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Activist Dennis Flores holds a "Fire Bratton" sign for reporters: "Never once has he communicated to the people of Sunset Park."
After Police Commissioner Bill Bratton announced Benjamin Tucker as his second-in-command yesterday, he said the reti...
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Updated throughout, 3:45 p.m. Just when the rush from riding a subway possibly infected with Ebola virus was starting to wear off, out comes a new statistic to strike fear into the hearts of New Yorkers across all five boroughs. According to the New ...
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Kids: They're dumb! If you want to explain anything to them, you'll need to do it in very, very simple terms. Adults are dumb too! Or misinformed, or just confused, and sometimes they need things explained to them in simple terms too. That is the bas...
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Rikers Island
Anthony Vega hoped to lay low at Rikers Island. He had never been to jail before. He was 40 years old, a Web designer, lived in the Village. He was arrested and booked on Christmas Eve. His boyfriend had told the police that Vega had...
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- The Disney film Big Hero 6 (At 29 minutes)
- The Stephen and Jane Hawking story The Theory of Everything (At 38:30)
- Jean-Luc Godard's visually playful Goodbye to Language (At 49:45)
- The stellar, infuriating new doc on Netflix, Virunga (At 52:40...
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The two opponents at an NY1 debate earlier this month.
If politics is a circus, then this year's congressional race in New York's 11th district was the freak show. Or the dung heap behind the big top. Or maybe not even a circus, maybe more like a ...
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Whether or not you're planning on exercising your constitutional right to vote -- or whether or not you're even eligible to go to the polls -- there's definitely one way you can see democracy in action this Election Day afternoon. Just go to Twitter....
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The NYC GoDaddy barge told people about the town's new domain names. And, of course, not to tell NJ.
The race for the first round of .nyc domain names was a pretty feisty one.
More than 1,000 proposed domain extensions ending in .nyc received m...
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Politics: It's a lonely road to walk, ladies.
As New Yorkers head to the polls this morning, they may be shocked to find that despite voting in what is supposedly one of the most progressive states in the country, women will be conspicuously absent...
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Kimy Hartman
It has been three weeks since Kimy Hartman was brutally attacked by a group of strangers while walking down the street in Bushwick. The four men who assaulted the 28-year-old didn't like the sound of her voice; when she spoke, they co...
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Last month, the New York City Fire Department's first and only transgender firefighter, Brooke Guinan, ignited a media storm after a poster of her -- standing defiantly in a helmet, braces, and T-shirt reading "So Trans, So What?" -- went viral.
Th...
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Chirlane McCray
On Sunday, the New York Post published an anonymously sourced piece detailing first lady Chirlane McCray's fury after hearing that Chief of Department Philip Banks (her pick, the paper says, for commissioner) was leaving the force ...
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Who knew this frog would be hiding in plain sight?
A new species of frog discovered on Staten Island just might have been named in honor of its New Yorker status.
The Rana kauffeldi, or Atlantic Coast Leopard Frog, was given its own name and a ...
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Two suspects were involved in a shooting last Wednesday.
The NYPD is looking for help in catching two suspects in a non-fatal Bushwick shooting that occurred Wednesday, October 29.A video released by the department shows two men entering and then ...
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On his way home from shooting the Twin Peaks-themed costume party Friday at the Glasslands gallery in Williamsburg, photographer Skyler Reid couldn't resist snapping a few photos of costumed revelers riding the subway.
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Play 'em off.
Is your meme game slipping? It's OK, because unless you're just skating by at work or school, you likely aren't all spending your free time on the internet, chortling at viral videos and photos, your eyeballs filled with snark spelle...
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Identification documents may be creating barriers for immigrant students.
A survey conducted by the New York Civil Liberties Union found that many schools in the state demand information about the immigration status of enrolling students, a potent...
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Teachout herself was reportedly considering endorsing Cuomo, but only if he opposed fracking.
Zephyr Teachout's campaign manager, Mike Boland, officially endorsed Andrew Cuomo for governor on Thursday. In an email to supporters, Boland said he wo...
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Here's Johnny at the 2013 Village Halloween Parade.
This weekend, take your pick from a handful of parties, be they Twin Peaks-themed, synthesizer-backed, or on the streets of Greenwich Village. Get a taste of Cider Week or drink some botanical co...
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This week's feature story dove into the life of Reynaldo Nazario, an old-school car thief who used old-school methods to steal older-model cars. In October 2012, Bronx prosecutors charged him with stealing 30 cars over a 75-day stretch. To boost the ...
