Well what do you know? Via Patrick Ruffini comes a post by Glenn Trush musing about rumors that Harold Ford Jr may be testing the waters for [...]
Well what do you know? Via Patrick Ruffini comes a post by Glenn Trush musing about rumors that Harold Ford Jr may be testing the waters for [...]
Here's something to be thankful for over this holiday break: Kids on bicycles. A beautiful thing. We got so many submissions for this one, it was truly inspiring.
Many thanks to all who contributed, including Sarah Gilbert at cafemama, rbairdpccam, baudman, Julian Davies [...]
If you're among the hundreds of people cut from media jobs this fall, take inspiration from the story of Isobella Jade. The petite model wrote a memoir while standing in heels in the Apple store in SoHo, then self-promoted the heck out of it until she' [...]
New MTA Chairman Jay Walder is coming to Cortlandt Street this afternoon, not to pay homage to the late Sy Syms, but to re-open the Cortlandt Street R and W train station. The station was closed f...
Continue reading "Cortlandt Street R and W Station Re-Opens" [...]
The line for a taxi at JFK, via Pazzia's Flickr. The holidays must be a lucrative time for drivers who lure passengers into their unlicensed taxis at airports, but the Port Authority is making it tough for them this year. Yesterday Queens [...]
The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design has announced at their World Design Congress that Helsinki is the "World Design Capital" for 2012. Fast Company has a nice photo serie...
Continue reading "Helsinki "World Design Capital" for 2012; New York Lags Badly" > [...]
PETA's latest anti-fur face is former (1979 gold medalist) Olympic figure skater Tai Babilonia, who just hit the ice at Rockefeller Center yesterday in support of the cause. She declared, "Just because it's cold outside doesn't mean we should be cold inside. There'" [...]
Sacred Heart's Roncali Hall, where the alleged sexual assault took place.
An 18-year-old student at Sacred Heart University claims that three lacrosse players at the Connecticut school — one of them a Long Island native — sexually assaulted her in a dorm [...]
The muckrakers at Wikileaks have unleashed a trove of pager messages from 9/11, allegedly intercepted by "an organization that has been archiving US telecommunications prior to 9/11." (Now, who m...
Continue reading "Wikileaks 9/11 Pager Message Dump: Who Was Tapping All Those Messages?" > [...]
Time Inc. slashed a number of jobs yesterday as part of its goal to cut its budget for next year. Among the casualties was quarterly spin-off magazine InStyle Weddings, which was shuttered, costing around nine people their jobs. But the carnage didn't stop' [...]
Even though the State Legislature has been in special session the past few weeks at Governor Paterson's request because of the state's huge $3.2 billion deficit, no action has been taken to, you know, deal with the deficit and cut the state budget. Yesterday, Paterson [...]
Gus Gonzalez and his Ford Excursion were caught on camera after knocking cyclist Ray Bengen to the pavement back in May.
We've got a quick update on the legal aftermath of the Ninth Avenue road rage case, in which the Manhattan DA's office' [...]
Exhortations to "Close the deal you c---" and "Stop being a f---ing p----y" are allegedly commonplace at GDS International, which is being sued by a 26-year-old Egyptian-American female employee for an unspecified sum. Lobna Abdelrehim is alleging "discrimination" based on gender and religion, as well [...]
The bedbug scare at the Pavilion Cinema in Brooklyn may have been bogus, but as always there are plenty of the little bastards out there. Workers at the Access-a-Ride in Long Island City picketed ...
Continue reading "Bedbugs Bite in LIC Access-a-Ride, Upper West Side School" [...]This morning on CBS's Early Show, Adam Lambert spoke out about his AMA controversy (which led to Good Morning America cancelling his appearance). To recap: Lambert simulated a blow job and made out with a male during his performance on Sunday night. The Early Show chose to blur [...]
Happy International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women! Sorry to spoil your Thanksgiving preparations, but November 25 is indeed the day. You'll find hardly a word in the U.S. pr...
Continue reading "Crime Beat: 10 Terrible Facts About Violence Against Women" >
Let the pre-Thanksgiving bad news dump continue.
Washington Post editor Marcus Brauchli sent a memo to staffers late yesterday announcing that the paper was shutting down national bureaus in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago at the end of the year. Three news aides [...]
