The link between drug smuggling and terror usually spurs images of Afghan poppy fields under the wary eye of men in fatigues. Sometimes, though, it's garbage bags filled with money from selling illegal cigarettes in Brooklyn.
The 41-floor New Yorker Hotel on Eighth Avenue in New York City has 912 rooms. That's only one room short of what it would take to house the 913 New Yorkers still living in hotels in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
For the third time, it's official: Anthony Weiner is running for Mayor of New York. It will be official for the fourth time, if the rumors are true, when he "officially" announces it next week. Here's what comes next.
The long-awaited Citibike bike-sharing program is scheduled to debut in New York on May 27. To the denizens of brownstone Brooklyn and Greenwich Village, however, the Citibike program amounts to an urban insurrection.
The next bank heist movie just got a lot less interesting. Prosecutors in Brooklyn revealed on Thursday afternoon that eight men successfully organized and executed an elaborate heist involving ... ATMs on the same subway line.
Here's the perfect website to fix what ills you, real-estate-wise. Schadenfreude, we have you.
Hope you're hungry for schadenfreude, because The New York Times's recent Thursday styles piece on "Will.i.amsburg" was not only laughable, it was incorrect. And somehow, so are the corrections.
If you weigh more than 260 lbs. you technically (the Department of Transportation won't "strictly" enforce this) aren't allowed to use one of New York City's nifty new shared bikes. Cue the outrage, cries of discrimination and, of course, a shameless New York Post picture of a very large man on a tiny bike.
Oh no. It's happening again. The New York Times is discovering that Brooklyn is a popular place, and it's running trend pieces about how hipsters love the Williamsburg neighborhood therein. But this latest edition is more trollish than the others
Not only is Weiner bragging about cashing in, he's bragging about how easy it was to cash in.
Construction workers will soon add the final piece of the 408-foot high spire atop the new skyscraper at One World Trade Center.
The Anthony Weiner Image Rehab-Apology Tour is picking up more steam, but when asked Wednesday if his sexting scandal was truly over and done with, Weiner didn't exactly shut the door on the idea.
Disgraced ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner and his very supportive wife Huma Abedin get a splashy cover profile in this weekend's The New York Times Magazine that basically uses 8,300 words to say one brief thing: He's going to run for office again.
Fans of justice will be glad to hear that New York City will pay for all those books and all that media equipment that the police trashed when it famously raided the Occupy Wall Street camp on November 15, 2011
A movement trying to get New York City to raise wages and benefits for its low-income fast food workers has called for a strike on Thursday, threatening to slow down your french fry orders.
In order to get on the ballot as a Republican, doomed Democratic State Senator Malcolm Smith needed approval from GOP county chairs. He did not have that, and this morning he was arrested along with several others for allegedly bribing to pay off those chairs and trying to rig New York City's mayoral election.
The owner of a New York City apartment is accusing former tenant Arianna Huffington of trashing the place, leaving bloodied mattresses, gouged wood floors and a very expensive scratched up table.
Remember the old aphorism that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery? It's not so pleasant when it happens to you! Or at least that seems to be the thinking of a lot of New York City chefs who've found themselves "ripped off," cuisine-wise.
It's been a while since we had a good, old-fashioned, Brooklyn-hippie-yuppie mocking grocery shopping story, but here we go again, thanks to the New York Daily News, taking all the Park Slope Food Coop tropes we've ever known and making them larger than life.
In The New York Times' telling, the City Council speaker and mayoral hopeful who happens to be openly gay, is "temperamental and surprisingly volatile." The piece have some saying, "This story would never have been written if Christine Quinn was a man."
Undeterred by his recent setback in the battle over big soda, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has turned his attention back to one of his original health enemies — smoking.
Jack Dorsey is already campaigning to be mayor of New York City, and he doesn't even live there. He does happen to be in a position where he can express the ambition to a national audience on pretty regular basis, however.
Anthony "Disgraced Congressmember" Weiner has filed initial paperwork with the City of New York suggesting that he has already spent about $115,000 toward a bid for Mayor.
In the dramatic conclusion of a trial as memorable for its being sickening as the kind of precedent it may set about fantasies of murder without follow-through, the New York City "Cannibal Cop" just got eaten by a federal jury.
