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Anthony Weiner Gives Television Interview To Foster Mayoral Campaign

Looks like the prospects of Weiner on the campaign trail are getting a bit more serious. In an interview with NY1 last night, the former Congressman sat down with Inside City Hall host Errol Louis to discuss the news he spurred last week with his New York Times Magazine profile, in which he mention ... More >>

Aspiring Rapper Shot Dead in Midtown

Yesterday around 2 p.m., Brandon Lincoln Woodard, a 31-year-old black male visiting the city from Los Angeles, was walking on 58th Street between Seventh Avenue and Broadway. He was just a block away from Columbus Circle. What he didn't know was that  a man, seen in a dark, hooded coat and khak ... More >>

Christians And Jews Partake In Holiday Celebrations; Lottery Winner Comes Forward in Kansas; Tugboat Capsizes Near Liberty Island

Both Christians and Jews are observing holy days over the weekend. Cardinal Timothy Dolan participated in the Good Friday Way of the Cross procession across the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday. The march began after a ceremony at Brooklyn's Cathedral Basilica of St. James. Today he will be at the Church o ... More >>

Man Caught For Illegally Entering Times Square Station In Possession of Loaded Gun

Entering the subway through an exit gate: illegal. Entering the subway through an exit gate in possession of a controlled substance and a loaded gun: very illegal. That's is how cops arrested Travis Marks of Virginia Friday evening at the Times Square subway station, NY1 reported. Police told Runnin ... More >>

Rush Limbaugh Apologizes To Sandra Fluke; Students Protest As Kelly Speaks On Muslim Surveillance; Romney Wins Washington State Caucuses

Rush Limbaugh apologized to Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke Saturday, who he called a "slut" for testifying in favor of contraception coverage. "My choice of words was not the best, and in the attempt to be humorous, I created a national stir," he said in a statement. "I sincerely apologize to M ... More >>

Tornadoes Across Midwest and South Kill Over 30; BP And Plaintiffs Reach Agreement; Man Gets 27 Years in Homegrown Terrorism Case

At least 31 are dead across Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Alabama after tornado storms ravaged the Midwest and South, essentially destroying towns. Today, the rescue effort continued, as parts of the South remained on tornado watch. "It's just nuts right here," National Weather Service meteorologist ... More >>

Man Found Dead And Bound In Chelsea Apartment

A 57-year-old was found by police in his Chelsea apartment at 212 West 22nd last night unconscious and unresponsive NY1 reported that his hands were was tied to a bed, and were also bound by duct tape along with his feet and mouth. A towel was over his head. DCPI told Runnin' Scared that the police ... More >>

Teacher Data Released, Criticized; Nelson Mandela Hospitalized; Strong Winds Coming Through the City

Data rating 18,000 New York City teachers was released Friday, but not without strong caveats as both teachers and education leaders warned of flaws. Teachers are evaluated based on how much value they add as evidenced by change in student performance on standardized tests relative to measurement o ... More >>

Saturday Subway Fun: Stats Show Crime, Ridership Up

A lot of news this morning about our favorite thing to love, hate and love-hate: the subway system. So, what's new below ground? Oh, just your usual multitudes of people, crime and service issues. We'll rattle off some of the specifics. First up, MTA stats are showing that 2012 has been a boon for b ... More >>

Whitney Houston Mourned; P.S. 87 Aide Arrested In Sexual Abuse Case Arraigned; NYU Expansion Protested

As we noted last night, singer Whitney Houston died yesterday at the age of 48. She was found dead of unknown causes in her hotel room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Beverly Hills police Lt. Mark Rosen told the Associated Press that "there were no obvious signs of any criminal intent." The death of t ... More >>

Uproar Over Bronx Teen's Death By Police Officer; Bloomberg Supports Komen's Reversal; Occupy D.C. Raided

​Bronx residents rallied last night to protest the death of Ramarley Graham, an unarmed 18-year-old that was shot and killed by a police officer Thursday in the bathroom of his own apartment. According to the New York Times, the officer that killed Graham has been "stripped of his gun and badg ... More >>

