NYC power company Con Ed has the highest electricity prices in the nation—"more than twice the national average price." Fuckers.

Curtis Peterson, a veteran of Operation Desert Storm, lost his civilian job in Georgia in the recession. So he got on a bus to New York. Once here, he promptly had a stroke. Today, he considers himself one of the lucky ones.

"I will not criticize" incoming NYC mayor Bill de Blasio, said outgoing NYC mayor Mike Bloomberg today. Remember that, everyone.

Last week, childlike Business Insider boss Henry Blodget publicly bemoaned the fact that a fancy New York restaurant employs bathroom attendants. Now, Henry's dream has come true: the bathroom attendants are all getting fired. Great.

Earlier this year, we advised you that New York City real estate has now become too expensive for anyone. We would like to issue a correction: New York City real estate is a bargain! It all depends on your perspective.

Banksy's newest NYC piece (and perhaps the last of his month-long stay here) is on the side of a warehouse in Queens. It's made out of balloons. And here is the inside story of Banksy's first NYC show a decade ago. The fuss was somewhat smaller then.

Avonte Oquendo, a 14 year-old autistic boy, went missing from his school in Queens almost four weeks ago. Fliers with his picture are everywhere in New York City. And now—finally—he may have been spotted (Update: nope). But!

The New York City Council voted Wednesday to raise the minimum age for buying tobacco from 18 to 21. The new minimum age will take effect six months after Mayor Michael Bloomberg signs the bill into law.

If you’ve spent enough time on the subway in New York, you’ve probably noticed the train-conductors pointing at a striped black-and-white sign each time they pull into a station. The conductors are required to do this to show they’ve fully arrived on the platform.

Today's new Banksy NYC piece is a robot stenciled on Stillwell Avenue in Coney Island.

Gee, where is today's daily new Banksy artwork, somewhere in New York City? He's been unveiling a new one every day in October. Not today, though.

The newest Banksy NYC piece is on 153rd St. in the South Bronx, and already getting tagged up, naturally.

Banksy's newest NYC piece is a silhouette work in East Williamsburg. A graffiti writer who tagged the piece was "caught and beaten up."

Earlier this year, Brooklyn resident LeRoy McCarthy started an online petition to name a local street corner after Biggie Smalls, specifically an intersection near the late rapper's childhood home. The petition gained enough strength to be brought before a community board hearing yesterday and DNA Info reports that the board members weren't so keen on dedicating part of their neighborhood to the man responsible for "Ten Crack Commandments." In fact, they complained that Biggie was too criminal, too misogynistic, and, weirdly, too physically unfit to deserve the tribute.

That's essentially what one member told the room:

The newest Banksy NYC piece—a "performance/sculpture hybrid"—is outside of a McDonald's in the South Bronx.

An extremely disgruntled New Yorker does his best impression of a YouTube comment while chewing out a street performer for being a "no talent, self-consumed, mediocre piece of shit."

According to a new survey, 20 percent of adults living in New York City are binge drinkers.

The commuter who snapped this photo yesterday told Gothamist that this guy was "enjoying a half wheel of what must have been a severely aged Brie with crackers" on the N train at rush hour. Each generation gets the hero it deserves. [via]

This was bound to happen one way or another, but that doesn't make it any easier: 5Pointz, a huge, empty warehouse building in Queens that's long been a magnet for the world's best graffiti artists, will be demolished to make way for condos. Insta-commemorative 5Pointz photo gallery below.

The undercover NYPD officer arrested yesterday in connection with last week's motorcycle attack has been identified as Det. Wojciech Braszczok. The 10-year veteran was initially charged with criminal mischief, but on Wednesday prosecutors added a felony charge of gang assault.