Not to be outdone by Madonna and Kim Kardashian, Jake Gyllenhaal took the Q train and made all the other riders swoon. Except the man passed out next to him. Glad to see the subway doesn't give celebs special treatment.

Andrew Cuomo doesn't care if you're comfortable at his events or not, okay?

Hey, look, another snow storm is approaching New York. This one should only bring less than six inches, but even if it were to dump enough to cover the Empire State building, it would be crushed with GPS and cameras.

Something to look forward to: some meteorologists are saying that the coming weeks could be the coldest January we've seen since 1985, with January 10-20 seeing the brunt of the freeze. New York City with highs in the teens! Great.

Sandra Lee, the celebuchef girlfriend of new New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, doesn't like to talk about her man. When a reporter asked why not at a press conference arranged to highlight her charity work, she left in a huff.

William Hattar was riding the subway this morning and the doors made a different and really cool song when closing. Have a listen. Hey MTA, can we adopt "Doors Closing: Extended Dance Remix" as the official song of subway doors?

The New York Post's war on the Sanitation Department over the Snowpocalypse cleanup apparently worked: "I had one old guy throw a mini-snow blower at me because I plowed past his driveway," one sanitation worker told the Daily News.

About 48.7 million tourists visited New York last year, which is a new record. Seemingly none of them followed the rules.

According to stats compiled by the New York Post, there were 121 disciplinary drug busts at uptown nerdfest Columbia last year, compared to 610 at artfag haven NYU. Do NYU kids do more drugs? Possibly. Or, security are just dicks.

A pedestrian was shocked to see a 15-foot explosion blow away a West Village manhole cover the other day. But not too shocked to start filming! Video after the jump, in case you're wondering whether it's safe outdoors, post snowpocalypse.

Good news from the Snowpocalypse: A man survived a suicide attempt today when he jumped from the 9th floor of a Midtown Manhattan building and landed on a pile of garbage that was left uncollected after the snowstorm. [NYDN]

[Participants in the annual New Year's Day Polar Bear Plunge at Coney Island run into the ocean. Click through for another picture of very cold people. Image via Getty]

"Mercenary" snow plower Danny DiLorenzo hit the jackpot during the Snowpocalypse: He hung a sign on his truck that reads "No favors, F-ck You Pay Me," and has made $10,000 cash plowing in Brooklyn and Queens since. [NYP]

A federal judge has ruled that New York's gruesome anti-smoking ads — featuring rotted teeth and organs — can't be forced into stores, siding with three tobacco companies who filed a lawsuit against the NY Board of Health. Smoke away!

Those very gross anti-smoking ads in New York convenience stores have been banned.

The recent dumping of 20 inches of snow on New York City was a commuter's nightmare—also a filmmaker's paradise. Here's the moody, brilliantly-shot meditation on a buried city that's being called Oscar-worthy by no less than Roger Ebert.

Snooki planned on dropping in a glass ball in Times Square on New Year's Eve like a 'friggen hamster.' Unfortunately it looks like she's been banned from Times Square, the potential site of the MTV-backed stunt. Save your ball jokes.

It's been a pretty heist-filled holiday season in New York! First, the $1 million art heist; then on Christmas day, three masked men stole $879,000 worth of jewels from a diamond store, escaping by jumping roof-to-roof.

The NYT's City Room blog has a handy, steadily updated guide to mass transit delays around the city, and while things are getting better, taking public transportation is going to suck today. Have fun out there! [City Room; AP]

The stuntman who was severely injured during the Spider-man broadway show is walking again