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  • Blogs

    March 12, 2009

    No Mob Bones About It

    The FBI has given up -- at least for now -- digging for old wiseguy bones at a mob burial ground on Long Island. The FeeBees spent three days this week shoveling away at a spot in East Farmingdale where a tipster had told them more bodies were buried -- to no avail. Last fall, spade work by the b ... More >>

  • Long Island Voice

    January 11, 2000

    Three Cheers For The Red, White And Blue Cheese

    The FBI has given up -- at least for now -- digging for old wiseguy bones at a mob burial ground on Long Island. The FeeBees spent three days this week shoveling away at a spot in East Farmingdale where a tipster had told them more bodies were buried -- to no avail. Last fall, spade work by the b ... More >>

  • Long Island Voice

    November 30, 1999

    Still Rough Enuff to Break from NY To Long Island

    The FBI has given up -- at least for now -- digging for old wiseguy bones at a mob burial ground on Long Island. The FeeBees spent three days this week shoveling away at a spot in East Farmingdale where a tipster had told them more bodies were buried -- to no avail. Last fall, spade work by the b ... More >>

  • Long Island Voice

    November 23, 1999

    With Relish

    The FBI has given up -- at least for now -- digging for old wiseguy bones at a mob burial ground on Long Island. The FeeBees spent three days this week shoveling away at a spot in East Farmingdale where a tipster had told them more bodies were buried -- to no avail. Last fall, spade work by the b ... More >>

  • Long Island Voice

    September 21, 1999

    Site and Sound

    The FBI has given up -- at least for now -- digging for old wiseguy bones at a mob burial ground on Long Island. The FeeBees spent three days this week shoveling away at a spot in East Farmingdale where a tipster had told them more bodies were buried -- to no avail. Last fall, spade work by the b ... More >>

  • Long Island Voice

    September 21, 1999

    Bunk

    The FBI has given up -- at least for now -- digging for old wiseguy bones at a mob burial ground on Long Island. The FeeBees spent three days this week shoveling away at a spot in East Farmingdale where a tipster had told them more bodies were buried -- to no avail. Last fall, spade work by the b ... More >>

  • Long Island Voice

    September 7, 1999

    Ethnic Mysteries Revealed

    The FBI has given up -- at least for now -- digging for old wiseguy bones at a mob burial ground on Long Island. The FeeBees spent three days this week shoveling away at a spot in East Farmingdale where a tipster had told them more bodies were buried -- to no avail. Last fall, spade work by the b ... More >>

  • Long Island Voice

    September 7, 1999

    The Poison Ivy League

    The FBI has given up -- at least for now -- digging for old wiseguy bones at a mob burial ground on Long Island. The FeeBees spent three days this week shoveling away at a spot in East Farmingdale where a tipster had told them more bodies were buried -- to no avail. Last fall, spade work by the b ... More >>

  • Long Island Voice

    August 17, 1999

    Tracts of My Tears

    The FBI has given up -- at least for now -- digging for old wiseguy bones at a mob burial ground on Long Island. The FeeBees spent three days this week shoveling away at a spot in East Farmingdale where a tipster had told them more bodies were buried -- to no avail. Last fall, spade work by the b ... More >>

  • Long Island Voice

    August 24, 1999

    Letters

    The FBI has given up -- at least for now -- digging for old wiseguy bones at a mob burial ground on Long Island. The FeeBees spent three days this week shoveling away at a spot in East Farmingdale where a tipster had told them more bodies were buried -- to no avail. Last fall, spade work by the b ... More >>

  • Long Island Voice

    August 24, 1999

    Arcade Pimp #1

    The FBI has given up -- at least for now -- digging for old wiseguy bones at a mob burial ground on Long Island. The FeeBees spent three days this week shoveling away at a spot in East Farmingdale where a tipster had told them more bodies were buried -- to no avail. Last fall, spade work by the b ... More >>

  • Long Island Voice

    October 26, 1999

    headline

    The FBI has given up -- at least for now -- digging for old wiseguy bones at a mob burial ground on Long Island. The FeeBees spent three days this week shoveling away at a spot in East Farmingdale where a tipster had told them more bodies were buried -- to no avail. Last fall, spade work by the b ... More >>

  • NYC Life

    November 29, 2005

    Honey, Don't

    Why mead, ancient drink of love, may not be making a comeback this year

  • NYC Life

    August 3, 1999

    Death Valley

    The Great Depression

  • NYC Life

    August 22, 2000

    Loft in Former Brewery

    The Great Depression

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    May 29, 2001

    Rock: One-Offs

    Disappearing Acts

  • News

    June 26, 2001

    Death in Astoria

    An Eyewitness to Flame and Frenzy

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    July 27, 2004
  • Long Island Voice

