tells the Daily News that Myrna Chen Phang and her boyfriend, Steven Dadaille, beat Jayden Lenescar with a belt and left him dying in the bathtub without medical care because he wouldn't ...
Continue reading "Source: boy, 4, beaten to death for touching his'" [...]In an interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel & Stephen F. Cohen in the Nation, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said that George HW Bush told him in 1987 "Reagan is a conservative. An extreme ...
Continue reading "Gorbachev: Bush 1 called Reagan the candidate of blockheads [...]With a scant few days left before high-profile elections in NY-23 and NYC, both of which are in New York, America's Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani is spending his time in Jersey, stumping for Republic...
Continue reading "Daggett to Giuliani in NJ Gov race: go home." > [...]A NY1 spokesman told the Daily News that local political journalist Dominic Carter, who was taken off the air last week as he went on trial for spousal abuse, is not going to be returning. NY1 Reg...
Continue reading "Dominic Carter out at NY1" > [...]Republican Dede Scozzafava has suspended her campaign for the NY-23 House seat. ...
Continue reading "Scozzafava suspends NY-23 campaign" > [...]150 firefighters have responded to a 5-alarm fire in a block of stores at 31-05 Bainbridge Avenue and 204th Street since 3 AM. Efforts to control the fire are taking place from the outside. Fire...
Continue reading "FDNY battles 5-alarm fire in the Bronx" > [...]Leaf peeper map of NYS - Peak leaf in Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester, and the city passes 50%. There are local parks foliage tours on Sunday, two in Queens, two in Staten Island, one in the Bronx...
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