Back in August, we told you about LeRoy McCarthy, the man spearheading a campaign to have Fulton Street between St. James Place and Cambridge Place--the block where Biggie Smalls grew up--renamed in honor of the Brooklyn native. On Tuesday, McCarthy...
North Carolina is one of the top exporters of guns to New York. For six months, Christopher McPhaul allegedly sold 30 firearms to a Brooklyn man who seemed to be an eager customer. So much so that McPhaul would reach out to the man when he return...
Inaugurating the back half of Banksy's month-long residency in New York is an all-city exhibition of a grotesque Ronald McDonald sculpture. Yes, really.The fiberglass statue will travel the city for a week, stopping at a different McDonald's restaura...
Still in the market for a Halloween costume? You could go as a ghost of New York City Opera's past. In an effort to cut costs back in January, City Opera put 90 percent of its New Jersey warehouse--sets, props and costumes that had been stockpiled f...
For years Dwayne Mitchell ran the drug trade in the Jacob Riis Houses on the Lower East Side, according to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. From East 8th Street to East 13th Street, on and around Avenue D, Mitchell's "large-scale drug operat...
Mamdoh Eltouby, driving. Here's the short version: A Queens cab driver and father of three, Shahdat Tuhin, 41, is suing a Woodside car dealership called New York Motor Group, alleging that they sold him a lemon, and charged him much more than he'd...
The 25-year tax exemption comes on top of a $106 million tax break for another skyscraper on the site. The project is also getting $3 billion in city bonds to extend the 7 subway line. The snail's pace of building the platform, which will undergird t...
Body Talk: The Science of Kinesics Author: Maude Poiret Date: 1970 Publisher: Award Books Discovered at: The Second Best Thrift Shop, Astoria, Queens The Cover Asks: "Do you recognize the sex signals in this paragraph?" The Cover Suggests: That b...
Remember, back at the beginning of the month, when Banksy's first piece in Better Out Than In surfaced, only to be defaced later that afternoon? Precisely speaking, the "Graffiti Is a Crime" sign was pilfered off the stencil not six hours after th...
We're tracking elusive street artist/provocateur/chain-yanker Banksy as he paints his way across New York for his month-long residency, "Better Out Than In." To help you visualize his path, we've created a helpful map charting the locations of his wo...
Despite yesterday's rumor that the next piece would be on the Upper East Side and this morning's little misdirection in Morningside Heights, today's Banksy can be found in Tribeca, according to Banksy's Instagram. Update: We found it!See Also: Excl...
Is this the New Banksy? A tipster let us know that they might have spotted the new Banksy up in Morningside Heights. We haven't confirmed it to be today's Banksy, but from the looks of it, Runnin' Scared thinks we have a winner. Update, 9:15 a.m....
It's been two weeks since the start of Banksy's residency, and New York City has had the privilege of playing along with one of the most famous artists of our time. We run from borough to borough for the chance to ogle his latest creation before some...
City Opera's last production, Anna Nicole The New York City Opera was supposed to spend the next several months preparing for productions of Endimione, Bluebeard's Castle, and The Marriage of Figaro. Instead, the opera company is preparing to sell...
It's always nice to be included. The 12th anniversary of the September 11 attacks came and went pretty quietly, with the usual somber memorials at the World Trade Center site and at the Pentagon. It was probably quieter than Architects and Enginee...
Updated Monday night to include response from Pujols's lawyer. Earlier this month, slugger Albert Pujols sued former New York Yankee (and St. Louis Cardinal and San Francisco Giant) Jack Clark for defamation. Now, through his attorney, Clark has re...
This Swedish trailer can be yours for the low, low price of $207 a night. Early Monday, Airbnb launched a petition drive among its hosts and users to stop New York state's legal offensive against the company. Hoping to hit 20,000 signatures by Oct...
After making three unsuspecting passersby potentially very rich on Saturday, Banksy started off week three of "Better Out Than In" with a stencil in Queens. It's a simple design of a man erasing a movie quote written in hot pink scrawl. Update: Tip...
Late on Friday afternoon, the 30,000-square-foot art space at Bushwick's 3rd Ward is mostly empty. The spacious atrium where the popular "drink and draw" night was held, the digital lab filled with rows of brand-new Apple computers, the pristine phot...
Smaug the dragon and Sherlock Holmes at New York Comic Con. It's said that you're never more than three feet away from a spider. At Comic Con, you're never more than three feet away from Spiderman... or the Doctor, or Beetlejuice. From coast to c...
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 >>