Last week, the Times listened to the NYPD wax nostalgic over the dying breed of lush workers—pickpockets who specifically target blotto straphangers and remove their wallets with a nimble flick of their razorblades. Kids these days prefer to just grab cellphones or iPads, so the lush working is left to older folk who have long criminal records. Now the paper talks with 48-year-old Robert Bookard, who was arrested last month for attempting to cut out a drunk man's wallet, and asks him is he's ever heard of the term lush worker. "A what?" he says. "A lunch worker?" more ›

In another startling reminder that tending a bar can not only be exhausting but dangerous, an Upper East Side bartender was stabbed twice by a patron that he was forced to eject for being unruly. The Daily News reports that around 5:40 a.m. yesterday morning, the 33-year-old Brady's Bar employee was stabbed with "an unknown object" as he was locking up the bar. more ›

As soon as the weekend rolls around, our beloved Lower East Side transforms from a delightfully eclectic, easily navigable neighborhood into a grotesque, vomit-flecked parade of sub-humanity. We've seen gals pop squats next to al fresco diners, been offered cocaine out of a plastic lunchbox, and seen punches thrown in the falafel line. What surprises us in a video that Bowery Boogie filmed of a drunk, shirtless woman (she keeps her bra) isn't the way she's acting but the restraint of the NYPD to not flip their Tasers to "Bridge & Tunnel Strength." more ›

What's blue and red and sweats all over? Saturday's Snuggie Pub Crawl , which was the second blanket-with-sleeves drinking event to hit New York in as many weeks. Over 200 Snuggie enthusiasts donned their Snuggies on the most beautiful day of the year (so far), getting proudly loaded underneath their heat-trapping blankets with sleeves. Unlike last week's free Snuggie bender, yesterday's Snuggie Pub Crawl cost $20 for a day of drink specials (which not everyone paid) at east side bars, and part of the proceeds went to an orphanage in Tanzania. more ›