Most of us catch Friday Night Fights on TV at the end of a long day in a dank, cool bar, or at the apartment of that friend who can't resist charging the Pay Per View to his Amex. But riders of the A train yesterday didn't have to leave their seat to satisfy their bloodlust, as full-on fisticuffs broke out at the Broadway Junction stop in East New York. Thanks to the miracles of technology, we have two angles from which to assess the action. more ›

The night of July Fourth saw beautiful fireworks in New York and a whole lotta brawling in New Jersey. After the fireworks show off the boardwalk in Seaside Heights a series of fights broke out that lead to 62 arrests! A total of 59 adults and three juveniles were apprehended after the melees...and (maybe) to the relief of MTV not one of those people were members of the cast or crew of Jersey Shore. more ›

A Chicago cop is claiming that table-flipping Real Housewife of New Jersey Theresa Giudice (who was last seen $11 million in debt) and her family attacked his family at Punta Cana Hard Rock Hotel & Casino (of course). more ›

Working for a living can be a drag, but at least it still beats high school, right? Here's what you missed at the Eximius Preparatory Academy cafeteria the other day: ABC 7 obtained video showing an epic brawl that started when one 15-year-old girl confronted a group of classmates who were bullying her. Instead of hugging it out, they turned on her savagely, and she retreated up to the top of a cafeteria table as they swarmed around her like hyenas. As ABC 7 reports (the two-minute mark), two NYPD school safety agents enter the room as the riot erupts, and at no point do you see them intervene. more ›

A robbery suspect who was un-handcuffed while appearing before a judge in the Manhattan Supreme Court went "berserk" yesterday, injuring four court officers and sending two to the hospital. While suspects are typically kept chained in the courtroom, Court Justice Renee White apparently prefers it when prisoners are left uncuffed as they enter and exit her courtroom, according to a courts spokesman. more ›

Hey, remember that guy throwing f-bombs during the Novak Djokovic and Philipp Petzschner U.S. Open match, which raised the ire of a middle-aged woman and her 75-year-old dad and the three of them got into an ugly, perfect-for-Youtube fight? Well, Manhattan resident Joseph Pedevill is back in the news—and it's allegedly over an interview one of his neighbors did with the NY Post! more ›

More fallout from the Thursday night brawl in the U.S. Open stands: The three fans have now been banned from the Open through the 2012 Open and they've all filed civil harassment charges against each other! The 27-year-old man whose cursing sent 49-year-old Tracey Falco and her 75-year-old dad Lawrence Burnett is now hiding out in his East Side apartment: The Daily News reports that Joseph Pedeville is "chastened" with his girlfriend coming to his defense, "He's freaking out. He didn't do anything wrong. Thank God, he didn't do anything wrong." more ›

We've noticed a recent uptick of YouTube street fight videos landing in the Gothamist tips inbox (tips@gothamist.com, y'all!), and after spotting yet another street fight video on NYC the Blog, we had to wonder: Are there more street fight videos surfacing this month than usual? Is the record-breaking heat making the natives more brawl-prone? Based on an a highly unscientific analysis of fights uploaded to YouTube since April, we must conclude in the affirmative. more ›

We found this video of a violent altercation that took place at Blockheads burritos in Murray Hill, though it's tough to tell what's going on. A Blockheads manager told us it took place on Thursday, but that she could not release any details about the fight, as an investigation is pending. There's a lot of background noise at the beginning of the fight, but at 1:13 punches and chairs start flying as one fighter yells,"What's happening, nigger?" At one point it looks as if someone is wielding a bike chain, and the whole thing ends in furniture and burrito debris scattered all over the street. But the inconvenienced diners are at least nice enough to help pick up the mess! more ›

A party aboard the cruise ship "The Temptress" turned deadly early Saturday morning as five men were injured in a brawl. Witnesses said that there was a minor dispute within the party of 400 as they boarded the boat at 12:30 a.m., but it cooled down after everybody started drinking. But as they disembarked at 4 a.m., another fight broke out, this time with weapons. One ship employee told the Daily News, "I think [it was] a fight about a girlfriend. But it just sounded like drunk stupid stuff." The five wounded men are expected to survive, and police have three men in custody. Last August, a man was killed after attending a party cruise at the South Street Seaport. more ›

