These guys get into an all out wrestling match on the subway and quite a crowd gathers to watch it all go down. Get ready to witness a smackdown.

The New York Times Travel section has an article this weekend that has the ring of a Brian Williams parody, but does, in some bizarre way, appear to be real. Basically the paper sent free-associative word mangler (and chief food critic) Sam Sifton across the East River to file a "36 Hours In..." column about Brooklyn. You know, Brooklyn? The borough?

Alexander Figueroa, a 38-year-old ex-con, reportedly brought flowers to his ex-wife Guimmia Villa at the pharmacy where she worked on Thursday. He then shot her, returned to his apartment, and committed suicide. Villa had orders of protection against Figueroa in both Queens and Nassau County; one had expired in January. Figueroa had done time for murder in the 1990s. [NYP]

Twitter has been abuzz all night with the news that tween pop star Justin Bieber was booed at Madison Square Garden during tonight's Knicks-Mavericks game. Well, now we have video—and it's true! Aw. Leave the poor girl alone!

Let's say that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's "insurance file" of dirt on News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch is seriously juicy, and Rupe's got to go hide out. Where can he go? You mean he has to choose just one place?

Catfight alert! Here's yet another NYC all-female brawl—this time filmed by Reddit user bearCatBird yesterday on the L Train platform—featuring two ladies going at it until bystanders break them up. Best part: the eye-roll at the :34 mark.

[The weather in Brooklyn, N.Y. was really gross on Tuesday, as the poor person shoveling the sidewalk here could have told you. Image via AP]

North Brother Island is in the East River between the Bronx and Rikers Island. It was used until the '40s as a quarantine hospital, but has been abandoned and closed to the public since then. Now it's a spectacular ruin.

Madeline Klima, an 81-year-old who lives in Brooklyn, was returning from her job cleaning offices when a thief picked her up and—in her words—"like, threw me." She's okay! But not feeling particularly forgiving toward the mugger.

[Someone—Mayor Bloomberg?—hard at work shoveling in NoLiTa on Wednesday night. Click through for another photo. Image via Dan Nguyen]

Last Sunday, patrons at the Bronx's Munch Time Diner were treated to more than a piece of pie when a nasty fight broke out—over a missing cell phone—between several women in the middle of the restaurant. Watch inside.

In the last week of 2010, Agata Olek (known throughout New York City as "Crocheted Olek") took to Wall Street for her latest guerilla-knitting stunt. Inside, video that provides method to her madness—knitting a Wall Street fixture.

The New York Times has a year-end list of "The 110 Things New Yorkers Talked About"! Obviously, it is the most important article the paper has ever published. But they left some big things off!

New York's lame-duck billionaire mayor Michael Bloomberg, who can do whatever he wants, "accepted responsibility" for the city's poor snow cleanup today, after days of whining and sniping about how everyone should shut up. So, can you shut up now?

Take a look at these two post-blizzard New York City streets, courtesy Brooklyn blog Sheepshead Bites—one impeccably plowed, the other, well, not so much. Can you guess which one Mayor Mike Bloomberg lives on?

Remember the guy caught on a security camera wheeling a suitcase stuffed with a body down 114th Street in Manhattan? Police think they've found him: Fifty-five-year-old Hassan Malik, who apparently confessed to the murder on Tuesday.

Click to viewHundreds of kids in New York City think that Santa Claus lives on West 22nd Street. He does not (he lives in the North Pole, duh)—these two guys do. But after receiving 450 letters, they're helping out anyway.

Were you walking down East 114th Street in New York City Tuesday night? Did you pass a guy with a big roller suitcase? Because, uh, the police want to talk to you. Since the suitcase maybe had a body inside.

It's difficult to believe but One World Trade Center, the main building of the new World Trade Center complex is now built up to the 52nd story. It's now halfway to it's ultimate goal of 1,776 feet above Lower Manhattan.

Watch as an intoxicated bar patron gets shoved down not once, not twice, but four times outside a Midtown East bar. Let this be a lesson to not test the patience of a bouncer.