Madonna Won't Do a Janet Jackson At The Super Bowl

David Shankbone/Wikipedia​On February 5, Madonna will be the half-time entertainment at the Super Bowl, doing the impossible by turning a sports game into a Gay Olympics event. Her guest star will supposedly be Cee Lo Green and Madge will probably also be joined by her recording costars Nicki ... More >>

Ray Kelly Won't Comment On Son, Won't Resign; Bonanno Crime-Family Members Arrested; Twitter Protested

More on the Kelly family's various travails this morning. First, NY1 reports that Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Friday he does not have any plans to resign over his involvement in the anti-Muslim film The Third Jihad. "I don't think there was any ill intent here, but it should not have been sho ... More >>

Giants Fans Confused About Empire State Building Colors

Last night the Empire State Building was lit up in red and yellow, to the sports ignorant, that fact would seem not that big of a deal. But for Giants fans something in that color scheme was awry: red and gold are the colors of the San Francisco 49ers, the team that the Giants will play for the Nati ... More >>

Questions Surround Fallen Billboard On BQE

viaA tweet from around 2:30 p.m. today.​A day after a billboard came down on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in high winds between Meeker and Metropolitan Avenues, there are lingering questions about the structure.

Person of Interest Questioned in Queens Firebomb Attacks; Surveillance Video Released [Updated]

Surveillance video and a police sketch of the suspect in the Queens firebomb attacks that took place Sunday night have been released, and police are reportedly now questioning a person of interest. The attacks involved Molotov cocktails made from Starbucks bottles; they struck the Imam Al-Khoei Foun ... More >>

285 Madison Elevator Accident Results in Injuries to Three, One Reported Dead [Updated]

​We're hearing reports that there's been an accident in an elevator at 285 Madison, the Young and Rubicam building, that's resulted in 1 person dead and 2 injured, according to the New York Times. The FDNY confirms the incident and tells us that the elevator fell at least 2 floors, and that 3 ... More >>

Brooklyn Girl Killed by Car Driven by Stabbed Man, Who Then Died

CBS 2The SUV that caused the accident. ​A 13-year-old girl was killed in Brooklyn last night when a stabbed man ran her over on the street. Kirra Goddard was struck by 44-year-old Sean Lewis' SUV when it overturned on Pacific Street in Ocean Hill; she was pronounced dead on the scene. Lewis crashe ... More >>

Kitten Rescued After Throw From Car on Verrazano Bridge, Is Cute

​From the Verrazano Bridge comes a story of heartbreak, hope, and cuteness: a 5-week-old kitten was thrown from a moving car on that bridge Saturday, and has lived to tell, or rather, meow, the tale. An Animal Care & Control officer saw the kitten-throwing take place. He then went to work on t ... More >>

51 Astor Gets Prepped for Demolition

Esther Zuckerman​Is the East Village ready for yet another big, shiny building? Well, it's getting one at 51 Astor Place. A 183-foot-tall office building with space for retail designed by Fumihiko Maki will inhabit the plot, which used to house the Cooper Union engineering department. The 17-m ... More >>

Barack Obama Will Visit Ground Zero on Thursday

​President Barack Obama will be in New York City on Thursday to visit Ground Zero, where Osama Bin Laden's September 11 attack brought down the World Trade Center towers almost ten years ago. Though no schedule for the trip has been announced, New York 1 confirms that Obama will meet with fami ... More >>

Gabrielle Giffords Can Stand On Her Own; Yemen Protests Escalate As Pres. Says He'll Quit

​Doctors say Gabrielle Giffords can now stand on her own and walk a little bit, and is working on her gait. Her left side is fine, but she's only been able to use her right side on a limited basis. According to the Arizona Republic, Giffords is still struggling with longer sentences, mostly st ... More >>

Cathie Black Out as NYC Schools Chancellor; Dennis Walcott Will Replace Her

​Cathie Black, the highly unpopular New York City schools chancellor, who just lost her fourth deputy, will be replaced by Dennis Walcott after just about 100 days in office, NY1 is reporting. More info as it comes!

