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When Accidents Align: LL Cool J Wants You To Give Anthony Weiner and...
(Bing/Getty Images) “It’s good to be home,” LL Cool J told a room full of bloggers on Tuesday night. He was hosting a Father’s Day event along with Bing, the Microsoft-powered search engine that hopes...
View ArticleThe Anthony Weiner Show Goes Grocery Shopping
On Wednesday, Anthony Weiner became the latest official to embark on the “Food Stamp Challenge,” where privileged politicians live on just $31.08 a week–or $1.48 per meal–to raise awareness of the...
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‘Anticapitalist’ Citi Bike to Put SoulCycle Out of Business With Streetside...
Students at P.S. 19 get in a quick workout before class.(via YouTube) Dorothy Rabinowitz's worst nightmare is coming true. The New York Times reported today on the latest anticapitalist development in...
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NYPD Protects Bushwick from Swarm of Bees With Horse Poop
He's the queen bee. The NYPD’s bee expert showed a Bushwick swarm who’s boss Wednesday morning after receiving a complaint from a nearby firehouse. Bee (Getty Images). Detective Anthony “Tony Bees”...
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55% of New Yorkers Can’t Name a Single Mayoral Candidate
So there's this thing. It's called a mayoral's race. Heard of it? Any idea who's running? If you can name a single candidate, you're an outlier—55 percent of the New Yorkers we asked couldn't. That's...
View ArticleSurprise! In 2002, Edward Snowden Hung Out on an Anime Site and Called...
No one’s turned up a Reddit account or Twitter handle for NSA leaker Edward Snowden. However, Reuters has managed to find what appears to be his long-abandoned profile for “a Japanese anime company run...
View ArticleNeigh It Ain’t So! Parents Fret Over My Little Pony’s Sexy Makeover
A new movie from the My Little Pony franchise has bronies and pegasisters crying, “Neigh!” My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, a new film by Hasbro Studios, transforms the collectible horsies-turned-TV...
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Rupert Murdoch Files For Divorce
Photo credit: Getty Rupert Murdoch has filed for divorce from his wife Wendi this morning, reports Deadline. Mr. Murdoch filed this morning in New York Supreme Court. Mr. Murdoch's split from his wife...
View ArticleBloomberg Slams Justice Department for NYPD Monitoring Efforts
Mayor Michael Bloomberg blasted a plan by the federal Justice Department to install a monitor over the NYPD on Thursday, arguing it would compromise the city’s crime fighting and put lives at risk. “We...
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Jonathan Ames Fails to Listen at Sexy Book Party
Jonathan Ames At the launch for On My Knees, the new memoir by Periel Aschenbrand, all anyone could talk about was how much the author looks like Amy Winehouse. She does, but only if Amy were eight...
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The Rub: Bay Ridge Residents Suspect Massage Parlors Are Handing Out Happy...
Your massage probably won't be this classy. (Getty) A number of massage parlors opening in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, are making residents tense. According to Brooklyn Daily, residents and civic leaders in...
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Sack the Sacks! Plastic Bag Haters to Rally in Park Slope
Plastic bag stuck in a tree with no birds (Flickr). Katy Perry once asked, “Do you ever feel like a plastic bag?” Park Slopers have an answer for you, Ms. Perry. It’s a no. On June 24, the Brooklyn...
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Coldwell Banker Partners With Bellmarc To Make Incursion Into New York Real...
They're coming to New York. Coldwell Banker—it's a name that most Americans know from front yard for-sale signs across the country. Most Americans, that is, except for New Yorkers. But now Coldwell...
View ArticleAnthony Weiner Extols His ‘Undeniable Buzz’ and Ability to ‘Make History’
“I’m the underdog…” Anthony Weiner wrote in an email to supporters this afternoon. “…but that’s fine by me.” In what at first seems like a humble fund-raising pitch, Mr. Weiner quickly pivots to tout...
View ArticleBelfast’s Lord Mayor Máirtin Ó Muilleoir Endorses Christine Quinn
Northern Ireland’s Lord Mayor of Belfast offered an enthusiastic endorsement of a certain Irish-American mayoral candidate Thursday morning during a visit to Gracie Mansion. “We think that every city...
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News Corp. CFO David DeVoe Is Retiring
New News Corp. Logo Looks like the Murdochs aren't the only people in the News Corp. universe calling it quits today. News Corp. announced in a press release that CFO David DeVoe will retire after the...
View ArticleOxford English Dictionary Deigns to Allow Twitter’s Definition of ‘Tweet’...
After the Oxford American Dictionary deemed “GIF” the 2012 word of the year and officially adopted friendzone into its ranks, you’d be forgiven for feeling like they’re starting to cater to the...
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Of Biker Gangs & Bars: Bushwick Tenants’ Never-ending Fight Against Lousy...
(Street View) The tenants of 13 Thames St. in Williamsburg have the worst luck. A year ago, their landlord allegedly hired a biker gang to terrorize them out of their apartment, which, we must admit,...
View ArticleYour Cool Aunt Hillary Clinton Just Took Her First Selfie
Hillary Clinton is furthering her social media evolution by getting into the selfie game, less than one week after she created her own Twitter account. Technically, daughter Chelsea took the selfie....
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Who Cares if the Rent Guidelines Board Doesn’t Meet in the Outer Boroughs?
Apartment buildings on the Grand Concourse are typical of New York City's rent-stabilized housing stock: not actually all that rent-stabilized. Public Advocate and mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio is...
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