Gothamist reports that a couple wearing handcrafted “Abolish ICE” t-shirts were denied entry to the Statue of Liberty in July, a move that the National Park Service now says “never should’ve happened.” Yeah, no shit.
I didn’t know the term “revenge porn” until 2014, the year my ex-boyfriend gave stolen photographs of me in my bedroom to both my boss and the New York Post. An explicit 10-year-old photograph was splashed across the tabloid, tearing my life apart and quickly ending my career as a New York City public school principal.…
Rents may fall and rents may rise (and rise and rise and rise), but one thing that is fixed about living in New York City, and has been ever since the colonizers came here on their dirty-ass boats, is that you’re cohabiting with rats.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the democratic socialist who defeated longtime Democratic congressman Joseph Crowley in New York’s 14th congressional district primary last month, is so popular she’s winning races she’s not even running in.
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio announced today that public school teachers will now get six weeks paid parental leave, which, uh, apparently they did not receive previously.
For the 20th anniversary of Sex and the City—which premiered on HBO on June 6, 1998 and went on to become iconic prestige television—Jezebel is doing a week of posts dedicated to our favorite band of sexual women friends.
It’s official: Coney Island, the 2.7 mile stretch of Brooklyn broadwalk beloved by New Yorkers and tourists alike, is now a NYC landmark. On it’s 95th anniversary Tuesday morning (it opened on May 15, 1923), the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously voted for the iconic site to be granted landmark…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been sending letters to undocumented New Yorkers with recent police encounters, asking them to go to the agency’s field office in lower Manhattan, and, in at least two cases, initiating deportation proceedings against them, according to a disturbing new report from The…
The City of New York has agreed to remove a controversial statue of J. Marion Sims, a 19th century physician whose gynecological advancements came at the expense of hundreds of black slaves on whom he experimented without their consent.
New Yorkers love to complain about how the city has changed irreparably for the worse—it’s too expensive; it’s been subsumed by chains; the artists and weirdos have all fled for cheaper vistas. But on one Lower East Side building has appeared an enormous, throbbing beacon of hope: A bright pink, four-story dick,…
As is the case in much of the country, transgender people in New York City jails are not being given the treatment they’re entitled to. That situation may well worsen if a special housing unit is eliminated as planned, a new report in the Village Voice has found.
The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office has reportedly obtained audiotapes from 1993 on which Corey Feldman names the individuals whom he alleges abused him when he was a minor. The records were part of an investigation of Michael Jackson from that time.
New cases of HIV have reached an all-time low in New York City. The Health Department reports that 2,279 people were diagnosed with the virus in 2016, down 8.6 percent from the year prior. When the department first began tracking HIV cases in 2001, it counted 5,906 new infections.
The New York City Council will vote on a new bill Thursday that would make revenge porn illegal, hitting violators with up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine. Superficially, it’s a common sense measure that’s long overdue. But revenge porn is usually not a straightforward case of one deranged person vindictively…
Building owners in New York’s West Village have threatened legal action against a balloon artisan whose mission in life is to spread joy via balloon art.
The New York Times is reporting that as many as eight people may have been killed and 11 injured after a man drove a pickup truck through a bike lane and crashed into a Stuyvesant High School bus in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon. Law enforcement officials told the Times that the man was shot by police after he…
It may have taken 90 years, but New York City’s cabaret law—which effectively bans dancing in bars and clubs around the city—is finally on the cusp of being repealed. The City Council is expected to vote in favor of abolishing it on Tuesday, following a years-long battle by activists, politicians, lawyers and even one …
Libraries are one of the great civic institutions—places that are free and open to everybody and also full of books. But kids, especially from poorer backgrounds, can quickly find their cards locked due to late feeds. And so New York City libraries are declaring amnesty.
A new bill passed in New York City would, if signed into law by the mayor, require employers to grant paid time off to workers who say they’ve been victims of domestic abuse, sexual abuse or “family offense matters.”
To be rich means to be able to throw buckets of money at a condo association and buy a million dollar view of the New York City skyline and all that comes with that: from the ‘Grammable sunsets to the writhing bodies of strangers copulating in the park you can see directly from your window.
