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Hoboken's Roast Beef Battle: Brooklyn and Manhattan Fight Back!

Gravesend's version of the sainted roast-beef mozzarella hero Last week, FiTR pitted a pair of excellent Italian-American roast beef heros found in Hoboken, New Jersey against each other. These classic sandwiches featured roast beef done rare to medium rare and thinly sliced, just-made mozzarella ... More >>

The Breezy Point Beached Whale Has Died

Breezy Point was already the epicenter of New York City bad news. All but swallowed by the angry ocean during Hurricane Sandy, the neighborhood at the western tip of the Rockaway peninsula then caught fire, burning 111 homes to the ground as firefighters watched helplessly. Now, a different categor ... More >>

Farewell, MTK Music Festival, We Hardly Knew Ye

Sorry guys.​What is it about Long Island and its inability to let multi-day music festivals blossom? Today organizers of the MTK Music Festival—the fashion-forward, Vampire Weekend-headlined event scheduled for next weekend at the East Hampton Airport—announced that they'd pulled t ... More >>

Was Oak Beach, Long Island, a Serial Killer's Dumping Ground for Murdered Hookers?

Oak Beach: This is going to suck for property values.​Cops continue to investigate the discovery of three bodies and a "set of skeletal remains" found on a stretch of road along Oak Beach in Long Island, dumped out of a car by someone authorities suspect may be a serial killer. As we mentioned ... More >>

Press Clips, Early Lunch Edition, Day 4: The Mediaite Street Fight

​Smell that? Media beefs, cooking everywhere this week. Also, blogging on drugs, suing the small guy, shady lobbyists, good hiring sprees, bad hiring sprees, and someone taking issue with Gawker's ethical standpoints. Happy Friday, Part 1, folks:

R.I.P. Morrie Yohai, Inventor of the Cheez Doodle

Bill David/NewsdayMorrie Yohai​Morrie Yohai, the man responsible for the development of Cheez Doodles, died last week at his home in Kings Point, New York, at the age of 90. Per The New York Times, Yohai preferred to share the credit for inventing the bright orange snacks beloved not only by k ... More >>

The James L. Dolan Honorary Scholarship for Media Reporting: A Kickstarter Project

​Prolific blogger, re-blogger, and columnist Anthony "SoupSoup" DeRosa is trying to harness the awesome power of KickStarter - a website that helps facilitate people who are looking to source out funding for their own projects - for the power of "good."

Steve Levy Goes Comic on Cuomo -- Has the AG Got a Comeback Line?

​Today finally brings the first good gag of the gubernatorial race, and it comes from none other than Steve Levy, that Long Island Iced Tea-bagger with the bandito moustache. Levy's shot is a well-aimed barb at would-be rival Andrew Cuomo who is still an unannounced gubernatorial candidate ("W ... More >>

Westbury Wal-Mart evacuated for christmas tree fire

Happily, we avoided post-Thanksgiving Wal-Mart deaths on Long Island this year, but we did get a fire. According to Newsday, 2,000 shoppers and employees were evacuated from the WalMart on Old Country Road in Westbury today after a worker discovered christmas wrapping and ornaments stored in the g ... More >>

Equal Opportunity Raiders Hit All NYC Dailies

​Fear not New York Times. You are not alone! Actually, as we type, raiders from the office of the Manhattan District Attorney's office are busy hauling records from the distribution offices at all of the city's major dailies, not just the old gray lady. Investigators this morning hit the Times ... More >>

All Local Dailies Except WSJ Lose Circulation; National Drop 10.6%; York, PA Record Soars!

