Many videos, from Rodney King onwards, have captured the physical violence of police brutality. Rarer is a video that captures the psychological trauma of someone suffering a complete emotional breakdown in the face of police harassment.
Bill de Blasio may be New York's tallest acquisition since Carmelo Anthony, but height does not always bring happiness. You know that precariously stacked tower of Raisin Bran at the corner deli? The mayor may be able to pull the highest one down with ease, but that doesn't mean he won't also become permanently blinded by your murderous umbrella handling.
This nation has a very fundamental problem. Its best city—New York City—exists in a northern latitude so extreme that it is a frigid sub-Arctic wasteland for half the year. Why don't we rebuild somewhere down south?
The skyline of "The Big Apple" is festooned with soaring, glass-sheathed condo high rises, where the world's wealthy shelter in altitudinous luxury, away from the teeming masses. With a little luck, all of those people will die in a heat wave.
Tonight, The Daily Show bid Sean Hannity a heartfelt “please, get out of our state” after Andrew Cuomo questioned the place of extreme conservatives in New York.
File this under Terrible Ideas: A man filmed himself as he rode outside a subway car over the Williamsburg Bridge and posted the footage to YouTube.
Are you a renter? This means, in a technical sense, that you give someone else money in order to stay in their apartment. Feel like you want to do some expensive renovations? Stop right there!