    December 21, 1999

    From India, With Love

    An Eyewitness to Flame and Frenzy

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    February 27, 2007

    Claw Money Honey

    A legendary graffiti artist turned fashion designer cashes in her street cred

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    June 10, 2009

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  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    Have You Seen... Sexual Assailant, Northern Queens

    A 20-year-old woman was walking near 185th Street and the Long Island Expressway in Queens around 10:50 p.m. on July 3rd when, she says, the man pictured at left grabbed her, dragged her off, sexually assaulted and robbed her, and fled. As it happens the man was caught on surveillance cameras at a c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2009

    When Spaghetti Sauce Attacks

    The Daily News is reporting that a Long Island woman is suing a Queens Pathmark after an unstable display of jarred spaghetti sauce collapsed on her, leaving her, she claims, with permanent injuries. Apparently, tea biscuits aren't the only foods with the potential to cause grievous bodily harm...

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    Quick Hits

    ​ Twitpic via M_Solomon. With last year's Long Island Walmart Black Friday stampede in mind, the National Retail Foundation has established training, security, and traffic flow guidelines to prevent recurrences; Walmart has established its own new guidelines, in compliance with an agreement ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2009

    Upstate wants a divorce

    ​Periodically, one or the other of the partners in New York City's nervous marriage with parts north threatens to leave. This time, a State Senator from solid red upstate has weighed our value as a revenue source against our New Yorker cooties and found us wanting.

  • Voice Choices

    March 9, 2010

    Blue Oyster Cult

    ​Periodically, one or the other of the partners in New York City's nervous marriage with parts north threatens to leave. This time, a State Senator from solid red upstate has weighed our value as a revenue source against our New Yorker cooties and found us wanting.

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    Shark Tank Wedding Irrepressibly "Unique" (Video)

    ​When we heard that a Long Island couple was getting hitched in a shark tank, we were skeptical. It seemed like a lot of unnecessary hoopla for something that could be done rather pleasantly without the inclusion of underwater beasts, wetsuits, or a large suspended cage. (Maybe a beach wedding ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2010

    Discovering East End Clam Pie

    ​Escaping the smell of freshly baked garbage for the breeze of a Long Island beach is an integral part of a New York summer. If you find yourself there, keep an eye out for clam pie. It's a specialty of Long Island's East End, one of the oldest dishes of the area. We found one--homemade, froze ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2010

    Family Offers $30,000 for Return of Grave-Snatched Grandma

    via Long Island Press​Bizarrely, grave-robbers have stolen the body of Mattia Filippazzo, a Long Island grandma, from the mausoleum where she was interred with her husband at St. Charles Cemetery in East Farmingdale, New York. Why? The family has little idea, and Suffolk County police are appa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2010

    Dina Lohan's House Recipient of Ancient Egg-Breaking Ritual

    via TMZ​Poor Mrs. Lohan, mother of the year, Carvel ice cream lover. Her house in Merrick, Long Island, has been vandalized by ne'er-do-wells not once but twice in the last week, according to TMZ. This is not going to make Lindsay want to move home, now, is it?

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2011

    The Opulent Organs of Western Beef

    ​Here's looking at you, kid -- I mean piglet. Organ meats, also known as offal or by the more all-inclusive category of variety meats, form a perpetual topic of conversation among food fanciers. Some love 'em. Some hate 'em. But no one is completely indifferent. Many chefs have fooled around ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2011

    Murray Hill Is For Douchebags, Arrested Development

    ​Even the New York Times says so! Murray Hill, the New York City neighborhood occupying blocks between 34th Street and 40th Street from Madison to Third Avenue, gets chuckled at in this morning's newspaper as the home of buildings "more challenging than a dorm, though not much more." Known for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2011

    Energy Kitchen Plans Nationwide Bison Burger Domination

    ​Energy Kitchen, the "healthy" fast-food chain that operates 10 restaurants in the New York City area, is looking to take over America with its ostrich and bison burgers and plans to expand to a whopping 1,000 locations over the next 10 years.

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, And Nicki Minaj Are Invading Long Island In March

    ​If ever you wanted an excuse to truck out to Long Island's Nassau Coliseum, home to perennial NHL doormats the New York Islanders, this'd be it: Lil Wayne's I Am Music II tour, costarring Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj, Mixmaster Mike, and indomitable rapper accessory Travis Barker, is coming to town ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    Suspected Long Island Serial Killer Murdered Prostitutes Who Advertised on Craigslist

    ​It's official: the Daily News says Suffolk County cops are pretty sure the speculated Long Island serial killer really is a serial killer. Better (worse?) yet, he's a Craigslist serial killer. Police say they've finally identified the bodies they found along Long Island's Oak Beach last mont ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    Drag Racers Crash Into Hooters, Burst Into Flames

