Mindy LeGrand, a.k.a begging nun "Sister Milindia," is being sought by investigators in a possibly criminal probe. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo subpoenaed the "nun," who was found begging for change in a fake habit, then returning to her Brooklyn home and taking off for Atlantic City. more ›

Little Italy visitors, beware! Your supposed generosity towards the city's orphans could actually be funding a scam ring run by a convicted rapist. The Post followed "Sister Milindia" around Little Italy as she begged for money "for the children of St. Joseph's," and then returned to Brooklyn, changed out of her habit in the middle of the street, and walked into the home of a man who "whacked her lustily on the behind." Two days later, she was supposedly in Atlantic City. Maybe she was just trying to double the donations! more ›

The New York Public Library has a great collection of photographs from 1933 of "Thanksgiving Ragamuffins." Unfamiliar with the term? According to this website, kids would get dressed up and "go from house to house yelling, 'Anything f' Thanksgiv'n?' In return they would be rewarded with coins, or a piece of fruit, or a piece of candy. Apparently in those days it was called Ragamuffin Day and was practiced the day before Thanksgiving." more ›