Online gamers, get ready for possible alerts on your consoles! According to Information Week, "State authorities are testing a plan that would see the Emergency Management Office issue alerts over online gaming networks in addition to regular channels. The goal, said New York State" [...]
On Creston Avenue near Fordham Road in The Bronx on Saturday around 9 p.m., this guy mugged with a gun and struck a 50-year-old man in a hallway. Owing to his careful personal concealment, the s...
Continue reading "Have You Seen... Bronx Hallway Mugger" > [...]Well, whattaya know: A group called Leveraging Investments in Creativity has a survey that finds artists are suffering in the recession. Their findings are considerably more grim than those of the...
Continue reading "Survey: In Recession, Artists Suffer from Reduced Morale, Grants" >
Dean Meminger, the former Knicks great nicknamed "The Dream," is in a burn unit at Jacobi Hospital after suffering injuries from a four-alarm fire in the Bronx. The Fire Department is continuing to investigate the cause of the blaze, after reports that crack [...]
A Voce Columbus (Katie Sokoler/Gothamist) This week Sam Sifton at the Times files a two star review of A Voce Columbus. This slick Italian-influenced restaurant is the Time Warner Center incarnation of the Flatiron district A Voce, which was made [...]
Confirmed: Hyped-Up Operator Woes a Ploy for Bigger Slice of the VΓ©lib Pie (Bike-Sharing Blog) Daily News Touts Herald Square Ped Plaza as Prime Parade-Watching Territory On Eve of National Livable Streets Event, Times Readers Debate Merits of Car-Free [...]
Former CNN blowhard Lou Dobbs has scaled back his political ambitions. After mulling a Presidential run, Dobbs now appears focused on the Senate. His spokesman says the White House "a long way off...
Continue reading "Lou Dobbs, Focusing on Senate, Caves on Illegal Immigrants" > " [...]Check out this raw video of Monday's raging riot against the beleaguered Copts in the aptly named Egyptian village of Farshoot. Story here. A priest's skull was fractured, and there was massive ...
Continue reading "Crime Beat: Copts and Robbers -- 3,000 Angry Muslims Riot Against" [...]
Photograph of passengers waiting to board a bus at the Port Authority this morning by Seth Wenig/AP
The day before Thanksgiving is traditionally one of the busiest times of the year for travel, with roads and airports clogged with those heading for turkey, [...]
The United Homeless Organization -- the non-profit group which, since 1993, has been setting up tables on street corners throughout the city and soliciting money with those ubiquitous plastic UHO ...
Continue reading "United Homeless Organization a Scam, Says Cuomo" > [...]Who knows if James Perry has any chance to be elected Mayor of New Orleans? But we like his style. The executive director of the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center sued Ray Nagin for...
Continue reading "Video: New Orleans Mayoral Candidate's "Are You Shitting' [...]That Adam Lambert AMA phoney-baloney outrage thing is working! Good Morning America has cancelled the free Hudson Theatre performance they were going to sponsor. "Given his controversial America...
Continue reading "Adam Lambert Outrage Strategy Working, Gets Him Bounced from GMA" >Well, at last, after all the "Why Won't My Parakeet Eat My Diarrhea" nonsense, we're seeing a Google Trend "On Fire" item that speaks well of the readership: "charles i insulted by cromwell s sold...
Continue reading "Latest Google Trend Surprisingly Cultural" >Sick of the legislature doing nothing about the budget during what were supposed to be special sessions, Governor Paterson is asking for special powers to make his own damn cuts. "Cut this defici...
Continue reading "Paterson: OK, Let Me Cut the Budget Myself " > " [...]The latest Google Bomb is apparently this awful Photoshop of Michelle Obama, which comes up first when you look for her on Google Images. Google, being devoted to free exchange of ideas (void in C...
Continue reading "Google Apologizes for Michelle Obama Image Bomb" > [...]It's the magical holiday season, and you know what that means: drunk driving crackdowns! On Staten Island, D.A. Daniel Donovan hopes to scare the many hard-drinking readers of the Staten Island Ad...
Continue reading "Staten Island D.A. Turns to Shame to Halt Drunk Driving" > ' [...]You may remember the death of census worker Bill Sparkman in September, in which he was found hanging with the word "FED" scrawled across his chest. As he worked in a rural section of Kentucky, wh...
