A new lawsuit in the Bronx claims that two cops in the 52nd precinct forced a mentally handicapped janitor, who had been working at the station for 23 years, to wear a shirt that said "I'm dope" so they could photograph and ridicule her. In a deposition, the woman says that she didn't know what the shirt said.

At an aggressively loud party a few weeks ago, as the lights from a rainbow disco ball flashed directly into my eyes, I thought about the float tank. A skinny white DJ bounced along to an EDM remix of a well-known pop song, but nestled behind my forehead was serenity and peace. I stayed for one drink and got the fuck out, hustling through the streets of New York with the image of capsuled meditation dancing in my brain. If I tried to imagine it hard enough, I was floating like a baby in the womb.

The New York Times reports that Mayor Bill de Blasio has signed off an initiative to perform a diversity review of the staff, board members, and patrons of city-financed cultural institutions in New York City, ranging from the Whitney Museum to the Public Theater.

A Brooklyn man was charged Tuesday for the killing of 21-year-old transgender woman Islan Nettles, nearly two years after confessing to the brutal beating in Harlem.

New Yorkers who frequent Lower Manhattan have undoubtably seen Dan Perino's face plastered on one of his thousands of "looking for a girlfriend" fliers. Since he started posting the ads for companionship last summer, he's been flooded with phone calls—more than 8,000, he tells news.com.au. He also claims to have "hooked up" with 118 women.

On Wednesday night, 17,000 people flooded into Madison Square Garden. There were countless Rangers jerseys, scores of Strong Island's finest haircuts, innumerable pairs of Uggs, two tattooed Southern boys with megawatt charm, a magician, and me. Screens around the rim of the Garden projected images of a green card table while Justin, the first magician I'd ever seen wear a bicep-hugging t-shirt, flipped cards to the melody of a Katy Perry song.

The NYPD are seeking seven people for their involvement in a brawl inside 1253 Deli in the Bronx, where three people were injured, with two suffering stab wounds. Police released surveillance footage of the battle Monday.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has reached an agreement with New York City's Jewish leaders over new regulations governing Metzitzah B'Peh, a ritual in which a specially-designated rabbi sucks blood from a child's circumcised penis, Capital New York reports.

A 28-year-old Queens man died yesterday from gunshot wounds he sustained on Friday, the New York Times reports. So ends New York City's longest stretch without a new homicide—12 days—since the police department began tracking such data in 1994.

The New York Times has published the beginning of what is to be a five-part investigative series into the effect of foreign money on New York City's real estate market. About $8 billion is spent annually on individual residences that cost $5 million or more each, the Times found. Last year, over half those sales were to shell companies.

When I talk about my downtown life as a kid, people ask how old I am. Growing up in New York City in the 70s was more like being an urchin of the 30s than a silver spoon of the 80s. I'm more likely to share recollections with a 70-year old—playing stoop, jumping off the piers—than to wax fondly upon the boy bands, cocaine, and angular sports cars of Ronald Reagan's second term.

There are two ways you can take this interactive map put together by the Wall Street Journal that lists the bacteria found in each of New York City's gleaming 466 subway stations. One reaction is, "Holy shit, New York City is incredibly disgusting and basically nobody should live there." The other, if you live here, is, "Hey, well at least my station doesn't have traces of diarrhea."

Northeasterners trudging through snow and slush on their way to work this morning, have hope: Staten Island Chuck did not see his shadow—or the (allegedly) deathly hands of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Well, well, well. New Yorkers lucked out last night and were spared the feared three feet of snow predicted to hit the city. Forecasts put our friends to the north and east as bearing the brunt of the storm, with 18 inches already recorded in Massachusetts—and plenty of snow still headed their way. Here's what you need to know today:

Mayor Bill de Blasio just announced that all New York City schools will be closed Tuesday due to the "crippling" blizzard expected to hit the Northeast U.S. sometime this evening. LIRR and Metro North services will end at 11 p.m., and limited service on NYC subways will begin at 11 p.m., though the MTA says extra trains are operating this afternoon to help with the pre-blizzard rush.

Shots were fired inside the Home Depot at 40 West 23rd Street in Manhattan on Sunday. According to accounts on social media, the store has been evacuated and police have arrived on the scene.

A man in Brooklyn fell to his death Sunday afternoon after a walking over a faulty sidewalk cellar grate. "The thing just opened," a witness told the New York Daily News. "He was walking. He wasn't paying attention. The thing is loose. And he disappeared."