Like an acoustic guitarist doing shaky Jack Johnson covers at a crowded happy hour, Ted Cruz prattled on about his ideas for America or some bullshit at the back of the room, while attendees at last night’s New York City GOP gala—who can barely hear each other in here, Jesus—just tried to have a good time with their…
In an act of political cowardice, the campaign of Bernie Sanders has suspended a young staffer named Simone Zimmerman, who was recently hired to coordinate the campaign’s outreach to Jewish communities, for criticizing Benjamin Netanyahu, the right-wing Prime Minister of Israel, in a year-old post on Facebook. The New…
Donald Trump’s children aren’t the only ones who’ll miss the opportunity to vote for the Republican frontrunner on Tuesday: Michael Cohen, his adviser and special counsel, can’t vote either—and not because he forgot to register, but because he’s registered as a Democrat.
On Monday, a state and federal working group led by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced a $5 billion settlement with Goldman Sachs in connection with practices that contributed to the financial crisis. Of the $5 billion, $670 million will be allocated to New York state.
A major perk of the job for New York State corrections officers may soon be off the table: The ability to be as brutal as they’d like with prisoners without having to worry about facing any serious consequences.
The NYPD’s recent arrest of an on-duty mailman who had apparently committed no crime was so revolting that not even the NYPD could stand behind it. Lieutenant Luis Machado, who oversaw the arrest, was stripped of his gun and badge and placed on modified duty, the New York Daily News reports today.
At a preliminary budget hearing on Monday, New York City Housing Authority chair Shola Olatoye testified before the City Council that the city recently tested the water in random, vacant public housing units. The tests were conducted “out of an abundance of caution” to check for elevated lead levels.
The Department of Justice has announced an indictment against seven government-sponsored Iranian nationals accused of internet-based attacks against the United States, including one who managed to gain control of a picturesque Westchester dam’s flood release controls.
The Brooklyn district attorney, Ken Thompson, is not seeking prison time for former New York City police officer Peter Liang, convicted of manslaughter last month in the fatal shooting of Akai Gurley, per sentencing recommendations submitted to the State Supreme Court on Wednesday.
New York City Transit officials are planning to release inert gas and DNA particles into the subway system in order to study the effects of a terrorist bio-attack, the New York Post reports. This is a waste of time, because terrorists are much more likely to just kill us with guns.
A panel of justices from the New York State Supreme Court’s Appellate Division ruled against dismissing Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s $40 million lawsuit against Donald Trump’s now-defunct Trump University.
Is New York a city in decline? DNAinfo reports that last week, an unnamed thief stole $113.80 in Häagen-Dazs ice cream from a Times Square Duane Reade. The news comes after reports of 10 other large-scale Häagen-Dazs thefts over the last four months. Forget about subway slashings—the ice cream thief’s spree is what…
As Donald Trump’s path to the Republican nomination becomes clearer, he is beginning to informally consult with a cadre of party insiders, the Washington Post reports. And who better to advise the well-connected New Yorker on running a campaign based wholly on populist fear than Rudy Giuliani?
As we near ever closer to Kristin Cavallari’s literary debut and the sweet release of death, new details about the promotional schedule for Balancing in Heels have emerged. Today Kristin announced that she plans to embark on a cross-country “book tour” next month, making stops in “NYC, Chicago, and LA.”
This was how things worked, as Curtis Sliwa recalls it, back in the heyday of the Guardian Angels, from the late ’70s through the early ’90s: In one subway car, Sliwa might break up a fistfight, then move to the next car and find a domestic dispute in progress. In the following car, there might be a drug dealer…
The state of New York wants to make PR people register with the state as lobbyists if they want to try to get a journalist to write an editorial in favor of a client.
On Monday, Zephyr Teachout, the anti-corruption activist who threatened Andrew Cuomo from the left in the 2014 gubernatorial Democratic primary, announced her candidacy for New York’s 19th Congressional District.
Over the weekend, a group of street artists took advantage of New York’s desolate, snow-caked roads in order to paint a crude memorial honoring David Bowie. Unfortunately, the tribute is bad and makes no sense.
Perhaps while soaking in his $13,000 copper bathtub or perhaps while staring at his $62,400 tank of tropical fish, Michael Bloomberg got an idea.
