Today's new Brooklyn Banksy piece is in Greenpoint, and reportedly already "a little scuffed up."

Banksy's latest Brooklyn piece can be found in Red Hook.

Some would argue that dragging a chain gang of preschoolers through Union Square to witness "performance artist" Matthew Silver going HAM on a bass drum with the broken pink handle of a child's riding toy could be considered child abuse.

Celebubrated street artist Banksy is currently prowling around New York City, leaving a trail of new art on random walls. Oblivious New York City building owners are painting them over just as fast as they can.

With 99% of precincts reporting, Tish James has been declared the winner of the Public Advocate runoff election in New York City. James—who has no Republican opponent—is expected to be the first African American woman to hold a citywide post.

One of the motorcyclists involved in this weekend's violent New York City road rage incident, in which dozens of bikers clashed with a man in an SUV on the West Side Highway, has turned himself in to police as authorities continue investigating just what the hell happened.

Early Monday morning, at about 3 a.m., two parachuters dressed in all black landed in Manhattan’s Financial District, near the Goldman Sachs building. But what were they doing, and where did they come from?

Housing a single inmate in a New York City jail for one year costs more than four years of tuition at Harvard University.

Feel like watching a six-minute video of a motorcycle gang chasing a black SUV through New York City before the gang surrounds the car and smashes in its windows? Sure you do.

A grieving Brooklyn father whose son drowned during a field trip back in June is living with a constant reminder of his loss — because the teen's school won't stop calling to ask why the boy has been skipping class.

Aissante Diallo, 3, died in her Harlem apartment on Sunday after suffocating while trapped in a sofa bed. According to the New York Post, Aissante was at home when “the bed retracted, trapping her and her 10-year old sister.” The sister managed to escape, but Aissante was “squeezed inside.” NBC 4 reports that the girls were sleeping at the time of the accident.

While strolling through Manhattan's Upper West Side one warm summer's day, a concerned New Yorker spotted a bike thief casually removing the front tire off a delivery bike that belonged to a local Lenny's location, and then just as casually walking away.

Is it possible that there is a parenting activity in New York City more egregiously scoff-worthy than Crossfit for toddlers? Maybe... DJ school for babies? Possibly?

As social media influencers, we here at Gawker.com are, needless to say, widely revered by young urban gang members. It is to the that we offer this public service announcement: stop talking about all your crimes, on the internet. Okay?

Could you see yourself paying $1,275 a month to live in a 100-square-foot micro-studio apartment that's "smaller than a jail cell"? What if I threw in a "brand new alcove"?

Nine and a half million American families are living in poverty. Four out of five 18-24-year-olds did not have a full time job last year. At a time like this, we must be brave enough to ask ourselves: Will New York City's next mayor attend our glamorous charity ball??

The use of MetroCards in the New York City subway system "cannot be maintained beyond 2019," according to the MTA. Time for retinal scanners?

As part of its legal obligation to house the homeless, New York City "is paying to keep a record 2,684 households in apartments costing $3,000 a month." It costs just as much to house families in homeless shelters, but the shelters are full.

Though the possibility of a runoff remains, it looks very likely that the New York City mayoral race will pit Bill de Blasio, a progressive, tax-the-rich liberal, against Joe Lhota, a Republican seen as the "last, best hope for salvaging the business-friendly government of the Bloomberg era." Are you ready for a real live class war? Now, we get one.

Williamsburg, Brooklyn is one of the most famously gentrified neighborhoods in the country, having completed its transition from industrial wasteland/ ethnic enclave to "place where financiers live in glass towers and joke about the 'hipsters' who can no longer afford to live there." But a few years ago, well— Williamsburg was wild, back then.