Yonkers

13 Charged in Sex Trafficking Ring Promised Women a "Better Life in New York," Says US Attorney

On Tuesday, the federal government charged 13 men, nine of whom live in Queens, with crimes related to running an international sex trafficking ring from the rural enclave of Tenancingo, Mexico to New York. Homeland Security Investigations issued search warrants for four brothels in Yonkers, Poughke ... More >>

Shocking Rikers Security Breach! Convicted Sex Offender Posing as Correction Staffer Roams Jails, No One Stops Him

Correction Commissioner Dora Schriro has a major problem: a massive breach of jail security. The Voice has learned that a convicted sex offender with a long rap sheet was recently able to repeatedly drive onto Rikers Island and roam jails and other highly secure areas over a period of more than week ... More >>

Cops Go To Question Westchester Women-Slasher About Cold Case Murders; Find Woman's Body

What are the odds that when detectives go to question a parolee about two cold case murders they find another body in his house? In the case of Westchester killer Lucius Crawford -- who's already served prison time for stabbing six women -- the odds were apparently pretty good, because that's exactl ... More >>

The Big Lobbyist Battle For Medical Reefer in New York Begins

New York has had the whole medical marijuana conversation for a while (end result: fail) and legalizing marijuana, if only for medical purposes, has its twists and turns here. Even with the roll back of the draconian Rockefeller drug laws by Cuomo, being the world capital of weed arrests sure doesn' ... More >>

Prince Royce Is Generation Next

Taking bachata out of the Bronx and onto the national stage

Syringe-Wielding Robbery Suspect Angel Cintron In Custody

Breathe easy, New York -- the man police suspect was using a hypodermic needle to rob people of their iPhones, iPods and other pricey electronics currently is in police custody.The NYPD says Angel Cintron was arrested this morning in Yonkers after he was identified over the weekend as the suspect in ... More >>

Karaoke For The Blind? Jewish Guild For the Blind Thinks Client's Vision Problems Make Her Mentally Deficient (Part 1)

Part 1 in a series. Last month, the Voice reported how the Jewish Guild for the Blind cut its part-time music therapist Debbie Moran, who was earning about $5,000 a year, allegedly due to "Medicaid budget cuts" -- despite the fact that the nonprofit's CEO, Dr. Alan Morse, had recently seen an 82% p ... More >>

Pazz & Jop 2011: Michael Tedder On Fucked Up's Majesty, Danny Brown's Cunning Skills, And The Joy Formidable's Outro Power

To supplement this year's Pazz & Jop launch, Sound of the City asked a few critics to expand on the reasonings behind their voting. Here, Michael Tedder breaks down his entire ballot, and along the way he talks about about the operatic heights of Fucked Up, the shredding ability of Annie Clark and R ... More >>

Underwhelmed And Overstimulated, Part IV: The Joys Of Nicola Roberts And The Problem With Odd Future

Nicola Roberts, having herself a lucky day with the Village Voice.​Sound of the City's year-end roundtable, with contributions from Tom Ewing, Eric Harvey, Maura Johnston, Nick Murray, and Katherine St. Asaph, continues. Follow along here. Hey all. Again, thanks to Maura for putting this ... More >>

The Top Ten "Otis" Freestyles

​ In the run-up to yesterday's release of Watch The Throne, the project's first official single, the Otis Redding-sampling "Otis," was re-done and freestyled over by many a rapper. So to tide you over until the physical version of Watch The Throne (packaged with a bonus CD-ROM containing a vec ... More >>

In Memory Of Paul Shaffer's House, The Now-Shuttered Punk Outpost In The Bronx

​Over the last year, those who traveled to the Paul Shaffer House--from Brooklyn, Fordham, Columbia, and SUNY Purchase--had somehow become convinced that the punk house off the Bronx Park East stop was going to be around forever. It wasn't hard; on the best summer nights, the place seemed like ... More >>

Top Ten Great DMX Shenanigans

​The rapper DMX is currently serving out a one-year sentence for parole violation at the Mental Health Unit of the Arizona State Prison. It's the latest nefarious chapter of a life that the artist known more formally to the cops as Earl Simmons has lived out as if he were playing it out throug ... More >>

