Westchester County

Look At The (Possibly) New And Shiny Tappan Zee Bridge

At the end of the summer, we reported on the story surrounding Governor Cuomo's ambitions to rip down the Tappan Zee Bridge, the span of cement that connects Rockland and Westchester County, and start from fresh. Last time we checked in, Andrew was furious about the Department of Transportation's de ... More >>

Con Ed: 2012's Winner of Most "Outstanding Reliability" Award (Unless You Need Electricity)

Need a laugh this morning? Well, you're in luck. Con Ed, the same company that following Hurricane Sandy has yet to restore power to thousands of New Yorkers (a month later) -- and whose executives have been subpoenaed by a government commission tasked with figuring out why New York's utilities comp ... More >>

New York AG: Bronx Gas Station Charged $10 For Gallon Of Gas After Sandy

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman just announced that his office has notified 12 additional gas station owners of his intent to "commence enforcement proceedings" against them after he claims they jacked up prices after Hurricane Sandy.In one case, the A.G. says, a gas station in the Bronx ... More >>

Sandy Relief: Con Edison Distributes Dry Ice; Water Fountains in Manhattan

Con Edison will distribute dry and wet ice to six locations this afternoon for those without power. Dry ice can be used to cool frozen foods that might be rotting in refrigerators without power. See Con Ed's safety guidelines here.

The People the Storm Killed

Sandy's human toll

City Council Drills Mayor's Lawyer On NYPD Reform

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly didn't attend Wednesday's City Council hearing to discuss a raft of bills aimed at reining his department. In fact, no one from the NYPD showed up to the meeting. The only person the Bloomberg administration did send to testify on the bills was mayoral counsel Michael ... More >>

Westchester Police Department Sued For Outing Gay Park-Fornicators

Saxon Woods Park in Westchester County was such a popular place for men to meet and have sex that in 2011, the Westchester Department of Public Safety conducted a sting dubbed "Operation Overexposed" to curb the public fornication.On October 14, the Department put out a press release announcing that ... More >>

Red Bulls Soccer Coach Slashed to Death near Union Square, Leaves Police Scratching Heads

Early Sunday morning around 4:30 a.m., NYPD responded to a call of a young, white male who had been assaulted in front of 25 West 14th Street between 5th and 6th Avenue. When cops arrived on the scene, they found the victim was Michael Jones, a 25-year-old from West Harrison, a suburb in Westchester ... More >>

Cheaters, Scammers, Fraudsters, Insider Traders: A Financial HiJinks Roundup

Oh fraud, how could we live our lives without it! Here now comes a list of financial crime cases out of federal court in Manhattan and Brooklyn that we have had the keen pleasure to follow so far this year. And as we read, we must pause from time to time in awestruck admiration at the inventivenes ... More >>

ConEd Negotiations End in the Dismissal of 8,500 Workers

Well, this completely backfired.Over the past ten days, the Local 1-2 of the Utility Workers of America and ConEd officials have  been arguing over the provisions of a collective bargaining agreement that ended at midnight Saturday. As the deadline slowly passed last night, the electrical ... More >>

Rodney Alcala Takes Manhattan; California Serial Killer Coming To New York To Face Two Murder Charges

There's good news and bad news...The bad news is a cold-blooded serial killer is coming to New York. The good news he'll be under lock and key the entire time he's here.California serial killer Rodney Alcala is en-route to the Big Apple where he'll face murder charges in the deaths of two women in t ... More >>

Honor Killing Suspect May Be Hiding In New York; Yaser Said Accused Of Murdering Daughters For Becoming "Westernized"

The Egyptian-born suspect in the "honor killings" of his two daughters may be hiding out in the New York City area and posing as a cab driver, according to a private detective investigating the murders.Yaser Said, who is Muslim, is accused of murdering his two daughters in Texas in 2008 because they ... More >>

Bronx Veterinarian Charged With Dumping Bags Of Dead Animals On A Highway-Related Crimes

Last month, we reported that several bags full of dead animals were found on the side of a Westchester highway. Today, authorities say they've arrested the man responsible for the roadside pet cemetery -- and it turns out he's a veterinarian.Westchester County police have arrested Bronx vet Dr. Andr ... More >>

Westchester Man Passes Out On Sidewalk And Gets Robbed...Repeatedly *VIDEO*

We've all been there (at least that's what we tell ourselves) -- you're drunk, you're heading home, and an inviting piece of sidewalk lures you in a for a quick roadside nap. In most cases, you wake up, say "how the hell did I get here," and spend the rest of the day ashamed and trying to forget the ... More >>

Frank DeMaria, Kung Fu "Grandmaster," Taught Kids The Art Of Penis Pulling. Now He's Going To Prison

Frank DeMaria, 67, is a kung fu "grandmaster" who taught children the finer points of the martial arts. One of his lessons, unfortunately, involved having prepubescent girls "pull" on his penis -- which is why he'll be spending the next several years as a guest of the state.DeMaria was sentenced tod ... More >>

Someone Turned Westchester Highway Into Pet Cemetery; 25 Bags Of Dead Animals Found On Side of Road

There was a pretty grisly scene on the side of a Westchester County highway yesterday morning when Department of Transportation workers found 25 bags full of dead animals dumped on the side of the road.Westchester County Sheriff's Office Detective David Whitney tells the Voice that of the remains re ... More >>

Ceferino 'Papo' Perez, Cocaine Kingpin and Photoshop Aficionado, Gets 20 Years to Life

Recall Ceferino "Papo" Perez? He's that humble East Harlem coke king who Photoshopped his pic on top of Al Pacino's photo in a Scarface movie poster -- and displayed the masterpiece on his nightstand(!) Perez, 45, pleaded guilty this month to mastermining a massive cocaine ring, which got busted ... More >>

Greg Ball's All Atwitter at Gay-Marriage Bill: Upstate Senator Takes His Own Online Poll.

