[Reality TV star Whitney Port leaving a New York Barnes & Nobles, where she was promoting a new book. Attention Pulitzer committee! Photo via Splash]

[German Thomas Dold won the men's division of the Empire State Building Run-Up today by scaling 86 flights of stairs in just over 10 minutes. Sorry, but King Kong did it faster. Image via AP]

Officers from the NYPD's Emergency Service Unit have a tough job, taking on some of the most dangerous assignments in New York. But if the last three months are any indication, some of them could use a little gun training.

Brooklyn resident Alexander Chen built this cool, melodic web page that represents New York subway lines as ever-growing strings that are "plucked" by intersecting trains. Best of all, it's built off a live feed of actual train data.

Andrew Cuomo likes "fixing up old muscle cars" and going to Jon Bon Jovi concerts.

[Yesterday's snow has now melted into puddles of brown nastiness on the streets of New York. Can we talk about something other than snow now? Image via AP]

Scary video of a yellow cab exploding in Manhattan made the rounds yesterday. Here's a new video from the outer boroughs: Watch this cab get engulfed in Williamsburg on Wednesday due to the snow.

[The streets in Brooklyn were clear today for these women to walk their dogs in the road. More pictures of post-snowfall frolicking inside. Image via Getty]

Media mogul Barry Diller was driving his Maserati through a snowy Central Park this morning when it got stuck. Luckily Katie Couric happened by to help push it out—in the wrong direction. Rich people really don't "get" snow.

The National Arts Club, located in a mansion on Manhattan's tony Gramercy Park South, is known for its historic building, famous members, and lavish parties. Too bad part of it is in shambles and stuffed with junk.

Metro-North officials say the footage on this Youtube video—showing a train door that remains open for two and a half minutes as the train flies full speed through New York City—is "very disturbing." Um yeah.

New York State Senator Carl Kruger is proposing a ban on listening to your iPod or talking on a cellphone while crossing the street, citing a rising number of distracted pedestrian accidents. The fine for getting caught would be $100.

Martin Peretz is an obscenely wealthy moral cripple who owns the New Republic. His penchant for spouting ethnic slurs against Arabs recently earned him two lengthy and intense magazine profiles. Neither one saw fit to report that he is gay.

Catfight alert! Here's yet another NYC all-female brawl—this time filmed by Reddit user bearCatBird yesterday on the L Train platform—featuring two ladies going at it until bystanders break them up. Best part: the eye-roll at the :34 mark.

Joseph Kastner—called New York's sixth worst scamming cabbie in a report—is heading to court for ripping off passengers and could be sent to Riker's Island for a month. Harsh! It must really suck to be the #1 worst.

Stay away from manholes in New York. At least 19 have exploded or caught fire since New Year's Day.

[A pristine view from Brooklyn of Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge this afternoon. The snow may look pretty right now, but good luck walking around in the slush all weekend. Image via Getty]

Jade Uribe was arrested for stealing a $1,200 Ridley Howard drawing from the wall of a gallery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn during a party. Partygoers chased him down and busted him. Now the gallery's owner is begging for leniency.

Yesterday the FBI arrested over 100 people around New York for mafia ties and "classic mob hits," and some of them have awesome names: "Jack the Whack, Marbles, Skinny, Jonny Pizza, Junior Lollipops, Jimmy Gooch and Baby Fat Larry."

New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commission has approved a new style guide for the city's cab drivers. So, what is acceptable attire and what isn't?