Fordham (New York)

John Liu, Comptroller: City Needs to Analyze Causes of Five-Year Surge in Lawsuits

In on our article this week on the five-year surge in civil rights lawsuits, we pointed out that the city does little to analyze the causes of those claims in an effort to identify problem officers or troubling trends that can be corrected. City Comptroller John Liu also knows there's a problem, ac ... More >>

A Dancer's Tour of Duty

Iraq changed Marine Sergeant Roman Baca — ballet brought him back

Education Supplement: Education Listings

Tribeca Twelve: Recovery House

A new college residence offers students 12-step living—for a price

DECEMBER MADNESS

Watch college b-ball live

Fordham Fights Terrible Food By Launching Gluten-Free Menu

Fordham has been getting a lot of bad press for their nasty cafeteria food. We're not sure if a gluten-free menu is going to help or hurt their reputation, but they're launching one anyways. The station offers gluten-free grains such as quinoa, brown rice, wild rice, buckwheat, millet, and teff.

Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" Takes One Person's Sanity To The End Of The Line

This month, to celebrate the Internet's unbridled love for wallowing in nostalgia and even greater relishing of talking about why certain cultural artifacts are horrible, Sound of the City presents First Worsts, a series in which our writers remember the first time... they ever hated a song enough t ... More >>

Kutsher's Tribeca's Zach Kutsher on Billy Crystal Fart Jokes, the Borscht Belt Part 2

Yesterday, we talked smelly cow's feet and kosher food with Kutsher's Tribeca's Zach Kutsher. Today, we continue by delving into the health advantage, or lack thereof, of using the rendered chicken fat known as schmaltz, his Dirty Dancing childhood, and what the Borscht Belt would be like if gamblin ... More >>

NYU Expansion Proposal Scaled Back, Scott Stringer Says Compromise is Hard

No one's going to get exactly what they want. But that's the essence of compromise! This was part of Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer's message today when he officially announced his support for a scaled-back version of the controversial 20-year expansion plan for New York University. T ... More >>

State Senator Gustavo Rivera on Redistricting: Bad Process, Horrendous Product

​Runnin' Scared caught up with State Senator Gustavo Rivera yesterday to hear his thoughts on the ongoing redistricting battles in Albany. He testified on Monday at a hearing on the matter. (He wasn't able to attend a Bronx redistricting hearing yesterday at the Bronx Museum of the Arts -- whi ... More >>

New York City Dorms Are Insanely Expensive

wikipediaThe room and board is too damn high -- especially at The New School.​In last week's cover story on student debt at NYU, we noted that part of the issue is that New York City is just a very expensive place to live. Illustrating that point, a list released today of the most expensive c ... More >>

For Corporate 'Campus Reps,' Marketing to Classmates Is the Name of the Game

Brand Practice

Artists Reveal the Tunes They Work To

The sonic muses of Terry Winters, Lisa Yuskavage, John Chiara, Jaime Hernandez, Demetrius Oliver, and James Casebere

In Memory Of Paul Shaffer's House, The Now-Shuttered Punk Outpost In The Bronx

​Over the last year, those who traveled to the Paul Shaffer House--from Brooklyn, Fordham, Columbia, and SUNY Purchase--had somehow become convinced that the punk house off the Bronx Park East stop was going to be around forever. It wasn't hard; on the best summer nights, the place seemed like ... More >>

BIRD'S-EYE VIEW

Bring your binoculars to Riverdale

Q&A: How Odd Future's Tyler, The Creator Got His Shoe Back, As Explained By The Guy Who Helped Steal It

A triumphant, newly shoed Tyler, post-negotiation. Tim's in the middle, succeeding in his quest to not look too nervous. Also: Fuck Steve Harvey.​So Odd Future mastermind Tyler, the Creator lost his shoe while crowd-surfing during the L.A. rap crew's raucous show at Santos Party House Wednesda ... More >>

Best Of NYC: We're the Greatest Sports City in the World

And proud of it

The Poorest Congressional District in America? Right Here, in New York City

​There are 435 congressional districts in the United States of America. And the poorest one in the country is right here in New York City. Can you guess which one it is?

New York College Students Are Sad

​The Princeton Review's "Best Colleges" survey has just come out (are you paying attention, helicopter parents?!), and it turns out that New York City has some of the most depressed college kids in the nation. Whatta town!

964 Reasons to Take Your Landlord to Court

As promised, tenants in a Bronx building near Fordham U. that's being run into the ground by Frank Palazzolo, one of the Voice's recently named "10 Worst Landlords", filed suit today in housing court to try to wrest the tenement from his hands. The suit, brought by the tenants of 2710 Bainbridge w ... More >>

New York's Ten Worst Landlords, Part 1

In a city of slumlords and broke-ass apartment buildings, these stand out.

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ "it's new york lol same shit lastnight some car was on fire in Fordham crazyy ass shit look." Twitpic by Itlabia. Can you believe last week at this time we were still thinking about Balloon Boy? Yes, that's how we passed our time before Steve Phillips, his "tubby temptress," and other exci ... More >>

How AmeriCorps Led to Obama's First Scandal

How a cash voucher for city teaching students hurt the President

Edgar Allan Pho: World of Taste in the Bronx

Southeast Asian nabe surrounds horror master's cottage

New York's Fumble Recovery

Why Rutgers deserves more New York love, and Notre Dame less

Your Own Personal Blackboard Jungle

Fresh from the frontlines, New York Teaching Fellows tell all

The Hidden Treasure of American Acting

At 81, Alvin Epstein's trying something classic and new

Under One Flag

City's melting pot reaches the boiling point

Dial D for . . . Huh?

Drunken cell-phone calls on campus—and online

Country in the City

As Nashville invades New York, a home-grown hayseed scene thrives beneath the CMA's radar

Arson for Hire

The Men Who Are Burning New York

Coming of Age

1976–1985: Punk to Pomo, Basquiat to Breakdancing

The Big Money

No longer an unknown, the mayor still holds a billion-dollar advantage

A List With Bullets

NYPD shooting deaths of civilians, starting with Diallo and not ending

The News at Dusk

The death and life of network evening news; plus: Krugman's journey to prime critic of Bush

More Than 'Just Say No'

Addiction studies thrives in academia

No Contributions, No Arbitrations

Teamster Fatigue

Knicks vs. Draftniks

And the Knicks Grab Pole Position

Sports

Close-Up on Woodlawn

The NYPD Wants to Watch You

Nation's Largest Law Enforcement Agency Vies for Total Spying Power

Close-up on City Island

The Real Curriculum

Close-Up On: Norwood

Where in the World Is Jose Rivera?

New Bronx Democratic Boss Lied About Residences

Theater

That Championship Season

A Bronx Baller Leads the Way to a Harlem Title

Asian Power

Keeping Up the Struggle Against Police Violence

Alternating Currents

Dead Reckoning

60 Minutes Starring Jack Kevorkian