Here's what happened over the weekend with the gay-marriage bill, which the Assembly has already approved: Publicly, the bill has the support of 31 of the 32 senators it needs for passage. Though he was considered "leaning no," GOP senator Greg Ball (who represents all of Putnam County, northern ... More >>

Pet Cemetery Told: No More Humans!

The Hartsdale Pet Cemetery, the nation's oldest and largest final resting place for furry friends, which we profiled in a 2009 Voice cover story on the pet death business, has been told to stop burying humans with their beloved pets. The Post reports that the state Division of Cemeteries has told H ... More >>

JOY RIDE

Go trailblazing in the Bronx

Orlando Is Fast-Food Heaven; Oscar-Inspired Cocktails

​Orlando has more McDonald's, Burger Kings, KFCs, and other fast-food restaurants per 100,000 residents than any other city in the country. [LA Times] Homes for the Homeless has launched the new Milk From the Heart initiative that will distribute free fresh milk to needy families. [PR Newswir ... More >>

Afghan Fried Chicken Fight; Whoopie Pie War

​Spot Dessert Bar won customers back after the blizzard by offering half-price hot drinks on Facebook, Twitter, and its blog. It also offers discounts to people who "like" the place. [Wall Street Journal] Abdul Haye, who owns the Kennedy Fried Chicken brand, is declaring war against all Afgha ... More >>

HARDCORE LOVE

Cupcakes and Fucked Up—what could be better?

Mobster Bragged of Dangling Mom-in-Law Off the Roof

​ There are thousands of pages to wade through, but so far the catch of the day in the 127-defendant Mobapalooza takedown by the feds is a caught-on-tape conversation in which a mobster describes how he took care of a major menace: his mother-in-law. Peter Pace Jr., a Genovese crime family ass ... More >>

All Good Things: True Crime, Minus the Truth

Joseph Yannai, Chef Book Writer, Hit With Fed Sex-Trafficking Charges

​Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch just announced a pretty nasty sex-trafficking case against a 66-year-old Westchester County man who allegedly went Web-trolling for women innocently seeking work as au-pairs. Joseph Yannai, a writer who wrote a book about famous chefs (The International W ... More >>

Anthology Celebrates the Four Boroughs

Forget Manhattan. "The Outer Boroughs on Film" celebrates the Bronx, Brooklyn, SI, and Queens

Styles P Wrote a Novel

The hard-boiled NYC rapper has found a new artistic medium for his badassness

FreshDirect Moves Into the Suburbs; Five Guys Close to Being Billionaires

​A recent report shows that 41 percent of apples in supermarkets are Red Delicious. The cultivation of heirloom apples, however, is slowly making a comeback. [NY Times] Queens-based FreshDirect is making inroads into Westchester County and has added service in Connecticut for the first time. ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

After the parade. Twitpic by Mzthicknflychic. Theeeee Yankees won! Doooooouuug Hoffman lost! The week was a mixed bag -- half fire, half dog poo. How 'bout them Yanks? They won one in Philly, then another, and were back home at the climax. Local merchants didn't get much out of it -- nor, Tom R ... More >>

Kerik Moved Out of Mental Health Unit of Jail

Or, as NBC has it, "Kerik is Sane, Judge Rules." Guess he's okay, then. His admission to the Mental Health Forensic Unit of Westchester County Jail 10 days ago was described as voluntary, and examining doctors have found him no threat to himself or others. NBC provides the letter. Kerik was jailed ... More >>

BookScam

In The Hoax, a lying president (Nixon) begets a lying author (Richard Gere). Good thing that wouldn't happen today.

Tanisha's Scars

Inside Bedford Hills prison, women swallow pins and slice their arms

Pirro for U.S. Attorney General?

NY Republicans wonder what's in it for Hillary Clinton's kamikaze opponent

Kamikaze Jeanine

Pressed by GOP bigs—Karl Rove!—Pirro considers a run against Hillary Clinton

The Case of the Ohio Recount

In the whodunit over who won it, the true villain is slipping away

Aeschylus or Swahili?

The changing notions of what students need to know

Lost Time

Freedom's just another word for power-mad parole officers

Eight Wonders of the City Parks

Paddling and Galloping

Hospital Holiday

Study Finds Poor Oversight of a Billion Health Care Dollars

Close-Up on Woodlawn

Music

Demolition Man

An Old Con Surfaces in Multimillion-Dollar City Project

Unsafe at Any Price

If Terrorists Take Down Nuclear Plants, You Pay—By the Hundreds of Billions

Nature’s Candy

Escape the Asphalt Jungle into New York City’s Boondocks

Post-Straight

How Gay Men Are Remodeling Regular Guys

Letters

We got your hip-hop hall of fame

Beach Blanket Surgery

Summertime Blues

The Rangers' Rough Ride

Their Down, Briefly Up, and then Down Again Season