Hempstead (New York)

New York AG: Bronx Gas Station Charged $10 For Gallon Of Gas After Sandy

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman just announced that his office has notified 12 additional gas station owners of his intent to "commence enforcement proceedings" against them after he claims they jacked up prices after Hurricane Sandy.In one case, the A.G. says, a gas station in the Bronx ... More >>

Nassau Police Officer Shot and Killed During Queens Traffic Stop; Second Homicide Also Linked to Suspect

A traffic stop in Queens led earlier today to the shooting deaths of a Nassau County Police Officer and a bystander. Authorities locked down eight public schools in a search for the suspect, which was still ongoing by late afternoon. The shooting took place on an entrance ramp onto the Cross Islan ... More >>

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Have a Ball (And Puck and Uppercut): NYC Is Sportstown, U.S.A.

Man With a Knife Gunned Down in the Middle of Times Square

We can bet half of all the tourists checking out the sites on West 38th Street didn't expect this.At around 3:15pm, a 51-year-old man with an 11-inch butcher knife led twenty cops or so on a drawn out chase through the onset of Times Square. Tourists fled in panic or took their cellphones out to twe ... More >>

How to Handle Penn Station Without Popping a Xanax

There's an advertisement on the subways that you might have seen. It describes a project in the works - the largest public works extravaganza in the country - known as East Side Access: a portal from Grand Central Terminal that will outsource time and trains from Penn Station. As the sign says, "Com ... More >>

Kew Motor Inn, Alleged "Haven" For Hookers, Closes Its Doors (With A Little Help From The City)

​The Kew Motor Inn, located in a residential section of Kew Gardens, according to Queens District Attorney Richard Brown, was a "haven" for hookers and their pimps. So was the Par Central Motor Inn, which also is located in a residential area of Kew Gardens.Thanks to the city's "nuisance abatement ... More >>

Why I Hate Movies And Will Never See One Again!

38 cinematic reasons why I dread the lights going down

Corner Bistro Goes to Queens, R.U.B Goes to Long Island

Voice​Yesterday, it was Bare Burger and the Shake Shack, and today, there's more meat movement to report.

40-Foot-Long Whale Washes Up on Atlantic Beach in Long Island

via @EcoOutfitters​We're already had a number of shark sightings this summer, and now it seems we've moved on to dead whale sightings. Specifically, a poor, dead finback whale, gender unknown, estimated at 30 to 40 feet long, which has washed up on Atlantic Beach in Long Island. According to t ... More >>

Broadway Is the Second Most Dangerous Road for Pedestrians in NYC

​The Tri-State Transportation Campaign has released a report identifying the most dangerous roads for pedestrians in New York City, New Jersey, and Connecticut, where an average of 415 walkers are killed yearly. The (sort of) good news: They've also released interactive Google maps showing the ... More >>

Crime Beat: Roundup -- Thug Who Slugged 101-Year-Old Woman Gets 75 Years; Cat-Roaster Cops Plea. And On and On.

Rose Morat• Thug robber who slugged 101-year-old Rose Morat, terrorized other old women gets 75 years in the slammer. Judge: "A man doesn't throw a left hook and a right hook into the face of a 101-year-old woman." (Post) • Teen cat-roaster in the Bronx nonchalantly pleads to it, faces tw ... More >>

If Islanders Flee, Where Will They Go?

​The hockey season is underway, which is bad news for Islanders fans in two ways. First off, they have to watch the Islanders for another year. Second, Saturday's season opener marked owner Charles Wang's self-proclaimed deadline for final approval of his gazillion-dollar Lighthouse developmen ... More >>

Vodou Child

Haitian religious rites in the unlikeliest of places: a Long Island suburb

Hip-Hop's New No Wave

Downtown's odd relationship with rap bravado continues this fall—now with Muppet costumes

Friday 7/21

No Justice, No Work

Immigrants tap May Day's radical roots

Listings

Where Do I Go Now?

Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll From Here

Show Me Your Undies

Local Record Labels Strip Down to Just the Essentials

Five-Room Apartment in Tenement

Equal Right to Fear

In Public Outrage and Official Hunt, Some Face Special Terrors

Chaos Theory

In Pop Music, It’s Anyone's Guess

No Meltdown-JustT Letdown

The New Bootleggers

Road Kill

Now They tell Us

Paid In Cold Cash

Still Rough Enuff to Break from NY To Long Island

Thanksgivers

Alpha Bits

Location, location, location

A moment of silence

Revolt in Hempstead

Let the games begin

The Democrats' bash

Fast, cheap and out of control

Here come the machine's judges

Looking up

Get out, get out, wherever you are

Paper Tigers

The Issue Before the Bar

Monkeywrenchin' 'De Empiah Town'

Hempstead: A vast waistland

A guru smolders

F is also for fright

A Change Is Gonna Come

Ethnic Mysteries Revealed

Getting the Business

Recordings

Absentee Al

D'Amato Missed 966 Votes When He First Ran for Senate