If you have children but have yet to learn anything about the terrifying story of a Manhattan nanny who stabbed two children in her care before slashing herself, rest assured, you will learn plenty in the coming days from fellow parents. They'll whisper to you on the playground. Did you hear about the nanny stabbing? They'll go over all the details. She stabbed them in the tub. Can you imagine? They'll plant seeds of fear. If it can happen there, it could happen anywhere, couldn't it? There's nothing parents love more than scaring the living shit out of each other, so between this and the coming Frankenstorm, I now have a full plate of parental scare tactics to both absorb and deploy in the coming weekend.

Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is increasingly coming to resemble an all-year, urban Gathering of the Juggalos. It's hard to walk down Bedford Ave., Williamsburg's bustling main drag, without seeing someone dressed like an exploded taxidermist workshop or a steampunk pirate scientist. Now the entire internet can gawk at the real-time sartorial displays on Williamsburg thanks to Styleblaster, a new, slightly-creepy project that's part-street style blog, part-surveillance state.

The New York State court of appeals isn't known for having the coolest judges in all the judicial land, but they just furthered their lame rep to new lows. In a 4-3 vote, the high-ranking court ruled that strip clubs do in fact have to pay their state sales taxes.

In May, New York State Senator Eric Adams alleged that NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly told him in 2010 that he hoped to "instill the fear in black and Hispanic youth that every time they leave their homes they will feel that they could be stopped."

Adrian is a prisoner in an isolation cell in a New York State prison, due to be released in September of 2015. He spends 23 hours per day locked in his cell. The picture above, clipped from a newspaper and festooned with motivational reminders, hangs on his cell wall "to remind him of his dream to work in an office one day."

Yesterday, Gawker received a tip regarding a bizarre episode Amanda Bynes had Wednesday night in a New York bakery. It began, as many rips from sanity do, with a specialty cupcake. It ended with a firefighter threatening to break down a bathroom door.

The New York Daily News seems to think so, because it took the time to put together a four-minute tutorial called "Teach Me How Too... Ride the Subway (Without Annoying Everyone)."

Where are New York City's Republicans hiding? Staten Island, mostly. WNYC breaks it down by neighborhood.

Any New Yorker will tell you that no trip to Manhattan is complete without becoming embroiled in one of the city's famed crutch fights.

In response to a recent declaration by hip hop artist Lil Wayne that he doesn't like New York, Malcolm Smith, a Democratic state Senator representing Queens, appeared before reporters in Times Square today to demand an apology.

Karen Klein, the upstate New York bus monitor who became the face of America's bullying problem when a video of schoolchildren taunting her went viral earlier this year, has launched an anti-bullying foundation she hopes will put an end to it once and for all.

The NYPD's so-called "Demographic Unit"—the mini-CIA the department's Jason Bourne Juniors created to keep track of Muslims on account of their being Muslims and all—has been responsible for exactly zero arrests, plots uncovered, or leads pursued, the AP reports today. What it has accomplished, according to the chief of the department's intelligence division, is eavesdropping on people in Lebanese cafes because "that may be an indicator of possibility that that is a sympathizer to Hezbollah."

Five people were shot at Rucker Park in Harlem Wednesday night, after a dispute over a call during a basketball game for the Entertainers Basketball Classic.

Chuck Schumer has had it up to here with whooping cough.

I've never felt more important than when I lived in New York. I was poor and my work was neither very good nor very well-read, and yet every day I'd wake up in my 10-by-10 room, its window looking out over my building's rusted trashcans, and somehow think I'd achieved another great victory.

Critics of New York's "stop-and-frisk" policy have suggested that it overwhelmingly targets men of color, but Mayor Bloomberg still think it's necessary to preventing crime.

New York. A concrete jungle where dreams are made of/oh/up. There's nothing you can't do. Including looking at child porn online— the state has just ruled that that's legal, MSNBC reports.

A day before Occupy Wall Street hopes to shut down New York and cities across the country in massive May Day protests, the NYPD visited at least three activist homes in New York and interrogated residents about plans for tomorrow's protest.

The NYPD's SHIELD counterterrorism program has compiled an extensive dossier (pdf) on tomorrow's Occupy Wall Street General Strike, during which protesters hope to shut down New York and cities around the country. Leaked this afternoon, it's probably the most comprehensive document created about tomorrow's protests.

The New York Post has a rather alarming (and alarmist) article on a potential happy hour ban in the city. They cite a lot of mysterious Department of Health sources, so it's difficult to confirm any of this — but when anyone suggests a serious threat to cheap drinking, panic is the appropriate response.