The building formerly known as P.S. 51. An 11-year-old who attended P.S. 51 for three years suffered brain damage from the toxic chemicals in the school building, the boy's father claims in a lawsuit filed on Monday. The boy had attended P.S. 5...
A stack of souvenir circus programs Date: 1970s and '80s Publisher: Mostly Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Discovered at: Vintage Thrift Shop, 286 Third Avenue The Cover Promises: "The Living Unicorn" ... and also to teach children about disappoi...
We know you've been busy. Don't worry --we've got your TLDR (too late, didn't research) voting guide right here. Click through for more information on any candidate or issue. But first, find your polling place. Mayor Bill de Blasio (Democratic Part...
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. yesterday 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 fill in the bubble for Bill de ...
Cobb Craig Cobb has been active in the radical white-power movement for years -- he's 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 C...
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 o...
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 "Bett...
At around 8:40 p.m. on Wednesday, there was a loud bang; 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 glass and ...
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...
This much Abraham Rubin knew: He was lying, blindfolded and handcuffed, in the back of a van. He could feel it winding through the streets. He figured at least three… More >>
New York's gay film scene is (and this in no way should be confused with its performers) quite small. Following a 1988 California Supreme Court decision that decriminalized pornography, the… More >>