Do you know what offends Park Slope breastfeeding moms more than banning breastfeeding? Covering up artwork that features nipples! A painting of a topless woman at Tea Lounge on Union Street was briefly censored, thanks to a concerned employee. more ›

Phoenix Feeley, a 31-year-old who has won NYC suits for being wrongly busted for baring her breasts, just lost a bare boob battle over in New Jersey. more ›

Well, here's a classy rivalry: in what the Post is calling a "battle of the boobs," upstart mammary-centric Long Island restaurant Canz has been stealing busty waitstaff away from the neighboring Hooters. more ›

There is "bad" topless, like certain congressmen who feel the need to sext pics of their gym face to blackjack dealers and porn stars. And then there is elusive, magical, perfectly legal toplessness: this week, a woman, since nicknamed "Topless Bowery Woman," took a causal stroll in lower Manhattan sans shirt in the sweltering heat—here's a NSFW pic of her. And while most seemed amused by her exercising her right to do so, Bowery Boogie reports that the woman was stopped and issued a fine by cops...which is illegal. more ›

For Real Housewives and porn stars, it's practically part of their professions. Sexy banker had two of them in hopes of transforming herself into "Tits on a stick." But it seems that everyone in America is into boob jobs...except maybe when they get four breasts out of it. more ›

It's the oldest trick in the book for certain guys: a dude pretends to be gay to get close to a girl, or in the sleazier cases, to convince a girl to let him touch her and/or see her naked. There have been whole genres of movies based on this ploy. But one NJ masseur is finding out it doesn't make for comedic gold when it happens in real life, even if you didn't necessarily intend for it to happen. more ›

The Daily News is all over this LIRR discrimination lawsuit, and why not, when they can fit the keywords "lesbian," "breasts," and "locomotive engineer" all in package? Gay Asian-American engineer Melissa Stampf, 43, is suing the railroad for punishing her more severely than hetero white male coworkers who were suspended for similar incidents of sexual harassment against the same employee: Angela Trigg. In Stampf's case, she was suspended for ten days for allegedly grabbing one of Trigg's breasts. But in court yesterday, it emerged that Trigg hasn't been at all shy about sharing her girls with the crew. more ›

The NY Times has at least two stories about bras today. There's a Styles section piece on small breasted-women feeling empowered while the New York section has an interview with bra store owner Linda Becker, who says of breasts' changing nature, "All through life your breasts change. You work out, you have babies, you have a condition, you lose weight, you gain weight, you’re lifting weights, your back gets bigger. Sometimes you do none of these things and your breasts change. I always say breasts have a mind of their own. They’re like two bad kids. If you don’t control them, they’re out of control." more ›

ABC, the network that brought you David Caruso's, Dennis Franz's, and Jimmy Smits' butts (as well as Charlotte Ross's side boob and butt), allegedly refused to air a Lane Bryant lingerie ad during Dancing With the Stars because of its sexy, plus-sized model. At least that's what Lane Bryant claims, the model, Ashley Graham, (size 16, 38D) said, "The first thing I thought of was Victoria’s Secret commercials, and how they’re just as racy, if not more racy, than Lane Bryant.... [The models are] just a lot smaller than what I am. [ABC] can’t handle bigger on TV, bigger boobs on a normal-sized woman on TV.” more ›

More is coming out about the work environment at NY1 now that former correspondent Adele Sammarco's sexual harassment suit has gone to court. Former employee Doug Dillon testified yesterday against NY1 executive Steve Paulus, saying he frequently partook in "locker-room banter" about female co-workers. "It was on a regular basis. It would be safe to say, once or twice a week," said Dillon. more ›

[UPDATE BELOW] An unidentified woman says she was fired from Brides Magazine after showing coworkers the results of her breast augmentation surgery. The woman would speak to the press only on condition of anonymity, and we don't have any photos, so this image is for reference only. She claims that last month, at the request of two female colleagues, she closed the door to her office and proceeded to unbutton her blouse. more ›

After Facebook removed photos of breast-feeding mothers from profile pages and albums, a protest group—on Facebook, naturally—has emerged. The "Hey, Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!" has almost 60,000 members who support nursing moms' right to post photos of breast-feeding their babies. The Daily News reports that Facebook only removes photos shown with full boob—Facebook wants the site to "[remain] a safe, secure and trusted environment for all users, including the many children [over the age of 13]"—but Mothers International Lactation Campaign has asked folks, on December 27, "change your profile picture for one day, to one which includes an image of a nursing mom." A Brooklyn lactation consultant tells the News, "The more people see breast-feeding, the more normal it becomes. It's a natural, beautiful state to be in." Previously, breast-feeding moms have taken on Toys R Us, Barbara Walters, and formula. more ›

