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Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras's Last Ride

Why Is The NYPD Gassing The Subway?

Today is an airflow study day in the New York subway system. That means that, mixed in with the 4.3 million riders who board the subway on any given day, there will be about 150 researchers conducting an experiment that the NYPD hopes will equip officers with the information they need to respond if ... More >>

What to Expect at Sons of Essex, According to New Chef Roger Llanes

New Jersey native Roger Llanes, who externed behind the burners at Eleven Madison Park, then worked at BLT Prime, and spent 18 months running a restaurant out in California before he decided to move back to the East Coast. "I wasn't getting enough out of it," he explains. "It was my restaurant, and ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: March 27-April 2, 2013

Former Van Halen Frontman Sammy Hagar Exits Sammy's Beach Bum Bar in Atlantic City

In happier days, a garrulous, wild-haired Sammy Hagar chatted with a reporter about an upcoming show with Sammy's Beach Bum Bar & Grill as backdrop. "Rum's the best mixer on the planet," he says, as a casino executive looks on approvingly. Beware of seemingly friendly guys in suits, Sammy! Operate ... More >>

Steel Yourself for Leviathan, A Watery Knockout

Sea legs

Free Will Astrology

Try Watching This Stop-Motion Video of the Polar Bear Plunge Without Getting Cold

Photographer Jena Cumbo stitched together some of her shots from the Polar Bear Plunge--which took place on New Year's Day on Coney Island--to make this teeth-rattling video. What's a better hangover cure than diving into the near-freezing Atlantic Ocean? A bacon egg and cheese and some Excedrin, yo ... More >>

New Year's Eve Guide: Ignite the Night

Reinvention is the new resolution. Ring in 2013 with eats, drinks, music, and more.

Andrew Bird

Hurricane Sandy Claims Another Life; Has Now Killed 41 People in New York City

When police entered his apartment building on Tuesday, October 29 in Rockaway Park, Queens, blocks away from the Atlantic Ocean, they found William McKeon, 78, at the bottom of a wet set of stairs. The power had long since died.It was dark, pitch-black, and saltwater and sand was ... More >>

Deftones: Here Comes the Rain

Offering a master class in outperforming a storm

How To Make A Crowd Not Mind That They're In The Middle Of A Torrential Rainstorm, By The Deftones

Not to be one of those people who talks about the weather, but has this summer's concert-going season seemed sorta... washed out to you? Multi-day festivals from Lollapalooza to Catalpa to Pitchfork have been plagued by rain delays, and other outdoor concerts have been similarly doused. Shows at the ... More >>

English Vacationer with Olympic Fever Tries to Swim Across Atlantic Ocean, Fails

This weekend, a 34-year-old London man apparently overcome with Olympic excitement attempted to swim 3,600 miles across the Atlantic Ocean from Biarritz, France to New York City. He didn't make it. Around 300 yards into his journey, the unnamed tourist was rescued when coastguards lowered a diver i ... More >>

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You won’t find Andy Roddick here

ICE, ICE BABY

Chill out on New Year’s Day

London's Name For Its 2012 Olympic Village: 'East Village'

London2012.comArtists rendering of London's Olympic Village.​A new East Village is about to spring up all the way across the Atlantic Ocean. London is hosting the 2012 Summer Olympics and they're naming their Olympic Village the "East Village," somewhat unimaginatively. East Village 2.0 will h ... More >>

The Hudson: Frequently Kinda Poopy

​A while back, we were all a bit concerned about our New York City water exploits. A fire in the engine room at the North River Wastewater Treatment Plant in Harlem caused the plant to shut down, spewing nasty water out into our nearby bodies of H20, and officials deemed the Hudson, and parts ... More >>

Naked Penguins Have No Explanation, Shame

"Don't look at us, we have feathers." Photo via HighlandBlade​Penguins on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean have been struck with a peculiar ailment that is leaving scientists confused and the birds chilly. It has been dubbed "feather-loss disorder," and its root cause is unknown. The Wildlife ... More >>

