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Two Separate Stabbings Deep in the East Village Last Night

We were wondering what all those helicopters, fire trucks and police cars near Avenue D were about last night. Looks like we may have our answer and it doesn't look pretty.Early yesterday evening, two different persons were stabbed deep in Alphabet City. Luckily, both encounters were non-f ... More >>

Breaking, Entering, and Boozing with the Castaways of OWS

In a set of unfinished luxury condos, a ragtag group of 100 anarchists and anti-capitalists smoked clove cigarettes and pissed in unworking toilets at an "Occupation Party" Saturday night in Williamsburg. The cops broke up the party within an hour and sent occupiers out onto Bedford Avenue, where t ... More >>

A Woman Just Jumped Off the Williamsburg Bridge [Updated]

​According to a tipster, a woman has just jumped off the Williamsburg Bridge, landing on an vehicle parked on Pitt Street, at Delancey. Our tipster says, "She fell onto the windshield of an SUV on Pitt Street, right across the street from the fire/police station. When I walked by about 10 minu ... More >>

EMT Injured While Breaking Up Fight at Occupy Wall Street

​Last night at Zuccotti Park, an EMT broke his leg responding to a fight and had to be taken away to in an ambulance. This was one of four fights that required security's attention at the park between 10:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. The offender in the fight that injured the EMT was also taken away ... More >>

Helicopter Has Crashed in the East River Bearing Five Passengers [Updated]

According to reports, a helicopter has gone down in the East River. NYPD divers have rescued four people and one is reportedly unconscious -- we haven't heard reports of the fifth person's status. Police spokesman Paul Browne told the AP that the private Bell 206 helicopter plunged into the river of ... More >>

Claimin' I'm A Criminal: Reports From Tuesday Night's Melee At The Pete Rock/Smif-N-Wessun Show

via YouTube​Sirens are forever wailing around town, but the sirens I heard as I walked down Houston Street Tuesday night sounded extra-menacing. And judging by the sheer number of squad cars flying past me, and the intensity with which they ran red lights and drove against traffic up Orchard S ... More >>

Rubi Morado, Kips Bay Teen, Still Missing

Where is Rubi Morado?​It's been two weeks now, cops say, since friends and family have seen 16-year-old Rubi Morado. The Kips Bay teen, who lives at 491 First Avenue, around Bellevue, was last seen at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, March 11, leaving her home. Cops say she's 5-2, 110 pounds, and was wearing ... More >>

Dear New Yorkers: Step Away From the Subway Tracks

Too close!​We can't take it! No more! It's gotten so we get nervous just watching you guys lean in and look for the train and, please, just step back, it's going to come when it comes and it would be better if you were alive for it. Also, dropping your wallet/phone/teddy bear/ham sandwich shou ... More >>

Somali Pirates Hijack American Couple's Yacht; Man Saved After Staten Island Ferry Jump; Bronx Rapist Busted (Weekend Links)

Jean and Scott Adam, an American couple, were taken captive by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean yesterday. The pair were sailing from Mumbai to Oman when they were captured, and "sources onshore in Somalia indicated that a well-known piracy gang from northern Somalia had captured them and was ta ... More >>

Weekend Links: U.S. Subpoenas WikiLeaks Twitter Info; Portuguese Journalist Found Dead in Midtown Hotel

Good morning and welcome to Runnin' Scared Weekends 2.0  I'm Rosie - you might remember me as the intern that went on embarrassingly public dates and got on Dov Charney's bad side. Now I'm taking over weekends here from the venerable Joe Coscarelli. So! Let's begin. According to an Icelandic l ... More >>

Michael Dion, Man Trapped Between Platform and 4 Train: Subway Horror Story of the Week

​The MTA is having a bad time of it. Competing for subway horror story of the week (and it's only Monday), along with the alleged stabber-jumper situation and a potential Chelsea subway rapist, we have Michael Dion, a New York actor, who faced one of our greatest commuter nightmares this weeke ... More >>

Robert Sietsema at Donatella

This week in the Voice, Robert Sietsema has a lot of love for the pies at Donatella: "Of all the places in town making the laughable assertion that they're re-creating 'the true pie of Naples' (some even have a certificate from Verace Pizza Napoletana to prove it!), Donatella's comes closest." Sam ... More >>

Man Takes Subway Train to Face, Survives

​Will Rokos, a 57-year-old Manhattan man who was waiting at 14th Street at Seventh Avenue for a Number 2 train this Saturday, was hit in the head by the train when he leaned over to check on its status. Take note, train-lookers. This is now an official "What Not to Do." Rokos was flung onto th ... More >>

Bike Lanes on City Streets Coming 'Soon': 1970

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 24, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 39 Cyclists in The City: Ride On! By Clark Whelton A thousand bicyclists left Central Park last Wednesday morning and headed down Fifth Avenue to demonstrate that New York would be a better city if more ... More >>

Air Conditioner Falls from Sky, Lands on East Villager

How not to install your air conditioner.​Here's something we didn't even know we had to worry about: Air conditioners falling out of 6th-floor windows and ricocheting off of awnings and onto the heads of innocent passers-by. Yep. On what will go down in history as a very unlucky day for 67-yea ... More >>

Science: Saying "Fuck" Makes You Feel Better...Unless You Work at the New York Times

​Today the New York Times Freakonomics blog points out that dropping the f-bomb, among other choice delicacies, has an upside: It's good for you! There's a new study out from Bellevue that finds that "swearing can also be used as a psychological tool in the service of helping." In fact, it may ... More >>

Illegal Immigrant's Heart Transplant is Covered. Her Rent is Not.

