Do you guys miss the old days of Williamsburg, like before The Edge and $5 pour-over coffees? And we're not talking that one time you went to Kokie's bar in 2001 to score some snow, we're talking the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, when shit was real. Click through for a look back at the gentrifiers before the gentrifiers, or at least before the commercialized PBR/American Apparel-brand hipsters, and like, way before the yupsters moved in with their bohemian-chic lifestyle and rock n' roll playgrounds. more ›

Laser pointers are one of man's most useful tools, whether it's adding that extra pizazz to your Powerpoint on deforestation in Guinea, driving your dog insane, or as the perfect gift for that 13-year-old who has everything. But a few bad apples keep pointing them at planes coming into New York City's major airports. The Post reports that 40 such incidents have been reported this year alone, which is more than double the number for the same period last year, and an "86 percent increase over 2009." How about people shine them at the operators of the porno-scanners instead? more ›

As Times Square looks at new ways to market to the masses, the nostalgic long for the days that neon signs were selling a very, very different thing. Jeremiah's Vanishing New York has just found some photos of the area from the 1990s, and he says, "I used to love walking up and down 42nd Street between Broadway and 8th. The sidewalks were unclogged by tourists and there were no peddlers begging to sketch your caricature or write your name on a grain of rice. The only barkers barking called out, 'Girls, girls, girls, one dolla, one dolla, one dolla.'" And of course the ladies and the lack of tourists weren't the only thing different; he recalls the buildings being lower and constructed of brick, saying, "They were human-sized, manageable." more ›