Poor Mary Richardson Kennedy: the troubled, estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy cannot even rest in peace, as Robert Kennedy and her relatives battled over her body yesterday. Her brother filed papers in court to challenge RFK's handling of Mary Kennedy's body. According to the Daily News, her family "didn’t want her to be buried beside members of the Kennedy clan in Hyannisport."
Fight Over Mary Kennedy's Body Between RFK Jr. And Her Family
Superfine Smackdown Leaves Party Promoter Bloody And Bitten
A fight broke out between a party promoter and several women at DUMBO mainstay Superfine in March that the Post is calling a "hipster catfight." In their eyes, it seems this story has a little bit of everything: wolves, libations, lawsuits, trendy neighborhoods, ripped skirts, bitten legs, Galapagos, felony assault, and cigarette burns.
Two Arrested For Stabbing Teen During Subway Fight Over iPhone
A 19-year-old Bronx teen is in critical condition after he was stabbed repeatedly during a subway fight over an iPhone early yesterday morning. Police have now arrested 22-year-old Victor Montalvo and 21-year-old Maritza Lopez in the stabbing of teen Alexander Herald; both have been charged with attempted murder, assault, criminal possession of a weapon, harassment and disorderly conduct. Below, you can see a surveillance video of the suspects.
Bronx Teen Stabbed In Face During Subway Fight Over iPhone
A 19-year-old Bronx teen is in critical condition after he was stabbed repeatedly during a subway fight over an iPhone early this morning. According to police, the incident happened at the Fordham train station just after 4 a.m. today—the victim is currently in critical but stable condition at St. Barnabas hospital after suffering multiple stab wounds in the face and body during the scuffle.
Man Reportedly Beaten With Piece Of Wood Then Fatally Stabbed
Police say that a 24-year-old man was beaten with a piece of wood by a group of men and then fatally stabbed in upper Manhattan early this morning. The incident occurred outside of Lucky Seven Tapas Bar on St. Nicholas Ave. in Washington Heights around 4:30 a.m. "I heard screaming, yelling," a witness named Eddie told the Daily News. "It sounded like a huge group, they chased him down the street. It looked like he was running for his life."
L Train Murder Suspect Reportedly Said "It's Showtime" Before Fatal Fight
According to witnesses the suspect was drunk and "looking for a fight." Police say he eventually singled out Basin for no apparent reason, then said, "It's showtime" before starting to punch him.
Video: Crazy West Village Street Brawl On St. Patrick's
St. Patrick's Day is no stranger to melees, and neither is the McDonald's on West 3rd Street. Put the two together and you've got one doozy of a YouTube video. So! Sit back in your desk, put your earphones on and thank your lucky stars you (hopefully) weren't anywhere near this fight on Saturday night. As one woman off camera screams watching a group go at it outside, "I wanna go home!"
Dolan On Contraceptive Fight: "It's A Freedom Of Religion Battle"
In January, Cardinal Timothy Dolan spoke on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops when he castigated the Obama administration for forcing American citizens "to choose between violating their consciences and forgoing their healthcare" in the debate over whether employers and health insurance companies had the right to deny contraception if they have moral or religious objections. The Senate has already voted to shoot down that GOP-led anti-contraception effort, but Dolan spoke out again yesterday, refusing to back down: “It is a freedom of religion battle,” he said. “It is not about contraception. It is not about women’s health.”
Crazy Video: Police And Students Brawl At Manhattan High School
A crazy fight involving students and police at a lower Manhattan high school this week was captured on video—it occurred at the troubled Murry Bergtraum High School, the same high school where students rioted in winter 2010 over a bathroom ban. Among other things, you can see police forcibly restraining students and students cursing at cops in the video below—and just before the two minute mark, you can see one officer (above right) take off and throw a female student's hat, and the student punching the officer in return. Watch the melee below (but we recommend putting down your volume first).
Video: Hong Kong's Version Of "Subway Spaghetti" Fight
In the wake of some optimistic NY lawmakers' proposed bill to ban food on subways, we thought we'd share the video that's been sparking tensions between Hong Kong residents and mainland Chinese visitors. While it's not as knockdown and drag-out as the infamous NYC subway spaghetti fight, it does get pretty tense—because Hong Kong's subway system, the MTR, prohibits food on its rather immaculate trains—and one Hong Kong rider gets upset at a Chinese girl who spilled some dry noodles on the train floor. The girl's mother says, it's not a big deal... and then all hell breaks loose.
