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Who Deserves Starbucks Tips?

If you appreciate the people who make your lattes, the lifecycle of the dollar you tip your Starbucks barista looks something like this: It goes from the locked tip box to a safe, from a safe to the bank at the end of the week, and from the bank to the baristas and shift supervisors. But not every ... More >>

Cooper Union: Secret Transcript of Board of Trustee Meeting Reveals Talk of Shut Down

At night, you can see it clearly--the corner windows of the Cooper Union's seventh floor, flooded in red light. It's a signal from the students who have been occupying the president's office for two weeks. They're there because they've lost faith in university leadership that voted to start charging ... More >>

As Trinity Church's Election Nears, Financial Disclosures and a Looming Lawsuit

Trinity Wall Street, the powerful Episcopal church and real estate giant wracked by internal disagreements over the leadership of Rector James Cooper, is scheduled to hold an election on Tuesday. The vote is held annually to elect members of the vestry -- the Episcopal equivalent of a board of dire ... More >>

Brooklyn D.A. Charles Hynes Responds to Voice Cover Story; We (Still) Rest Our Case

Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes sent us a lengthy letter in response to our story about his reign as Brooklyn District Attorney ("Brooklyn Deserves a New D.A."). How lengthy? 2,005 words. Basically, he didn't like the article so much. And with the zeal of a Talmudic scholar, Hynes (or someo ... More >>

Mayor Bloomberg Wants More Control Over Sexual Misconduct Cases in Schools

Mike Bloomberg announced a new piece of legislation this afternoon that would give the mayor, via the city's school chancellor, more power to dismiss teachers who engage in acts of sexual misconduct in the classroom. You'd think that inappropriate sexual behavior form teachers is something everyon ... More >>

City Councilor Files Amicus Brief in Mathieu Lefevre Case

Mathieu Lefevre was hardly the first cyclist killed on the streets of New York City, nor was the driver who ran him over the first to get a pass from the NYPD. Lefevre's family members weren't the first ones to be stonewalled as they tried to get details on how the police investigate fatal bike cras ... More >>

House Arrest, Redefined

The NYCLU files suit over the NYPD's stop-and-frisk program for private property

Diaz Family Values

While Rubén Díaz Sr. lobs bombs against gay rights, son Rubén Jr. and lesbian granddaughter Erica run for cover

California's Proposition 8 Ruled Unconstitutional

U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled today that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. The long awaited decision was just released from the U.S. District Courthouse for Northern California in San Francisco. The case, Perry vs. Schwarzenegger, was a lawsuit in which two gay couples sued that Propo ... More >>

Education Mayor Bloomberg Called Out

NYC's head has a serious setback on his way to closing schools

Court of Appeals Denies State Lawyers Access to Psychiatric Patients in Nursing Homes

​In a 4-3 decision, the New York State Court of Appeals refused this week to order nursing homes to provide lawyers from the state's Mental Health Legal Services access to psychiatric patients and their medical records. The suit sprang from investigative reporting about the Pataki-era practice ... More >>

Espada's proposed "rent freeze" a gift to landlords

Suit Says Cipriani Stiffed Servers; Cipriani Says Suit's "Desperate"

​When folks hosting glittering parties at Cipriani 42nd Street, Cipriani Wall Street, Cipriani 23rd Street, and the Rainbow Room pay the 23 percent "service charge" on their banqueting bills, do they think it's going directly to those poor bastards in the monkey suits who were serving them dri ... More >>

UHO Tables Shut Down by Judge, Assets Frozen

​We were wondering, when we saw a guy manning a United Homeless Organization table near Union Square this weekend, if the recent attorney general finding that UHO is a scam was affecting their business. Looks like it'll be affecting it in a big way now that AG Andrew Cuomo has obtained an inte ... More >>

Salon: The End of American Foie Gras and Unintended Consequences

Today, on Salon, Thomas Rogers wades into the foie gras discussion, reporting that the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has been granted discovery (a fairly routine part of a lawsuit) in a complaint against Hudson Valley foie gras, which will allow the HSUS access to certain farm records a ... More >>

Cuomo Takes Harding Scalp in Pension Scandal

The last time Ray Harding tried to give Andrew Cuomo a boost into the governor's mansion, it didn't go too well. Cuomo dropped out of the race; Harding's Liberal Party, which had endorsed Cuomo, lost its ballot line after it failed to get the minimum 50,000 votes in the 2002 race. Today, Hardi ... More >>

Annie Liebovitz Gets Loan Extension, Will Keep Homes

​After weeks of speculation, celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz has will get to keep the rights to her work, WWD reports today. Art Capital Group -- to which the beleaguered photographer owes $24 million dollars -- has just agreed to extend the terms of a loan it granted her last year, w ... More >>

Is Foie Gras Torture?

Gun Dealer Wins His Case; Bloomberg's Goin' to Georgia

The Crown Heights Lubavitchers

Ecstatic Jews, a messiah proclaimed, and the consequential divisions

Prodigy’s 25th Hour

A Queens rap icon scrambles to prepare for life on the inside

City Settles Great Lawn Protest Lawsuit

The Power-Pop Geeks Finally Fit In

A four-night festival celebrates that most unlucky and unloved of Milk 'n' Cookies–loving genres

Gregg Singer Chopping Landmarked P.S. 64 Now!

How Not to Pay Rent

The lofty ambitions of tenants of illegal apartment buildings

Letters

Playing Taps

Anti-bar talk 'distractful' at anti-bar rally, says organizer

The Source Under Fire

Here's Your Guide to the Lawsuits, Criminal Charges, and Beefs

In Search of a Right

The 13-year struggle of targets in a racial dragnet reveals the elusive nature of justice

Market-Rate Giveaway

Produce merchants get the boot for a City Hall favorite and yet another Olympic stadium

The Scourge of Her Conviction

Activist Elena Sassower annoyed congress, her trial judge, and defenders of free speech—all the way to jail

The Suicide of Mr. A

A Mentally Ill Inmate Slips Through the Cracks—Into the Path of a Subway Train

Refuge of Scoundrels

After Criminal Charges, Claims of Mental Maladies

The NYPD Wants to Watch You

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

Is There a Doctor in the House?

Times Company Accused of Privacy Violations

Ash-Blond Ambition

Prosecutor Linda Fairstein May Have Tried Too Hard

Machine Politics

How to Vote and Make Your Vote Count

Drug War on the Web

‘Narco News’ Ready for Libel Suit in New York

Music

Nation

Big Bad Wolf

Anthony Jones Upholds the Legend of Puff Daddy’s Bodyguard

Sex Out of the City?

The ‘Times’ Reenters the Porn War

System Failure

The Comptroller Says HS Systems Overcharged for Screening Disabled Welfare Recipients. So Why Did the Company Win a Fat New Contract?

Shelter Skelter

Homeless Women, Some Physically Disabled, Face Evacuation

Letters

Eco Action

Partial Victory for Dissident NYC Sierra Club Group

WABC Talk Show Hosts Shamed

The Devil To Pay?

Club Kids Cry Rape; Moral Panic Ensues

Taking Care of Business

Senate Fails to Close Loopholes Protecting Insurers

Sliding Speech

Do Some People Deserve More Free Speech than Others?