Clearly, Maksim Gelman wants our attention. The Brooklyn man, currently in jail for killing four people last year and stabbing a man on a subway train in a violent spree, gave an interview to the Daily News, claiming to have killed six other people. Now he's talking to the Post, revealing how he wanted to kill another notorious murder suspect, Levi Aron, who allegedly dismembered and slaughtered a little boy in Brooklyn. more ›

Peter Braunstein has been notorious as the media writer who apparently went crazy and tortured and assaulted a former co-worker for 13 hours in her Chelsea apartment in 2005, gaining access to her home by setting a small fire in her building and posing as a firefighter. While serving a 20-year-sentence for the attack, Braunstein has been interviewed, offered his thoughts on current TV, and become friends with other notorious criminals. Now, Aaron Gell has published an e-book about Braunstein, featuring new insights, like how he has a young female friend who "wanted to impress me in a Manson Girl kind of way. She tried to come off as more fucked up than she actually was" and runs errands for him, like sending letters to magazine editors offering his criticisms which is a violation of his sentence. more ›

Many moons ago Jeb Corliss attempted to base jump off the Empire State Building, but was caught just before he could make the leap. This was followed by a legal battle, and a lot of criticism for what could have happened. Many believed he wouldn't have control of his jump, and end up injuring people on the street because of it. Well... the human glider just proved his accuracy ten fold in his latest stunt. Check out this incredible footage of him jumping out of a helicopter and flying through a small hole in the side of a mountain in China. more ›

A 46-year-old long distance swimmer from upstate New York attempted to break the world record for swimming around Manhattan—twice—a 57-mile jaunt that requires nearly 24 hours of nonstop exercise. more ›

The question must be asked. Because just a few weeks ago, he was professing his creepy love for Emma Stone (the video has sadly been taken down), and today comes this: a video of the star outside of his West Village studio, explaining his new role as...small-time street artist. more ›

A passenger of the SUV that was reportedly going 112 mph before careening off the FDR at E. 23rd street in Kips Bay early Saturday morning has had a leg amputated, and the driver, 38-year-old Eric Bryant lost an ear. Miraculously, all 8 people involved survived, including the 23-year-old cabbie, Atif Raza, whose car broke the Land Rover's fall. "It felt like an earthquake," Raza tells the Post, "I'm happy to be alive. I'm getting a second chance…I'm really going to be going to the mosque now." more ›

A group of elementary students got a lesson in the ways of the world this morning when a disturbed man, clad only in boxers, a white T-shirt, and a pair of socks on his hands (!), came tearing through Number 26 Elementary School in Paterson, hollering that he was being chased by men with guns who wanted to kill him. more ›

Grim LeRogue wasn't only motivated by his chivalrous love of Cameron Diaz to run onto the field of Monday night's Yankees/Rangers game—he also just plain hated A-Rod. His ex-super told the News that LeRogue had scrawled anti-Alex Rodriguez screeds on the walls of his old apartment beside giant pictures of the Yankees star, one of which read, "I want to beat his ass." Take a number pal. more ›

If you start cackling maniacally just reading the tabloid headlines from Albany (“Paterson's aides tell of gov's laziness, tantrums and deceits”; “‘Paranoid' gov going ballistic”), just imagine the jokes going around inside the place. A well timed NY Times profile ventured inside the State Capitol which, with Gov. Paterson spinning down the drain, increasingly resembles the set for Shutter Island. “Man, I like crazy; I would love crazy,” responded Keith L.T. Wright, a Democratic assemblyman from Manhattan, when asked if things had ever been this crazy before. “Our forefathers in their infinite wisdom planned for crazy. But this week we moved to insane.” more ›

Devon Hurd — the sexting, stalking creeper who has been harassing both singer Ashanti and her mother (and other family members) — is, surprise, crazy! At least, according to an alternate juror on the case, who told the NY Post, "He clearly seemed delusional. I have no idea what that jury is going to do, but I hope they don't convict." To convict 31-year-old, they'll need to prove he had intent to harrass... but it's possible he's "too kooky to convict," as the paper says. more ›

This tweet from Laura Holder just caught our eye: "Seen at polling station (e.g. grade school): 1 man, over-6-foot tall, towering, 100% naked. Number of police: 12. Number of police cars: 4." The Local also heard about the naked man, and a volunteer for Bill Thompson says he saw the unidentified man near PS 56 in Clinton Hill, which was closed for Election Day. The volunteer says the man approached "talking all kinds of crazy stuff — he said he was a direct pure-blood descendant of Jesus." (Sounds like a Rev. Billy voter?) more ›

