The FBI says it's begun arresting more than 100 alleged gangsters from six New York and New Jersey mob families this morning in what it calls the largest Mafia round-up in New York history. If you're a mobster, hide now.

A cross-country skier found a roll of film in Brooklyn's Prospect Park after the December 26th blizzard and, curious, developed the film. Now he's trying to track down the unknown photographers, using the power of YouTube. Help him, won't you?

A woman was arrested in New York on Friday for illegally injecting women with silicone "for breast and buttocks enhancement," and she even charged one customer $1,000 who "fainted within hours of the procedure." [Business Insider]

What's the Internet's scariest hivemind like in real life? A bunch of geeky twenty-somethings hanging out in a bar in Brooklyn. This is what I learned last night at the first official meetup for the notorious message board 4chan.

North Brother Island is in the East River between the Bronx and Rikers Island. It was used until the '40s as a quarantine hospital, but has been abandoned and closed to the public since then. Now it's a spectacular ruin.

[Fireworks explode over New York Harbor tonight in honor three cruise ships, the Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth, which met at the foot of the Statue of Liberty. Image via AP]

Chinemerem Eze, a Nigerian national attending Brooklyn College, believed that her landlord had hidden a camera in her apartment. When she asked school officials for help, they shipped her off to a psychiatric ward. Then she found the camera.

Here's a spectacular and moody time-lapse video of New York by Josh Owens. Whether it' his technique or the music by Dredg, it makes us feel lonely and melancholy. It's still pretty damn awesome though.

Some of the lovely ladies who work at the Manhattan strip emporium Cheetah Club gathered today to "perform their civic duty" and shovel snow in Times Square. Photographer Andy Kropa was there for all the topless action. Warning: nipples ahoy!

Gay magazine The Advocate used its own formula to assemble a list of the most homotastic cities in America and published the results today. You may be shocked by which city is the gayest, and which ones don't even rank.

Check out the hot new trend sweeping posh Manhattan restaurants: Eating your meal, then running away before you pay the check! "Theft of service" was up 20 percent last year, and the people doing it weren't just poor jerks.

With 8 to 12 inches of snow expected to fall between tonight and tomorrow, New York City has declared a "weather emergency."

Two trainers have filed a lawsuit against nightclub/workout emporium David Barton Gym, claiming they were harassed and later fired because they're lesbians. We've heard of harassment at this gym before, but it's usually of straight guys in the locker room.

The New York Times poses an ontological riddle: If a billionaire mayor's private jet was spotted on the tropical island where he keeps a $10 million estate during New York City's apocalyptic blizzard, does that mean he was there too?

Today we looked at a guy who really, really wants a Walmart to open in New York City. Though as one commenter warned us, Walmarts in densely populated areas can devolve into hellish misery dens.

New York is about to get six to twelve inches of snow tomorrow. Don't worry, New Yorkers, you're going to make it through this. Here's how you should act before the white stuff starts falling.

We've all seen a dirty car that said "Wash Me" on the back, but some pranksters in New York City took it a step further. Oh, to be literate and delinquent at the same time!

Today some people won't be wearing pants on the subway, so watch out.

The body of 65-year-old Portuguese journalist Carlos Castro was found yesterday in a Times Square InterContinental Hotel room "bludgeoned in the head and his scrotum cut off." Police are questioning Castro's male model companion, "twentysomething" Renato Seabra. [NYDN; image]

[A dock worker in New York takes a smoke break during today's winter storm. After all the drama over the last blizzard, today's snowfall turned out to be a bit of a dud. Image via AP]