Two Upstate New York men were booked on misdemeanor sexual misconduct charges last Friday after a suspicious local farmer claimed to have caught them on video trying to engage in intercourse with his dairy cows.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman's will was filed in a Manhattan Surrogate Court this morning, and his last wish was for his 10-year-old son to be raised somewhere with culture.
No, this isn't a Bloomberg joke.
Of course you should use silverware when you're eating dinner at a restaurant that has provided silverware, right there next to your non-paper plate. Nobody believes otherwise. But here's our important new populist debate about whether New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is too fancy because he used a fork and knife to eat a pizza dinner in a sit-down restaurant.
After a budget battle that raged throughout 2013, Cooper Union's board of trustees voted today to end the college's 155-year-old practice of allowing every student free tuition. "[T]uition remains the only realistic source of new revenue in the near future," wrote board chair Richard Lincer in a statement.
Safety is paramount, people. You never point a gun unless you intend to kill whatever you're aiming at. Now, let New York's top public safety official show you how to kill the shit out of that Powerpoint presentation and freak out our friends from Europe.
It seems there's a bit of inclement weather on the East Coast, and also around the Great Lakes and the Midwest and (who knows?) maybe even Texas and the South. Please enjoy your blizzards and Winter Wonderland, because snow and cold are beautiful things, and one day you can tell your starving children living underground what it was like to go outside on a crisp winter's day.
Today at a press conference in Manhattan, state Senator Liz Krueger revealed a plan to legalize and tax marijuana in the state of New York. Making weed totally chill in the eyes of the law has long been a focus of democrats in the state — including Governor Andrew Cuomo — but the New York's left currently has nothing concrete to show for their efforts.
[Sad evidence of the dreadful New York weather is seen in this Yonkers Police Department photograph of an early morning pileup of SUVs, at least one taxi cab and a light pole. Photo via Associated Press.]
George Demos would like to be the Republican congressman for Long Island. George Demos would like you to remember that Barack Obama, Rob Ford, and his opponent are pretty much the same person:
New York's ultra-wealthy elite sure are going to miss departing Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. After taking a meeting with Henry Kissinger on Monday, Kelly was later feted by Tina Brown at a dinner with Jeff Zucker, Cynthia McFadden, financier Don Marron, and Richard "Gag Reflex" Cohen, among other rich people.
