Yonkers

Another Plane Crashes into the Hudson River, Everyone Survives (Again!)

Ah, the Hudson River! It looks so damn majestic as it flows beneath the George Washington Bridge, and it maintains a nice, wide barrier between us and Jersey City. Oh yeah, and it swallow planes whole. It's a simultaneously heart-warming and bone-chilling landmark. In utterly terrifying news, a sma ... 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 Rise and Fall of Westchester Punk

Anarchy in the 914

$1 Empanada Cart at Havana Central

[See More Events: Cooking Channel's Summer Eats Pop-Up | Food Vendors Announced for Catalpa Music Festival] Cheap pizza, hamburgers, ice cream... what's next? Empandas, apparently. Havana Central will be bringing out a $1 empanda cart from July 18 to August 31 outside the restaurants' storefronts. ... More >>

Morgan Spurlock Scratches the Surface of Your Stupid Beard in Mansome

Karaoke For The Blind? Jewish Guild Axes Music Therapy Due To Budget Woes, Pays For Karaoke No One Can See (Part 3)

Part 3 in a series. (Part 1 is here, part 2 here.) Despite being axed by the Jewish Guild for the Blind after working as their part-time music therapist for two decades, and despite having the organization lie to her clients that she cancelled on them, music therapist Debbie Moran is lobbying on ... More >>

The Nonprofit 1 Percent

Even the do-gooders can seem blind to their own excess

Live: DMX Brings Hip-Hop Redux To S.O.B.'s

DMX S.O.B.'s Thursday, February 23 Better than: Time travel. Shot in grainy black-and-white in NYC's notorious Tunnel nightclub, the 1998 music video for DMX's first single "Get At Me Dog" was pure, unadulterated hip-hop; it set X apart as a raw, menacing rapper at a time when the genre was inunda ... More >>

California Demise: Tyler, the Creator and EMA Feel the Bad Vibes

53 More Great Songs From 2011

Earlier today, Maura offered a list of the 47 songs on her "2011 Awesomeness" Spotify playlist; to complement that, here are the 53 songs from my less cleverly named playlist, "2011." As is the usually the case with these mega-lists, I compiled mine a bit haphazardly, throwing together a substantial ... More >>

Did You Vote in the General Election? Polls Open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Today

​Did you know that today is the general election? Find out your polling site, and if you're eligible to vote, by calling (866) 868-3692, or by going to the City of New York Board of Elections site. You can also download a sample ballot there. NY Capitol News indicates some races to watch, in W ... More >>

Casinos Head to NYC. You Lose.

Government officials gamble on your nickels to bail them out. Bet on it.

Radio Hits One: Raising The Bar For "YouTube Platinum"

Justin Bieber and Ludacris: Congratulations. A lot of people watched your video.​On August 28, MTV will throw the 2011 installment of its Video Music Awards, honoring achievements in the art form that used to make up the majority of its programming. While it's all too tempting to note the iron ... More >>

Woman Who Chili-Bombed 65 Pairs of Victoria's Secret Panties Is Finally Apprehended

A celebratory dance.​Justice! The woman who in April of this year entered a Victoria's Secret in White Plains and, seeking revenge for an alleged "earlier shoplifting incident," poured a container of chili all over 65 pairs of panties, which cost $750 dollars, a woman who had been on the lam e ... More >>

The Video Music Awards' Nominations Play To The Internet (Again)

​Last night MTV announced the nominees for this year's installment of their annual pseudo-event extravaganza, the 2011 Video Music Awards, and once again, the nominees for Video Of The Year have three pop picks ("Rolling In The Deep," "Firework," "Grenade"), one sop to the olds in the crowd wh ... More >>

Jadakiss Makes Menacing Kissy Noises

Bad romance on I Love You

Run For The Hills: Odd Future Are Playing Highline Ballroom In May

Swag?​ The much-blogged-about outfit Odd Future, a.k.a. OFWGKTA, its bringing its live show to the East Coast this May, as announced today via official Tumblr. The collective's NYC stop will be at Highline Ballroom on Friday, May 13 (appropriate); tickets went on sale earlier today and are a ... More >>

Cathie Black Waiting for Approval From an Office That Has Said 'No' Before

Cathie Black: can she get a waiver?​Richard Mills, the same state education commissioner who gave Joel Klein a waiver to become chancellor in 2002, denied another waiver application in 2003. The reasons cited in that 9-page denial letter will no doubt impact the decision now facing Mills' su ... More >>