An off-duty NYPD officer allegedly got into a bar fight in Bay Ridge early Saturday morning, causing injuries to a Port Authority officer and a firefighter. The fight started around 3 a.m. at The Kettle Black when the NYPD officer got into an argument with a group of five men, who then jumped him and smashed a bottle over his head. "I saw one man grab a bottle and started yelling, 'Come on, come on, a—hole and stabbed the other guy with the bottle,'" one man told the Daily News. "It looked like a war broke out right on the streets of Bay Ridge." more ›

A DIY videographer captured footage of this street brawl that went down outside of Penn Station, supposedly on March 27th. In the viral video, a man with a stick goes after a fellow in a green sweatshirt, who fights back with what appears to be a set of brown umbrellas. Two more guys punch him, as a huge crowd looks on and a traveler wheels by with a suitcase, barely giving them a glance. At the very end you'll hear someone yell out a single word, maybe "cut," but it's unclear whether the fight was in fact staged. more ›

Bob Arihood got some striking photos of a big brawl that went down around Avenue A and East 7th Street Sunday morning. According to Arihood, "A crowd of perhaps 50 people was noisily battling its way up avenue A... This event that we witnessed was very violent . People were not just beaten, some were stomped and kicked too. Only one car with 2 officers managed to get to Avenue A... We later found these officers attending to a male with a bloodied face in front of Sing Sing at 5th street and Avenue A...When we advised that there were still simmering minor conflicts around the corner on 6th street their response was that they were the only unit available." more ›

The guy who took the worst beating from firefighters during that epic bar brawl at the Salty Dog in Bay Ridge at the end of Janurary has spoken to the press for the first time, and his account of the assault is harrowing. The brawl left St. Francis College coach Sinan Selmani, 35, with a broken eye orbit bone, a broken collarbone and broken shoulder, but it could have been worse. He says that at one point during the melee nine drunken firefighters punched, shoved and kicked him in an attempt to force him into the bathroom. But he held onto the door frame for dear life, and tells the Post, "I said to myself, 'If you let go of the bathroom door, you're dead.' They were saying, 'We're going to kill you!' . . . 'You're going to die, motherf- - -er!' I can't even tell you how many shots I took to my head." more ›

Just after 6 a.m., three FDNY firefighters surrendered to the Brooklyn DA's office to face assault charges stemming from an epic bar brawl at the Salty Dog in Bay Ridge on January 30th. Firefighters Ryan Warnock, Michael Reilly and Christopher Emmel were caught on the bar's surveillance video throwing punches during the melee, which involved at least a dozen active and retired firemen. The DA had considered charging the whole lot with gang assault charges, but it seems the prosecution has honed in on these three. The brawl reportedly erupted after a 21-year-old man spilled a shot on a firefighter; it's unclear who threw the first punch, but the man's cousin suffered a broken eye socket and other injuries during the ensuing pandemonium. more ›

There are, unsurprisingly, conflicting accounts about who started a violent melee between roughly a dozen off-duty firefighters and a group of cousins in a Bay Ridge bar early Saturday morning. The fight started as Sinan Selmani, a soccer coach at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights, passed out shots to his cousins and one of them, Luan Leka, 21, spilled his drink on a firefighter. The NYPD and FDNY say the firefighter demanded an apology and instead Leka punched him in the jaw, while a lawyer for the cousins says Leka did apologize but the firefighter was still irate. And when Selmani intervened, the firefighter punched him, sparking the brawl. more ›

A boozy brawl between more than two dozen firefighters and four unlucky civilians early Saturday morning left one man with a broken eye orbit bone, a broken collarbone and broken shoulder. The city's Department of Investigation and the NYPD are investigating the fight, which broke out at the Salty Dog in Bay Ridge after one of the civilians, a 21-year-old, reached for his shot glass and spilled a little booze on one of the firefighters. "It looked like he was saying ‘I’m sorry’ and the firefighter started yelling and screaming, and one of his buddies came around and punched him the face," witness Larry Johnson tells the Post. Pandemonium ensued, and judging from Johnson's account, the only thing missing was a ragtime piano player dodging pint glasses. more ›

Two men have been sentenced to two years in prison each for participating in a brutal beating that left a Binghamton University student in a coma and damaged relations between the United States and Serbia. Edin Dzubar, 25, and Sanel Softic, 22, apologized and pleaded guilty to felony assault for kicking Bryan Steinhauer during a Binghamton bar in May 2008 that left the Brooklyn-native in a coma for months, according to the Post. Their sentencing comes after the alleged primary assailant, 23-year-old basketball player Miladin Kovacevic, fled to Serbia to avoid trial in the United States. The Serbian government paid the victim's family $900,000 in a deal to prosecute Kovacevic in his home country. more ›