No One Likes Cathie Black Yet: Approval Rating at 17%

​Since being named New York City schools chancellor 100 days ago, Cathie Black has not had an easy go of it. Her appointment was delayed by naysayers, getting the whole thing off to a bad start, but it was only made worse when she actually took over, making insensitive jokes about birth contro ... More >>

Snow, Snow, Snow, Etc.; Beloved Twitter Apps Return; Man Finds Wallet After 40 Years

​• Happy Presidents Day! In case you haven't noticed yet, it snowed. Central Park was reporting 2.5 inches as of this morning. There's a chance of more snow over the afternoon, and again tonight. [Weather, NY1] • Protests in Libya against Muammar Qaddafi's totalitarian rule are spreading, ... More >>

Manhattan: "Most Romantic" Borough?

​Happy Valentine's Day Poll! According to a new NY1/Marist survey of 657 New York City adults, the "most romantic" borough was declared as Manhattan by 64 percent of city residents. Brooklyn came in second, followed by Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. Brooklyners, as to be expected, were ... More >>

What to Expect When You're Expecting a Snow Emergency

​Will it snow? Will it snow-pocalypse? As we wait and see what really happens (the Weather Channel says that will be at about 7 p.m., though Mayor Bloomberg has already declared a "weather emergency" for NYC), we're right here to tell you what we know. Which is this:

The Blizzard of 2010: We'll Be Telling the Grandkids About This One!

Tompkins Square Park, through the snow.​Is there a name for this thing yet? Snowmaggedon? Thundersnow? Blizza-palooza? That day people were trapped outside of New York City, while those (okay, one or two) inside it actually skied to work? And the rest of us hunkered down and tried not to have ... More >>

Charles Rangel to Receive Punishment Today; Mike Bloomberg Lights World's Largest Menorah to Kick Off Hanukkah

​• Rep. Charles Rangel will finally get his punishment: The House is expected to vote on his censure for 11 ethics violations today. Although the octogenarian Congressman has been lobbying for a reprimand instead of the harsher censure, it seems unlikely that that will happen. [NBC NY]

Tattoo Artist to the Stars Busted on 100 Weapons Possession Charges

​A well-known East Village tattoo artist, who once operated the first legal public tattoo parlor in New York, was arraigned yesterday on more than 100 counts of weapons charges, NY1 reports. 57-year-old Jonathan Shaw -- who's famously inked celebs like Johnny Depp, Marilyn Manson, Naomi Campbe ... More >>

Al Sharpton Refuses to Endorse Andrew Cuomo on NY1: The Juicy Background

​Al Sharpton filled ten minutes of NY1 air time last week refusing to endorse Andrew Cuomo, seemingly untroubled by Carl Paladino's bizarre e-mails. Instead, he heaped praise on Councilman Charles Barron, who is running against Cuomo for governor on the Freedom Party ballot line (it's free o ... More >>

Brooklyn Fire Kills 8-Year-Old Boy; Injures 5 Other Children

via New York Post​A residential fire last night at 1123 Avenue P in Midwood, Brooklyn, killed the 8-year-old son of a Brooklyn rabbi; NY1 reports the boy's name as Avigdor Krasny. The rabbi's five other children, who range in age from 1 to 10, are in Staten Island North Hospital. The 1-year-ol ... More >>

Breaking: Track Fire on Metro North (With Pictures!)

​Here's how New Yorkers are starting their week: with a huge fire on Metro North at Harlem River Drive and Park Avenue. Via the Wall Street Journal: "Metro-North identified it as the 138th Street lift bridge on the Harlem River. Train service was suspended at 11:45 a.m." Someone must've had an ... More >>

Your "Wait, What?" of the Day: NY1 Can't See Their Heads in Front of Their Own Faces

​Blockquotes! Those magical parts of blog posts bloggers use to fill space with information they're too laze to re-purpose themselves: they happen. And sometimes, when bloggers like this one throw a paragraph in blockquotes, they're too blithe to notice the intensely "WTF" part of them they mi ... More >>

Byblos Restaurant, Frontier Coffee Shop Leveled by Five-Alarm Fire

​Byblos restaurant and the Frontier Coffee Shop were gutted by a five-alarm fire that started at 12:30 a.m., NY1 reports.