A Meteor Zoomed Toward New York at 33,500 MPH Yesterday, By the Way

​A fireball was visible in the sky from at least four local states yesterday -- Valentine's Day, no less -- the American Meteor Society confirms today. The meteor was likely the size of a "small car" before it hit the upper atmosphere and deteriorated, saving us all sans Bruce Willis. "With it ... More >>

Top Chef: 'It's a Perfect Storm of F***ing Awfulness'

​ Ah, restaurant wars. As inevitable as income taxes and that incredulous look Tom gets on his face whenever Marcel opens his mouth. And last night's didn't disappoint, bringing with it a spectacle of meaty, man-sized proportions and more bitch-fighting than an entire season of The Real Housew ... More >>

Haddock Stages a Comeback

​Today, some excellent news for both the Atlantic Ocean and fish 'n' chip fanatics: haddock has returned to the East Coast.

T.G.I. Friday's Among Those Charged With Dumping Waste and Raw Sewage in Brooklyn Waterways

Because untreated grease gives us all something to smile about!​Here's yet another reason we find ourselves weary of the continuing existence of T.G.I. Friday's.

An Earthquake Hit Long Island Today. Did the Earth Move for You?

via NYT/Google Maps​This is nothing to our West Coast brethren, but it's kind of a big deal to us. A 3.9 magnitude earthquake in the Atlantic Ocean, about 80 miles off the coast of Long Island's Southampton, occurred around 10:45 a.m. today. According to WNYC, it was even "felt by a New York T ... More >>

Mr. Cutlets Bids Bluefin Farewell Because it's Endangered. And Boring.

It's time to say bye-bye to bluefin.​Josh Ozersky's Time column this week documents what may very well be his last bite of bluefin tuna: "It was awesome. But I have to stop eating it. And so do you," writes the unrepentant carnivore. Ozersky goes on to cite the numbers many of us have heard re ... More >>

Next-day stories

Brian Schroeder, 26, turned himself in to police yesterday evening in connection with yesterday's fire in the 9/11 Memorial Chapel. Police sources tell the Post that Schroeder, a texan-born graduate of Duke and Harvard Law, may have set the fire on a drunken dare. Yesterday's 5-alarm fire destroy ... More >>

Richard Swift

Pulp Fictions: April Comics Roundup

Pulp Fictions may be on hiatus, but the comics just keep on coming. Here's what's been turning my pages recently: A Drifting Life Yoshihiro Tatsumi Drawn & Quarterly Lauded for his downbeat short works collected in The Push Man and Other Stories and Goodbye, Yoshihiro Tatsumi depicts his early y ... More >>

Clip Job: Joe Gould's Last Rites

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Reprint: City of Ghosts

100 minutes of tragedy that will haunt us all

Lily Allen is Hater-Proof

Close-Up on Sea Gate, Brooklyn

Morning Report 5/12/05
Misery Accomplished

Close-Up on Brighton Beach

The Streetrope Invasion

Brooklyn booty brats snatch bills and invite you to suck up, eat a Big Mac, and do it now

Make Mine Filthy

The history behind the murkiest of martinis

Morning Report 12/22/04
No Defense

The Dayton Discord

'Undefended': A senator finally takes the government to task over the 9-11 findings

Close-Up on Brighton Beach, Brooklyn

Close-Up on Far Rockaway

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Close-Up on Rockaway Park

Close-Up On: Coney Island

The Climes They Are A-Changin'

The Indisputable Science of Global Warming

Bi-Polar and Loving It

Two New Yorkers Are on Top of the World

City of Ghosts

100 Minutes of Tragedy That Will Haunt Us All

Still Bearing Witness

Five Years Later, Flight 800 Still Poses Questions

2 STDMS, OCEAN VU, $110M

Minor-League Ball Comes to Coney and Staten Islands

Dennis Lim's Top 10