-
Article
Demonstrators of all ages display signs outside the Israeli Embassy in New York City as snow continues to fall.
Thousands of members of the Satmar Hasidic sect gathered outside the Israeli consulate in midtown on Tuesday evening to protest a speec...
-
Article
We had all these stickers lying around, so...
For nearly two years, Kate Chiplinsky has cheerfully photographed women -- and men -- exposing their breasts. It began in May 2013, when the oppressive heat of summer was beginning to afford New Yorker...
-
Article
Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard in Empire
There are five reasons why Fox's Empire has become a breakout hit, and on this week's Voice Film Club podcast, we run down why the show, introduced as a mid-season replacement, has surged to nearly 14...
-
Article
Mayor Bill de Blasio on the Nightly Show
Mayor Bill de Blasio was on the Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore on Monday, talking cops, affordable housing, and, thankfully, weed.The show promoted the episode by asking Twitter users to send in questions ...
-
Article
If New York had an official pastime, it would be real estate. In between searching for increasingly remote crawlspaces to inhabit, we love to bitch about our astronomical rents and gloat shamelessly when we find the Brigadoon of sublets (rent-control...
-
Article
These cars will probably soon be required to move. But not yet.
Today, New Yorkers with cars will go through the now-familiar process of not getting in their cars, not pulling them over to the opposite side of the street to double-park, not waitin...
-
Article
Leonard Nimoy has died at the age of 83. Both on camera and off, he exemplified the best of what Star Trek, and thus humanity, could represent.Part of that was Trek's writing, of course. But it was Nimoy who took what was on the page -- often repaire...
-
Article
113 Stanton Street
Residents of 113 Stanton Street are suing oft-embattled landlord Samy Mahfar for harassment, arguing that by using unsafe construction tactics, Mahfar is -- stop us if you've heard this one before -- pressuring them to move out ...
-
Article
That's our best guess as to what's going on in this confounding -- but sometimes funny -- video that just turned up online. Brooklyn-based filmmaker J.D. Oxblood has posted the trailer to an unfinished romantic comedy he's calling #AnnieHall, a Brook...
-
Article
Doctor Gilbert Ross speaks at a rally against new taxes on e-cigarettes.
New York State is considering higher taxes and more restrictions on e-cigarettes, and at least one group is not taking the move lying down.New Yorkers for Smarter Smoking Alt...
-
Article
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...
-
Article
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...
-
Article
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...
-
Article
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.
...
-
Article
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....
-
Article
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...
-
Article
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...
-
Article
"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...
-
Article
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...
-
Article
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...
