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Hey Companies, You Are No Longer Allowed to Participate on April Fools' Day

April Fools' Day has become, for lack of a better word, a shitshow. A day of pranks played on and by friends has metastasized into overblown theater perpertrated by news outlets, corporations, and even governments. Did you set your sister's clock back an hour? Too bad, Scope has already goofed her ... More >>

Queens Man Pulls Gun In Gas Line (While Waiting To Fill Up His BMW)

There's a gas shortage in New York following Hurricane Sandy's wrath, and it's caused people to go to great lengths to fuel up.Some people have spent hours waiting in gas lines. Others have pulled loaded guns on other motorists (allegedly) in order to cut the line -- as is the case with a Queens man ... More >>

Brooklyn Couple Pockets $108K In Welfare Coin. They Also Own Three BMWs And A Lexus

Rivka Baror, 51, and her husband Avraham Baror, 64, have been living pretty high on the hog -- aside from owning not one but three BMWs, the couple also owns a Lexus, a comfortable two-bedroom home in Brooklyn, and drops a lot of cash at places like Victoria's Secret and Home Depot. Oh, yeah -- they ... More >>

A Fatal Car Crash, NYPD Cop DWI In Brooklyn Last Night; Nassau Cops Get a DWI Grant

It was an eventful but tragic evening in the outer borough of Kings County.Late last night, on the Ocean Parkway in Sheepshead Bay, two cars met in a head-on collision after the driver of a BMW lost control and swerved into oncoming traffic, hitting a minivan. The man behind the wheel, Jamal Iq ... More >>

You Can Get Strip Searched for an Unpaid Parking Ticket: Thanks, U.S. Supreme Court

Bad news if you don't like getting dehumanized: The U.S. Supreme Court just ruled 5-4 to OK strip searches for any offense. What this means: if you get booked for an offense as minor as an unpaid parking ticket, you might have to bare all for corrections officers before being admitted to jail. Y ... More >>

Q&A: Best Music Writing Series Editor Daphne Carr On Becoming A 21st-Century Publisher, What "Best" Means, And Bringing Pop And Classical Closer Together

Michal Nanoru​This month marks the publication of Best Music Writing 2011, the annual anthology of top-notch scribing about music—2010 pieces by the likes of Nitsuh Abebe, Ann Powers, and Jessica Hopper are collected in the book, which this year was edited by New Yorker classical-music c ... More >>

"Who's My Landlord?" App Loses, But Still Useful!

​Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced the winners of the second-annual NYC BigApps 2.0 Competition on Thursday night. This cool city-run competition gives out cash prizes to software developers who use city data sets to build apps that make it easier for people to navigate the city. Unfortunately, ... More >>

Cops Hunting BMW Bandit Who Stabbed Man and Put Him in Trunk

Barion Blake​​Remember the mutilated, unconscious Columbia University employee cops found in a BMW trunk while investigating a hit-and-run fender-bender on Wednesday? Turns out it was his car, and cops are now looking for his assailant, a 30-year-old man whom the New York Post has named the ... More >>

Beware of BMW Owners Who Will Shoot You and Lock You In Their Trunk

​The Daily News says police are investigating a bizarre Harlem "fender-bender," in which the driver of a BMW slammed into the back of a cab this morning, jumped out of the car, and ran away. Cops later popped the trunk and found a man with no ID and a gunshot wound in his head. (The man was rushed ... More >>

Crack Dealing 12 Year-Old Girl Star of Massive Action Packed Queens Crack Ring Bust

​Sometimes, life really does imitate TV. Especially if you're a fan of The Wire. For example, 43 people were arrested today in a crack ring bust in Far Rockaway, Queens. One of them was a 12 year-old girl, who was selling crack -- yes: crack -- for the drug ring.

The Coming of a Chinese Gossip Girl: Predictions from Real Chinese People

Doubt you'll be seeing these at a Shanghai bus stop.​Josh Schwartz is taking Gossip Girl bi-continental and producing a Chinese version of the famous Upper East Side set series, the Post reports, made with Chinese actors and broadcast in China. It's hard for us Western folk here to understand exac ... More >>

Please, Don't Throw the Baby in the Hudson, Even if You're Seriously Pissed at Your Husband

​Say what you will about babies -- they're bratty, demanding, weepy, hard to name, probably bipolar, and they poop a lot -- but it is just not okay to hurl them into a body of water as a revenge tactic against your husband (or even your boyfriend), okay?

Latest New York City Bomb Scare at the American Museum of Natural History

​Tensions are running understandably high and everyone is on alert. Sunday, the NYPD bomb squad was called to a questionable SUV parked near the American Museum of Natural History on 79th Street and Central Park West. As of 2:45 p.m. EST, the New York Post, CNN and the New York Times have no ... More >>

Anne Burrell Wants Back Into the Restaurant Biz; Nate Appleman Seeks Skilled Pizza Makers

​Pierre Schutz has been named the executive chef at the forthcoming Jean-Georges at the Mark hotel, set to open in March. He was formerly at the now-defunct Vong. [NY Times] Famed Gascon chef Thierry Marx will cook a special $350 meal at Le Bernardin on Feb. 20, as part of d'Artagnan's 25th a ... More >>

2009 Darwin Awards: Crime Down? Criminal Stupidity is Up.

Crime is reportedly down, so does that mean there are fewer criminals? Maybe criminals are just getting more stupid. Two co-winners of the just-announced 2009 Darwin Awards — "Honoring those who improve the species . . . by accidentally removing themselves from it!" — are evidence. U ... More >>

New School Bus Policy Terrifies Parents on Staten Island

This year some public grade school students are not eligible for school bus service, which prompts concern on Staten Island. "City forces seventh- and eighth-graders from their comfort zone -- namely, the yellow bus," reports the Staten Island Advance. "At 7 a.m. in the wintertime," they lede, "Anna ... More >>

Jay-Z, Rihanna, and Kanye Will Be Here Long After the World's RAV4 Dealerships Have Gone Extinct

You gotta give it to Jay-Z, Kanye, and Rihanna--they are absolutely not afraid to suggest that when the world has ended and all the BMWs are just burned out husks and humans have to wear masks and bandanas to survive, they will still rule all of us. Video: Jay-Z feat. Rihanna & Kanye West - Run ... More >>

So Someone Else Was Bothered By That Page-Hogging BMW Ad

​ We're glad we're not the only ones who noticed. We were starting to think we were just behind the curve, and everyone else was totally accustomed to a gigantic image of a man talking about BMWs and lightbulbs and such while they were trying to read the New York Times online. Fix Your Broken ... More >>

Quick Hits

"132 Mulberry New York, NY 10013 #nyc #little_italy." twitpic by joannabethpdot. The Beastie Boys' Adam Rauch has cancer of the salivary gland, will seek treatment, is expected to recover. Get well soon, MCA. With Paterson in decline and Cuomo regnant, this guy is our best hope for an exciting 2 ... More >>

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