​New U.S. Audit Bureau of Circulations numbers have been released, and about the only happy news was for the Wall Street Journal, whose circ rose six-tenths of a percent while USA Today's dropped 17.5 percent. Thus, WSJ supplants USA Today as the national circulation leader. The New York Times ... More >>

Short subjects

The Times and News endorse Bloomberg. The Times takes the occasion to undiplomatically point out that they never liked term limits to begin with. The Times also credits the Mayor's multi-jillion dollar campaign with saving the local economy by spending a lot of money on pizza. Two firetrucks collid ... More >>

The EU Rejects Health Claims by Food Corps; PepsiCo Gears Up for 'Massive Gatorade Transformation'

​Seven people were arrested in a food stamp sting in Nassau County. Employees at five stores were involved in accepting food stamps as payment for prohibited items like cigarettes and alcohol, as well as giving cash kickbacks. [Newsday] The Vegemite saga continues. Kraft has now released the ... More >>

2nd and 3rd Suspects Held in Brinkmann Murder/Robbery

When Angela Murray went into Holocaust survivor Guido Felix Brinkmann's apartment to bash his head in, she was said to have a male companion, whom police sought after catching her. But now police have arrested two more suspects in the case: the brothers Aljulah Cutts, 27, and Hasid Cutts, 30. It is ... More >>

Healthier Ice Cream; Greener Coffee & A Dog Fight

Mark Bittman points to an article in the SF Chronicle by his friend Marion Nestle about the benefits--or lack thereof--of organic food. Nestle answers such questions as "Aren't organics elitist?" [NY Times] "In the dog-eat-dog restaurant business..." Iconic Chicago hot dog stand SuperDawg is taking ... More >>

Coney Island Update: Preservationists Protest, Sitt Professes Love for Astrotower

This week the Save Coney Island crew gave a City Hall press conference to protest the proposed shrinkage of Coney's 60 acres of amusement to 12. ("When properly programmed, 12 acres is a sufficient space," says the New York City Economic Development Corporation.) They brought the usual suspects, in ... More >>

How Has Pokémon Not Died Yet?

Hanging with Hulk Hogan, unabashed Pokémon lover

Thousands Still Searching for Kin in New Orleans

Has anyone seen Alphonse? Julia Mae?

New Threat Renews Old Tactic

Random searches on the New York City subways are as much about the appearance of safety as safety itself

Bush to Rebuild New Orleans, Somehow

President throws expensive bag of gimmicks at Katrina disaster

Blowback From Katrina

Bush tries a P.R. approach. Basic problems of health care, jobs, housing remain

New York Subways and Terror: What, Us Worry?

London bombings raise questions about Gotham's transit system

Be Stiff

German robo-pop legends stand still like mean machines

Tab War

The Post and the News duke it out, but circ probe is the main event

Hey, FCC: OK?

What First Amendment? What Public Information? And What's News in Brooklyn?

Stadium Issue? What Issue?

An open letter to the international Olympic committee

Spin War II

As Bush part deux begins, the press may need to practice civil disobedience

Iraq: Bullets and Ballots

No News Here

How the CBS memos helped re-elect george W. Bush; cataclysm foretold in the Atlantic

The War Scores

Surprise: career soldiers back the war, athletes dislike the press, and the media don't matter

Lost and Found

Soldier, jailer, hero, myth: the rise and fall of Bernard Kerik

Saint Bernard

Not so fast on canonizing Kerik—Bush's pick has big critics in New York

Mike Wallace v. Charles Schumer

Will Chuck Schumer, or any anti-Pickering revilers, finally apologize to the judge?

Biggest Ball in the World

NY Mirror

Nation

The Russki Jammer

It's a Gas, Gas, Gas

Fentanyl Story Quietly Absorbed By Media

Theater

J.A. Lobbia

1958–2001

Are We Dead Yet?

Media Industry Hit by Rolling Layoffs

Letters

Hate Crime Laws: A Costly Victory

Prosecutors, Not Judges, Are in Charge

Deconstructing Diallo's Death

Homophobia: All in the Family?

The Schumer-Kennedy Bill Increases Hate-Crime Penalties

The War Against Gays and Lesbians

'The Attacks Were the Most Brutal I Encountered'

No News Please, We’re American

Serious as Cancer

Serial Mom

Lucky Seven Pays Off Big When You're Corn-Fed and White