Last month, a 22-year-old man claiming to be a West Village "neighborhood watchman" was arrested after he allegedly robbed and raped a 29-year-old woman who had lost her wallet. Ivan Ramos, 22, has now been indicted on two counts of rape and three counts of criminal sexual act. Prosecutors successfully lobbied the judge to increase bail after revealing new surveillance video that purportedly shows the incident: "The defendant savagely preyed on a vulnerable victim while posing as someone who wanted to help her," Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance said in a statement. more ›

A man was struck and killed by a taxi early this morning as he attempted to cross Sixth Avenue at Watts Street. According to police, 29-year-old Dan Fellegara was "attempting to evade oncoming traffic" at around 4:30 a.m. when he fell down in the street and was "inadvertently struck" by a yellow cab. Fellegara, a Baltimore native, was transported to New York Downtown Hospital where he was pronounced dead, and the cab driver remained at the scene. No criminality is suspected, and the investigation is ongoing. more ›

A 22-year-old man claiming to be a "neighborhood watchman" in the West Village was arrested early Sunday morning after he allegedly robbed and raped a 30-year-old woman who had lost her wallet (but not her ATM card). Fortunately, while she was being attacked on a Perry Street stairwell, the woman was able to scream for help, leading a good Samaritan to call the cops on the perp (and chase him). more ›

But, but, but! Where will West Village romantics go for date nights now? The neighborhood's much loved, super quaint, corner Mediterranean restaurant The Little Owl was shut down by the Department of Health last night. Maybe they should have called it The Little Mouse, instead? Wocka, wocka, wocka! more ›

Gabe Stulman, the successful restaurateur who brought you such hip dining establishments as Joseph Leonard, Jeffrey's Grocery, and Fedora, is at it again in Greenwich Village, where he's ushered his team into the space formerly occupied by Bellavitae, on Minetta Lane. The chef (and partner) is Michael Toscano, formerly of the meat mecca Manzo in Eataly and Babbo. Called Perla, the restaurant is named for Stulman's maternal grandmother, and the focus is contemporary Italian cuisine. more ›

A St. Patrick's Day fight was apparently the final straw. After a video of St. Patty's melee outside of a West Village McDonald's first appeared on Gothamist, City Council Speaker and mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn has gone and called for a boycott of the place. Cause that'll solve the problem of people fighting outside! more ›

The police are looking for two suspects in connection with two robberies in Manhattan. Both incidents, which occurred on Tuesday, involved the suspects punching people in order to take their smartphones. more ›

St. Patrick's Day is no stranger to melees, and neither is the McDonald's on West 3rd Street. Put the two together and you've got one doozy of a YouTube video. So! Sit back in your desk, put your earphones on and thank your lucky stars you (hopefully) weren't anywhere near this fight on Saturday night. As one woman off camera screams watching a group go at it outside, "I wanna go home!" more ›

Back in 2007 Virgin Atlantic and the teashop Tea & Sympathy lobbied unsuccessfully (and somewhat tongue-in-cheek) to have Greenwich Avenue in the West Village renamed "Little Britain." As we said, it was unsuccessful. But something funny happened in the five years since. The area, which already had a few Anglo-friendly spots, went and got more British. Maybe it's time to dust off the old moniker? more ›

Uncle Chichi, the toy poodle who lived in the West Village and held the unofficial title as the world's oldest dog died last Tuesday. Depending on who you ask, he could have been as "young" as 24, or as old as 26. His owners tell the Times that his cancer became too advanced, and that they had no choice but to euthanize him. "We just feel completely empty; the whole apartment's empty," Frank Pavich, one of ChiChi's owners said. more ›

As you may know, we sort of adore Courtney Love, so we're happy to hear that she will not be evicted from her Manhattan townhouse. Late last year the owner of Love's West Village townhouse, Donna Lyon, claimed the rocker fell behind on rent, damaged property, and altered the appearance of the home. Now TMZ has learned that a judge just tossed the case out, "because it turns out Courtney did exactly what a good tenant is supposed to do—pay her rent." more ›

