Dora Schriro Commissioner Dora Schriro's Correction Department is failing to follow through on required annual firearms qualification for thousands of officers, in violation of its own regulations and state law, the Village Voice has learned. Fi...
A misdiagnosis led to the death of Queens six-year-old Claudialee Gomez-Nicanor. As we detailed in this week's cover story, six-year-old Claudialee Gomez-Nicanor died from complications related to her type 1 diabetes. When she arrived at the hos...
Last week Runnin' Scared reported that Rentenna, a housing market social media startup, released a "green heat map", a visual guide to rental units' proximity to farmer's markets, parks, and tree-lined streets. But that was just for Manhattan; the Br...
Better settle in for this one, folks. At this rate, we might have daily Banksy updates during the month. At around 9 this morning, Banksy posted his third stencil to his Instagram and website in as many days. Keeping the good humor coming, this lates...
Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall's opening gala--its biggest fundraising night of the year--was supposed to take place Wednesday evening. The black tie event benefiting the non-profit's artistic and education programs would have included performances b...
Cherell Manuel, one of 300 Sandy evacuees the city is trying to evict from her hotel Since May, New York City officials have been trying to evict over 300 people from the hotels where they've been staying for nearly a year, after becoming homeless...
And so ends one of the more bizarre sagas to cross the desk of Correction Commissioner Dora Schriro in her tenure. You would think most folks would like to escape Rikers rather than sneak their way in. The story was first reported in the Village Voic...
A still from the Hollywood Stuntz Times Square block party video Update, 10:15 a.m.: More information has emerged on a Brooklyn man alleged to be the founder of Hollywood Stuntz. Jump to the last page for that, and another video of a possible St...
This week's feature tells the story of a diabetic six-year-old girl who died after her doctor misdiagnosed her disease. A New York jury found the doctor, Arlene Mercado, 100 percent liable for the death. And on top of the $500,000 in damages awarded ...
Banksy on Bedford? Update: Debunked! An eagle-eyed reader points out that particular stencil is used by the Iranian artists Icy and Sot. Check out more of their work on Instagram. A tipster spotted this piece at Bedford Avenue and North 7th Stre...
This morning, Banksy's second piece in his month-long show went live on his site, just a few hours after his first piece, The Street Is in Play, was tagged, defaced, rebuilt, then finally buffed. The second piece has no title and is located in the im...
City Opera's last production, Anna Nicole Gail Kruvand was an assistant principal bass player in the New York City Opera for 22 years. "I took lots of auditions, all over the country, before I won this position, and for me it was like, wow! I real...
The scammers convinced elderly Chinese women that evil spirits would kill a loved one. The pendulum of the "blessing scam" has swung the other way: 2012 will go down as the year the crime swept through the country, from San Francisco to New York;...
"@zachjohnson88: @realDonaldTrump please help get this country back from all these idiots and corrupt government #2016 Will be working on it -- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 1, 2013 The painful shutdown of the federal government has ...
Mayoral write-in Mike Reilly As the November 5 general election approaches, the major candidates are doing their usual two-step. Among the other lesser-known candidates, there is the write-in campaign for mayor of Mike Reilly, a retired NYPD lieut...
Believe it: Not 12 hours after Banksy announced his first project in New York since 2010, someone's gone and vandalized it. Runnin' Scared received a tip late last night that the "Graffiti Is a Crime" sign that was integral to the composition of The...
With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Letitia James has won the Democratic runoff election for New York City's public advocate, ending a particularly bitter and heated race. James took almost 60 percent of the vote, about 110,000 votes, while her o...
Update: We found it! Location and photo at the end of the post. About two weeks ago, the elusive graffiti artist Banksy got the Internet whirring when he tore down his multipage website and left just a single black-and-white image of a previously un...
Yesterday AARP published the results of its caregiver survey, a study of how families and individuals cope with providing care to their elderly relatives. The survey results were astonishing: Forty percent of New Yorkers over 50 report working as an ...
The government officially shut down at midnight, which means that, for the time being, only essential government services will be in operation. High on the list of government services deemed "nonessential" is the management of federal Twitter accoun...
Five months ago, Chris resolved that it was finally time to get clean. Sort of. The 34-year-old Brooklyn real estate broker (who declined to be identified by his real name; "Chris" is… More >>
At this time last year, Lily Jones and Sonika Mehta were both weighing their college options: private or public? East Coast or West? Big city or small? Today, as first-year students… More >>
Linguist Daniel Kaufman traces the beginning of his life's work to an uncharacteristic moment of social boldness. Back in the city after receiving his Ph.D. in linguistics from Cornell, he… More >>
Essays More Bucks, Same Bang by Neil deMause Most students won't earn more with a pricier diploma. Is high tuition worth it? Too Unschooled for School by Elizabeth Walters Why are so many incoming… More >>
When Priscila De Los Santos graduated from high school in January, she took less than a week off before starting classes at City University of New York's Borough of Manhattan… More >>
Soda bans, smoking bans, fast-food shaming—having a guilt-free good time in New York City has been as difficult as finding a french fry cooked in trans fat. But with Mayor… More >>
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 >>