In early June, Kalief Browder, the Bronx native who battled mental health issues after spending three violent years in jail at Rikers Island without ever being convicted of a crime, committed suicide. His family, who believe Browder would still be alive had he not been subjected to “systemic and agonizing mental and physical abuse tantamount to torture” by officers employed by the NYC Department of Corrections, are suing the city of New York for $20 million.

A developer is planning to build Brooklyn’s first 1,000-foot condo tower, which could be nearly as tall as the Empire State Building, and will sell fabulously expensive apartments to all the billionaires who want to live in Downtown Brooklyn next to a bunch of Modell’s.

A 25-year-old woman says she was drugged and raped at Lower East Side bar Happy Ending last Tuesday night by an employee who has since been fired. After spending 10 hours dealing with NYPD officers who, she says, kept suggesting she had “led him to believe it was okay,” she suffered additional indignity at the hands of Happy Ending itself: a spokesperson for the bar claimed CCTV showed “a 90 percent chance it was consensual behavior.”

New York City, a crowded land sorely in need of housing, is in the midst of its “biggest building boom in a generation,” issuing new residential building permits at a pace not seen for more than 50 years. Soon there could be tens of thousands of new apartments that you can’t afford.

The city of New York granted $66 million in tax breaks to the developers of the One57 luxury condo tower, where billionaires inhabit apartments costing up to $100 million apiece. This is known as “a ripoff,” or, if you like, “economic development.”

An out-of-control SUV slammed into a cyclist and two cars near the Barclays Center in Brooklyn this morning, killing the cyclist and injuring three others.

From time to time, New York City’s reactionary elements decide to villainize the homeless by casting them as menaces to the quality of life of decent folks. Our parks—our precious public parks—are full of homeless people, you see. Well? Good.

A tipster just sent us the video above, which appears to show a (large, male) manger at a Manhattan Panera Bread location punching the hell out of a (small, female) unruly employee.

Have you noticed anything odd going on this morning? Oh yes. Let us be the first to tell you that the time to panic is upon us.

This weekend, as the elated masses took to the streets to celebrate Friday’s historical win for inclusiveness and equality, the hate groups of the world took it upon themselves to balance out all that joy. Or, in the case of the Jewish Political Action Committee, they took it upon the Mexican laborers they hired to dress up as Jews and do the protesting for them.

Pranna, Madison Avenue’s opulent palace where the mimosas flow like waterfalls (and so does the vomit), may not be long for this world. Despite making small changes to appease its long-suffering neighbors, the brunch spot that gave us the fake heir to “half of fucking Manhattan” had its application for a new liquor license aggressively rejected by the community board Wednesday night.

Did you ever wonder if you could jump all the way across the subway tracks?

On the same day that Uber got bad news from the California Labor Commission, the New York Post reports another ill omen for the technology-company-and-definitely-not-a-car-service everyone loves to hate and use anyway: NYC has impounded nearly 500 Uber cars since April in a sting against illegal “street hails.”

You oafish hillbillies who spend your time reading Gawker.com may not realize this, but respectable people who went to respectable schools like Yale have their very own high class private clubs in Manhattan. Do not sully them with your tasteless “novelty” t-shirts!

A New York State Supreme Court judge has ruled that Brooklyn’s Pierhouse development—an expensive luxury condo that blocks the public’s view of the Brooklyn Bridge—is not technically illegal, though he conceded that the building could be considered an aesthetic monstrosity.

Your very latest New York City apartment hunting intelligence report: hope is lost.

On Saturday, I joined a few neighbors on the stoop in front of my apartment in gazing toward the sky. “NERO, like from Rome,” said a precocious middle-schooler, referring to the skywriting in progress southwest of our neighborhood. “I don’t know,” an adult countered, European history understandably less fresh in her mind. “I think it says NERD.” I thought so, too.

The past decade has seen New York City go from a city with an economically mixed landscape to a city in which the rich have burst forth into every last neighborhood. Except three.

Tall socialist New York mayor Bill “de” Blasio was elected as a stiff shot of progressivism to counteract the city’s Mike Bloomberg money-centric hangover. Now, one of NYC’s minorities—white people—are quite cross.

A Swedish woman was taking the A train to JFK Airport yesterday evening when a man attacked her and sliced her neck with a sharp object, according to the New York Post.