Fifty-two-year-old Michael Kneitel is a man of principle. He will not rest until the $75 ticket he received for using the door between subway cars to escape a pissing passenger is overturned.

New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is in yet another bind. If state lawmakers do not agree to fund the remainder of the MTA’s five-year capital plan, the deadline for which is coming up in June, there may be a need to increase fares and tolls by 15 percent in order to make ends meet.

The Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island have been evacuated over concerns about a suspicious package reportedly found inside a locker. UPDATE 2:58 pm: The NYPD has given an all-clear, according to NBC New York.

At least one person was killed after a crane collapsed at a construction site in midtown Manhattan this morning, according to fire officials who spoke to NBC New York.

Are you having the loudest sex in New York? Do you live in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn?

If you gazed skyward in New York City on this sunny 4/21, you may have glimpsed an airplane-borne banner over the Hudson River celebrating and poking fun at our mayor’s widely rumored cannabis habit. “De Blasio Get On The Pot,” it read. “We [weed leaf] NYPD.”

The Brooklyn District Attorney's office has arrested two landlords for allegedly attempting to make a building in the borough uninhabitable for its current tenants. The DA's office claims that the landlords wanted to push the building's tenants out and charge higher prices for the available units. Prosecutors have not yet detailed specific charges.

Police found a dead homeless man sitting in a Manhattan-bound L train around 2 a.m. this morning at the Lorimer St.-Metropolitan Ave. stop.

Guess how much a floor-through residence at One57, the glass shard of wealth worming its way into the heart of Manhattan, costs. Go ahead, guess. Oh okay, I'll tell you: $47,367,491.39.

As requested, I arrived just before dinner. A tall, Hollywood-beautiful blonde woman vacuumed the room that would soon be swimming in hippies. Except they weren't stereotypical hippies; the people who would soon become my house- and community-mates were an eclectic blend of professionals, students, and everyday folks who'd answered a Craigslist ad for a unique job/housing opportunity in New York City.

As part of a longterm, undercover FBI operation, federal authorities arrested two women allegedly planning to detonate a bomb in New York City on behalf of the Islamic State, ABC News reports.

A crazy thing to do is kill another person. A less crazy thing to do is to take an axe to a tree in the Upper West Side and deplete it of the nutrients it needs to survive. The latter, however, is still a bad and terrible way to release your anger, so if it was you—own up!

In cell phone footage sent to the New York Daily News, an alleged plainclothes NYPD cop is seen yelling at an Uber driver in an apparent parking dispute that escalates into the officer shouting xenophobic remarks.

A museum dedicated to preserving the history of Italian-Americans in New York City has decided to evict one of the few remaining descendants of Italian immigrants living in Little Italy, the New York Times reports.

The daughter of NYC mayor Bill de Blasio, 20-year-old Chiara, is now the face of a New York City campaign to alleviate teen depression, DNAinfo reports. Chiara was outspoken about her struggles with depression and substance abuse during her father's campaign for mayor in 2013.

You remember the episode of Seinfeld where Elaine tries to get the 212 phone number of her dead neighbor Mrs. Krantz because she believes dialing the 646 area code takes too long? The New York Times has a report saying that New Yorkers still eagerly covet the 212 area code for their cell phones. These people sound wack.

Two years after Elisa Lopez was filmed being sexually assaulted while sleeping on a 4 train, the NYPD has arrested Carlos Chuva, 43, whom after being shown a still from the video told police, "That is me."

New York City's comptroller, Scott Stringer, released details from a study on Wednesday that concluded New Yorkers work the longest workweeks in comparison to 29 other major American cities when our commuting hours are taken into account. The average New Yorker spends over six hours a week commuting. Hell. HELL!

Earlier this month, the New York Times Style section published a wistful memoriam to taxi fucking, the allegedly forgotten act of getting in the back of city-run yellow taxi cabs and—drunkenly or otherwise—going at it while drivers play accidental Peeping Toms.

The New York Times published a startling article this morning about one of the great underreported issues of our times: the wet wipe epidemic slowly but surely destroying New York City's sewer system. The butt wipes have reportedly caused millions in damages, and workers have been forced to physically remove the shit-stained ghosts of the unprocessed sanitary products from the sides of pipes and screening machines.