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Meningitis Outbreak Accelerates in NYC Gay and Bi Communities

Department of Health calls for 100,000 vaccinations as fatalities climb in 2013

UPDATE: Ninth Time's the Charm? Nah, But Arrested Stop and Frisk Protestors Finally Go to Trial in Brooklyn

Update: It turns out that the tenth time was the charm for the four defendants who have been fighting charges stemming from their arrests during a stop-and-frisk protest in Brooklyn in November 2011. A judge granted the defense counsel's motion to dismiss the remaining charges against the four defe ... More >>

9 People Were Non-Fatally Shot While You Were Stumbling Home On New Year's

As we know, New Year's Eve brings out the worst in people. An hyped-up party atmosphere mixed with thousands of people mixed with alcohol will produce that blowback; on my walk from the Flatiron District to the East Village at around 2am, I witnessed two huge fights, five ambulances and a streaker p ... More >>

Enduring in Red Hook

Stairs, barbecues, and disaster tourists

A Guide to NYPD's Central Booking: Go for the Urine-Scented Everything, Stay Because They Won't Let You Leave

At about 7:45 p.m. on Friday, I was arrested.My crime was not as glamorous as I would have hoped -- there was no police chase, no explosions, and no hostages were taken. Like an idiot, I forgot (read: declined) to pay a ticket I received in early March for allegedly not wearing my seat belt -- empha ... More >>

Live: Beanie Sigel Bids A Fanatic Crowd Farewell At S.O.B.'s

Beanie Sigel S.O.B.'s Thursday, August 16 Better than: The Beanie Sigel show I attempted to see in 2006, purportedly with a "live funk band," that was canceled due to something referred to as "a dental emergency." Nobody who came to Beanie Sigel's show last night at S.O.B.'s seemed to be expectin ... More >>

Bloomberg on Stop and Frisk: "Should be Amended, Not Ended"

This must have been awkward.Earlier this morning, in front of a Sunday congregation at an African-American church in Brownsville, Brooklyn, the Hozziner defended the NYPD's increasingly controversial "stop and frisk" policy. With its policy's biggest fan, Commissioner Ray Kelly, in the front row of ... More >>

Q&A: DJ Red Alert On Kiss-FM, The Bridge Wars, And Breaking "Rappin' Duke"

In October of 1983, Kool DJ Red Alert broadcast his first rap radio show on Kiss-FM. It would soon bloom into an essential listening session for hip-hop junkies, a jump-off point for upcoming artists, and a long-running part of New York City's musical soundtrack. So with Kiss closing its doors as we ... More >>

Cops Bust Bodega Worker Ismael Duran for Not Selling Booze to Minor

If you sell alcohol to a minor, you can get arrested. And if you do not sell alcohol to a minor, you can apparently also get arrested. No, really. The Daily News tells the story of Ismael Duran, a father of three who immigrated to the U.S. from the Dominican Republic three years ago. Duran work ... More >>

Holler! The Ten Loudest, Shoutiest Rappers

Waka Flocka Flame is the sort of of hip-hop artist who doesn't so much rap or flow as he shouts his ass off. It's a formula that imbues the Atlanta-based rapper's songs with a boisterous, visceral appeal—and one that he's looking to continue with the release of his second studio album, Triple ... More >>

Troops Out of Iraq; Woman Killed While Protecting Children; Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Dies

​Yesterday, President Obama announced that the U.S. will be withdrawing all of its forces from Iraq by the end of the year. The Washington Post reports there are about 39,000 troops in Iraq today, and all will come home except a small contingent of Marines who are assigned to protect the embas ... More >>

Young Men's Initiative: The White Mayor's Burden

Bloomberg aims to help the young black and Latino men he has been throwing in jail for a decade

Forget Rome: Jesus Gonzalez Takes on Brooklyn

​There's nothing like a nicely dressed young man standing just in front of the turnstiles handing out fliers with JESUS in big print at the top to get people to whip out their Metrocards, drop their heads and race for the train. Jesus Gonzalez, though, appeared indefatigable Thursday morning ... More >>

91 Dead in Norway Massacre; Heat Wave Claims Lives in U.S.

viaAnders Behring Breivik, the suspected Norway killer. ​The death toll from yesterday's horrific violence in Norway is now reported to be 91, mostly from the youth camp shootings on Utoya island. At the camp, at least 84 people died, some as young as 16. The bombing in Oslo killed 7 and injured 9 ... More >>

NYPD Crime Stats: Half The Year Over, Neighborhoods Seeing Spikes in Burglaries and Larcenies

