Put the kettle on for some Celestial Seasonings tea and cozy up with this heartwarming bit of news: Cecil Williams, the blind man who survived being run over by a subway train in Harlem yesterday, will...

Last year, even the most hardened New Yorker's heart melted a little after seeing a photograph of a NYPD police officer giving a pair of boots to a shoeless panhandler. The picture went viral and the...

Photo via franciscodaum's flickr Just treating yourself to the luxury of a cab ride home can be enough some nights, but when the driver senses that the experience could be torqued up even higher for you—say,...

Stealing pumpkins is like jacking jewelry stores—you can't be afraid to get blood/pumpkin guts on your hands, and you've got to be able to live with yourself after the job is done. But over in the...

What happens when two young women enter your front yard and steal your disabled six-year-old son's beloved red wagon? You upload the surveillance videos to YouTube and share the story with the local media—to the point...

In 2009, director, Brooklynite, and cardboard box artiste, Michel Gondry announced that you could buy a sketch from him—a hand-drawn, signed portrait of YOU based off a photo you submit—for just $19.95. Naturally the people flocked...

Honesty pays. Kids today. Four William Paterson University football players were caught on security camera entering Buddy’s Small Lots, a brand name close out store, after-hours on Tuesday when no employees were present. The store was...

(CBS 2) These days it's not enough for your love to be made official by the Government of the State of New York—it also needs to be be sanctified on THE IRON THRONE. A CBS reporter...

A librarian checked in on a patron after Hurricane Sandy, and just received this heartwarming letter, which ends: "Thank you for making home a wonderful place."

An off-duty city bus driver was walking home to his Coney Island apartment yesterday afternoon when he spotted a 7-year-old girl with no pants on standing on top of an air conditioning unit three stories up. Amateur...

Remember the guy who wanders around New York City with his multi-colored pet rats, sticking them in his mouth for tourists' amusement? Well, in case you were wondering what he's been up to these days, we're...

The saga of Karen Klein—the upstate NY bus monitor who was tormented by some rotten kids in a viral YouTube video—has riveted the internet for the past few weeks. Late yesterday, some serious punishment was dolled...

And for your "people can be good" story of the day, we direct your attention to the Long Island Railroad where one lucky rider was saved from serious heartache when two MTA workers went above and beyond...

The view from the elevated platform at Van Siclen Avenue (Wiki Commons) [UPDATE BELOW] Could the story about the good Samaritan who rescued the baby from the elevated J train tracks get any more Bart's People?...

Despite the pleas of Debbie Downer bloggers, the saga of Karen Klein—the upstate NY bus monitor who was tormented by some rotten kids in a viral YouTube video—isn't over just yet. RadarOnline interviewed Klein's daughter Amanda...

The Indiegogo fundraiser for Karen Klein, the upstate New York school bus monitor who was tormented by some rotten kids in a viral YouTube video, will pass $500,000 today. What started out as a modest fundraiser with a goal of $5,000 to give Klein a vacation could very well make Klein millionaire&mash;there's still almost a month to go, and the average donation is rising. (There's also a petition calling on President Obama to let Klein take the money tax-free.) Which makes you wonder, what's the appropriate compensation for ten minutes of taunting?

Over three years ago Michel Gondry announced that for just $19.95 you could get a signed sketch based off of any photo you submit. The masses responded to the popular and personalized item, and, perhaps unsurprisingly,...

Sources say that moments after this photo was taken, the woman in this photo slipped on the ring and mysteriously vanished into thin air. (Courtesy Murph Holder) A woman employed by the Macmillan publishing house was...

via Facebook Yesterday we were sent this photo of a flyer displaying a lost kitten named Carlo, a 5-month-old tabby that the firefighters on East 85th Street had taken in. It's believed the kitten ran off...

The Daily News has a crazy detailed video documenting every event unfolding around a cat that was stuck in a tree in Fort Greene earlier this week. It's very Bart's People! Basically, "area woman" is slowly...