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Burglar Takes Hamster, Sock Monkey From Autistic School
Burglar Takes Hamster, Sock Monkey From Autistic School
A thief ransacked a school for autistic children in Staten Island and stole laptops, video games, electronics—as well as a pet hamster, a sock monkey, and a set of rubber ducks. Students at the Eden II School for Children with Autism are shaken, according to executive director Joanne Gerenser,...
Paterson Used State Airplane For Campaigning?
Paterson Used State Airplane For Campaigning?
Is it a weekday? Then there must be a new Paterson scandal to report! This time , Gov. Paterson allegedly used a State airplane for non-State activities last month, including campaigning in Hempstead and Rochester, the Voice reports . Paterson took the trip north on Feb. 20 to attend an outdoors hockey...
Will The Latest Public Art Installation Cause Panic?
Will The Latest Public Art Installation Cause Panic?
A sculpture on Pentagram Design’s office, via 1010Wins That Antony Gormley public art installation , that will most definitely up the 911 call count, is now being installed on rooftops around the city. All in all 31 statues of bodies will be placed on top of buildings near Madison Square Park,...
Video: Sex Toy Salesman’s Crazy Fire Massage Condo Parties
Video: Sex Toy Salesman’s Crazy Fire Massage Condo Parties
Seems you can’t have a perfectly innocent “fire massage” party in your Tribeca condo loft without the neighbors getting all bent out of shape about it. What’s fire massage, you say? Well, judging by this surreal video taken at one of sex toy salesman Dimitri Dimoulakis’s...
Biggest NJ Pot Raid EVER; $10M Worth of Marijuana Seized
Biggest NJ Pot Raid EVER; $10M Worth of Marijuana Seized
Just months after signing a revolutionary medical marijuana bill into law, NJ authorities have seized more than $10 million worth of illegal marijuana and plants, the most in the state’s history. After sniffing a skunky odor coming from a suburban chimney, cops collected more than 115 pounds of...
Stray Bullet Victim: "I Don’t Want To Go Outside"
Stray Bullet Victim: "I Don’t Want To Go Outside"
Dalila Gray, the 10-year-old struck in the arm by a stray bullet, tells the Daily News that she had no idea she was hit during the Monday night shooting that left a man dead on Pulaski Street in Bed-Stuy. She said, “I didn’t feel anything,” and only cried after her mom, who noticed...
Breast Milk Cheese: The Forbidden Fromage
Breast Milk Cheese: The Forbidden Fromage
The Mother’s Milk cheese story has aged another day! Lori Mason, chef Daniel Angerer’s wife and the woman whose milk has created the controversial cheese, takes center stage with a NY Post cover today. She tells the paper her product is 100% organic and free range, as opposed to what one...
Monserrate Defends Obama Rip-Off Logo, Cynthia Nixon Attacks
Monserrate Defends Obama Rip-Off Logo, Cynthia Nixon Attacks
At right, the Obama campaign logo and Hiram Monserrate’s “Yes We Can” party logo, which is obviously different. No, really! Yesterday ousted State Senator Hiram Monserrate held a press conference to formally announce his bid to get his old job back in a special election Tuesday. After...
MTA Considers Saving Some Bus Routes
MTA Considers Saving Some Bus Routes
After a series of contentious public hearings in which four people were arrested, the cash-strapped MTA announced that is considering saving several bus routes that had been slated for elimination . According to the Daily News , a “small number” of bus routes might be spared, though a final...
As the Apthorp Turns: Things have been quiet lately at…
Things have been quiet lately at UWS blockbuster condo conversion the Apthorp , but New York Magazine reports that the city’s Health Department will be doing a sweep of the “hilarious hellhole” this afternoon. Tenants have already brought in certified court experts to test for hazardous...

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