Photo taken in Greenwich Village by goggla on flickr From the Gothamist Newsmap: a jumper down on Park Ave, another jumper down on Broadway and a man shot on Amsterdam Ave all in Manhattan. The homeless man who went on a stabbing spree of tourists in Times Square in 2006 was sentenced to 34 years in...

Photo taken on the Upper West Side by renntek1 on flickr From the Gothamist Newsmap: a bank robbery on E 42nd St in Manhattan, a home invasion on Clifton Ave in Staten Island and a fall victim on Katonah Ave and E 236th St in the Bronx. A former Saks Fifth Avenue jewelry saleswoman was convicted of ...

Photo taken in Brooklyn by neenna on flickr From the Gothamist Newsmap: a person under a train at 18th Ave and 86th St in Brooklyn, a police car MVA at Pitt St and Delancey St in Manhattan and a bank robbery on 5th Ave in Manhattan. A woman in East Rockaway has been arrested for vehicular manslaught...

Photo by RJ Shaughnessy Miranda July has made a splash as a filmmaker, fiction writer, artist, actress and a musician. This Saturday she's participating in the second annual Brainwave Festival at the Rubin Museum. The festival is in the third of its ten weeks where it explores how art, music and med...

The Mets brought retired superstar Darryl Strawberry down to camp as a hitting instructor, but it didn't take long before he started giving an unofficial lesson in media relations. When asked if he would have taken steroids had they been commonplace in the '80s, he responded, "Hell, yeah, I would ha...

A gang of transvestite teenagers has been arrested and charged with mugging women in the West Village. Brooklyn's Jubril "Dominic" Faggins and Jhirad "Shanese" Powell are accused of robbing women in The Archive, a prestigious apartment building on Greenwich Street. After robbing a woman there in Jan...

Photo of Brooklyn Federal Court from Wired New York As if taking the stand was not difficult enough for a woman who accuses her father, a rabbi, of molesting her for years, yesterday she had to face him as he cross-examined her at the trial—Rabbi Israel Weingarten is representing himself. Insi...

Photo taken in Rego Park by drivebysh00ter on flickr From the Gothamist Newsmap: a fall victim on E 119th St in Manhattan, a Dsny Inv MVA at Bushwick Ave and Lafayette Ave in Brooklyn and an armed robbery on 126th St in Queens. It was bad enough when residents of a Bronx building were braving throug...

A 22-year vet is suing the NYPD claiming the Department was guilty of religious persecution when they took his gun and badge away from him. And what cultish fringe deity are the police being intolerant of now? You guessed it—Christianity. Lieutenant Dominic Maglione, a practicing evangelist, s...

Photo taken on the Lower East Side by laverrue on flickr From the Gothamist Newsmap: a double stabbing at 10th Ave and Post Ave in Manhattan, a shooting on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx and a serious MVA on 1st St and 3rd Ave in Brooklyn. A pedestrian was struck and killed overnight by a tow truc...