During Monday's New York Gubernatorial debate, Jimmy McMillan—of the "Rent Is Too Damn High" party—became an instant, nationwide star because of his hilarious antics (watch him here). On tonight's SNL, Kenan Thompson impersonated McMillan flawlessly. Watch inside.

Engineer Raymond Dekozan, inventor of the MetroCard, died last week at age 74.

Forget bedbugs. Those are old news. The new news? The new, terrible news? Stink bugs. And that's a scientific name. Creatures that emit a foul odor when scared have been increasingly found in New York lately. We're moving.

Poor Eliot Spitzer. The former governor's new TV show sucks, and now the rich people at the Harvard Club of New York City have rejected his application ("a rare snub") to talk about money and play squash with them. Ouch.

A New York couple is suing Guinness heiress and fashionista Daphne Guinness for repeatedly flooding their multimillion dollar apartment with her overflowing bathtub. The lawsuit would ban her from taking baths. What is she doing in there?

The Millionaire Matchmaker's season debut concentrated on the show's move from Los Angeles to New York City. Throughout the episode, Patti Stanger spouted a staggering amount of awful stereotypes about what she believes dating is like in our city.

Somehow-alive Hustler publisher Larry Flynt has seen New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino's many porn emails, approved, and offered him the job of executive editor at his magazine. Will Paladino accept, and bring more breast-milk fetish shots to Hustler?

A beaver found living in the Bronx River has, after a contest, been named Justin Beaver, an homage to Canadian pop sensation Justin Bieber. And thus marks the last time Bieber will ever be associated with anything beaver-related. [NYP]

Surely you've heard of Brooklyn's own Jimmy McMillan, founder and CEO of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party, and candidate for governor of New York. He's fighting rent-hiking slumlords for you! Well, he's fighting everyone except his landlord.

Hiram Monserrate, former New York state senator and all-around awful person, has been indicted on federal corruption charges.

Did you watch the debate between candidates for Governor of New York? Did you see the man with, uh, unique facial hair? Who wore gloves the whole time? That's Jimmy McMillan, candidate for the Rent Is 2 Damn High Party.

We told you that tonight's New York gubernatorial debate—with seven participants!—would be crazy, but we could have never anticipated this level of it: watch as Jimmy McMillan, of the "Rent Is Too Damn High" party, uh... introduces himself.

New York City's billionaire CEO-for-life, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is looking for ways to save the city some money. And he'd like ideas on how to do that from the people. Let's stuff his suggestion box full of brilliant ideas!

You can go to over-the-hill sex tape actress Kim Kardashian's 30th birthday party in New York on Friday. You just have to pay between $1,000 and $2,500 to reserve a table. Your personal invite below.

The conservative New York Post tabloid, with a deep sigh of defeat, has endorsed Democratic scion Andrew Cuomo over Republican gay club kingpin Carl Paladino in the New York gubernatorial race. Was it something Paladino said?

Donald Trump's shitty Jones Beach restaurant idea, "Trump on the Ocean," still faces stiff local opposition and he's pissed: "I was going to build a magnificent building on the boardwalk that would have made Robert Moses envious and proud." Gross.

A gay man wrote an angry email to New York's homophobic governor candidate Carl Paladino. Carl responded, "Learn how to read." So the man wrote back, even more angrily—and so did Carl. Here is their full, 8-part exchange.

James Franco hates bloggers, and hair is highly flammable. These were the lessons from James Franco's book party, where he angrily told me to "go away." Then he grabbed and threw a reporter's phone. Then someone's hair lit on fire.

69-year-old John Stolarz was released from federal prison on Wednesday after serving 22 years for robbing banks. Yesterday, Stolarz tried to rob a midtown Manhattan bank with a knife. It didn't work out so well.

Those UFOs over Manhattan may have been a clutch of balloons from a Westchester engagement party. Congratulations, you scared the crap out of New Yorkers for a day! On their 10th anniversary they'll plant a fake bomb in Times Square.