A helicopter has crashed in the East River. Three people are reportedly trapped and NYPD rescuers are in the water.

Here's a good story to lead off the inevitable Times trend piece about protesters finding love at Occupy Wall Street: Boy spots girl being arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge. Boy posts Craigslist missed connection.

Alex Schibli, a retired Port Authority worker, ponied up $160,000 at auction for Rat Island, a private island off the coast of New York City. What's this guy want with a two-acre piece of rock he can't even live on?

Ashley Dennis, stepdaughter of former New York Governor David Paterson, was arrested and charged with assault Sunday morning for allegedly hitting her boyfriend Brian McGuinness—who was arrested and charged with choking Dennis—with a bottle and a frying pan.

The Occupy Wall Street protesters — who the New York Times and other such venues had told me were too vague, too in need of glitzy PowerPoint presentations with concrete goals, too poorly dressed, too busy playing drums, too hypocritical because they used "computers" and other modern products, too middle-class, and in general too gross to sustain any interest for more than a few days, therefore making it not worth doing — have persevered long enough to convince veteran reinforcements to join them next week. Interesting!

Who knew an anti-capitalist protest would be such a great place to pimp your tech start up? The mobile messaging service Vibe is generating buzz for its role in helping Occupy Wall Street protesters organize.

We always suspected, and now the New York Times has confirmed, that global social media juggernaut Facebook is importing vast quantities of Silicon Valley dorkitude into New York. And there are pictures to prove it.

Whatever you think of them, you must admit the Occupy Wall Street Protests are a spectacle. Police brutality! Topless ladies! Susan Sarandon! A Wikileaks truck! Check out some of the best images from the 10 days of protests so far.

We all know the economy is bad, but how bad is it? So bad that New Yorkers can't afford to shovel blow into their faces like its closing night at Studio 54. Damn, that's really bad. But is it true?

The Occupy Wall Street protests took a heated turn this weekend, with cops arresting more than 80 protesters macing young women for no apparent reason. So, it's safe to say they'll be bigger than ever this week. But one problem looms large: The protesters are camped out on private land.

Starting on Tuesday, cell phones will get reception at six subway stations on 14th Street, thereby ending the sweet, sweet silence on NYC's platforms. But just because you can use your phone doesn't mean you should. Here are some rules.

A new IHOP pancake depot is soon to open in Manhattan's East Village, the downtown epicenter of NYU kids and other tight-jeaned menaces. Management is expecting such a deluge of late-night customers streaming in from the bar-heavy neighborhood that they've hired security.

It's such a hassle to go to the drug store and search all the aisles for beer, ping-pong balls, and condoms so that you can get wasted, play beer pong, and then have a regretful, half-flaccid hookup with some poor someone. Now one drug store is putting them all together for your convenience.

Billionaire New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been very secretive about his homes and personal life, but the New York Times discovered yesterday that photos of two of Bloomberg's townhouses were posted in plain sight on the website of his interior decorator.

Occupy Wall Street, The Anonymous-backed protests in Lower Manhattan, caused some headaches for financial district commuters today. But one business couldn't be happier: Liberatos pizza, the official caterer of the the Wall Street protests.

New York is full of home town institutions, but none more so than Ray's Pizza, a sell-by-the-slice joint on Prince Street that inspired the name of countless rip off "Original Ray's," "Famous Ray's" and "I Can't Believe It's Not Ray's" across town. Now it's closing down.

NYPD Officers Catherine Guzman and Mariana Diaz and two of their colleagues were disciplined for tossing a football to a little boy they encountered in a Bronx housing project, and now Guzman and Diaz are complaining that their punishment was unfair. It sure was—they should have all been fired.

A reader sent in this photo of MILF PLAZA, an affordable cougar den conveniently located in the heart of New York's theater district. Remember to use the discount code MINIVAN for an additional 15% off your nightly rate!

"It was worse than a weakness, it was a moral fault of which I am not proud. I regret it infinitely." — Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn discusses his "encounter" with a hotel worker in his first television appearance since.

New York state Attorney General's Office lawyer Alisha Smith has been suspended without pay from her $78,825-per year post "pending an internal investigation," but probably because she's got a side job as Alisha Spark, heart-shaped pastied S&M performer extraordinaire. Or so the New York Post has learned!