Travel Destinations

All Your Favorite Male Stars, Shirtless! NSFW

And sometimes you get even more (I mean less) than that. It's all at hecangetit.com, where Matt Bomer (above), a Glee star, various designers, models, and some people I never heard of are found as topless as a breast-feeding Italian peasant woman in the 1950s.

ANCHORS AWEIGH

Go rowing at Brooklyn Bridge Park

Black Lips To Headline 4Knots Music Festival Afterparty; Tickets Go On Sale Wednesday

The 4Knots Music Festival—the Voice's annual all-day music extravaganza, set to take place this year on July 14 at the South Street Seaport's Pier 17—won't end after the sun goes down. The afterparty, which will take place at the nearby Beekman Beer Garden Beach Club, and will have as it ... More >>

FRESHLY SQUEEZED

Lemonade play 
Music Hall of Williamsburg

Nasum

Education Class Action Listings

Not in My Backyard! Brooklyn Residents Say New Hotel Will Bring Prostitution and Drugs to East Flatbush

​East Flatbush is a lovely neighborhood in Brooklyn -- but it's just not really a tourist destination. So if a developer is looking to open a hotel in the area, it can only mean one thing: Prostitution, drugs, and other bad, bad activity. Right?  This is the line of thinking behind a new not- ... More >>

Grant Tied to Major Blackout in 2006 Gives Boost to Biking in Queens

​Thanks to a devastating blackout six years ago, biking in Queens in 2012 might become a little bit easier. In 2006, a major electrical power outage hit Western Queens in a damaging nine-day blackout that impacted 174,000 people in the borough. Six years later, those neighborhoods in Queens are ... More >>

New York Plans On Luring Young Tourists to the City

New York is lookin' for youngins! And not just any run-of-the-mill youth: New York wants ones with money! (Well, ones with at least a little green to spend...) Anyway, NYC and Company, the city's tourism agency, is trying to get more members of the under-30 age group to visit the city and spend ca ... More >>

My Secret Fantasy For 2012 Is Exposed On HuffPo

The popular site Gay Voices' editor-at-large Michelangelo Signorile asked me for my predictions and hopes, as well as those of other "prominent LGBT figures," so naturally I complied, complete with plugs, links, and photo credits. And naturally it involves my love life.

Hernan Romero

Andrew Silverstein, Tour Guide, Talks Queens, Immigration and Big Red Buses

Esther ZuckermanAndrew Silverstein​Andrew Silverstein, one of the co-founders of Streetwise New York, coaxed us to step inside Economy Candy on Rivington, a mecca of sweet treats. We had just chatted over frothy coffees at El Castillo de Jagua. Both are stops on Streetwise's "Immigrant NY, Old ... More >>

Fresh Kills Still Kind of Stinky, at Least Metaphorically

Back in the old days.​Ten years ago today, the Fresh Kills landfill accepted its last garbage barge, closing after 54 years as a favor from Rudy Guilani to Staten Island. The dump, "visible from space, taller than the Statue of Liberty and once the world's largest landfill," as WNYC puts it, w ... More >>

Tourists Love New York City, and Especially Brooklyn

​​​Oh, goody. The New York Times' City Room reports that tourism in New York City hit a new high last year, raking in a record 48.7 million slow-walking, skyscraper-gazing, sidewalk-congesting, Century 21-shopping visitors.

Parks Department Finally Reveals Plans for Controversial Staten Island Beach Club

​Yesterday, the Parks Department finally released its plans for the development and the demolition of Cedar Grove Beach Club, the beach bungalow community on Staten Island that we wrote about for last week's cover story. The city is taking back the beach -- which is public land -- from 41 fam ... More >>

"Poor Man's Bermuda" in Staten Island? Not anymore

For a century, 41 families have had a sweet deal on public land in Staten Island. But summer is finally over.

READING THE WATER

Take a kayak on the East River

New York Tours Are as Diverse and Disturbing as New Yorkers Themselves

​Crazy celebrity stalkers and morbid ghost-seekers unite for a two-hour tour of the city's sites of notorious deaths (Heath Ledger, Keith Haring, Sid Vicious, "Crazy Joe" Gallo, Thomas Paine, to name a bunch)! And the tour vehicle is no smiley double-decker bus -- it's a hearse (actually a 196 ... More >>

Beach, Please: New York Officially Has America's Best Beach

Via National Geographic. Beaches be jealous. Click to enlarge.​It's likely irritating enough for the rest of the country that we think everything here is the greatest thing ever. It must get even more difficult when we know that's the case. Like when they're told by a coastal research professo ... More >>

Beaches of Agnès

SHEAR THING

Edward Scissorhands closes the "Movies With a View" series

Grimaldi's Opens in Queens

NY1 brings word that a new branch of Grimaldi's has opened in Queens. The location, on 61st Avenue in Douglaston, offers the same menu, as well as new salads. Whether or not it will become, in the words of Grimaldi's manager Gina Peluso, a "total total total tourist attraction" like the original DUM ... More >>

News From Brooklyn Heights

Brooklyn Heights Blog attended last night's Community Board 2 meeting and reports on some goings-on in the neighborhood, which is becoming an increasingly popular dining destination: Park Slope's Tea Lounge was approved for a liquor license for its latest location on Clark Street, while the new inca ... More >>

SHAPE UP, NEW YORK!

Start your day with fitness classes outdoors

Governor Sanford is Now Our Hero and Role Model

Now South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford is saying that when he disappeared for days, untraceable by his colleagues and even his wife, he wasn't hiking on the Appalachian Trail -- nude or otherwise -- but "recharging" in Buenos Aires. We're sure this will add to the yap-yap and blah-blah from self-r ... More >>

Sanford Admits Affair Brought Him to Argentina; Will Resign GOP Committee, But Stay Governor

He starts out in a rambling account of hiking trips he took and hosted while in school. (Maybe the story will be, "Governor goes nuts on TV.") He apologizes to his wife and four kids "for letting them down." Oh oh. He admits the Appalachian Trail story was a "fiction" and he apologizes to "anyone ... More >>

Monsieur Hulot's Holiday

DEAD PREZ RIDE

Before you pig out, feed the brain

DANGEROUS LIAISONS

A game of seduction and style

Jimmy Buffett & the Coral Reefer Band Tonight at MSG

Numb and Numbers: Bush's Vacation Days equal the Number of E-mails Shredded

The Christmas List: Spa Gifts for the Beauty Illiterate

Astor Place Cube Gets A Sprucing

'Shrek the Third'

Back to Work? On the Brink Again

1960

Calgon, Take Us Away

Beauty products that transport—if only temporarily

Rice Shipped to Gulf Coast

Close-Up on Bedford-Stuyvesant

Class Conscious

Accidental learning through leisure activities

Time's Up!

Cycling for a better city

Working Vacations

Where Does the Art World Go in the Summer?

Not Fragile

Collision Course

Drop in Enforcement Leaves Kayaks Vulnerable to Jet Skis

Get Rolling!

A Bike Week Calendar

The Soaking Solution

Mind Body Spirit: Walk on the Mild Side

Enjoy the outdoors, preserve trails, visit historic sites, and relax!

Into Thin Air

On the Scene of a Fruitless Search For a Friend

Controlled Freak