NYU sophomore Asher Vongtau was trapped between a 17-story NYU dorm at 80 Lafayette Street and an adjacent parking garage for 35 hours until the FDNY broke through the wall at roughly 7 p.m. last night to extract him. According to reports, it was the...
Joe Lhota was once young and full of beer, just like you. It's Election Day Eve, and Joe Lhota is still trying very hard to be your mayor. The latest polls show that about 65 percent of likely voters are planning to pull the lever for Bill de Bla...
Cobb Craig Cobb has been active in the radical white-power movement for years -- known for running Podblanc, a Neo-Nazi version of YouTube -- but he made the front page of the New York Times for the first time in August. The story was about Cobb's...
But while Stevens's highlights came sporadically, Golovkin maintained a steady, punishing pace, controlling the fight with his long jab, smooth footwork, and a constant barrage of combinations. Over eight rounds, Golovkin threw nearly 800 punches, la...
A 66-year-old Queens nursing home resident was charged with murder Friday morning, after allegedly beating his roommate to death with a wheelchair leg rest during an argument over the curtain divider between their beds. The alleged murderer wanted th...
Look out, more trouble with Obamacare: It appears when Obama said "If you like your plan, you can keep it," he wasn't telling the whole truth. As the press reported this week, if your plan doesn't meet minimum standards of coverage, and if it isn't "...
He's a chiseled, relentless punching machine with power in both hands and arms like pistons. Anyone who's watched him in the ring has seen the talent. But he's fought in America just three times and he's yet to square off against a grade-A foe. In ot...
Runners the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge at the 2005 NYC Marathon. The annual New York City Marathon is this weekend, which means any construction work occurring along the route has been suspended until after the race. The Department of Transportation...
(You may remember iLuminate as one of the finalists from America's Got Talent in 2011.) iLuminate is performing Off-Broadway and Kotb not only wrote the software for the show, but also designed the patent-pending lightsuits, helped choreograph numbe...
After yesterday's announcement that Judge Shira Scheindlin has been removed from the stop and frisk case Floyd v. City of New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly were feeling pretty satisfied. We know that because they app...
Feliz Dia de los Muertos! Spooky celebrations aren't over, not by a long shot. Day of the Dead festivities run today through Sunday, which means fiestas all weekend long. But if you're not interested in honoring the dead, we've got some other fine...
Banksy's The Banality of the Banality of Evil was sold at auction on Thursday evening for $615,000. Proceeds will benefit New York-based AIDS/HIV nonprofit Housing Works. The 36 x 24.5 inch oil painting went up for sale on the website BiddingforGood....
Judge Shira Scheindlin That whooshing sound you just heard are eyebrows shooting to hairlines on reporters' heads all over the city. That's because the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals has just blocked Judge Shira Scheindlin's order for the NY...
Sandra Guzman BOO. Happy Halloween! In honor of today's holiday, we figured we'd share some creepy crawlies of our own, culled from the pages of Sandra Guzman's civil complaint against the New York Post and its editor, Col Allan. Guzman is suing o...
And it's all over, folks. Banksy sends us off with one last tag, a bubble caps collection of balloons somewhere in Queens.Listening to the audio on Banksy's homepage, it's hard not feel just a little bit sad. The narrator assesses the impact of Bette...
At around 8:40 p.m. on Wednesday night, there was a loud bang and when the people walking down Bedford Avenue turned to look, they saw that a car had crashed into the supermarket. Its crushed hood was lodged into the store's front window, shattered g...
biddingforgood.com UPDATED October 31, 10:30 a.m.: The auction for Banksy's October 29 "Better Out Than In" Nazi installment closes tonight at 8 p.m. The bidding, which opened at $74,000, is up to $310,400. The auction is taking place at the chari...
The New York City Council approved legislation to raise the minimum age to purchase cigarettes from 18 to 21. By a vote of 35 to 10, the new law could got into effect as soon as six months from now.Federal law mandates a minimum age of 18, but locali...
Sgt. Jessica McRorie of the NYPD tells us the teen in the photograph "came into an NYPD precinct with his mother and was interviewed. We've determined that the person in the picture was not Avonte." She was unable to comment on whether or not the NY...
Reverend Billy and the choir mid-protest. Nehemiah Luckett is at left in the yellow shirt. Two New York activists are facing a battery of misdemeanor charges, including rioting, for a fifteen-minute musical protest they staged at a Chase Bank in ...
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 >>