Christine Quinn made the obvious official Sunday morning: she's going to run for Mayor of New York City. She will potentially be the first lady and first openly LBGT person to rule the city that never sleeps.
Seen that "80 percent of New York high school graduates can't read" headline? The prospect of a failed liberal metropolis is tempting, but it's also wrong.
Julio Acevedo, the suspect wanted for the Brooklyn hit-and-run accident that killed a young Jewish couple and — less than 24 hours later — the baby born after the crash has turned himself into police, more than 80 miles from the crash site.
The FAA and FBI are investigating a report from a pilot who reported seeing a small "drone" over New York City. But the conflation, as even the Senate remains shrouded in secrecy, of every unmanned aircraft into the single term "drone" isn't just inaccurate — it's dangerous.
Julio Acevedo may be a criminal with a long rap sheet and an indirect connection to a very famous rapper. He may even have returned to the scene of the crash the led to the death of a young Jewish couple — and, later, their just-born baby.
The story of a baby born after his parents were killed in a hit-and-run in New York City with the heartstrings of a city, a religious enclave, and maybe the entire Internet. Our faith in humanity was briefly restored, until Monday morning.
"He encouraged me to run at night" and his porn collection saw "dead" and severed people, Kathleen Mangan-Valle said during chilling opening testimony in the trial of her husband — a trial that is already sending shivers to anyone who thinks their ex might have been the least bit creepy.
New York City mayor, Michael "Regulate the Pain Away" Bloomberg, is expected to propose a sweeping ban on plastic foam food packaging, that immortal scourge of the 20th-century.
Discovered: Giving is good for the soul; New York's so-called "Broken Windows Theory" is wrong; gold-loving bacteria; the different ways we experience fear.
Ed Koch, the former mayor of New York City died from congestive heart failure around 2 a.m. on Friday at New York Presbyterian Medical Center.
Fashion people are getting diarrhea from eating too much kale, the leafy green vegetable that is allegedly trendy because it has lots of vitamins but actually trendy because it allows people to chew things without ingesting many calories.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Lots of people know about how Coca-Cola used to contain cocaine or how Pepsi was the hip drink in the 1960s. Few realize that Coke marketed assiduously to whites, while Pepsi hired a "negro markets" department.
Police invaded and evacuated two floors in a four-story apartment building in Hell's Kitchen after neighbors complained that a man was cooking meth on the third floor.
The lady who attacked a Hindu man on the subway for no apparent reason other than the fact that he was brown says she probably wouldn't have attacked the man if she was high that day.
Of all the places in the New York City government to find corruption, you'd never guess it would be the school bus system. But according to The New York Times, it's full of it.
The newly crowned Miss America loves New York and lives in Brooklyn. But does that mean Brooklyn is in love with its new Miss America?
A crowded commuter boat slammed into a dock in lower Manhattan on Wednesday morning, possibly injuring as many as 57 people.
The awful stories of two recent New York City subway deaths have sparked sad tales of the victims and their murderers, but have mostly ignored another another unlucky participant: the driver of the train who had to watch someone die.
Can a neighborhood retain any semblance of a reputation for edge when a "contemporary pet care hub" called Ruff Club not only opens right on Avenue A in New York City's East Village, but also gets a writeup in the New York Times' Thursday Styles?
While Morgan Gliedman was resting, the tabloids were busy uncovering her and her boyfriend's drug-riddled past and starting to explain away a terror plot as the concoctions of "well-to-do junkies."
Morgan Gliedman is the stuff of New York Times wedding announcements. Except that today she's the subject of New York Post pulp for her alleged bomb-making skills.
Commuters can rest a little easier as New York police said Saturday they believe they have the woman recently who pushed a man onto the subway tracks for no apparent reason.
Because it just means you're exactly like everyone else. The problem with Apple theft in New York City is so bad it's having an effect on the overall crime rate for New York City.
For the second time this month, a man in New York City has been murdered when a total stranger pushed him off a subway station platform and in front of a moving train.
It felt like a time warp on Wednesday night when an unexpected headline hit the wires: "NYC authorities take down 'Bad Barbies'." This is not a scene from The Warriors. It is real.
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