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New York State Has Some Crazy Facial Recognition Database To Catch Crooks

At the pace surveillance technology is moving, we guess this should be expected(?). On Tuesday, Gov. Cuomo & Co. informed the public that Albany has been using advanced facial recognition methods for the past three years (the idea was originally brought up by former Gov. Spitzer in 2008). And, in ... More >>

BOMB THE STEREO

Dave Nada and co. take Drom to the Tropics

WITCHCRAFT

Balam Acab puts a spell on you

20,000 New Yorkers Will Soon Be "Bus People" Thanks to New Drunk-Driving Regulations

Governor Andrew Cuomo yesterday laid out new regulations for when dangerous drivers can regain their driving privileges after getting convicted of serious driving offenses, and it seems a lot of people will soon be taking the bus.The new regulations, designed to keep drivers with a history of drivin ... More >>

Fear and Loathing in Tampa

From cash-hungry strippers to protesters dressed as vaginas, your gonzo guide to the Republican National Convention

While Florida and Pennsylvania Make Voter Registration Harder, New York Makes It Easier Online

The states of Florida and Pennsylvania have been trying to make it harder to register to vote in 2012. While the former's efforts have been stalled somewhat and the latter's have been upheld in court, New York State has taken the radical step of actually making it a bit easier to register to vote. ... 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 >>

Andrew Cuomo's Seatbelt Bullies Going Gangbusters Until June 3

In Governor Andrew Cuomo's latest attempt to protect you from yourself, he's directed the New York State Police to participate in operation "Buckle Up New York," a two week crackdown on motorists who don't wear seatbelts."The evidence is clear - seatbelts save lives," Cuomo says. "New York State ha ... More >>

Fake! DMV Clerk Clarence Jenkins Sold Drivers Licenses, Manhattan Prosecutor Alleges

Money can't buy happiness -- but it might buy you time behind the steering wheel if you're a felon who has been kicked out of the U.S. The Manhattan District Attorney says that Clarence Jenkins, a 56-year-old DMV clerk, sold three fraudulent drivers licenses to New Yorkers -- including "at least on ... More >>

New York City to Get More Audible Crosswalk Signals, More Near-Sighted Drivers

Today in street news, New York is getting more of those audible walk signs (their official name? "Accessible Pedestrian Signals") that make a clicking noise when it's O.K. for you to cross the street. This is to help elderly and sight-impaired New Yorkers (as well as, we're thinking, people who don' ... More >>

Lush Valley Maybe Welcomes You

Here hosts a curious look at immigration and citizenship

Bronx Man Living a Kafkaesque Nightmare Because of Birth Certificate Mistake

​23 year-old David Rivera insists his name is David Rivera. His birth certificate, however, lists his first name as "Male." This simple mix-up has snowballed into a massive problem that has turned Rivera's life into an Abbott and Costello routine. Rivera told the Post, "I'm trying to get a bir ... More >>

Jose Antonio Vargas, Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist, Outs Himself as an Illegal Immigrant

Vargas​In Sunday's edition of the New York Times Magazine, online today, a former Washington Post reporter and senior contributing editor for The Huffington Post, Jose Antonio Vargas, tells the story of his own life as an undocumented immigrant. Sent by his mother to the United States from the ... More >>

Anthony Weiner Now Busted for Unregistered Car and Expired License Plate

​Disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner has been having a pretty shitty month (deserved or not). Amid calls to resign, seeking treatment for his "issues," and being generally condemned by the New York City population, he's now been busted for driving around in an unregistered car! Some sharp-eyed indiv ... More >>

Back Forty's Annual Chesapeake Crab Boils Kick Off on June 14

'Tis the season.​Savoy may have recently thrown its last big hurrah, but Peter Hoffman is gearing up to throw Back Forty's annual all-summer-long Tuesday night Chesapeake Crab Boils.

