Woman Arrested for Killing a Toddler in a Fast Food Restaurant Bathroom

NYPD officers responding to a fast food restaurant in midtown Manhattan today reportedly discovered a gruesome crime scene: a woman smothering a toddler to death.
At Port Authority, You Might Be Arrested For Shaking Off After a Pee
The Port Authority Bus Terminal is the grubbiest, least hospitable public space in Manhattan, and its bathrooms are the worst of the worst—if you can ignore the ominous patch of grime on the ceiling and focus on the task at hand for long enough to squeeze out a few drops, you should consider yourself lucky. So cops:…
The Amazing New York Pizza Goat
Spotted at a Famous Famiglia pizzeria in Midtown at 11PM last night: A goat eating pizza. Apparently it's the same Famous Famiglia where Sarah Palin and Donald Trump held their pizza summit. [@ReporterLeslie, DNAInfo]
New York in Neon
Chateau Bezerra used the neon signs around New York City—and his deft editing skills—to make this stunningly simple music video scored to the Gorillaz track "Melancholy Hill." Midtown Manhattan never looked so good—or sad.
The Naked Cowboy Attempts Shakedown of Naked Cowgirl, Starts Naked Times Square War
Times Square fixture the Naked Cowboy sent a cease-and-desist letter to Sandy Kane, the bawdy stripper who unleashes her shtick on tourists daily as the Naked Cowgirl. He wants her to sign a franchise agreement. Say what?
Midtown Is F$@&ing Matt Damon Right Now
Just minutes ago a tipster spotted actor and prankster Matt Damon walking through a scene for a new movie on Fifth Avenue and 48th Street. If you spot him—or any other celeb—email us or post it to #stalker.
Artsy Dad Parent Seeks Bed to Share with Daughter
In Manhattan's "sublet/temp wanted" section of Craigslist, we find "director needs room": "I am looking for a room/apt. for myself and my daughter. We share a bed. Prefer midtown for UWS." Is that you, Woody Allen? Screenshot and Update.
Statue of Limitations
[Two eight-foot Oscars were loaded into a paddy wagon today after being arrested for indecent exposure and threatening police with swords while wandering around midtown Manhattan. Image via Getty]
Coming Not-So-Soon to Midtown: America's Fanciest Car Dealership
New York City's economy must really be on the mend. Mercedes is planning to construct a ginormous 333,000-square-foot flagship on 11th Avenue, which it's hoping will set "the style standard for all other Mercedes dealers around the country." Alas, Jay-Z and Beyoncé will have to wait a bit before they can head to the…
Counterpoint: Midtown Sucks
Hello, the very latest made-up trend you must know about unless you are some sort of plebe is the simple fact that Midtown is back. According to everybody.
Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter tells the New York Observer that Midtown is back. You know who agrees with him? Catherine Malandrino, and restaurateur Gherardo…
Graydon Carter Saves the Neighborhood
Midtown is really, really happening these days, have you heard? At least that's what the owners of restaurants that recently opened in—yes, you guessed it—Midtown are saying! And you can give all the credit to Monkey Bar co-owner and Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter since he "arguably foresaw and guaranteed the…
The 59th and 5th Power Grid
Ever wonder why the CEO at your company has a $10,000 telescope parked in the corner of his office? It's not to admire the birds. Or even to peek at the woman in the neighboring office building who changes her blouse at precisely half past five. It's to look in the offices of other CEOs, obviously.
Bad Weather Destroys New York City
As of 6:30 this morning, the 4/5/6 line was running at "slower speeds" because of "water on the tracks." Congratulations, New York, we're finally a third world country! If we were terrorists we'd just sit back and let the weather take care of things. Anyway, we weren't the only one with problems. Big trouble up at the…
Wild Salmon: Chodorow Does Fish
In the same cavernous space that held the inappropriately named English is Italian (turns out English is the New Failure), Jeffrey Chodorow's newest restaurant Wild Salmon opens to the public today, Good Friday. Last night, So-So Thursday, we tried it out. It seems to be a Chodorow signature these days to have weird…
Midtown Clubbing: Amalia And D'Or
The newly opened West 55th Street restaurant Amalia recently unveiled its downstairs lounge, D'Or, a cavernous stab at downtown cool. Let's visit the upstairs first. Owned by Vikram Chakral of the OTT Dream Hotel and Greg Brier, Amalia is glorious midtown chic, an 8,000 square-foot hyperbolic dining "experience"…