Remember back in 2010 when two young Staten Island men decided to beat and try to rob a gay man in the bathroom of the legendary gay bar The Stonewall Inn? Well, 18-year-old Christopher Orlando, the younger of the pair, was sentenced to 60 days in jail yesterday for his part in the attack. Meanwhile his older partner in crime, Matthew Francis (whose sister, you might recall, is "a full-blown lesbian"), was sentenced to two years in jail on similar charges assault as a hate crime and attempted robbery charges last September. more ›

Walking the streets New Year's Day, we saw the usual uptick of mysterious feces placement and garbage crammed into the baskets of parked bicycles, but one soul stumbled on something last Thursday that was much…bigger. more ›

Proper tipping etiquette (20%, 90% of the time) can be enforced by the angry stares of your tablemates and the shame that gnaws at your soul when you look a competent, friendly server in the eye and tip them 15%. But who's keeping you in line when you summon chimichangas to your apartment on a rainy night? Visual.ly takes 3.5 million Seamless orders and creates a nifty chart showing the most popular foods ordered on the service and the average percentage of tips left on them. What neighborhood is the stingiest? The Financial District, with an average tip of 12.31% Way to put those company credit cards to use! more ›

Ed Schoenfeld may not be a household name, but to anyone who's paid attention to the city's dining scene over the past 40 years, he certainly is. "Eddie Glasses," as he's nicknamed, is one the city's (really, the country's) preeminent food experts, particularly in Chinese cuisine, and he's made a career for himself since the '70s as a restaurateur/host/consultant/food-world insider of formidable authority. Schoenfeld's first taste of fame was for running the front of the house at the four-starred Uncle Tais Hunan Yuan on the Upper East Side in 1973, and over the years he's been involved with everyplace from Shun Lee to Chinatown Brasserie. Years ago, Gourmet magazine dubbed him "the curator of Chinese food in America," and it still holds true today. more ›

This week, the owner of West Village celebrity-magnet restaurant Da Silvano was hit with a sexual assault lawsuit—parking garage manager Samuel Cruz claims Silvano Marchetto fondled his genitals twice. Marchetto's spokesman Mike Paul countered today that Cruz is just a petty extortionist: “Silvano’s only mistake was giving him large tips in the past, which created a money-hungry monster.” And then Paul made the ill-advised decision to compare Marchetto's situation with that of Penn State and JoePa. more ›

The owner of West Village celebrity-magnet restaurant Da Silvano was hit with sexual assault lawsuit. According to the Post, parking garage manager Samuel Cruz claims Silvano Marchetto fondled his genitals twice. And the Post's lede is "Maybe he just wanted to know if the noodle was al dente." more ›

Yesterday the Occupy Wall Street protesters held mass demonstrations against America's outrageously inequitable wealth distribution and highly dysfunctional banking system. In response to the protests, Wall Street firms immediately implemented strict new trading regulations, and wealthiest 1% voluntarily agreed to substantial tax increases! But it seems that some people still didn't get the message, because over in the West Village, the CEO of a private investment firm dropped $17.5 million on an apartment he's only going to use occasionally—presumably for wild, drug-fueled orgies we wouldn't attend even if he got down on his fat knees and begged us. more ›

The McDonald's cashier who used a metal rod to beat up two customers who slapped him and then jumped over the counter at the West Village location sat down for an exclusive jailhouse interview with the Daily News today. Rayon McIntosh gave his version of events for the first time, and defended himself and the actions which may have left one woman with permanent brain damage: "I was just working at my job when I was attacked for no reason. I'm not a heartless person," he said. more ›

When you watched that video of a McDonald's employee going mental on two customers last week—in self-defense!—did you think to yourself, "gee, that McDonald's looks really familiar, haven't I heard about crazy stuff happening there before?" You did? Well, you were right! The McDonald's in question, located at 136 West 3rd Street off Sixth Avenue, has had more than its fair share of violence over the years and yet, according to a DNAinfo source, when offered off-duty NYPD officers to patrol the restaurant it declined the offer. more ›

The Grey Dog coffeeshop has been a neighborhood fixture in its Carmine Street location since it first opened in 1996. But because of a landlord dispute, the flagship West Village shop will be forced to close tomorrow. "The journey that began in 1996 has taken us down a road that no one could have ever envisioned or predicted. I believe that our lives started the day that Grey Dog opened. We grew up in this space," the store's owners, brothers David Ethan and Peter Adrian, wrote on their website. more ›