A Goy in Wonderland

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 25, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 21 A goy in wonderland By Joe Flaherty The lamentable thing about life is that it is devoid of fanfare. Man's odyssey more times than not is heralded by a kazoo rather than a trumpet. The spiritual milest ... More >>

Live: Odd Future Berate All The Old, Ugly Bloggers At Santos Party House

This man will jump on your head at a moment's notice. Pics by Santiago Felipe.​Odd Future Santos Party House Tuesday, February 15 Better than: Being wherever Earl is right now. Well, that was hostile. You will all have your own highlights from this, the second live NYC appearance from everyo ... More >>

Top Five Odd Future Songs They Couldn't Possibly Perform On Jimmy Fallon

Tame by comparison, believe it or not. Odd Future, a/k/a OFWGKTA, a/k/a Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, are a teenage L.A. rap collective who've been raising a ruckus for a few months now. Tonight they hit Santos Party House for their second-ever NYC performance, but tomorrow's the big one: Th ... More >>

The Top Ten Best Worst Singing Rappers

​These days, there's nothing attention grabbing about rappers who sing, whether it's Andre 3000's amped squawk, an Auto-Tune-enabled Kanye West, or Lil Wayne's upcoming Riker's Island shower room spirituals. This week the canon sees new album additions from one-time Goodie Mob member Cee-Lo Gr ... More >>

Eat Pray Love Serves Near-Constant Catharsis, But Hardly Any Arc

The title is a spoiler in three parts

MTA Wants High-Speed Wireless Internet on Metro-North and LIRR Trains

​According to the Post, the Metropolitan Transit Authority is asking for bids from service providers to make high-speed wireless internet available to riders on Metro-North and LIRR commuter trains serving Westchester, Connecticut and Long Island. The final plan may or may not be free to non- ... More >>

The "Who's Real" Remix: Most Improbable Ruff Ryders Reunion Ever

Less than a month ago, Jadakiss was telling MTV that he wanted Cam'ron and Kanye West on the remix for "Who's Real," the Swizz Beatz-produced, improbably successful fifth single off The Last Kiss. Instead, it turns out we got...a Ruff Ryders reunion? This was a buzzed-about possibility ever since ... More >>

Lit Seen: James Hannaham's God Says No; Mark Z. Danielewski Exposed at PEN Fest

A longtime critic offers up his first novel; a rare author sighting at the World Voices Festival

Camera Obscura's Misery Business

Scottish indie-pop guys and girls find happiness by not faking it

Home Team Round-Up: Blog Scatology and Animal Collective (Again)

Sound of the City roots for the home team and so does Impose Magazine's Jeremy Krinsley. This show was last night, but Jeremy's so proud of the ad he made, we're posting it anyway Ah, the public fantasy that wills a band to stand on a stage together after vowing never to do so again. Eventually ... More >>

NY State Senate Battle Has Bill Ayers, Abortion Clinic Violence, And Much More!

Sana Krasikov's Immigrant Song

In her debut collection, a Ukrainian-born New Yorker charts the lives of people trapped between worlds

New Terror Plot, Same Old Money Problem

Letters

Judgment in Jersey

High drama, big crowd: A top NYPD official gets hauled into traffic court across the river

The Royal She

Self-referential hip-hop queen mixes surface glam and soul-baring confessions

Protection Racket

Questions about Albany's cut of New York's homeland security money

CMJ Musicfest 2003

Music

Close-Up on Woodlawn

Made in Manhattan

Flip Off the Ol' Block

Music

Crack, Commerce, and Conscience

Theater

Mixed Signals

City Promises No Driverless Trains, but Sets Track for Automatic Subway

Decision Time at NYU

A University Debates Its Future

The Voice of Treason

WFAN Takes On November’s Favorite Sport

Money Changes Everything

A New PAC Works to Turn Out Tenant Votes

Letters

Letters

Sample My Pit Bull

That next bitch

That Next Bitch

Salts of the Earth

Wayne Check

Road Rules

Teaching the carny set is no sideshow act

Miracle Spread

The Virgin Springs

Bowing Out

Should American Actors Flee a Muddled, Unrewarding Profession?