As the weather in New York City creeps back toward summer-like temperatures, a bit of warning: Enjoy it while you can. By the 2080s, Manhattan could see as many as 91 percent more heat-related deaths thanks to global warming.
It's not that people in New York's East Village, SoHo, and TriBeCa neighborhoods don't want to go to the bathroom, it's just that a bursted water main in the Flatiron District has strangled the water supply for much of the lower portion of the most populous little island in America.
About that Manhattan apartment where a police raid Monday had people calling it a midtown meth lab: Turns out the place belonged to someone who was just making bath salts, reports NBC New York — the not-so-bad kind of bath salts.
Hipsters and hipster-haters, we're really happy for you that New York's L-train is back. And the return of the city's gray line means that the MTA's animated GIF of trains coming back to life is nearly complete.
It looks like the Con Ed spokesman got our hopes up and despite what he told Bloomberg, Con Ed's twitter account is giving a less optimistic estimate on the state of power in lower Manhattan.
Oui, "Très Brooklyn!" est de retour. This horrible, supposed culinary superlative first introduced by The New York Times has reared its questionable but perfectly pomaded and fedora-topped head again, this time in USA Today, which somehow makes it worse. This is not your grandparents' Brooklyn!
What happens to Manhattan when Brooklyn starts getting all the attention? Gather close, children, and listen to a story.
"Fixies (fixed gear bikes) are considered to be a strong indicator of hipsterness," argues Rohin Dhar at the Priceonomics Blog.
Thanks to a microchip, the feline will be home soon
A visual tour of The Plaza Hotel's Oak Room, frequent setting for film scenes
NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg is not happy about the rumors that Puffy received a police escort to a club in Jersey.
A decade of film festivals in lower Manhattan has lined the pockets
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