On Monday, the New York Times struggled again to strike the balance between Hurricane Sandy stories that are utterly depressing and Hurricane Sandy stories that are the fluffiest little fluffmonsters that have fallen asleep atop a cotton ball wearing bunny slippers (everyone ate candy during the hurricane; they're so bad
The destruction caused by Sandy is estimated to be in the range of $50 billion. Thousands have been left without a place to live, utilities, and other basic necessities. Yesterday, The New York Times revealed what is probably the most damaging aftereffect of the super storm yet: tight jeans. Terming the tragic…
At a news conference today, Governor Cuomo gave the first estimate on exactly what the cost of Hurricane Sandy is going to be, stating that the storm cost the mid-Atlantic region $50 billion and New York state specifically $33 billion. Assuming this number does not go up (it likely will) Hurricane Sandy is…
Looting was still a significant concern for many in New York City as Nor'easter Athena approached and hundreds of thousands remained without power days after Hurricane Sandy.
More good deeds to come: Louis C.K. is set to headline two Hurricane Sandy benefits on Staten Island on November 17.
Just in time for the next weather disaster, the MTA has released video of a dry L train tunnel.
We narrowly avoided one major shitstorm last night, when Romney conceded the presidential race to Obama after eighteen years and several hundred dollars of campaigning.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.— On October 30, the day after Superstorm Sandy soaked thousands of homes with a two-story surge of seawater, housewares, and sludge, America's would-be first lady tried to unite a nation her husband spent the previous year helping to divide. Sporting a fire-engine red windbreaker, flanked by…
WNYC reports NY Gov. Cuomo signed an executive order allowing displaced people to vote at any polling place tomorrow.
On Friday night I drove out to Staten Island with Animal New York's Bucky Turco to marvel at some real, live FEMA-worthy destruction caused by Superstorm Sandy, where many homes of New Dorp Beach are now just soggy trash heaps awaiting a proper disposal/burial.
Whenever something serious happens, the internet does its best to become distracted by minor characters and occurrences only tangentially related to the actual news story.
The cast members of Jersey Shore are putting aside their hair products and spray-on tan to give something back to the town that gave them everything.
Power's been restored to lower Manhattan. Almost all the subways are up and running. New York City is lurching back to work today. Most of it, at least. In some sections of the city and the surrounding area — the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens, Coney Island in Brooklyn, several locations across Staten Island — the…
This morning was the first day back to work for many New Yorkers, and with the subways still not running 100 percent, the typical moderately aggravating commute transformed into a jam-packed nightmare for some.
But we're still working on transferring over some of the posts you may have missed since floodwaters came and swallowed us and relegated us to Tumblr which most people who hated the new redesign enjoyed anyway.
On a day in which many New York City residents and visitors rallied to help areas ravaged by Hurricane Sandy, news emerged that the National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center is flooded with at least five feet of water. The museum, which is still not completed, houses some of the more…
This has to be an Illuminati conspiracy.
It's quite possible that New Jersey governor Chris Christie is the most self-aware politician in the United States right now. This tweet is a prime example of that.
Yesterday we wondered if Donald Trump was sending crew members to gas deprived Yonkers to fill up vans for the production of his reality show The Apprentice. Our tipster finally got back to us last night and gave us a first hand account of the event:
