Beware bespectacled and sunglassed folks on the Upper West Side, one of your own had his glasses knocked off by a mean man near Columbus and 94th Street over the weekend. He has posted flyers around the neighborhood, which warn: "This kid knocked my sunglasses out of my hand and stepped on them breaking the lens and frame—costing $150.00! And did not apologize! Be careful, this is not a nice man!" more ›

In an age when nearly everyone's vision has been permanently messed up due to their unbreakable attachment to computer screens (and in an age when anyone can buy contact lenses), the stereotype that people who wear glasses are smarter than people who don't should be all but dead. But not in the court of law! more ›

Richard Sclafani, co-inventor of the numeral glasses seen everywhere on New Year's Eve, just contacted us to let us know he has put up a whole slew of vintage frames up for sale on eBay. Glow-in-the-Dark! Rare! Mint Condition! How much will this nostalgia-buy set you back? The auction is 2 days in with a starting bid of $500. more ›

Last year New Year's Eve almost came to a screeching halt when everyone wondered how in the world the 2010 novelty glasses would be designed. You can't see through a "1"... and now there are two 1s. Remember Y2K, well think of this as Y21. In other words, WTF IS GOING TO HAPPEN! The Wall Street Journal asks just that in their profile of the original glasses designers, Richard Sclafani and Peter Cicero... who quit the game last year. The paper notes that "by quitting the New Year’s glasses business the founding fathers have conveniently dodged the most vexing design challenge in the 20-year history of the field: 2011." Well, all they really needed to do was use the Google machine to dig up some ideas (pictured). more ›

Is YOUR child drinking Tang from his favorite Shrek-themed drinking glass right now? If so, you may be dooming him to soft bones and failed kidneys, because these glasses are laced with cadmium, which is used as pigmentation on the outside of the glasses. McDonald's has already sold 7 million of these bad boys, and now they're recalling every last one. But the company insists there's no real danger, they're just playing it safe. more ›

We're you worried you would have to celebrate the coming of a new decade without tacky, numerically-shaped glasses? Good news for you: NYMag reports that even though the Seattle-based maker who bestowed upon us the annual eyewear "decided to end his glorious run because of 'the aesthetic challenges of making a pair of glasses for 2010'" — someone else has found a way to make it work! Basically, just widen the 1, duh. However, from far away it just looks like 2000. more ›

This doesn't happen in New York all too often: the reading glasses pictured were found on March 21st on Prospect Park West, and the person who found them decided to practice some internet chivalry rather than cash in on the brand name spectacles. more ›

Today marks the grand opening of the Moscot Museum. You know Sol Moscot, the lens shop with giant yellow bespectacled signs that look over the streets of New York like Dr. Eckleburg's eyes? Apparently they're not much less symbolic -- sticking around New York for the past 100 years is no small feat, and must stand for something. But a museum, really?The Moscot Museum will showcase never before released, historic black & white photographs of... more ›