The subway crew operating the uptown 6 train where a vicious fistfight left a woman bleeding severely from the face followed every protocol, a Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesman told Gothamist. Once the crew realized that a brawl between two straphangers had broken out in the Third Avenue-138th Street station on Dec. 13 at around 1:30 am, the conductor alerted the Rail Control Center of "the fight occurring on the platform and his inability to close the doors," said MTA Transit spokesman Paul Fleuranges. more ›

After Gothamist reported yesterday on a vicious fight on an uptown 6 train that left a woman bleeding severely from the face, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is trying to track down the train crew on duty when the melee took place. "We still haven't isolated the crew yet. We are trying to isolate the crew and take it from there," said MTA Transit spokesman James Anyansi. more ›

A straphanger recorded a brutal fistfight on the 6 train that left a woman bleeding profusely from the face. It's unclear exactly when or why the fight broke out, but the nasty spat — which goes on for about 3 minutes and spills out of the train car and into a station — was apparently uploaded and removed from YouTube on Dec 25 before being posted on the Daily Motion website on Dec. 26. (Update: It's now been removed from Daily Motion, but someone uploaded it to YouTube again, where it will probably stay for another few hours.) more ›

A group of pugilists roughed up five off duty cops outside a Queens nightclub on Dec. 16. The officers allegedly got into a brawl in front of the Tropix Bar and Lounge at around 4 am after an officer flashed his badge to a bouncer in an attempt to get into the Queens Boulevard venue, which was closing for the night. A group of men outside the club began shouting at the cops — who had just left a housing police holiday party — and a fight broke out, according to the Daily News. more ›

The family of a man killed by cops during a Cypress Hills bar brawl are alleging a police coverup. The brother of a man was shot and killed by undercover cops is demanding that the NYPD release surveillance video that allegedly shows the 43-year-old Kevin White pointing a gun at officers moments before his death. more ›

In a story that reads like it was ripped from the headlines 80 years ago, a Midtown shoeshiner got into a brawl with a passerby yesterday who didn't want to hear that his kicks were dirty. The fight started at the corner of 47th Street and Sixth Avenue when the passerby objected to Don Ward's offer for a $5 deep polish and punched the 43-year-old shoeshiner. "[He] took his anger out on me because of his own dirty shoes," Ward told the Post. After the fisticuffs, the pair — as is only fitting in squabbles involving shoeshiners — spat at each other until cops arrived. more ›

A Fox 5 cameraman happened to be shooting footage near the Ed Sullivan Theater yesterday for a segment on taxi medallions when an angry brawl exploded between a pedicab driver and a cabbie. It starts when the pedicab driver, fed up with the hack honking his horn behind him, tosses a cup of coffee at the cab's passenger-side window. You gonna take that cabbie? Not in New York! Check it out: more ›

A group of Brooklyn residents who got into a fight with cops in Antigua last month—apparently over a cab fare—have decided to plead guilty in hopes of no jail time. The group had been upset about a $100 cab fee (twice what they negotiated with the driver—hey, it's like NYC) and the incident escalated when two plainclothes cops got involved. The tourists swung at them, claiming the cops didn't ID themselves. The cops, in turn, claimed the tourists hit them first—and even bit them. The Brooklyn five will be sentenced today. more ›

Early yesterday morning, a fight broke out on a party yacht at the South Street Seaport and spilled onto land, leading to a man being killed in a parking lot. Now more details have emerged: The ship's co-owner told the Daily News, "I've heard 20 different versions for how this started, and they all start the same, that it was over a woman." more ›

As if you needed any further reason to steer clear of McFadden's after last weekend's massive brawl, the Daily News recalls that this isn't the first time blood's been spilled at the Turtle Bay bar and restaurant. Back in 2004, one Todd Barnes took his date there for a drink and walked out with part of his ear missing, courtesy of one of New York's bravest. more ›

It took officers from four precincts and the elite Emergency Services Unit over a quarter of an hour to break up a massive bar brawl at McFadden's on 42nd Street and Second Avenue around 10:30 on Saturday night. Police say a crowd of about 20 people were involved in the melee when it erupted out onto the street. Five people were finally arrested, including two firefighters, and another two firefighters were given summons for disorderly conduct after they went to the stationhouse and harassed cops about the arrests. more ›