After a long legal battle, sodas larger than 16 ounces are free, once and for all, to roam the streets of New York City without fear of persecution.

Summer has barely started, and already people are finding terrifying beasts in the waters surrounding New York City. Just last weekend, a group of fishermen caught a baby great white shark off the coast of Rockaway Beach, Queens.

Jonathan Fleming, 51, was released from prison in April after serving 25 years for a 1989 murder he didn't commit. He's now seeking $162 million from New York City.

Every rational person in New York fears falling into an open sidewalk cellar. Now, thanks to stellar on-the-scene reporting from CBS New York, we have footage of one unlucky man stumbling headfirst over an open cellar door and into a Harlem deli's basement.

With heroin use in New York City on the rise, the New York State attorney general's office will provide the NYPD with 19,500 kits containing the anti-overdose medication naloxone. The $1.2 million initiative is similar to one in Suffolk County, which has saved 184 lives since 2012.

A New York City cab driver was recently suspended by the Taxi and Limousine Commission for wearing a Nazi armband while driving his cab, a practice he believes is his right. "I'm a National Socialist — what you guys call a Nazi," he told CBS New York. "I am. I'm a believer of it."

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Gothamist, for bringing us Kalan.

New York City has a new hero: Meet Subway Oyster Shucking Man, distant cousin to Subway Brie Man. Not much is known about our oyster shucker, aside from the obvious: he's very prepared and very determined. But what's the rush? Eating brie on the go sort of makes sense, if you're hungry and happen to have a huge wheel of cheese with you. But oysters? Not so much. Also: seems sort of dangerous. Regardless, we salute this guy's dedication.

If you live in New York City and smelled smoke this morning, don't worry, your building probably isn't on fire: Late Sunday and early Monday, smoke from a forest fire in New Jersey wafted into parts of Manhattan, Staten Island, and Brooklyn

To commemorate their Broadway run and say goodbye to the East Coast, Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart released a delightful series of New York City tourist photos.

Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York state legislators have carved out $300 million in next year's budget for New York City's prekindergarten programs. Mayor Bill De Blasio promised an expansion of NYC's pre-k offerings loudly and frequently during campaign season and to pay for it with a tax increase on the city's highest earners; the deal in Albany does not provide for such an increase.

Kahton Anderson, the 14-year-old boy who opened fire on fellow passengers of a city bus on Marcus Garvey Boulevard in Brooklyn will stand trial as an adult. New York City prosecutors have charged Anderson with second degree murder following the death of one bystander, Angel Rojas, 39.

A mentally ill homeless man "basically baked to death" in a New York City jail cell last month, according to a report in the Associated Press.

Today Show weatherman Al Roker is very angry with Bill de Blasio. At a Thursday morning press conference, the New York City mayor blamed meteorologists for botching their snow forecasts, thereby giving the city grounds to keep public schools open. “Early weather forecasts showed just 3 inches of snow incoming,” he argued. (It’s now at 9.5 inches.) That’s when Al Roker opened his Twitter account:

Whether still or sparkling, if a waiter at a restaurant in New York City has ever presented you a glass of water without asking if you wanted it first, they were breaking the law—until now.

The morning hosts of New York’s Hot 97 interrogated Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday morning about ending stop-and-frisk, raising the minimum wage, and legalizing marijuana (“I don’t think that’s happening anytime soon”). Listen to the interview here.

Ah, the joys of being a parent in New York City, a place essentially unaffordable but all but the rich. Those that do throw money away to live there at least have access to some of the best private schools in the world, provided your kid gets admitted after other parents go all CIA on you.

Bill de Blasio wants you to know he shovels his own snow-encrusted sidewalk, arranging feel-good photo-ops to show off his civic pride. The New York mayor feels a bit differently, however, about wooing the powerful pro-Israeli lobbying group AIPAC, whose members he spoke to in a Manhattan hotel on Thursday night, for a speech omitted from his public itinerary.

New York City's 311 hotline received over 260,000 complaints about noise in 2013 proving what Big Apple residents already know: the city is annoyingly loud. Health officials say there are plenty places in the city where decibels reach up to 85 and in some places noise levels exceed 100 decibels.

Last night, a teenage girl discovered the skeletal remains of an arm and leg on the waterfront in College Point, Queens. The NYPD believes the body parts might belong to Avonte Oquendo, the 14-year-old autistic boy who went missing in October. Police have reportedly contacted the boy's family.