​Well, the year is nearly half over, and it's time to do a bit of handicapping of the city's crime statistics. In general, some sections of the city are experiencing a spike in assaults, and a rash of economic crimes--burglaries and grand larcenies, mainly. Overall, citywide crime, according ... More >>

NYC Foreclosures Drop, But Don't Get Giddy

​The good news? The overall number of foreclosures in New York City dropped dramatically in 2010 after a spike in woeful 2009. The bad news? The number of foreclosed buildings is still staggering, and the city's overall rate of foreclosures is high. Those are part of the mixed bag of conclusions ... More >>

Murderer Rosario DiGirolamo's Google Search for 'Lethal Karate Blows' Uncovered, Forces Him to Plead Guilty

​Rosario DiGirolamo was sentenced yesterday in New Jersey to 25 years in prison for killing his mistress, Amy Giordano, in 2007, cutting up her corpse, and dumping the pieces in the water at Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve in Charleston, Staten Island. A Google search for murder methods led the ... More >>

Ragene Powell-Dickerson, Wanted in Sexting Slaying of Dwayne Burnett, Surrenders

Ragene Powell-Dickerson​The guy accused of hiring someone to lure a pal via sexting to a phony threesome setup and then shoot him to death is now in custody. Ragene Powell-Dickerson, 25, who like victim Dwayne Burnett is from Brownsville, surrendered today to Brooklyn cops and has been charged wi ... More >>

Keenen Upson Charged With Shooting Teens Outside Bishop Loughlin

Perp walk: Accused shooter Keenen Upson​Keenen Upson, a 20-year-old from Fort Greene, has been picked up and charged with assault and other counts in the shooting and wounding of five teens January 14 after a basketball game at Bishop Loughlin High. One of the teens told the Daily News that Upson, ... More >>

Four Thugs Sought in Shooting of Five Brooklyn Teens After Bishop Loughlin B'ball Game

Suspects in Friday night Fort Greene shootings​Cops are looking for four suspects after five teens were wounded by gunfire Friday night outside Bishop Loughlin High School in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, after a basketball game with Christ the King High School. The next day, a 16-year-old girl was shot ... More >>

This Is Why Nine 11 Thesaurus Are Hot

A Bushwick after-school program points young kids toward hip-hop's past and future

Asylum Denied

Only a fraction of Mexicans get U.S. asylum.

Reggae singer slashed with samurai sword in Brooklyn

​Garfield Dixon of 91st St in Brownsville, who performs reggae dancehall as Major Mackerel, was released from Kings County Hospital with wounds on his hands, arms and face, and missing the tip of a finger, after a neighbor attacked him with a samurai sword early Sunday morning. Dixon says tha ... More >>

The Post-Pardon Elation of John Forté

George W. Bush's strangest (and most welcome) beneficiary revels in various types of freedom

Cheek, In Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

President Obama graciously escorted GM into bankruptcy.Enemies decried his kind words and big speech to the Muslim world, but it still went over big. Can't touch this! We're beginning to think that Obama's letting total lunatics attack him on a government website just for the laughs. Patriots ... More >>

Swine Flu PANIC! Continues; First U.S. Death; Big Pork Forces Name Change

A poor Mexican child, who travelled with his family from his native land to Brownsville, Texas, has died just short of his second birthday from swine flu. The attendant headlines all read "First U.S. Swine Flu Death," and everyone is panicking even more, as is their patriotic duty. The Times hollers ... More >>

Home Shopping Network

A hidden camera catches the underside of a Brooklyn pol's personal housing deal

An Immigrant Soldier's Story

Sex Miseducation

Advocates dismayed by more abstinence funding

Million-Dollar Blocks

The neighborhood costs of America's prison boom

Getting Better All the Time

Inside New York's Quiet Success Stories

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One-Bedroom Apartment in Five-Story Building

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Building Public Power

An Organizer's Guide to Citizen Action

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A Perfect Storm

It's Residents Out, Homeless Families in at Troubled Complex

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Very Much Like a Death

Sports

The Other Disaster

Tough Times Ahead Bode Worst for City’s Poorest

Three-Bedroom Row House

Saving Babies

Fighting to Reduce Infant Mortality Among Immigrants and African Americans

A Lesson Before Dying

Voice Reporter Flunks NYPD'S Shoot-Don't-Shoot Test

And the Winner Is . . .

Prize Fight

A Bullet For Big Baby Jesus

Ol' Dirty Bastard Claims the FBI and CIA are Trying to Kill Him. Is He Crazy?