Mayor Bloomberg Toys With Charging for Trash Collection, Nothing is Off Limits

​Budget cuts: necessary stink, but potentially smellier if trash collection moves up on Bloomberg's agenda to get our city back in the black. At a recent press conference, the mayor mentioned possibly charging residents for garbage collection as the city already does for restaurants and busine ... More >>

Real-Life Russian Spies Arrested in New York Area

​A bunch of tri-staters hailing from New Jersey, Yonkers, and Manhattan were arrested this weekend for being spies. Russian spies. How very James Bond. According to the Justice Department, as part of a multi-year investigation in four states, eight people were arrested on Sunday for allegedl ... More >>

Styles P Wrote a Novel

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

Have you seen... a missing Bronx woman

​The NYPD is looking for information about Monica Gonzalez, 24, of Rochambeau Ave in the Bronx, who was last seen Friday afternoon at the Cross County Mall in Yonkers. Gonzales is 5'7" and 140 lbs, and was last seen wearing a black Northface jacket with blue jeans and brown boots. Police say ... More >>

Yonkers Pol Sandy Annabi Charged With Corruption in Ratner (Atlantic Yards) Project

Yonkers pol Sandy Annabi, accused of corruption.Yonkers Democratic pol Sandy Annabi and two others were charged today with conspiracy, bribery, and extortion in connection with the startling reversal in 2006 of Annabi's opposition to a Forest City Ratner project in Westchester County. Forest City ... More >>

Quick hits

The Obama administration is suggesting a voluntary ban on lobbyists serving on 915 Federal Advisory Committees which consult with federal agencies on government policy. The lobbyists, one of whom helped write the legislation which created the Committees when he was a Republican Senate staffer, are n ... More >>

GAGA FOR EQUALITY!

Dance until your pants drop

New York Rap Crime Wave!

​It's an unusually bad day for New York rappers and police. First the jakes ran up in Jadakiss's Yonkers apartment and walked out with 5 grams of heroin, 6.5 pounds of marijuana, and $40,000 cash. (Jada wasn't there, and isn't presently wanted by the police--his roommate (?!) seems to be takin ... More >>

Coup in Review: State Senators Weekend in Albany! Diaz Walks Out, Yonkers "Running On Fumes"

Hope you enjoy your holiday weekend while the Albany Coup keeps your state senators stuck in Albany -- hardly a vacation destination -- under orders by Governor Paterson. The respective party leaders are brassing it out, refusing to be pushed into a settlement, and Ruben Diaz Sr. says he's going to ... More >>

Live: Jadakiss Goes In at the Highline Ballroom

As Hot97 radio personality Angie Martinez said, in her clear-eyes-full-hearts-can't-lose pre-concert pep talk: "I was gonna go home and get changed, but then I thought, why? This is New York, baby! This is us! This is New York hip-hop. I got my black-hoodie!" She had a point. Nobody wants to break ... More >>

Jadakiss Hits the Morning TV Circuit: "Good Day New York! A-ha-ha-heeaaa!"

Jadakiss's Last Kiss comes out today, and he's doing a little promotion around town. We particularly enjoy Rosanna Scotto's characterization of one of the most bloody-minded rappers of all time: "Tell me--how does a nice boy from Yonkers make it in the rap world?" [h/t Nah Right]

Assembly Expands Red-Light-Camera Rip-Off

Use of red light cameras -- which advocates say promotes safety, but is really just another way of shaking down motorists for money -- is being hugely expanded by the state legislature. The lawmakers approved them for use in Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Nassau and Suffolk Counties, and allowed ... More >>

NYC RFD: Fashion Week, Mets & Yanks, Double Ds, and Zendorsements

NYC RFD: Bad Cops, Larcenous Pol, and Filler

Ugly, Dirty, Redundant, and Toxic

Tales of disgust, depression, and ballot regret we're already feeling

Letters

State Senate Squeaker Surprise

Voter Intimidation Charged in Yonkers

Letters

Décor, D'Accord!

An unexpected taste of Vietnam in Harlem's Little West Africa

Earphone Heads

1977

'A Tale of Two Pizzas'

Home Game

Local ragtaggers get the love; spurned child takes the hate

Folkies Show How the Irish Saved Jesus's Birthday (This Year)

Music

Independents Day: Celebrate it with a Salute to City Lights

Sporty Thievz

Hard-Knock He-Men