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Boris Bozic and his students
Success Academy Charter Schools, which has won praise for its students' academic achievements, has quietly launched a soccer program after recruiting a coach from one of Manhattan's most successful youth teams.
The ti...
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Mayor Bill de Blasio has forged a new bond with the dude who once called him a "nincompoop."
The mayor and Sergeants Benevolent Association president Ed Mullins have agreed on a roughly $252.1 million contract for the policemen that begins retroac...
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David Carr
In the early 1980s, decades before David Carr became David Carr -- the New York Times' authority on all things media, brash star of the documentary Page One, author of the drug-fueled memoir The Night of the Gun -- he was an ambitious j...
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Wylie Stecklow, right, says the Manhattan district attorney's demand that Reverend Billy (left) avoid arrest for six months is "harassment."
Earth-worshipping, honeybee-loving professional rabble-rouser "Reverend Billy" Talen is headed to trial.
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Joe O'Dea, 54, has been working at Jim Brady's Irish Pub for twenty years. He's "undecided" about the tipped minimum wage increase slated for December 2015.
Activists are celebrating the rise of New York State's minimum tipped wage, from $5 to $7....
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Claude Debris, center, in the houndstooth suit, was crowned Mr. Lower East Side 2015 this week at a bar in Brooklyn. "The Lower East Side is a state of mind," says the pageant's organizer.
After fifteen years of celebrating an anti-pageant featur...
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Arthur Warren, who has lived in East New York since childhood, says the neighborhood needs more youth programs, not a medical center: "We don't have a place for our kids to go."
On February 24, about eight East New York residents stood on a post-i...
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"I couldn't get the voices out of my head of people telling me I'll never be a woman."
"The world doesn't have language to actively allow me to identify myself."
Leaning over the kitchen countertop in her two-bedroom apartment in Queens, Brooke G...
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Griffith and Johnson during an awkward moment on the red carpet
There was an awkward moment between Fifty Shades of Grey star Dakota Johnson and her mom, Melanie Griffith, on the red carpet before the Oscars on Sunday. But the world got to see Joh...
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In the latest Jennifer Lopez hate-watch masterpiece, The Boy Next Door, she plays a classics teacher who is seduced by her strapping young student, played by Ryan Guzman. In one particularly unfortunate scene, he comes by her desk to give her a Victo...
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Leslie Cooper says she was "body slammed" by an irate cabbie, and went into preterm labor soon after.
Leslie Cooper says she was just trying to catch a ride home from work when an assault by a cab driver led to the terrifying preterm delivery of h...
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New York City comptroller Scott Stringer stands with advocates Monday outside Brooklyn Housing Court to demand more multilingual legal information from the state.
Tenants who face their landlords in housing court go up against experienced attorney...
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Visitors flocked to visit Phoenix in the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine on February 19. The sculpture's year-long run will soon come to a close.
Yoga in New York is not an unusual activity.
But yoga in chairs? In a 123-year-old Episcopal chu...
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Jungle explorers, fear not -- your machete is safe.
New York state senator Tony Avella set off something of a conservative freakout this week when he proposed new regulations on machetes in New York. It started Wednesday, when the Daily News repor...
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Renee DiDio, right, and Anna Patin want to get you pinned.
Aside from the tattoo sleeves and profanity-laced speech, Renee DiDio is the granddaughter your Nana always wanted: Her A-line dress falls just below her pantyhosed knee, and her hair is c...
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New York is the best and worst place to be young -- you're perpetually broke, sleep-deprived, and starving, yet you'll never have more fun in your life. The city is a fickle mistress, though, and soon your favorite places will be overrun with early-t...
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Can I talk directly to my people for a moment?
Hi, white folks! Glad you're doing well! Or, I should say, I'm glad we're doing well, since I'm totally one of you. The Oscars last night was kind of a wash for those of us who think of us as an "us": N...
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"As with 300 Nassau [shown], we see tenant harassment take the form of neglecting and destroying buildings," says Adam Meyers, a tenants'-rights lawyer.
Efforts by New York mayor Bill de Blasio to curb the strong-arm and harassment tactics used by...
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Disney's McFarland, USA
Kevin Costner eases white America into the now with McFarland, USA, we hear about the Berlin Film Festival's highs (Queen of Earth) and lows (Knight of Cups) and dip into the lukewarm waters of a second Hot Tub Time Machine...
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white-toothed and long-of-breathed. But what about the smokers -- this author included -- who wanted to blacken our lungs inside, at the bar, while pickling our livers, too?
Rumors of the death of New York City nightlife were, one can safely say, gr...