Peter Braunstein loves keeping in touch. The former journalist was convicted of attacking and assaulting a former colleague—while kidnapping her in her own apartment for 13 hours by pretending to be a firefighter (he set a fire in her building's stairwell) —in 2005 and sentenced to 20 years to life in prison in 2007. There was also a manhunt and capture after suicide attempt in Memphis. Now, he writes letters to the Post and Daily News, detailing his love for CW shows and his ultimately achieved goal of fame (or infamy). more ›

The debate about Joaquin Phoenix's strange behavior as of late continues. Refusing to believe it's a hoax, despite a camera crew following him around for a documentary, the LA Times is going down the mentally ill route. So far the most talked about display of his new bearded, mumbling persona has been from his appearance on Letterman (which just re-aired last night). The psychiatrist the paper talked to said "much of Phoenix's behavior on Letterman hinted at mental illness, such as wearing sunglasses, which may suggest paranoia. 'There is something wrong. And it's beyond drug abuse.' The public should refrain from mocking Phoenix." So basically he's like 0% crazy, 80% beard and 20% sunglasses. MTV News asked Phoenix's publicist about the Doc's diagnosis, which she labeled: "wildly inappropriate." more ›

Keiko DesJardins has no history of mental illness, but her visit to Coney Island Hospital Monday morning for a routine GYN exam resulted in her forced transfer to the hospital's psychiatric emergency room. When she told the GYN admissions nurse about her past treatment for mood swings caused by PMS, the nurse "misunderstood and panicked," DesJardins tells NY1. Despite protest from her and her husband, she was forcibly transferred over to the psych ward. more ›

If the would-be Broadway-bound musical Lone Star Love is half as entertaining as the backstage drama, then sign us up: Randy Quaid, the show’s former star, has been banned from the Actors' Equity union for life because of abusive, lewd and just plain crazy behavior during the show’s Seattle run. Quaid has also been fined $81,572, which equals two weeks pay for the cast of the $6.5 million show; producers claim they had to prematurely close because of Quaid’s hi jinks. The Post’s Michael Riedel got the rap sheet:
• Quaid hit an actor on the back of the head four times during performances. When the stage manager told him to stop, he smacked the actor again.
• Another actor was warned that if he made direct eye contact with Quaid onstage, he'd be fired.
• Quaid made "sexually inappropriate" comments onstage, repeatedly referring to an actress' musical instruments as her "gynecological instruments."

Are you looking for a beautiful West Village apartment? Craigslist comes through with a listing for a "Beautiful bedroom available in 2br/2ba WITH PRIVATE BATH" for just $1350/month. There's even a living room! But you can't really use it...in fact, you probably shouldn't plan on ever being in the apartment lest you want the stink eye from roommate and Tito (pictured?). Here it is apartment hunters, the highlights:

The apartment has a decent sized living space (combined with a small kitchen) that you will have use of. There is no sofa, chair, or television, as I am an artist and I use this space as my studio. You are free to stand around and look at my art, though! more ›

There's a old joke that many people look through the obituaries to find apartments in the city. Whether that's true or not is unclear, but what is known is that there can be difficulties in selling a deceased person's apartment. The NY Times has a big feature, "Heirs to a Headache," about this very phenomenon that pits sibling against sibling, in the midst of the very raw emotions of death and the vicious real estate market. more ›

After a video of a man being harassed and beaten by a group of teens was publicized by The Smoking Gun, some wonder if the tape is real. The main reason why most people suspect it could be staged is because the teen who filmed the incident is an aspiring filmmaker. Seventeen-year-old Kadejra Holmes told The Smoking Gun she didn't have anything to do with the attack and then took the video off YouTube. Her... more ›

The unofficial first and second rules of sane subway rides might be "Do not talk to anyone" and "Don't look anyone in the eye." The Smoking Gun found a crazy video of an adult being beat up by a group of teenage girls on an A train. The adult, who is white, was somehow roped into a shouty exchange with the girls, who are black, and high school student Kadejra Holmes filmed the exchange,... more ›

What can you say about the Vernon NJ Police Department except that they like Hanna-Barbera? Because they created a "WANTED" poster with Yogi Bear's likeness, after discovering a black bear had stolen a minivan. Well, maybe "stolen" is overreaching, but Patrolman David Dehardt noticed that a Mazda minivan was parked in an odd spot, and when he approached the car, it had the classic signs of bear presence: "mashed window, paw prints, smudge marks on... more ›

The Manhattan District Attorney's office announced that the Reverend David Ajemian was arrested on charges of stalking and threatening Conan O'Brien. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston placed Ajemian, a 46-year-old priest in Stoneham, Massachusetts, on leave. The DA's office says that Ajemian had sent letters (some on parish letterhead!) to O'Brien's offices at 30 Rockefeller Plaza and home, contacted his parents, and tried to attend tapings of Late Night with Conan O'Brien. He was... more ›