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a staircase collapse on Pennsylvania Ave. in Brooklyn, an unusual escort on Van Wyck and Atlantic Aves. in Queens, and a person fatally struck by a train at 170th St. and Jerome Ave. in the Bronx.
• 2007 marks the 25th anniversary of the Commodore 64 PC. The computer, which attached the primary system with the monitor and the keyboard, had a whopping 64K of memory. 17 million were sold.
• A bootleg recorded by an audience member at Rutgers turns out to be the only surviving recording of a live Woodie Guthrie performance in existence.
• Manhattan doormen vs. Brooklyn doormen. Union vs. Non-Union. A comparative study.
• Reporting that one's breasts are humongous seems akward. We imagine Tom Brokaw announcing that he's hung like a horse would be less so.
• An improperly vented furnace and dryer nearly killed 19 people at a party in Newark, NJ, as carbon monoxide accumulated in a house.
• If you've ever been to a Betsey Johnson boutique, then how her apartment is decorated should come as no shock.
• Warning: Pop Burger burgers are bigger than they appear, according to Midtown Lunch.

Perhaps it was the near-freezing temperatures at yesterday's Jets-Browns game that kept breasts covered, but that weather didn't stop crowds from flocking to Gate D at Giants Stadium for a halftime ritual - men yelling at women to expose their breasts and throwing bottles or spitting at them if they don't. Despite an attempt to shut down rowdy fan behavior at Gate D, things didn't seem to change that much at all since new procedures... more ›

Looks like everything's bigger in the city, including your risk of getting breast cancer. After analyzing about 1,000 mammograms, researchers found that women who lived in the city of London had denser breasts than their suburban or rural compatriots. Their findings were presented at the Radiologic Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting in Chicago this week. more ›

D is for drunk and disorderly, not boobs and breasts. At least according to New Jersey State Senator Richard Codey. The Times first reported yesterday on the halftime events at Gate D at Giants Stadium during Jets games. Hundreds of fans gather on the exit ramp, chanting at women and encouraging them to expose their breasts. If they don't lift their shirts, the women are met with boos and sometimes are spit at or have... more ›

A Long Island woman is suing a medical lab in Rye Brook after her tissue sample was mislabeled, she mistakenly diagnosed with cancer and had a double mastectomy on her healthy breasts. Darrie Eason tells after she was told, post-mastectomy, that she never had cancer, Newsday, "I didn't know what to believe. They told me I had cancer and now they're telling me I didn't. I didn't know if the next day they were going to call me and say, 'Sorry, we made a mistake, you really do have cancer.'" more ›

A Legal Aid Society lawyer was arrested yesterday for allegedly planting a clock with a hidden surveillance camera inside it in a female co-worker's office. WNBC reports that 32-year-old Peter Barta's distaff co-workers told police detectives that they regularly used their offices to change into work clothes (like a suit for court) or for after-work activities. Barta had videotape in his home of one of his workers with her breasts and buttocks bared. more ›

Peter: "I think I like fondled her breasts twice." A jury found Braunstein guilty of 14 of 15 charges of assault, sexual abuse, kidnapping, burglary and robbery (they acquitted him of arson) and a judge sentenced Braunstein to 18 years to life. more ›

Upper East Side plastic surgeon Brad Jacobs is without a medical license, after the state health department charged him with a number of violations, including smoking crystal meth with a patient as well as placing implants that were too large into another. The Post's headline - "What a Boob!" - while the Daily News goes with "State calls him doctor demento." more ›

Chalk it up to the Wall Street Journal for making moles so interesting. The WSJ has an article about how a pioneering medical procedure and disturbing nude photos have rocked the world of dermatology. Bill Slue, an NYU Medical Center photographer who "devised a way to capture the whole body on film using 24 sectional photographs," which helps dermatologists monitor patients' moles. But now there's a dispute about whether he took photographs of female patients for his own pleasure. more ›

The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores. more ›

- An intoxicated couple in their home filmed during an emergency call. The duo, David Campbell and Kevin Edell who made the tape when they covered Coney Island, also made fun of different neighborhoods (they called it the "armpit" of Brooklyn) and the FDNY. more ›

Chloroform. High-heeled shoes. A message written on the bathroom mirror. All these were things mentioned during the first day of Peter Braunstein's criminal trial, which proved graphic and upsetting. Braunstein's lawyers do not deny that the journalist attacked a former Women's Wear Daily co-worker in her apartment on October 31, 2005, by posing as a firefighter. But his defense team says that he's so mentally ill that his actions could not intentional and that Braunstein's brain "just broke." more ›

Spring is when we get busy here in the Ist-A-Verse. Very busy. But, after staying bundled-up indoors all winter, it's nice for us to be out, about, and collecting things to write about for you. Here's a glimpse at what's been keeping your favorite citybloggers busily away from home and out of bed. more ›