John F. Kennedy International Airport

UPDATE: A Drone Flies in Brooklyn? Pilot Reports Unmanned Aircraft Sighting

Cue the heavy drums and eerie science-fiction score. It looks like drones have already made their way to New York City skies, according to a CNN report. The pilot of an Alitalia passenger jet heading in to John F. Kennedy Airport for landing yesterday afternoon reported sighting a small unmanned ai ... More >>

Workers Swarm 42nd Street and Picket Across the City For Liveable Wages and Better Treatment

Hard-hats and picket-signs flooded 42nd Street yesterday evening as thousands of workers and social activists from around the city gathered in solidarity to fight for better working conditions. The demonstration came on the heels of last week's Fast-Food Forward protest -- where employees at differ ... More >>

Stopping the Next Plague

Hunting for viruses with Columbia's Simon Anthony

Bloomberg, Kelly Say NYPD Foiled 14 Terror Plots; Not So, Article Counters

For years, Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner Ray Kelly have claimed that the NYPD has thwarted 14 terror attacks since 2001. And many people actually believed them. The problem is it's not really true. In fact, as the internet news site Propublica notes, "the figure overstates the number of serious, ... More >>

Cuomo: Looks Like Queens is Not Getting Another Casino After All

Looks like the Governor is facing yet another monetary failure. Except, with this one, it looks like he's all in.A few months ago, Cuomo announced that he wanted to a build a casino at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park (the price tag: $4 billion). The 3.8-million-square-foot gambling hub, right n ... More >>

Seeing Space Shuttle Enterprise From the Q Train: A Close Encounter of the Manhattan Bridge Kind

Knowing the Space Shuttle Enterprise was going to be arriving today in New York City, I was extremely pissed off to realize I had a doctor's appointment which would preclude me from actively viewing it, and I'd most likely be underground in the subway when it flew over the Hudson, guaranteeing I wou ... More >>

Kill The Geese, Now! (Or People Might Get Killed by Them)

Avians and airplanes are a bad mix -- and the skies above New York City are no exception. On Tuesday, a bird strike prompted a JetBlue plane to make an emergency landing. Last week, also, a bird strike forced a Delta flight to make an emergency landing. And don't forget the Miracle on the Hudso ... More >>

'The Sphere' To Leave Battery Park

"The Sphere" -- a sculpture that survived the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center -- will leave Battery Park at the end of the month, according to the Associated Press. The sculpture sat in the plaza between the two towers and became a memorial after it was recovered from the rubble. Despite an o ... More >>

Ray Lengend, Alleged Racist Fire-Bomber, Hit With Hate Crime Charges For Attacks On Mosque, Hindu Temple

​In what appear to be actual hate crimes, a Queens man has been hit with a 36-count indictment alleging that he fire-bombed multiple buildings -- including a mosque and a Hindu temple -- during a New Year's Day crime spree that ended with the suspect telling investigators how much he hates Arabs, ... More >>

Archbishop Dolan In Rome To Be Made Cardinal

New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan has arrived in Rome, NY1 reported, after leaving from JFK International Airport last night. The flight was the first set in Dolan's journey to be elevated to cardinal. The New York Daily News caught Dolan as he was leaving his St. Patrick's residence yesterday eveni ... More >>

Iran Accused of Sponsoring Plot to Assassinate Adel Al-Jubeir, Saudi Ambassador

​Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have charged two men with conspiracy to assassinate Adel Al-Jubeir, the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, in what they allege is an Iranian government-backed plot. The U.S. Department of Justice charged Manssor Arbabsiar and Gholam Shakuri with co ... More >>

Wet, Naked Man Could Have Caused a Lot of Problems at JFK If He Knew How

​In a far too short story, the New York Post informs us of a "dripping-wet, naked man" eventually identified as Greg Rodriguez, 30, who managed to get over an 8-foot-high barbed wire fence at JFK Airport yesterday morning. This put him very, very close to a storage facility housing quite a lot ... More >>

DSK Told Cops He Had Diplomatic Immunity, Wanted Eggs for Breakfast

​According to court papers released Thursday, former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, now being held under house arrest for allegedly sexually assaulting a Sofitel Hotel maid, told the cops that he had diplomatic immunity following his removal from an Air France flight to Paris at JFK. The do ... More >>

Dominique Strauss-Kahn Has Allegedly Done This Naughty Sex Stuff Before

​Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF boss and one-time favorite to become the president of France, stands accused of jumping a woman at the Sofitel in New York City, sexually assaulting her as she tried to clean his hotel room. He was pulled off a flight back to France and arrested at JFK Airport ... More >>

