According to the Post, conductor Thomas Christopher, 35, allegedly got into a verbal argument with the 18-year-old boy aboard the southbound R train as it traveled near the 36th Street station in Astoria around 3:50 a.m. today (DNAInfo claims the incident occurred around 11 p.m. last night). The conductor lost his cool and allegedly punched the teen. Christopher, an MTA employee since March 2007, was arrested on misdemeanor assault charges. more ›

During a visit to a library in Astoria, Queens, a 7-year-old girl says that a man assaulted her—specifically her feet— while she was reading. The child told WCBS 2 that he “Sniffed them, rubbed them against his beard, and kissed them. Did it to each foot. And then he did the same and just sniffed my flip flops." Ughhhhhhh. more ›

We thought everyone agreed that the alleged foot fetish photos/videos of Rex Ryan's wife Michelle were no big deal? Isn't it enough that Rex just thinks his wife is "awesome" ? Now, new photos of a woman who looks a lot like Mrs. Ryan (whose alleged online moniker is "ihaveprettyfeet") have appeared online, and the provocative photos are bound to throw a little more fuel on the foot fetish fire. [ NSFW Update below] more ›

Is Rex Ryan's wife Michelle a foot fetishist's fantasy? Maybe! And if not, she's certainly got a doppelganger that is. Videos emerged online last night that show a woman who looks a whole lot like the Jets coach's wife showing off the feet God gave her. Should it make any difference if the wife of a football coach likes to flash her pinky toes? No. Does it make for a fun morning distraction? Certainly! more ›

It's starting to seem like there's no safe place for your feet these days—not on subway seats, not on the street, and definitely not in the hands of a fraudulent, murderous, calloused podiatrist. Jeffrey Toobin (no stranger to controversy himself lately) details the strange web of criminal podiatry that has spread through the city in the last two decades in this week's New Yorker. Much of it revolves around Citywide Foot Care, a defunct podiatric empire whose doctors were accused of charging patients for unnecessary and non-existent procedures, as well as defrauding Medicare—they targeted 'alta cocka,' "which is an old person of frail mind...these people were easily swayed into having surgery.” more ›

No matter how deserted your subway train may be, you can't still afford to get comfortable by putting your feet up: It seems that transit police have not eased up on their late night ticket blitz against any rider occupying more than one seat. Last year saw a 17% spike in tickets for that crime, and it looks like the trend continues in 2010. One of the more recent violators is a 17-year-old Stuyvesant HS student who got a $50 ticket two weeks ago on his way home from a birthday party. It was 2 a.m., and there were four people other in the subway car when he dared rest his feet on the edge of an empty seat. more ›

There was a 17% spike last year in the number of summonses issued to subway riders who occupy more than one seat. Between January and November 2009, transit police issued 8,700 tickets to commuters who exceeded their legally mandated one seat allotment, either through reclining or foot-propping or bag-resting. That's 1,300 more tickets than they issued for the offense in the same time period in 2008, and it stands in contrast to a decline or plateau in subway summonses in every other category. Seat hogging is punishable by a $50 fine, but many commuters say they're being ticketed during late-night commutes in mostly empty trains. more ›

Hand and foot model Christina Ambers fell in love with the doorman at her Upper East Side co-op in 2007, but the superintendent forbade Angel Rotger to see her romantically. And yet the romance between doorman and foot lady could not be so easily snuffed out, and the two continued their affair in secret. When they were found out, Rotger was fired—but not before the super's wife allegedly swung her handbag into his groin so hard he suffered a contusion of the testicle. Naturally, their story is on the cover of the Daily News and the Post today. more ›

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