While you're watching the best years of your life go down the drain at some Squaresville job, writer, artist, musician and freegan New Yorker Gio Andollo is living the dream. He's his own boss (which allows him enough free time to blog about washing dishes) and lives his life completely liberated from the shackles of stultifying labor and soul-crushing responsibilities—when he needs money, he goes down into the subway and plays his guitar. When he needs food, he picks it out of the trash. And when he needs to share his story with the world, he does it on Huffington Post, which has published his diary about how he eats like a king for free. Here are the most inspirational parts: more ›

Yesterday, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said that 23-year-old missing teacher Hannah Upp, last seen on August 29, was spotted at the Fifth Avenue Apple Store. According to the Daily News, Kelly said, "We know that because a classmate saw her and approached her in the store," and then police checked tapes. more ›

How does the trash in your 'nabe measure up to the rest of the city's? NY Moon and Last Night's Trash documented different neighborhood's garbage, and while there's no trash-tallying competition, the discarded items speak volumes at times. more ›