What the USDA's New Food Desert Locator Means to NYC

No food deserts here.​In an effort to acknowledge struggling communities around the country, the USDA has launched its new food desert locator. For the purposes of this interactive map, food deserts have been defined as "low-income census tracts where a substantial number or share of residents ... More >>

Larisa Prikhodko, 26, and Her Mother, Tatyana, Fatally Stabbed in Brooklyn

Larisa Prikhodko​After the jump: Updates on the case about the suspect, a "Russian 'Rambo'" who served in the Russian Army special ops, his departure to Russia, his chance of being apprehended, and the apartment he left "full of empty booze bottles." As New York legislators advocate for a do ... More >>

Asshole Pilot Landed Plane on New York Beach Because He Felt Like It

Jason Maloney (NY Post/Alex Rud) ​​Jason Maloney, the 24-year-old pilot who landed his small plane in Queens on Monday night, sounds like a pain in the ass. Today, the New York Times reports that Maloney chose to land his single-engine Piper Warrior on Rockaway Beach because he really likes ... More >>

Top Ten Great DMX Shenanigans

​The rapper DMX is currently serving out a one-year sentence for parole violation at the Mental Health Unit of the Arizona State Prison. It's the latest nefarious chapter of a life that the artist known more formally to the cops as Earl Simmons has lived out as if he were playing it out throug ... More >>

Man Uses "Cooked Rabbit" Excuse When Smuggling Cocaine

cocaine.com and slowtrav.comUS Customs is definitely not the bunny slopes.​ A 29 year-old man was recently arrested for smuggling cocaine into the United States from Georgetown, Guyana. Why, exactly did he get caught? Oh, right, because he told guards he was bringing "cooked rabbit" into th ... More >>

Sleepy JFK Security Guards Fired; Sleepier Boss Stays On

​Guards from Covenant Aviation Security feel they have been wrongfully fired for sleeping on the job, the New York Post reports today. They say say their supervisor Ronald Denig commits the same offenses that they do. With all of the chaos going on around at the country's airports, it's no won ... More >>

Jafar Panahi, Iranian Director, Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison, Banned from Making Movies

Jafar Panahi​Ten months after his arrest last March, Jafar Panahi -- the most internationally acclaimed of Iranian directors as well as one of the most political in both his movies and his outspoken support for opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi -- has been sentenced to 6 years in prison. In ... More >>

Joseph Yannai, Chef Book Writer, Hit With Fed Sex-Trafficking Charges

​Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch just announced a pretty nasty sex-trafficking case against a 66-year-old Westchester County man who allegedly went Web-trolling for women innocently seeking work as au-pairs. Joseph Yannai, a writer who wrote a book about famous chefs (The International W ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​Kennedy Airport. Twitpic via sawyerlex. War on Christmas season swung into full effect. In a holiday spirit, the Staten Island D.A. tried shame on shoplifters. A GOP Congressman moved to read a pro-Christmas resolution into the House record. Andrea Peyser denounced the godless Bloomingdales ... More >>

The Strangest Landlord-Tenant Relationship In Town?

Stacked up in cubicles for decades, immigrants living in a Bowery tenement may have a very unusual situation.

At JFK, Erhan Yildirim Clears Corpses For Takeoff

A wing and a prayer

A Girl's Life at Aviation High School

A Girl's Life at Aviation High School

Duck mistaken for chocolate in South Ozone Park

Rock-rock-Rockaway roti

NY's Airports Are Worse Than Most: Report

City Prepares for Taxi Strike

Revolt from Above

A family-run union for security guards ousts its members

High Fashion

Styles come and go, but the glamour of drugs endures

Get On the Bus—and the Train and the Carpool

Joining the anti-war surge on Washington? Plot your itinerary now.

The Torture Judge

U.S. court rules our government can break international laws to keep us safe

Marching to Montgomery: The Cradle Did Rock

Chads Into Confetti: A Great Day for America

Dubya's Inauguration

Seven Years on the Sidewalk

With the worst injustices gone from the Rockefeller drug laws, Randy Credico gropes for a new strategy to repeal them

GOP's Heart of Darkness

The president says he opposes torture; his leadership supports it. Who will prevail?

Plumbing the Depths

After Arrests, a Union Agrees to Its Own Investigation

The Year in Terror

Even Cowboys Get the Blues

Developers to Evict Horses From East New York Stables

Listings

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Pilots’-Eye View

The Crash of Flight 587 Raises Questions About Training and Air Traffic Control

Contra Iran

Jafar Panahi’s INS Trial

Chads Into Confetti

A Great Day for America

A Visionary’s Version of Tomorrowland

Once Upon a Time …

Dream Makers, Heartbreakers

Strawberry and Other Star Athletes Who've Suffered Self-Inflicted Tragedy

Letters

Judaism in the Air

Taking Torah on the road