A 29-year-old man who worked for a high-end Manhattan childcare service is on the run after cops were notified his home computer contained thousands of child pornography images. Fred Hardy worked for the Lipton Child Care Center on 55th St. and Park Ave. in Manhattan. When police arrived to question him about the trove of disgusting images on May 15th, his employers at Lipton said that he'd been fired that day. Hardy's hard drive was......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a pedestrian struck on Pennsylvania Ave. and Fulton St. in Brooklyn, a bank robbery on Co-Op City Blvd. in the Bronx, and a commercial high-rise fire on Broadway in Manhattan. An actor who once played a police lieutenant on L&O: SVU turned himself in to NJ cops today on suspicion of possession of child pornography. YouTube wants to subpeona comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert in a lawsuit charging......

June 23: PJ Wine Spanish Wine Festival Who doesn't love Spanish food and wine? Well, maybe someone, but we're certainly crazy about the stuff. Join Gothamist at this benefit for City Harvest and taste over 150 of the top Spanish selections from every major wine region of Spain, including the classics, like Rioja, Ribera del Duero, Priorat and Sherry and emerging regions like Toro, Bierzo, Jumilla and more. Tickets are $75.00 per person and are......

Page Six grossed me out by mentioning how Billy Joel is dating a young woman who looks a lot like his daughter. I'm probably illin' from that because I watched a rerun of this bizarre episode of Law & Order SVU that involved child pornography, pedophilia, and sending Detective Stabler to Prague to about 15 minutes. Anyway, Alexa Ray Joel is a pretty young woman and probably looks like most other young women these days......