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Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda collected lots of art. They bought the works using the country's public funds. Many decorated the presidential palace in Manila. Others hung in the Philippines consulate in New York City or in ...
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Two New Jersey therapists, along with the anti-gay Christian counseling groups they belong to, are suing the state over the recently signed ban on "conversion therapy," an absurd, scientifically discredited practice that purports to turn gay people s...
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A map of all 532,911 Stop and Frisks, broken down by race
The NYPD performed 532,911 stop-and-frisks in 2012, and for each stop an officer wrote a report. Every three months, when the reports are released, the New York Civil Liberties Union collec...
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Old Teddy Bear Magazines
Date: The late eighties through the early nineties
Discovered at: Kansas City thrift store
Here's some thrilling ridiculousness from an earlier, simpler time before the creation of godawful teddies was outsourced to consume...
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The Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia recently released an interactive map showing the exact racial and ethnic distribution in the United States. The map color-codes the country based on race and ethnicity figures from th...
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If America runs on Dunkin, and Dunkin runs on wage theft, then...
When I pay for a gallon of coffee and bacon that tastes like pennies, I expect part of my $4 to go to the hardworking cashiers and managers that served me. The U.S. Department of La...
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Nearly 10 years later, that conviction has been expunged from her record. Last month, Judge Toko Serita of Queens County Criminal Court ruled that the girl's crime fell within the bounds of a 2010 state law protecting human trafficking victims from p...
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Why did failing A.G. Eric Schneiderman, after years of looking, file his pathetic lawsuit on a SATURDAY afternoon (unheard of)? No case!
-- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2013
Two years ago, New York Attorney General Eric Schneider...
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Katy Perry in Brooklyn Bridge Park
It's over. The vision of the charming awards show MTV execs imagined when they decided to hold this year's Video Music Awards at the Barclays Center in downtown Brooklyn is gone, replaced by images of Miley Cyrus...
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If you were camped outside Barclays Center today, eyes laser-focused on the red carpet for a glimpse of One Directon, you might have missed this other bit of news: the NSA bugged the United Nations headquarters, according to a report in the German ne...
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The Jersey pol will try his hand at radio disc jockeying. Governor Chris Christie will co-host the Boomer & Carton Show on WFAN this morning from 6 to 10 a.m. He will be filling in for Boomer Esiason, who is on vacation, going by the predictably folk...
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An Australian baseball player named Christopher Lane was shot to death in Oklahoma, allegedly by three local kids, two black and one white. The kids were questioned but presumed to have acted in self-defense, so they were let go, leading to a public ...
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Hi, can I grab this seat next to you? This coffee shop is always so full! Wait, do I know you? You look so familiar, I just can't put my finger on it. Oh, you're Bill de Blasio from the '80s! Sorry, I had you confused for every white hipster I've eve...
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As if we needed another helping of tragedy this summer: Twenty-one-year-old Islan Nettles died last night from injuries sustained during fight in Harlem. The fight is believed to have been a verbal attack that escalated when the assailants discovered...
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Last week, the Voice reported that ACT UP, one the nation's leading HIV/AIDS activist organizations, was protesting in front of New York's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in Queens over its lousy data collection and even lousier education ini...
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Excruciatingly long lines, invasive pat-downs, awkward luggage inspections, delays, cancelations--and, oh yeah, racial profiling--are all pretty much accepted as par for the course.
Aditya Mukerjee, who lives and works in New York and is Hindu, not ...
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Yesterday was a particularly historic moment for New York's City Council, which voted to override Mayor Bloomberg's veto of two NYPD oversight bills. The successful override means that an independent inspector general will be appointed to help regula...
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Porn actor Cameron Bay came forward Wednesday admitting that her recent unconfirm HIV diagnosis is the reason why the porn industry is on ice until further notice. Some good old shoe leather over at Gawker revealed that the last porn actor to have un...
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Olivo, who sustained minor injuries in the crash, has a history of bad behavior and public drunkenness. His illustrious rap sheet includes everything from being busted with an open container of Four Loko to threatening a McDonald's employee with deca...
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Yes, the mafia's odd love of the garbage industry lives on. Yesterday three men pleaded guilty to various financial crimes linked to attempts to corner the waste-hauling business in greater New York City and New Jersey.The charges against Dominick Pi...
The MTA Procures Storm Surge Protection via the Catastrophe Bond Market
Type Miscast: An Elmhurst Doctor's Type 2 Diabetes Misdiagnosis Results in the Death of a Six-Year-Old Girl
Bill de Blasio's Elusive City Council Papers Raise More Questions Than They Answer
Daniel McGowan: The FBI's Least Wanted
Benjamin Lawsky: The Man Who Picked a Fight With Wall Street
Despite State Ban, Federal Inmate Ronell Wilson Is Sent to Death Row
