ABC Cocina Buys the Farm, Sells the Table—and the Results Are Perfection
Advocates Claim UES 'Enslaved' Nanny Is 'Far From Alone' and Beg for More Oversight
U.S. Attorney Says New Yorkers 'Can Expect More' Corruption Cases
What's Behind Christine Quinn's Negative Turn?
Vice Recreates Female Literary Icons' Suicides in Photo Spread
Boy Meets Nose Job: Ben Savage's New Show (and Schnoz) Gets Green Light
Just a Regular Joe: Schumer Thinks More Coffee Could Stop Study Drug Abuse
Mayor Bloomberg Says UFT's Endorsement Is a 'Kiss of Death'
Coney Island Applebee's Opens with an Old Fashioned Shark 'Massacree'
U.S. Attorney Says New Yorkers ‘Can Expect More’ Corruption Cases
The string of corruption arrests in New York State is far from over, according to the man who has issued many of the indictments.
In a rare televised interview with Capital Tonight, Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said even more public corruption cases can be expected to emerge due to the “pervasive” nature of the problem in the state. Read More
What’s Behind Christine Quinn’s Negative Turn?
Christine Quinn’s speech on Monday morning marked a turning point for the City Council Speaker as she struggles to maintain her status as the mayoral race’s decisive front-runner in the face of lagging poll numbers and former Congressman Anthony Weiner’s headline-hogging jump into the race. Read More
Vice Recreates Female Literary Icons’ Suicides in Photo Spread
In a questionable photo spread entitled “Last Words,” Vice has captured the unique glamor of female writers who have committed suicide. The models, who are stylish (and sad) in couture, pose in the manner in which the seven literary icons took their lives.
Beneath each photo is a blurb with the writer’s name, age at time of death, place of birth, place of death and manner of suicide. As with any fashion photo spread, the clothing’s designer is mentioned. No mention, however, is made of any of the work that made these women famous. Read More
Boy Meets Nose Job: Ben Savage’s New Show (and Schnoz) Gets Green Light
We were super excited when we heard that our childhood friends from Boy Meets World were coming back to television – but we were shocked when the Cory Matthews we knew and loved was replaced by a pointy-nosed impostor.
Girl Meets World, the new Boy Meets World spinoff, has officially been picked up by the Read More
Just a Regular Joe: Schumer Thinks More Coffee Could Stop Study Drug Abuse
Let them drink coffee!
New York Senator Chuck Schumer is calling for colleges to crackdown on so-called study drugs, such as Adderall and Ritalin, by implementing stricter regulation. Oh, and by encouraging students to trade in their pills for a pot of joe.
“There are better ways to pull an all-nighter and stay up,” he Read More
Mayor Bloomberg Says UFT’s Endorsement Is a ‘Kiss of Death’
The battle between Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the powerful teachers’ union entered a ghoulish new phase on Monday, as the mayor equated the union’s coveted endorsement to the “kiss of death,” and the union slammed a nod from Mr. Bloomberg as worse than zombie attack.
The Democratic candidates for mayor have been courting the United Federation of Teachers and the union’s president, Michael Mulgrew, for months, but Mr. Bloomberg said this afternoon he thinks they’re making a grave electoral mistake.
“It’s almost a kiss of death,” the mayor said of the union’s coveted endorsement, which Mr. Mulgrew believes will be decisive in the race. “I don’t know what goes through voters’ minds, but maybe they understand if the UFT wants it, it ain’t good and you don’t want that person.” Read More
Coney Island Applebee’s Opens with an Old Fashioned Shark ‘Massacree’
Sad news today from the shark-infested waters of the Coney Island Applebee’s. First, a shark died after colliding with an underwater ferris wheel, and then another shark went on a fishy killing spree. Or, as the Daily News put it, “death is on the menu.”
Who could have predicted that putting a Read More
Show Me The Monet: Bronx Woman Becomes Prison Art Dealer
She gives a whole new meaning to insider art.
Bronx woman Carolyn Stanford, 56, has become a part-time art dealer for inmates at prisons, helping them turn their canvases into profit.
Ms. Stanford told DNAinfo.com that she first came up with the idea while visiting her son in a California prison, where Read More
The New York Post Mistakes Lena Dunham’s Father for Her Boyfriend
On Friday, the Post‘s Page Six reported this salacious bit of gossip: “Show creator and star Lena Dunham and boyfriend Jack Antonoff sat at a small table alone while the rest of the cast and crew occupied two tables of six nearby.”
Ms. Dunham, though, set the record straight in a tweet this afternoon, explaining that her actual dinner companion was her father, the artist Carroll Dunham. Read More
Flipping Over the Edge: Williamsburg Penthouse Sells for $3 M.
With a forest of high-rises about to sprout on the Greenpoint waterfront and Two Trees looking to build Brooklyn’s tallest tower at the old Domino Sugar Factory site, the Edge and Northside Piers are about to have a lot of competition for waterfront views in northern Brooklyn.
But for now, they’re all we’ve got, and they’ve got the price tags to show for it: one of the penthouses at the North Tower at the Edge just closed late last week for $3 million, making it the first penthouse resale in the building. Read More
