Authorities in Mexico are searching for Hari Simran Singh Khalsa, a yoga teacher from Brooklyn who disappeared Tuesday while on a hike in the Tepozteco Mountains. Before he went missing, Khalsa sent his wife Ad Purkh Kaur, née Emily Smith, a selfie from the mountains with the caption, "Looking down on you"; not long after, Kaur received a second text from Khalsa, saying he had "accidentally summited another mountain" and would be "a little later coming back."

Brooklyn, which used to be the part of New York City that "real people" could afford to live in, is now the least affordable housing market in America. It won't be too long now before people start getting upset about that.

The city of New York received 70,000 applications for 38 units of affordable housing in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The city's affordable housing plan is a, uh, work in progress.

On the real estate front, there's good news, and bad news. The bad news is you can't afford Manhattan. The good news is that Brooklyn is—oh. Hm. Well, the good news is that Queens is—oh. Shit. Uhhh....

A Brooklyn deli worker fought off a masked gunman who attempted to rob his store last weekend, then promptly quit his job. He is the best employee in America.

As the New York Times style section dutifully tackles health goth, and while the land of 1,000 babies sees the closure of its beloved artisan tea shop, something BIG is afoot in a different borough. It's Queens. You ever heard of it? You know the one. It's over there, fresh for the wrecking.

Crossfit here. Crossfit there. Crossfit everywhere. Crossfit is the chicken pox of a new generation.

Five days before Thanksgiving, the adored Brooklyn indie rock venue Death By Audio shut its doors after seven years. When DBA's founders announced its demise in September, they did not explain why they were suddenly closing, and they declined comment when we stated what everyone knew to be true: that they were being pushed out to make room for Vice's new offices. But in a new interview, DBA founder Edan Wilbur explains exactly what happens when Vice consumes your building.

NYPD shot and killed a man early this morning after he allegedly stabbed a student praying in a Brooklyn synagogue in the neck with a knife. "I will kill the Jew! I want to kill the Jew!" one witness claimed hearing the assailant scream before attacking the student.

Peter Liang, the rookie Brooklyn cop who shot and killed unarmed black man Akai Gurley two weeks ago, was texting his union rep instead of calling for help as Gurley lay dying, the New York Daily News reports.

The beautiful borough of Brooklyn, New York is home to almost 2.6 million people, and none of them can afford to live there.

Over the weekend, the New York Times highlighted Chipotle’s recent decision to print (very) short stories by famous writers on its paper cups and take-out bags. Called “Cultivating Thought,” the campaign is the brainchild of Brooklyn novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, who approached the fast-casual Mexican grill chain after visiting one of its establishments earlier this year. Toni Morrison and Malcolm Gladwell have signed on. So let’s ask what New York’s literary milieu have wondered about: How much is Chipotle paying?

A rookie NYPD officer reportedly shot and killed an unarmed man in Brooklyn last night.

In an anonymous statement to AmNew York yesterday, a representative for the holiday scourge referred to as SantaCon explained that the drunken Santas will not, after all, be venturing out to Bushwick. But, where will they go?????????

As local Brooklyn publication Bushwick Daily announced on Monday, the December terror known as SantaCon (where adults dress up as Santa, travel to different bars, and drink themselves stupid) is planning to move from its former home in the East Village to a new parade path in Bushwick. That is, until bars and restaurants in the area announced a boycott.

The body of a 40-year-old woman who died of an apparent heart attack Tuesday afternoon at the African Queen Hair Braiding hair salon in Brownsville, Brooklyn is being tested for Ebola as "an abundance of caution," city health officials announced. The woman returned 18 days ago from Guinea in West Africa, one of the countries hit hardest by the virus.

As we told you last month, major media company Vice (whose average salary is allegedly $70,000 a year), will be displacing several beloved institutions in the South Williamsburg area in order to build out its own 75,000-square foot new office space. The first to close, on November 22nd, is DIY music venue Death By Audio.

Williamsburg, Brooklyn has often been referred to as a neighborhood of "hipsters" but now robots live there. [Image of "hipster" neighborhood via]

"Ridgewood is in the chrysalis stage of an outer-borough transformation that shrieks 'Brooklyn.' Except it's not in that overhyped borough." The New York Times style section has arrived, so "Queens is the new Brooklyn" is already over.

Today in the cutthroat world of New York City real estate: a psychotic landlord who allegedly plotted to burn his Bed Stuy home to the ground while two squatters were living inside. While planning the razing, Lalbahadour Byjoo allegedly told an undercover cop he "liked his steak well done."