​In June, the Voice wrote about Julia Amparo-Alvarado, a 42-year-old illegal immigrant from Guatemala who faced death without a heart transplant. The mother of two was navigating a complex path of gaining insurance coverage despite her immigration status. Three weeks ago, Julia managed to get ... More >>

What's Your Favorite 3-D Movie?

​Every single movie nowadays seems to be in 3-D, which means you fork over an extra three bucks to strap headache-inducing glasses on your face and see oppressive animation and/or effects envelop the mind you already checked at the door. It's become such a prevalent phenomenon that if anyone ... More >>

An Immigrant's Heart

To survive the ordeal of escaping Guatemala, Julia needed a big Heart. But not this big.

Mysterious New Subway Hero Continues Grand Tradition of Subway Hero Anonymity

​The New York Times has a story that actually makes us a little weepy for a change (sometimes we're emotional that way), because somebody actually did something good in the midst of all the spitting on bus drivers and killing the world through corporate greed and forcing one another to drink ... More >>

Quick hits

A pajama-clad Manhattan woman who jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday is recovering from hypothermia in Bellevue today after Police Department divers jumped from a helicopter and pulled her out of the East River. The Times has an interview with the divers -- The Arbeit Macht Frei (Work wil ... More >>

Williamsburg DJ Solange Raulston Killed by Truck While Cycling

​Those of us who bike Nassau Avenue know the intersection at busy McGuinness Boulevard is fraught with peril and festooned with floral tributes, presumably for persons who have perished there. Solange Raulston, aka DJ Reverend Soul, who worked the Williamsburg club circuit, fatally encounter ... More >>

LaGuardia Bomb Scare Man is Peddler, Schizophrenic

​Early Saturday morning, a man entered LaGuardia's Terminal C with a bag containing "a set of batteries and wires attached to what looked like an electrical power strip with a toggle," says the New York Times. The Daily News says he also had "what appeared to be a detonator in his hand." Secur ... More >>

Cop Car Hits Caddy, Jumps Curb at Avenue D and 5th; At Least 8 Hurt

Around 4:15 this afternoon a patrol car speeding north on Avenue D hit a Cadillac that was turning onto the avenue from East 5th Street, jumped the curb, and hit at least eight pedestrians. The cops, three occupants of the Caddy, and some pedestrians have gone to Bellevue, and some victims are said ... More >>

SOTC Naked People Day, Act III: Apparently Those Cops in the Matt and Kim's "Lessons Learned" Video Weren't Plants

Matt and Kim blew our minds last week with their video for "Lessons Learned," an audacious, life-affirming sequence in which the joy-rock tour horses go streaking in Times Square. The spot's tone is generally chaste--private parts were blurred, etc--but Matt and Kim are definitely naked. Thus, the ... More >>

Under the Toque--Chefs and Food Sellers Band Together to Create Supply Chain

Bravo announced the chef'testants slated to compete in the upcoming Top Chef spinoff, Top Chef Masters, which include New Yorkers Wylie Dufresne, Anita Lo, Nils Noren, Christopher Lee and Jonathan Waxman. [Eater] Christian Delouvrier of La Goulue in Bal Harbour, Miami and previously of Alain Ducas ... More >>

Fun City Returns? Rise in Quality-of-Life Crimes Seen

We have been waiting for the great wheel of history to spin and for New York to become undesirable to outsiders again, thereby driving down rents and returning us to Fun City. Here may be a harbinger: the Post announces that "Overstretched cops are struggling to combat petty crime, according to poli ... More >>

I Guess It Wasn't Exactly a Triumph or Anything: Sam Mendes's Revolutionary Road

In 1960, Richard Yates, thirty-four, slurred out a proposal to a twenty-year-old student he'd met at the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, in Vermont. He was on the brink of a divorce from his first wife, and on the verge of publishing his first book, Revolutionary Road. When the student, Barbara Si ... More >>

Worker Killed, Another Critical in Construction Accidents

In the Streets: Cab Crash, Subway Jumper, Falling Glass

Letters 7.30.08

Letters 6.25.08

A Quiet Little Death at Bellevue

Inmate Patrick Miller didn't beat the system. It beat him.

Pringles Can Inventor's Ashes Kept in His Beloved Tube, And Other Oddities

Letters

Meet the Artists

Songs From the Black Chair

Ten years of listening to the city's most troubled men

Out of Bellevue and Alcohol-Doused

Ashcroft Terrorizes New York Doctors

Attorney General Demands Patients' Private Abortion Records

Greenwich Time

Thrifting in the West Village

Listings

When Crazy Is Normal

Portrait of a Grieving City

Doctors Who Tried to Help

Hospitals Prepare for the Worst, and Then Wait

The Wailing Wall

New Yorkers Search for the Missing, One Flyer at a Time

Ambulance Wars

How Private Ambulance Crews Steer Patients Away From Public Hospitals

Sickout

Thousands of City Nurses Protest Staffing Levels

China’s Execution, Inc.

The People’s Republic Has Long Been Suspected of Selling Organs From Prisoners. Now One New York Doctor Knows the Rumors Are True.

Dialysis Deals

Private Companies Lease Space in Public Hospitals

The War Against Gays and Lesbians

'The Attacks Were the Most Brutal I Encountered'