How does 2 Bros Pizza—the popular New York hot-cheese-n-crust-for-just-a-buck joint—keep its prices so nice? By underpaying its employees and working them to the bone, according to a new lawsuit.

“Atmosphere: exploring climate change,” the London Science Museum’s exhibit on global warming, is principally sponsored by Shell. You’re asking yourself: Hmm, Shell—isn’t that the name of some trendy “green” startup? No, it’s the same old Shell that fills your gas tank and that was responsible for 76 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions last year. What could go wrong?

Hey big boy. Nice watch. It’s very hot. Is it yours? That’s nice. It’s real, right? Rolex? Wow. That is really nice. I bet there are some big strong arms attached to those big strong wrists of yours. Really nice girth. Really, really nice. Anyway—wanna get out of here? Someplace we can be alone?

Got a couple million dollars in the bank? Want to make it rain at Christie’s? Too bad, you’re a sucker who is still too poor to buy art. Please step aside.

One ninety Bowery, a grimy old New York City building that sits literally at the intersection of Bowery and Spring Street, has found a chief tenant: a consortium of “luxury and fashion image-making” companies that, according to its CEO, sits “literally at the intersection of chic and gritty.” Literally a perfect match.

In 1983, a statue of the Buddhist deity Samvara like the one above was stolen from Kathmandu’s Itum Bahal Temple, a structure that dates to the 13th century AD. Thirty years later, a Brooklyn art dealer may have unloaded the plundered artifact for $370,000.

When Banksy lands in a city and begins a street art-making spree, there's a routine that usually follows. First, the stenciled paintings are ignored, then, after people realize what they are, they are gawked at and occasionally vandalized. Eventually, they are cordoned off and protected from the public, and finally, they are physically removed, and someone makes a lot of money, or hopes to. An extreme version of this complex lottery played out for one unlucky family in Gaza recently.

You're a discerning and fashionable gentleman. You have money, power, and an insatiable appetite for breasts and other sex-type stuff. You know what time it is. You wear a watch—but you need a new one. Which watch is the watch for you? Think fast: The insufficiently manly timepiece on your wrist is ticking.

New York University, a Manhattan property development firm with a promising education wing, charges students a lot of money to attend. Undergraduate tuition, room, and board is currently estimated at $65,000 per year. What if a student wants to attend, but doesn't have the money? Who will pay? I don't know—the teachers, maybe?

For decades the hulking former bank building at 190 Bowery in downtown Manhattan was stuck stubbornly sometime in the mid-1970s, covered in graffiti and oblivious to the remodeling happening around it. Recently, it was sold to a real-estate developer for $55 million, and soon it will become condos or some shit. Here's your last look inside.

The Georgia teen who heroically blew through tens of thousands of an elderly neighbor's dollars after they were mistakenly deposited in his bank account last March has finally had his sweet run ended by a judge. He's been ordered to serve 10 years probation and pay back the $30,000 he spent.

Democratic New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez will be investigated as part of a Justice Department corruption probe, CNN reports.

Jay Maisel is suddenly a very rich man. In what the New York Daily News is calling "one of the greatest returns on investment in the history of New York City real estate," the photographer who owns and inhabits the hulking 72-room building offloaded his home to developer Aby Rosen last year. Now, the selling-price is public: $55 million—539 times more than what Maisel paid when he bought it for $102,000 in 1966. Shed a tear for old New York and read more about the graffiti-covered landmark below.

Cristiano Ronaldo is a soccer superstar who makes a boatload of money kicking balls into goals. How much money does Spanish club Real Madrid pay him? Somewhere near twenty million dollars ($) a year. Have you ever wanted to know how poor you are in comparison to the Portuguese footballer? Follow me.

Fellow Millennials: What is your current savings plan? Chances are you probably don't have one. Here's a retirement plan you could try: Save every penny you find for the next 65 years; that's what 81-year-old Ira Keys did. Now he has $816 in cold, hard cash.

"Have I got an investment for you," Bill Gates whispers, his eyes feverish with excitement. Or is it the poop water? Only time will tell.

You might have missed some must-see TV last week, namely the Dec. 26 episode of Wheel of Fortune, when word nerd Matt DeSanto guessed "The Lone Ranger" with only one letter revealed. "The wheel definitely worked in my favor," DeSanto told the Today show. "I was extremely fortunate."

To make a point about how New York City hasn't become too expensive for artists, a New York Times reporter deployed an anecdote about attending a party in the elevator room of an under-construction Midtown building: "A barman in a trilby offered cocktails; a chandelier of candles dangled from the ceiling." Very cool.

[UPDATE 12/16/14 9:22 a.m.]: As of late Monday evening, it was confirmed by the New York Observer that Mohammed Islam, alleged genius teen who had supposedly amassed $72 million by trading stocks, was actually a penniless liar who magnificently rolled everyone. "It's a total fiction?" Islam was asked. "Yes." Teens—still fucking everything up. The original fabricated story, below.

Nelson and Joyce Coniglio have come out victorious in a harassment suit against Bank of America. They were awarded more than $1 million this week after the bank made 700 automated calls across four years.