Manhattan Pier on Fire

​Manhattan's Pier 97, located at West 57th St. and 12th Ave., lit up on Saturday afternoon, according to NBC News. Though no injuries were initially reported, the three-alarm fire was being battled by 138 firefighters and a Marine 6 fire boat from the river. NBC New York has a live-feed, bec ... More >>

Bedbugs Continue Campaign of Shock and Ew, Employing Guerrilla Tactics at Google, 311

​Bedbugs have reportedly now encroached upon Google's offices in Chelsea and -- isn't it ironic -- New York City's own 311 offices, right where you're supposed to call if you think you have a bedbug infestation. Meta. Per NY1, the call center in Lower Manhattan was fumigated Tuesday night after a ... More >>

Even Michael Bloomberg Showed Up for Eataly's Opening

Getty​It's all Eataly all the time this week--yesterday, we showed you the line of people waiting to get in to Mario Batali's new mega Italian market and food court, and it turns out that everyone and their mother really was there. Micheal Bloomberg made an appearance, and ate some pizza, as h ... More >>

Sunday Links: Toughest Sudoku of All Time, Police Arrest Teen in Bias Attack Case

No way are you gonna solve this sudoku.​A Finnish man has created the toughest sudoku ever, which he says "will normally take days to solve by logic." If you're currently feeling lazy and hungover, just click the link on the Post article that says, "CLICK HERE TO SEE THE ANSWERS." [NYP]

Weekend Links: "Bedbug Stigma," Julian Assange Accused/Un-Accused of Rape

​The New York Times has a story about how bedbugs basically make people into pariahs. If you're afflicted, you may get treated like Brooklyn waitress Hilary Davis, whose "friends and even her boyfriend refused to take her in" while her apartment was being treated. [NYT]

Unluckiest Day Ever: Chinatown Bus Crashes En Route to Atlantic City Casino

​Some people are just not lucky. Not at all. Which is perhaps why they're on the way to Atlantic City -- quite possibly one of the most desolate, soul-sucking places on the planet, regardless of whether you're frequenting one of the fancy new casinos or loitering outside the "We Buy Gold" plac ... More >>

Morning Links: Obama Finishes Gulf Tour; California Man Seeks Bin Laden; Albany Avoids Shutdown

​• President Obama will wrap up his stay in the Gulf today after visiting Florida. Tonight he will address the nation from the Oval Office to reassure us that the Gulf "will return to normal" and that BP will pay. Tomorrow, he'll meet with BP. [ABC News]

MTA Fares Up, MTA Service Down, MTA Salaries...Up?

​Over the last year or two, we've seen the price of a single ride Metrocard go from $2 to $2.25, and the service on all the places we use that Metrocard to get us go down and thin out. So how're we supposed to react when we hear that MTA salaries are up, and that LIRR conductors are making $10 ... More >>

Joe Biden Visits Brooklyn Bridge, Compares New York to San Francisco

Via NY1. Click to enlarge.​Joe Biden dropped by the Brooklyn Bridge today to tell Manhattanites -- yes, they did it from the Manhattan side --what a big (fucking) deal it is that the federal government shelled out $30M from the Economic Recovery Act to help repair the Brooklyn Bridge, a projec ... More >>

NY1's iPhone App Generating Considerable Amount of Excitement

​New Yorkers are passionate about NY1. And now they can be even more passionate about NY1.

New York City: Your Water Just Got More 12.9% More Expensive

​Thirsty, New York City? Why wait? Well, now you have a reason. The water coming out of your tap just got a little bit more expensive.

City Kids Getting All Stabby

​A rash of stabbings have been reported around town: NY1 says Christopher Batres, 17, was stabbed by a fellow student at Newtown High School in Flushing this morning -- one Brian Goody, 16, is suspected -- and at the High School for Media and Communications in Washington Heights, a 16-year-ol ... More >>

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City arranges new multimillion-dollar financing for Fulani's crew

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Symbol and substance at One Police Plaza

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