Continue reading "Troopers: Hanging Census Worker Was Suicide, Not Murdered" [...]Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy made a public showing of reconciliation today. As we wrote last month, Gillibrand is hardly the raging conservative the left initially...
Continue reading "Gillibrand and McCarthy Are Now Like Two Bullets In a Revolver" > [...]Maybe by scaling back his demand for over $600 million in cuts to school aid by half was the fatal sign of weakness that invited the counterattack, but the state senators who have been remarkably ...
Continue reading "Senate GOP, Dem Leaders Unite to Oppose Paterson's'" [...]
Photograph of Mike D'Antoni reacting during a timeout by Chris Carlson/AP
Cops busted a Clinton Hill crack and marijuana ring and nabbed 11 individuals suspected of selling drugs on the street, from an apartment building at the corner Putnam and Grand Avenue avenues, and out of a barbershop and [...]
FishbowlDC: Meet the new FishbowlDC editor, former gossip columnist at The Hill, Betsy Rothstein.
Bloomberg: Some newspaper publishers, including Tribune Co., E.W. Scripps Co. and MediaNews Group, plan to charge Sunday prices for their Thanksgiving papers.
Variety: Disney Channel Latin America executive Carolina [...]
A judge announced on Monday that he will likely throw out the conviction and dismiss the indictment of a Bronx man who was incarcerated for four years on rape charges that his accuser has admitted were made-up. Though he didn't immediately clear William McCaffrey's name,' [...]
It's not quite the media bailout some of us were hoping for, but the State Department is asking magazines for their help with holiday decor.
Today, Nina Link of the Magazine Publishers of America stood with State Protocol Ambassador Capricia Penavic Marshall and announced that [...]
MTV is readying to roll out their latest reality show, Jersey Shore, with promos already airing that describe their latest round of reality robots as keeping "their hair high, their muscles juiced and their fists pumping all summer long!" They also depict their Italian-American beach-going [...]
When false reports of the deaths of Lady Gaga or Jeff Goldblum get blasted all over Twitter, it becomes a trend piece in The New York Times. "The Internet Who Cried Wolf" serves as a gentle reminder that not everything you [...]
This just in: The State DOT will not widen exit ramps from the Major Deegan Expressway, the Mott Haven Herald reports. NYSDOT Region 11 spokesperson Adam Levine confirmed to Streetsblog that the agency will also refrain from adding "auxiliary lanes" as part of its plan to fix a segment [...]
More than a week into deliberation on the fourth racketeering trial against one-time Gambino boss John Gotti Jr., the jury still hasn't come up with a verdict — and one of its members wants a vacation.
Eight days after lawyers rested their cases, the jurors' [...]
Are city cabbies making "sun tea" in their vehicles? Of the 44,000 TLC drivers on the streets, most working 12 hour days, you can imagine how difficult it is for them to find a place they can relieve themselves. So many allegedly "resort to" [...]
On a day when layoffs are hitting across the company, Time Inc. has decided to shutter its InStyle wedding spin-off.
The last issue of InStyle Weddings, a quarterly that launched as a special issue in 2000, will be on newsstands on December [...]
Brooklyn's Joe Tiralosi doesn't remember much about that day in August when he went to New York Presbyterian Hospital feeling sick and disoriented, then collapsed. But last week the 56-year-old father of two visited the hospital to thank doctors for not giving up on him' [...]
Vada Vasquez The 15-year-old Bronx girl who was put in a medically-induced coma after taking a stray bullet to the skull has spoken for the first time since the incident, eight days ago. A source tells the Daily News that Vada [...]
The Department of City Planning proposed new rules last week that should keep sidewalks safer and reduce conflicts between pedestrians and cars. The zoning regs, if approved, would also cut down on the proliferation of "parking pads" -- off-street spaces paved over front yards -- in some parts of [...]
Hate all you want on Jimmy Fallon, but the guy does the best impersonation of Neil Young covering Will Smith's "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air." That is a fact.
And good luck getting that song out of your head. To help out, ponder this: What else should Neil-llon cover?
A nonprofit organization accused of serving as a "front for the Iranian government" donated $100,000 to Columbia University just months before Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a controversial appearance at the school.
The Times reports that the embattled Alavi [...]
