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Can Manhattan Get Its Groove Back?

Gregg S. Lipman | Posted 05.10.2013 | New York
Gregg S. Lipman

Brooklyn shouldn't get too comfy with its current cool status; it's just a matter of time before the borough suffers a backlash as well, and the cool hunters go in search of the next big thing.

New York Needs a Gun Offender Registry

Ruben Diaz Jr. | Posted 05.03.2013 | New York
Ruben Diaz Jr.

New York City is the safest big city in America, in part because our registry allows the police to shine a light on gun offenders. Now, the State Legislature must follow in the City's footsteps by providing law enforcement with this common-sense crime-fighting tool that will help keep the public safe.

Fetus, Human Skull Found Inside Trash Bag

Posted 04.25.2013 | New York

Police say a trash bag containing a fetus in a jar, a human skull, and several dollar bills was discovered on a street in Queens on Wednesday. NBC...

The Kardashians Of Queens

NARRATIVE.LY | By Michael Stahl | Posted 03.11.2013 | New York

So pontificates Joe Santagato, eager to criticize the populace for improprieties that have produced irresponsible, overly dependent and needy young ad...

Will The 'QueensWay' Be New York City's Next High Line?

Tom Moran | Posted 03.08.2013 | Travel
Tom Moran

The plan to transform a 3.5-mile stretch of derelict railroad in central Queens into an urban greenway is gaining momentum.

Underground Trade Part Four: One Town in Thailand (and human trafficking)

Phillip Martin | Posted 04.21.2013 | Impact
Phillip Martin

The beach town's famed nightlife was already in full swing. Pattaya is a "Wild West" of bars, massage parlors, brothels and strip clubs. I watched as inebriated men wandered up and down the red-light district with its neon-sketched bars to the left and right.

Underground Trade Part Three: The Business of Trafficking

Phillip Martin | Posted 04.13.2013 | Impact
Phillip Martin

Why would someone fly 8,500 miles and spend $4,000 dollars to pony up to a bar in Pattaya, Thailand? "If they go into Pattaya, it's not because Pattaya has nice beaches," said Somerville, MA., Police Chief Thomas Pasquarello. "It's because it has sex tourism."

Underground Trade Part Two: The Route Through Queens

Phillip Martin | Posted 04.10.2013 | Impact
Phillip Martin

Without ever knowing it, you've driven the same routes, passed the same landmarks and used the same rest stops as today's human trafficking networks that operate from New York to New England.

3 Stabbed Over iPhone

Newsday | Bill Mason | Posted 04.07.2013 | New York

Three men were stabbed while on a Queens subway platform Monday afternoon when two other men tried to steal an iPhone from one of the victims, New Yor...

Sketches Released In Murder Of Gay Activist

| Posted 01.31.2013 | New York

By Jeanmarie Evelly, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer SUNNYSIDE — Family and friends of Lou Rispoli, a gay activist and longtime Queens resident who was...

Cop Killed Self Cause He Was Coerced Into Sex?

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 01.31.2013 | New York

NYPD cop Matthew Schindler was coerced into sex by his female boss at a Queens precinct and driven to suicide by the torment, his wife contends in a l...

A Native Son Traces The Tumultuous History Of Cambria Heights, Queens

NARRATIVE.LY | Posted 01.17.2013 | New York

n 1965, when I was five years old, my family moved from the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn into a five-bedroom house on 210th Street in Cambria Hei...

Transgender Teacher Sues School After Allegedly Being Branded 'Worse Than Gay'

Posted 01.08.2013 | Gay Voices

Editor's note: We reached out to Mark Krolikowski to inquire about his or her preferred pronoun usage but at the time of this writing, we have not rec...

Hurricane Sandy Dog Found In Nick Of Time

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 01.07.2013 | Good News

Missing for weeks after Hurricane Sandy, Buster the runaway dog was nearly done away. Just hours from being put to sleep at a shelter in Brooklyn,...

Nas Brings in 2013 in Grand Fashion at Radio City

Salvatore Bono | Posted 03.05.2013 | New York
Salvatore Bono

Watching a career-spanning set, the crowd at Radio City was simply in awe of what the hometown hero was doing. It was a night of raw emotion, a fond farewell to a very memorable year and a massive embrace of the new year to come.

WATCH: Police Release Video Of Woman Suspected Of Fatally Pushing Man In Subway

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 02.27.2013 | New York

NEW YORK — For New York City, it wasn't an unusual sight: a possibly mentally ill woman pacing and mumbling to herself on an elevated subway sta...

Queens 'High Line' Moves Closer To Reality

DNAinfo | Posted 12.27.2012 | New York

QUEENS — Queens is one step closer to getting its own High Line. A plan to transform 3.5 miles of abandoned railroad tracks into an elevated publ...

Arrested For Giving Unlicensed Butt Injections

| Posted 12.20.2012 | New York

By Nina Mandell, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer FLUSHING — A Queens woman who gave faulty butt enhancement injections to at least one victim is now fa...

A Queens Vigil For Newtown

DNAinfo | Posted 12.18.2012 | New York

QUEENS — A Sunnyside vigil planned for Tuesday night to remember victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting will focus on two casualties w...

What Does Hanukkah Mean to my Autistic Son?

Liane Kupferberg Carter | Posted 02.11.2013 | Parents
Liane Kupferberg Carter

This year, "eight days" has personal resonance. During the ordeal of hurricane Sandy six weeks ago, we lost power for eight days. It was inky black beyond the fire's glow. I finally understood, on a visceral level, why for millennia, people stared down darkness with celebrations of light.

Disgraced Queens Democrats To Serve Two Years In Prison For Using Taxpayer Money To Fund Campaign

AP | Posted 12.11.2012 | New York

NEW YORK -- A disgraced New York politician will spend two years in prison for using taxpayer money to fund his 2006 campaign. Queens Democrat Hiram ...

Cops Kill Man Armed With Pellet Gun

| Posted 12.10.2012 | New York

By Jess Wisloski, DNAinfo Weekend Editor RIDGEWOOD — A man wielding a fake Glock was shot and killed by undercover police in Queens at 10:43 p.m....

PHOTOS: Where To Make A Splash In 2013

Global Yodel | Posted 02.03.2013 | Travel
Global Yodel

Whether you're into the adrenaline of big wave surfing, sailing into the sunset, discovering inland watering holes or bathing in tropical shallows, these swimming spots have something for you.

Andy Campbell

Weed Dealer Donates Proceeds To Sandy Victims

HuffingtonPost.com | Andy Campbell | Posted 11.16.2012 | Crime

Marijuana doesn't help disaster victims. Money and supplies do. It's a simple connection made by a pot dealer in Brooklyn, N.Y., who donated hal...

Grace Meng Becomes New York's First Asian-American Congresswoman

| Posted 11.08.2012 | New York

By Nigel Chiwaya, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer QUEENS — Rep. Grace Meng made history Tuesday, shaking off her Republican challenger and long voting ...