Video: Flyers Fans Beating Up Rangers Fans After Winter Classic
Philadelphia police have released a video of Flyers fans beating up Rangers fans after Monday's Winter Classic outside of Geno's Steaks! One of the victims was Neal Auricchico, an off-duty NJ cop and former Marine, whose father said, "He got banged up pretty badly. "Stitches in the one eye, and the other eye is pretty puffed up. He went for a CAT scan today, and we're waiting for the results on that."
Video: Some Young Adults Try To Beat Up An Off Duty Cabbie
A tipster sent in this video that he took on New Year's night, January 1st, around midnight. The scene takes place on Elizabeth and Kenmare in Manhattan, and the guy who recorded it tells us that the "entitled hipsters got pissed at the 'off duty' light" and kicked off the cab driver's right side mirror after having some words with him.
Yes, People Got Into Fights About The New Air Jordans
Nike released the Air Jordan 11 Retro "Concord" at midnight, and the $180 sneakers caused a stir at shopping malls across the country, to the point where reports of violence spurred a hoax Tweet that one person was killed for the shoes. Over in the NYC-area, there was a stampede at the Burlington Center Mall in NJ and a scuffle at the Staten Island Mall with at least two people being taken into custody.
Video: Bus Seat Bickering Blossoms Into Racism, Weight Jokes
Race cards! Fat jokes! Old ladies! This video of a Manhattan bus-ride-from-hell has got it all. Watch all the uncomfortable fun below—even though you weren't there, you'll wish you took a taxi anyway.
Video: Security Guards Gone Wild At The U.N.
The U.N. makes us think of lots of things (diplomats, platitudes, architecture), but physical altercations are not normally one of them. And yet now video has surfaced from last week's General Assembly showing an all-out, eh, scuffle inside the U.N. which seems to have started when Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was shoved by a United Nations security Guard.
Video: Ryan Gosling Is Embarrassed About Breaking Up That Street Fight
Overnight internet sensation Ryan Gosling has finally spoken out about that somewhat awkward scuffle he jumped into earlier this summer, right on the mean streets of Astor Place. The then unknown Gosling decided to break up a fight going down in the middle of an intersection, where a man had been stopped after stealing a painting. Gosling eventually paid the artist for the work, and the thief was sent on his way with the stolen item, learning absolutely nothing about the consequences of his actions. Because everything is, this was all caught on tape and later put into the YouTubes, making the young man famous (he's even since been cast in a movie called Drive which we hear is really good). Watch him blush below—this kid's got a future!:
Video: Real Life Hero Ryan Gosling Breaks Up NYC Street Fight
Someone was fighting with someone else... until Ryan Gosling stepped in and saved the day.
Gavin DeGraw Has Sobered Up, Is On The Mend, And Admits: "Honestly, I Don't Remember Much"
Singer Gavin DeGraw is having his drunken blackout pieced together by the press! Earlier this morning we heard that DeGraw was beaten up in the East Village by some men at 4 a.m. Monday, before being hit by a cab about 13 blocks away. DeGraw has been recuperating at Bellevue Hospital, and just Tweeted, "Honestly, I don't remember much."
Video: Sloppy Subway Melee On The A Train, Riders Just Want To Go Home
Most of us catch Friday Night Fights on TV at the end of a long day in a dank, cool bar, or at the apartment of that friend who can't resist charging the Pay Per View to his Amex. But riders of the A train yesterday didn't have to leave their seat to satisfy their bloodlust, as full-on fisticuffs broke out at the Broadway Junction stop in East New York. Thanks to the miracles of technology, we have two angles from which to assess the action.