Danzig's One Last Caress

Don't call it a comeback, because, for better or worse, the guy never went anywhere

Bronx Bus Crash Driver Lied to Get a License

​Ophadel Williams, the man driving during the Bronx crash that killed 15 people, used aliases and made "false statements" to get a license, the Daily News is reporting. The Department of Motor Vehicles has since suspended Williams's driving privileges, but even before the tragedy, he shouldn't ... More >>

Here Are 10 of New York City's Creepiest (Unhaunted) Places

Creepy abandoned smallpox hospital. ​We're feeling kinda Halloweeny, and, luckily, New York has a whole host of reputedly haunted locales, including the Algonquin (now, creepily, a Marriott), the Dakota, the Empire State Building, and Washington Square Park. But it struck us that each of those ... More >>

Eric Schneiderman's Numbers Don't Look So Hot, Victory and All

​If you've never heard of Jay Townsend, guess what? He runs a small marketing firm and lives in Cornwall on the Hudson and last night he got at least 10,000 more votes than Eric Schneiderman (http://www.ny1.com/content/news_beats/primary_2010_returns/). Townsend is now the Republican cand ... More >>

Richard Maxwell Directs Another Writer's Play

We eye Christina Masciotti's Vision Disturbance

Andy Cuomo and the Anti-Immigrant Pol Who Seconded His Nomination for Governor

Kathy HochulAndrew Cuomo missed an opportunity to name a minority running mate at the recent Democratic convention. He was so conscious of the state's first all-white Democratic ticket in 20 years that he asked Bill Thompson, the black former city comptroller, to nominate him and Vivian Viloria-Fish ... More >>

Love, Angst, and Robert Pattinson In Remember Me

Youth in Revolt, with Michael Cera as Every Role Michael Cera's Ever Had

Cult novel must continue its search for a worthy film adaptation

The Alarming Record of the F.B.I.'s Informant in the Bronx Bomb Plot

Interview: Femi Kuti on the Closing of His Nightclub The Shrine, Nigerian Corruption, and Obama

Dutifully carrying on his father Fela Kuti's outsized and outspoken legacy, afrobeat's first son Femi Kuti has not only spent the last decade-plus touring the world, releasing albums (including last year's fine Day By Day), and collecting Grammy nominations (for 2003's Fight To Win), he's also bee ... More >>

Brooklyn Man Dressed as Dead Mother to Cheat City, Social Security, Etc.

A Brooklyn man is accused of impersonating his dead mother in order to steal a Park Slope townhouse, social security benefits, and social service payments. On at least two different occasions -- including one time in front of police investigators -- Thomas Prusik-Parkin outfitted himself as a 77-y ... More >>

Gov's New Tax Targets Include iTunes, Taxis, and Movies

Fro-Yo With a Side of Virtue

You shouldn't need a doctor's note to eat dessert

Moving (to the Suburbs) in Stereo

The Fountains of Wayne's commuter rhapsodies cry out for an alternate route

Buoyant British Everymen Get All Doom-and-Gloom

Kaiser Chiefs's Yours Truly, Angry Mob

Bards of the 'Burbs

Fountains of Wayne craft resonant pop-punk by focusing on boring people like you

Gap's Crazy Spring Khakis

Mets and Yankees: If Neither One Wins It's a Shame

Peering into the dugouts of the hometown heroes

The Squeeze Is On

Bad news for poor kids: Under new welfare law, state has to meet yet another 'quota' of cuts

Scrutiny on the Bounty: Scott's Chopped-Up, Moronic Romp

Terror by the Numbers

Random searches are as much about the appearance of safety as safety itself

We Are All New Yorkers

Bush makes war on the city's immigrant neighborhoods

Million-Dollar Tax Dodge

We did it for you, senator: special care and handling for Velella's deadbeat pal

The Passion of the Blonds!

Bureaucratic Rock

DMV musical tries to spring free of a Kafkaesque premise

Convicted felon and literary muse receives another trial

Three Days in NYC Jails

Black = Terrorist = Thug: The New Racial Profile?

Traci Elements

This Is Hardcore

Electric Lady Land

Innocence Executed by Ohm

Pataki's Ex–Labor Aide Charged

Former Commissioner Drove Own Sweet Deals

Seasonal Brew

Education Supplement Listings

A Guide to Classes Around Town

Shake the Trees

After the Latest Police Killing of Another Unarmed Black Man, The Feds Need Little Convincing to Intervene in New York

Every Step You Take

Stalk Stories

Blood From Stones

Troubleshooters Wrangle HMO Bills