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The Fare-Hike Bounce? MTA Approves Fare-Hike, Lhota Resigns, Mulls Run for Mayor

Perhaps MTA Chairman Joe Lhota is looking for the old "fare-hike bump." The MTA voted to accept Lhota's fare-hike proposal this morning, and Lhota announced his resignation as chairman -- generating speculation that he will run for the Republican nomination in the 2013 New York City mayoral race. ... More >>

Hurricane Sandy Is New York's Katrina

Floods, fear, and FEMA failures

MTA Wants To Raise Tolls (Or: MTA Wastes $800,000 a Year on Idling Vehicles)

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority claims to be strapped for cash and plans to pass its money problems onto consumers by raising subway and bus fares in March. It also hopes to increase the toll on the Verrazano Bridge from $13 to $15. So how could an agency with a 2012 operating budget of $9 ... More >>

Paul Browne, NYPD Spokesman, Disses Bridge and Tunnel Cop in Bridge Rescue

In the rapacious competition for good press among government agencies, spokespeople sometimes are too effusive with praise for their own people at the expense of others involved. That's what happened this week following the dramatic July 23 police rescue of a despondent man threatening to jump to ... More >>

Bay Ridge Joins the Arab Peninsula

A Yemeni café brings the nabe its home-style eats

Wouldn't You Like a Slice of Plain Old NYC Pizza?

When was the last time you had a classic New York slice? Nowadays, it's getting harder to find the city's iconic slice. Neighborhood pizza parlors have been driven out of business by dollar slice places on one hand, and by effete, pinkie-in-the-air pie parlors on the other, where a pizza scarcely ... More >>

Space Shuttle Enterprise Will Be Sailing Around the City Today

Remember when we told you guys that the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on the Hudson was being blessed with NASA's non-flight space shuttle, Enterprise? And then remember when fellow Voice-naut Steven Thrasher and photographer C.S. Muncy saw it being flown in over New York? &nbs ... More >>

EASY RIDERS

It's time to dust off that bike

The New York City Marathon Helps You Eat Italian

Lauren BloombergA little something from Osteria Morini to propel you over the Verrazano Narrows Bridge.​ The New York City Marathon is coming up in just 10 short days. You know what that means? There's going to be a lot of pasta eating in this city. Nothing sets you up better for a big race th ... More >>

New Yorkers Reveal Their Favorite Places on I-Call-NY

Concerned New Yorkers, an artist collective responsible for "Monty Burns for Mayor" and "Park 51", have launched a new project called I-Call-NY. They've put up flyers around Manhattan asking people to call in and leave a voicemail with a story about their favorite place in the city. Each message is ... More >>

Watch the Verrazano Bridge Deer Rescue

Here's your heartwarming adorable animal rescue story for the day. A deer dubbed "Rudolph" by cops was rescued from the water under the Verrazano Bridge yesterday. Apparently his back legs had been bound by twine, which led to his struggles. Fortunately, a good citizen called 911 and the deer was re ... More >>

Ten Great Neighborhood-Specific Brooklyn Rap Anthems

​This Saturday, the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival will conclude with shows by Brownsville's mighty M.O.P., who will perform their rambunctious brand of rap down under the Brooklyn Bridge, and, er, noted Queens representer Q-Tip. Rappers from Brooklyn have never been shy about proclaiming their her ... 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 >>

Vestiges of Norway in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn: Kringler, Firklover, and Knackebrod

​Don't let all the trolls in the window scare you away from Nordic Delicacies. When the Norwegians - and later, other Scandinavians - arrived in Bay Ridge late in the 19th century, they loved its open countryside and expansive views of the ocean. The Narrows of the Lower Harbor, now spanned ... More >>

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.

Class Action Listings

Cargo Ship Ruptures in Gravesend Bay, Causing Evacuation

​A 443 foot cargo tanker, the Sichem Defiance, suffered an internal rupture yesterday morning in Gravesend Bay. The rupture occurred while the vessel was being loaded with 55,000 barrels of ethanol. Rescue boats from the NYPD, FDNY and the Coast Guard rushed to the scene, where they found the ... More >>

Quick hits

Police find 61 pounds of cocaine in a sauna in Brooklyn A judge ruled that the TLC can use license fees to encourage green cabs. State Court Justice Jane Solomon decided against taxi fleet owners who were suing to stop a new rule which allows fleet owners to charge drivers an additional $3 for dies ... More >>