Video: Woman Gets Punched During Brawl At Mets Game
Despite trading All-Star Carlos Beltran this week, the Mets have been playing some of their best ball of the season lately. In the midst of a five game winning streak that has put them four games above .500, the team defeated the Washington Nationals handily in D.C. last night. But while the action on the field was good, a big brawl broke out in the stands between drunken Nationals and Mets fans—and as you can see in the video (around the 13 second mark), a woman got elbowed in the face pretty hard. Watch below:
Video: Father Of Slain HS Football Star Threw The First Punch
Last week, hours after his graduation, Bronx high school football star Isayah Muller was fatally stabbed by a parking lot attendent who was in a dispute with Muller's father Andre over a missing bottle of $200 cologne. Afterwards, to the dismay of the Muller family, police arrested the elder Muller, and not the two attendants involved, saying that he was "the agressor" in the incident. Newly released surveillance footage certainly doesn't do much to bolster Andre Muller's case.
Off-Duty Cop In Shooting At Brooklyn's Old Gallery Bar
Early this morning, a brawl led to gunfire at Kensington bar Old Gallery on McDonald Avenue—and apparently an off-duty cop was one of the people who fired. A witness told NY1, "I heard like three bullets. And in my mind I was like, that's firecrackers. Then I thought, no it's gunshots. Then I looked out the window, and I just see a bunch of people running from the bar, and I heard like maybe six more shots and there's a police car outside." One of the bar patrons summed it up neatly to the Daily News: "People got drunk and they start fighting. It goes outside and then [the shooting] happened so fast."
62 Arrested On Jersey Shore, Jersey Shore Cast Not Included
The night of July Fourth saw beautiful fireworks in New York and a whole lotta brawling in New Jersey. After the fireworks show off the boardwalk in Seaside Heights a series of fights broke out that lead to 62 arrests! A total of 59 adults and three juveniles were apprehended after the melees...and (maybe) to the relief of MTV not one of those people were members of the cast or crew of Jersey Shore.
Mother Of Slain High School Football Star Upset Killer Wasn't Charged
Days after high school football star Isayah Muller was killed during a violent confrontation his father had with parking garage attendants, his mother spoke to the papers about her grieving. She's also unhappy that the attendant who fatally stabbed her son wasn't charged: Rosa Seda said to the Post, "I want justice for my child."
Cops: Fatal Stabbing Victim's Dad Was The "Aggressor" Graduation Day Confrontation
Police Commissioner Kelly spoke out about the stabbing death of Bronx high school football star Isayah Muller, who was killed hours after graduating from Truman High School. Referring to the violent confrontation between Muller and his father Andre versus parking garage attendants that the father suspected of a stealing graduation gift, Kelly said, "What a tragedy. [Andre] Muller was the aggressor."
Park Slope Restaurants Pissed At Dirty, Cheapskate Food Trucks
Remember that Food Truck Rally at Grand Army Plaza we told you about a few months ago? The one that was supposed to be a one-off thing? Well, it was such a hit that it's happening twice a month all summer, and some local restaurant owners are none too pleased with the wheeled vendors.
Cop Claims Real Housewives Of New Jersey Beat Him Up
A Chicago cop is claiming that table-flipping Real Housewife of New Jersey Theresa Giudice (who was last seen $11 million in debt) and her family attacked his family at Punta Cana Hard Rock Hotel & Casino (of course).
Video: Man Pummeled Over Coveted Subway Seat
Walking down the stairs to the subway platform there are lots of things that we are prepared to see. Spider-Man, that sad rat man, heck we even sort of expect to see something. But a full-on brawl in a subway car whose doors don't seem to want to open? Not on our list. Until now.
Bronx Man With Pellet Gun Shot Ten Times By Police
A Bronx man who was waving around a pellet gun in the middle of a street fight was shot at least ten times by police early this morning. Police instructed Mamadou Valve to put down his weapon, and when he didn't comply, he was hit by bullets in the torso, legs, buttocks and left elbow; he is currently in critical condition at Lincoln Hospital.
Government Averts Shutdown With $38 Billion In Budget Cuts
With just over an hour before the midnight deadline, Republicans and Democrats agreed on $38 billion in federal budget cuts to avert a government shutdown. President Obama acknowledged the cuts would hurt, but they were needed, "We protected the investments we need to win the future, adding, "The government will be open for business. Both parties reached an agreement that will allow our small businesses to get the loans they need, our families to get the mortgages they applied for, and hundreds of thousands of Americans to show up at work and take home their paychecks on time."