    Early on Thursday morning, two cars raced down the Long Island Expressway at 145 mph only to both crash right after exiting the highway. The Dodge, which carried three people, hit a Gulf gas station pump and ignited (surveillance video above), while the Mitsubishi hurtled into the fence of a Hooters ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    Long Island Jocks Beat Up Weed Dealer, Who Tells Cops and Gets Arrested Too

    ​Three dumb jocks from Long Island pretended like they wanted to buy an ounce of pot, but instead of paying they just beat up the drug dealer and took his stash, with a "knife and a pellet gun" in tow. The weed dealer was so devastated that he hopped in his car to follow the trio and passed a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2011

    New York Serial Killer Hunt is On: Police 'Looking at Somebody'

    Investigators search Gilgo Beach​The "Long Island Ripper," as the New York Post is calling him, may be responsible for both the Atlantic City prostitute slayings in 2006 and the recent rash of bodies turning up since December of last year around Ocean Parkway and Gilgo Beach on Long Island. Ei ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2011

    Ninth Body Found on Long Island Beach as Search for New York Serial Killer Continues

    ​Bones found today on Long Island may indicate a ninth victim of the serial killer terrorizing the area. Eight previous corpses were found along Jones and Gilgo Beach, four of which were identified as Craigslist prostitutes, while the rest, found in the past two weeks, have yet to be named. Ar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2011

    New York Serial Killer Spawns Music Video: Brent City Mafia's "Ocean Parkway"

    ​It's not that current events shouldn't be fodder for art, even when the news is at its most horrifying, like the potential serial killer murdering women on Long Island. But Brent City Mafia, a Long Island rap crew with 8 subscribers on YouTube as of this evening and no website we could find, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    Long Island Serial Killer Could Have Wife and Kids: A Personality Profile in Order of Surprise

    ​Serial killer experts, criminologists, an ex-FBI profiler, and two New York Times reporters have worked together to bring us this terrifying personality profile for the man -- yes, he's almost definitely a man -- who could be responsible for the 10 sets of human remains found so far on Long I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    Q&A: Helado Negro's Roberto Carlos Lange on "The Message," Gigantic Floppy Discs, and the Album He's Making with Julianna Barwick

    by Andrew Stout ​First there's the owl; then there's the enormous afro. The sight of the two in close proximity means you've likely entered Roberto Carlos Lange's domain, whether it be through the front door of his Brooklyn home or by hearing one of the dozens of sound sculptures and animated ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Prayer for Money Leads to Money, Rejuvenating Long Island Family's Faith in God

    ​If you're one of those sorts who snubs religion's "true believers," you should really take a listen to this: A Long Island man, Sal Bentivegna, prayed for his mom, Gloria, to hit the jackpot. The very next day, she won $1 million in the lottery. Hence God exists, and he likes to reward his be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    High Schoolers Banned From Graduation: Pranks, Water Balloons and Lightsabers, Oh My!

    ​It's the end of the school year and kids everywhere are hyper! Last night came a report that a handful of seniors at Long Island's East Rockaway High School have been banned from attending graduation and prom because they participated in a water balloon fight outside, where they hit the princ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    Long Island Mansion Gives Us Sensory Overload

    It's great when people's places of residence have their own names like Grey Gardens or the White House. That's why we were so taken by this quaint colonial home in Long Island called Boulder Beach -- oh yeah, and it's ridiculous. The $12 million Long Island pad featured on CBS's Living Large has be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    Roving Armadillos Are Heading for the East Coast

    ​This just in to add to your terrifying end-times-esque tales of animal takeover (see also: Crabs in Antarctica! Mountain lions in Connecticut! Ladybugs on Long Island!). Thanks to climate change, so say the scientists, the ole armadillo, 'dillo for short, is moving on from his Texas home, whe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    Long Island Winemaker Makes Vinegar (On Purpose)

    Vinegar thrill.​Most winemakers wouldn't brag about making vinegar. But Wölffer Estate, on Long Island, is shouting it from the rooftops. It's just released its Wölffer Aged Rosé Vinegar, ideal for vinaigrettes or a simple mignonette sauce to go with your Long Island oysters.

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2011

    Port Stages a Comeback; Pumpkin Beer Season Returns

    ​Port has made a steady decline in the past decade with 12 million fewer bottles sold last year. But producers are hoping for a comeback. [AP] Dan Aykroyd is now allowed to drink at home. His Crystal Head vodka, once banned, is now being sold in the actor's native Ontario, Canada. [Brandchann ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 21, 2011

    Taking Back Sunday

    ​Port has made a steady decline in the past decade with 12 million fewer bottles sold last year. But producers are hoping for a comeback. [AP] Dan Aykroyd is now allowed to drink at home. His Crystal Head vodka, once banned, is now being sold in the actor's native Ontario, Canada. [Brandchann ... More >>

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