New York's Representatives in D.C. Stand United for Staten Island Toll Relief

Never fear, Staten Island -- your votes are still important. New York's elected representatives in Washington are muscling through H.R. 3960, the Residential and Commuter Toll Fairness Act of 2009, which finds that some citizens are "forced to endure significant or undue toll burdens," and thereby ... More >>

Verrazano Toll-Taker Skimmed $1,093, D.A. Charges

Joseph Ryan Sforza, the Staten Island D.A. charges, wasn't happy with his earnings as a tool-booth attendant on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, so he started pocketing some of the money drivers handed him. His clever plan was allegedly to take the higher tolls charged for trucks, count them as cars an ... More >>

Gino Cammarata, Gelato King

No more tanning salons for Bay Ridge's foremost dessert provider

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

The last Chico mural for New York. Thanks, EV Grieve. What a week. Everyone was pissed at us. Williamsburgers didn't appreciate being called dorks for trying to silence ice cream trucks. Horace Mann students got mad when we suggested they were faking swine flu to get out of school. Allison Benedi ... More >>

Hey, Sailor, Few in Town? Fleet Week Scaled Back

You know things are bad when Fleet Week in New York is described as "subdued," but that's what amNY calls it, because the Navy is sending "the smallest contingent of major combat ships to New York Harbor in the event's 22-year history." The Navy says it's trying to cut costs. More fallout from the t ... More >>

Staten Islanders to Tie Up Verrazano Bridge with Pennies on Monday

Hey, you can have your Tea Parties -- Staten Island's having a Penny Protest! As few outside the forgotten borough noticed, the recent Albany MTA bill added a dollar to the Verrazano Bridge's $9 toll. So local "self taught artist" Scott LoBaido proposes that at noon on Monday, drivers protest the hi ... More >>

Cheek, In Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

Yeah, we finally made it to Citi Field Wednesday. What do we think? We think Johan Santana is awesome. Swine Flu fucked up Cinco de Mayo, continued to be funny until we got it. Wait, actually it's still pretty funny, especially since we really didn't get swine flu. But even if! Anyway Raccoon ... More >>

Verrazano Bridge Toll Going Up?

We're still waiting for the vote that is expected to pass the MTA budget compromise, which charges drivers and employers taxes and surcharges to keep the buses and trains running with just a slight increase in fares. And we hope the Dalai Lama's invocation in Albany this morning put them all in a mo ... More >>

Today's Urban Wildlife Issues

The Times tells us today about feral parrots. Wait -- feral? You mean like the old ladies who owned them said Polly want a cracker? and the parrots said NO Polly don't want a goddamn cracker, bit their faces and flew out the window? No, on closer inspection they mean the Quaker parrots we mentione ... More >>

Live: Alan Braxe at Studio B

Alan Braxe Studio B Saturday, March 7 During my college years my fellow scholars invented something called the "Time-Change Riot." On the night of the spring-forward daylight-saving shift, and thus apparently robbed of a whole hour of bar time, the spurned drinkers, ejected into the streets, el ... More >>

READY, SET . . . GO!

Best spots to watch the ING NYC Marathon

Daily Flog 8/5/08: Death of a smart Alek, crime by kids, mad scientists, veep intrigue, close shaves, kosher giraffes

Getting the MTA's Goat at the Verrazano Bridge

This Summer's Watering Holes

The Voice turns its sunglass-clad eyes on local waters and watering holes

Spring Food Preview: Sailing and Scarfing

Where to eat as you take to NYC's bounding main

Bus Kill

In the crosswalk, New Yorkers find themselves in the cross hairs

Figuring Out Kanye West's Graduation

Stuck in the City—and Lovin' It

Four cool adventures for three hot months

Reprint: City of Ghosts

100 minutes of tragedy that will haunt us all

Spaghetti Eastern

The Lordz, Brooklyn rap-rock's preeminent wiseguys, crank the bass and wax Soprano

Your Guide to a Weekend of Resistance

On the second anniversary of Shock and Awe, the anti-war movement wants you

All in the Name

In Pataki land, the name Velella came before the taxpayers. Everyone wanted to help.

Close-Up on Bath Beach, Brooklyn

Close-Up on Fort Hamilton

Close-up on Bay Ridge

Early 1980s Four-Floor Townhouse

Outer-Borough Battler

A Labor Leader Challenges His Own

City of Ghosts

100 Minutes of Tragedy That Will Haunt Us All

Open City

Parades, Beaches, Festivals: What's Out There

Beating the Bushes

Minor-League Ball Flourishes in the Shadow of the Mets and Yanks

The Deportees

Mexican Workers Flock to Staten Island Despite Hardships