As up and down the Mid-Atlantic the rampant, unchecked destruction of Alicia Keys' native habitat barrels on, Page Six brings us a cautionary tale from Flying Point Road in Southampton where, earlier this summer, a sleeping homeowner awoke to find Alicia Keys having a small party in her home.

Here is what appears to be Andrew Ross Sorkin's tryout video for the job of "Official Wall Street Spokesman." Er, ah... independent journalist, that is.

The devastating fire that destroyed four blocks of the Jersey Shore boardwalk last week was caused by a problem in an electrical vault, and not arson or a discarded cigarette. The vault's wiring was damaged by water and sand during Hurricane Sandy, according to state officials.

A while ago I wrote a story about Reddit Island, an effort organized on Reddit to buy a private island and create a real-life Galt's Gulch. While Reddit Island hasn't moved past the "posting things on Reddit" stage, the geek dream of colonizing isolated chunks of land surrounded by water is alive and well.

The daring rescue of a man trapped inside a burning apartment in Washington Heights was caught on camera by nearby residents who marveled at the superheroism of their fearless neighbor.

Joe Biden's niece, 26-year-old Caroline, got into a scuffle with the NYPD after getting into a scuffle with her roommate.

The first rule of public relations: when sending out a press release, make sure it is racially offensive, full of misspellings and grammatical errors, and— most importantly— strategic.

The Atlantic Wire's Philip Bump concludes that if mass shootings in America continue at the pace they've been on since 2009, "there could be 14 more before [President Obama] leaves office."

Why are members of Generation Y unhappy? Because they're delusional yuppies who think they're special? Or because they've been born into a economic hellscape created by their parents?

Who’s the worst landlord in New York City? Possibly the guys whose building functions as a massive Iranian money-laundering operation.

Is the "Big Bang" theory wrong, because our universe is in fact just a 3D hypersphere membrane spun off from a black hole in a larger 4D universe? Yeah, maybe.

Every town has its weird history, and even the newest housing tract of wet stucco and green 2x4s has some kind of buried backstory. The island city where I live today is loaded with Gold Rush tales and Victorian mansions, but the fact that Jim Morrison spent his formative years around the block is not something you can learn about at the local historical society.

It starts off typically enough, with scene-setting descriptions of the star-crossed strangers.

Despite the best marketing efforts of the gun industry, law enforcement officials now say that Aaron Alexis did not use an AR-15 in yesterday's massacre at the Washington Navy Yard. All 12 of the murders were committed with the shotgun Alexis had bought despite his history of gun violence, or with the handguns he apparently took from victims who were unable to stop his armed killing spree with their own handguns.

Baby Boomers, "The Generation Where Each Individual Takes Personal Credit for Bob Dylan," are now entering retirement age. They have a lot of time on their hands, and all of America's disposable income. Now, the slavish catering to their every whim really begins.

Poor Courtney Friel. Early this morning, the KTLA anchor was thrown in a Nevada desert to babble for an hour during the Planet Hollywood/BritneySpears.com livestream announcing Britney Spears' upcoming Vegas residency. Often, she had no idea what was going on — she wondered aloud half a dozen times if she would ever get to talk to Britney (spoiler alert: she didn't). During the technically plagued livestream, Friel regularly had no idea what to talk about, so she discussed the imminent sunrise a few times, pointed out the "gadgets" being used to film her, showed off cue cards, and at one point squealed, "Oh my gosh, look! There is a drone!" That last outburst is my favorite thing in the highlight reel we put together of Friel's bumbling antics above.

Ellie Cole was caught off-guard when a video of her busting a move to ABBA's "Dancing Queen" started gaining attention around the world. That's because Cole had no idea she was being filmed.

According to police, a 69-year-old man was stabbed to death Monday afternoon in Queens because his attacker thought he was gay. Steven Torres, 22, was arrested at the scene and charged with murder as a hate crime.

The use of MetroCards in the New York City subway system "cannot be maintained beyond 2019," according to the MTA. Time for retinal scanners?