The poster advertising the reward and new investigation this past summer. Over 20 years ago, police discovered the body of a young child in a dirty cooler off Hudson Parkway in Washington Heights. Though her remains were already decomposing, test ...
Cherell Manuel, one of the Sandy evacuees at last week's press conference. "They act like we asked to be here," she said of city officials. "We're victims of a devastation." Last Wednesday, the situation was dire: Three hundred people made homeles...
The 23-year incumbent Hynes lost to former federal prosecutor Thompson by 11 points what was the biggest upset of this year's primary election. Hynes still held the Republican and Conservative lines in the general election. After initially saying he'...
In July, as we detailed in last week's cover story, a Queens jury ordered Dr. Arlene Mercado to pay $8 million in damages for the death of her patient, six-year-old Claudialee Gomez-Nicanor. Mercado, jurors concluded, was fully liable for the girl's ...
Patrick Lynch Patrick Lynch, the president of the New York City Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, says the solution to the stop and frisk controversy is not more oversight, but a commitment from the NYPD to eliminate quota pressure on police off...
Antiq Hennis, the 16-month-old boy shot and killed in Early September. Anthony Hennis and his younger brother are being sought by police for robbing passengers at a 3 train stop in Brownsville. Hennis, whose 16-month-old son Antiq Hennis was shot ...
An image of last year's crane collapse on the same building. Early this morning reports emerged that the block of West 57th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues was closed due to NYPD activity, and now we know why. A building crane on 157 W. 5...
After the excitement of this weekend's magical truck of paradise, this morning's newest Banksy piece is a little less ambitious: It's a heart-shaped balloon, somewhere on a gray wall in Brooklyn, covered in bandages (or "plasters," as those wacky Que...
Affected area in red. Update, 2:55 p.m.: There is now a severe thunderstorm watch in effect too. More information below. The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for New York City, effective until 5 p.m. Monday. Meteorologists ar...
Ever been stuck behind a crowd of blond teenagers shouting at each other in Swedish, pointing at flashing lights, shouting more in Swedish, and walking down the sidewalk in a clot you've spent 10 minutes trying to get around? If so, this video goes o...
A hotel on the left, and cigarettes on the right, allegedly. A Flushing family will no longer be offering an incredibly cheap, incredibly dangerous hotel option for cramped, weary travelers, because they've all been arrested. Quimin He, 55, his w...
Your Life magazine Date: January, 1943 Publisher: The Kingsway press, Concord, NH Discovered at: Sunnyside Thrift, Queens The Cover Promises: "The Popular Guide to Desirable Living." Also, "Overcoming Inferiority," "How to Get Out of that Rut," an...
"I believe it won't be long before we can cure diabetes with a number of different therapies depending on the needs of the patient," Dr. Paolo Fiorina of Boston Children's Hospital said this summer. "Then, if the right screening techniques for diabet...
Last week, after threatening to entirely defund the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare, the Republicans in the House of Representatives refused to put forward a continuing resolution to keep normal government operations going that did not also delay O...
No update on new tags today. Banksy explains on his website, "I'm not posting any pictures today. Not after this shocking footage has emerged ...", posting doctored footage of Islamist rebels lighting up Dumbo the Flying Elephant with rocket launcher...
Earlier today, Banksy's website was updated with his latest creation: a 1992 GMC delivery truck hauling around paradise in the back. No use in pinpointing an exact location for this one--the truck will move to a new location somewhere in the city eve...
One wealthy man has decided to capitalize on Banksy's exposure to bring attention to the coming anniversary of Sandy. Hedge fund manager Nelson Saiers has offered to donate $100,000 a charity support recovery efforts if Banksy uses part of his New Yo...
Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown, whose office prosecuted the case After a three-year wait, a 31-year-old East New York man has been convicted on second-degree murder charges for beating his girlfriend's baby daughter to death. On March...
Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall has reached an agreement with Local One, the union representing its stagehands. As the Voice reported earlier this week, Carnegie Hall's five full-time stagehands--who average more than $419,000 per year--went on stri...
This morning Runnin' Scared set out in search of all three of today's Banksy pieces. After trawling the streets of Williamsburg to no avail, we returned to the Village Voice offices in defeat. Turns out, there was nothing to find: Occupy! The Musical...
Carnegie Hall's opening gala—its biggest fundraising night of the year—was supposed to take place on October 2. The black tie event benefiting the nonprofit's artistic and education programs would have… More >>
The little girl could barely breathe. She lay on the hospital bed, her chest rising with each forced inhalation. Irma Nicanor held her only child's hand. The six-year-old's eyes were… More >>
On October 28, 2012, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority was staring down the barrel of a rocket launcher. In the last hours before Hurricane Sandy made landfall, the agency steeled itself… More >>
If Democratic primary winner Bill de Blasio is elected New York City's next mayor in November, one of his jobs will be to collect hundreds of millions of dollars in… More >>
At six o'clock on a cool June morning, after five and a half years in federal prison and six months in a halfway house, Daniel McGowan went home. From the… More >>