In the wake of the alleged Whitehall station subway pervert, Gawker received an account of one woman's experience having a guy apparently pleasure himself while watching her on a train. And she has video. more ›

While we remember fighting over the ambulance in day care (you know who you are, ambulance hoggers), we don't recall interacting with rodents until our first apartment. Eight-month-old Alanah Barba was recently found playing with a mouse in her mouth at a Newark day care center. "Lately, she's been vomiting. Everything she's eaten, she's throwing it back up," Alanah's mother Brittany tells ABC. On the other hand, it's never too early to read your children Stuart Little. more ›

You know that horror story kids used to tell around the campfire about the girl who got a really nasty pimple and when she popped it, it turned out that it was actually a spider egg, and a million spider babies crawled out? You do remember that? Then you probably want to watch this video: more ›

As if New Year's Eve in Times Square isn't horrible enough, the Post today gives us a peek at the man who's making it even more insufferable: meet Andrew Fox. more ›

With 17 hours to go, more than 100,000 people have gone and paid Living Social $13 for a booklet featuring five Big Mac vouchers and five large fries vouchers. That's $1.3 million+ in sales! To pull out an increasingly old cliche: America? This is why you are fat. more ›

Over the past few months, the Health Department has put the kibosh on many a beloved Brooklyn food institution (see: Di Fara, Turkey's Nest), but now, the DOH has shuttered an actual Brooklyn institute—the City Tech cafeteria—for a slew of health code violations so egregious you may very well lose your lunch. more ›

Finally, a beverage for pregnant women, observant Muslims and recovering alcoholics who preferred whisky alike! Move over O'Doul's, there is a new boozeless brew in town and it goes by the name ArKay. Be afraid. more ›

The genteel residents of the Upper West Side are being plagued by super-powered mosquitoes that hide under the cover over darkness—and the Health Department just doesn't care, they say. more ›

A Queens food vendor who allegedly used the power of a foreign name to help him escape from $90,000 in health violations has been busted, after switching one too many letters around. It's kind of like that time no one knew how to spell "Gadhafi", but with more street meat. more ›

Yes, it's true. Girl Scout Cookies, the innocent childhood treat, are now being whored out to the glitter-and-sparkle overlords at LipSmacker, who are turning the cookies into a sick, sticky-sounding lipgloss. more ›

Lindsay Lohan, when not getting Billy Joel tattoos, is apparently still getting invited to high-profile events, like the V magazine party at the Top of the Standard (nee the Boom Boom Room) last week. And, in typical Lindsay fashion, things got a little messy BLOODY. more ›

Are you a rapidly-balding, wealthy male looking for a somewhat-legal aged young lady to dote on in exchange for "mutually beneficial" sexual favors? Then why are you reading this?! You should already be on Seeking Arrangement, the site that proudly strips down relationships into the monetary transactions they truly are at their core. Ah, how sweet it is that people keep finding new and wonderful ways to dress up the world's oldest profession in better-sounding clothing. more ›

Now that the subways are up and running post-Irene, commuters are getting back into the swing of things, which for some, means a morning spent battling the suffocating smell of GIANT DEAD RATS. more ›

There are a fair amount of 7-Eleven stores around New York City (let's say... 26? Who's counting? No one.), which means there's a fair amount of stores that will sell you Hot Dog Flavored Potato Chips. That's correct, fellow American, the franchise has just introduced their latest product, which got its flavor inspiration from 7-Eleven's own Big Bite hot dog. There are also ketchup, mustard and relish spiced chips, according to Laughing Squid—so in theory, you could mix all of these up for what one Gothamist staffer called "a symphony in my mouth." more ›

Locavore eating is still so hot right now, and so is finding new purposes for discarded refuse. Therefore it comes as no surprise that some urban fishermen are using raw chicken and used condoms to catch crabs in Newtown Creek, which, you might recall, was declared a Superfund site last year. more ›

If there's one thing that's inevitable about summer in the city, it's that things will smell bad. Hot trash smells bad. Hot people smell bad. Hot subways smell bad, But today, something smelled really, exceptionally bad all over Brooklyn. What's the deal? more ›

Big news, you guys: there's a giant puddle on West 33rd St and it looks really gross and everyone around there hates it because "it smells like death." Gross. more ›

Great, one more thing to worry about at fast food restaurants: bodily fluids being used as condiments. A woman got her order of fries with a side of human blood at a Cracker Barrel in Texas this week, prompting the restaurant to apologize and send the woman a $100 gift card, because, golly, that blood sure was delicious! more ›

Earlier this month, we learned which subway you're most likely to roast in, and today, another of the city's eternal questions gets (sort of) answered by New York Magazine, which deems Broome Street between Allen and Eldridge Streets "the smelliest block in New York." more ›

An Australian man nearly died last week after chugging sweet, sweet hand sanitizer in the attempt to quell his thirst for booze. more ›

Take home "an intoxicating bouquet of spices, smoke, meat, and sweet summer sweat" right now, with Pork Barrel BBQ's new barbecue-scented cologne, Que. Craving the lingering after-smells of charred flesh, beer, and bodily fluids in an easily spritzable form, Pork Barrel worked with "a team of craftsmen and fine perfumers" to create "the perfect barbecue aroma." Dab some behind your ears or on your inner wrist to attract the attention of loose women and stray dogs everywhere! more ›

Well. Here's something...different. A Japanese scientist has developed an alternative meat source, made out of soy protein, steak sauce, and human excrement. Yes, that's right: poop. Poop mixed with seasoning and squeezed out, slowly, graphically, through a giant tubular press. Oh, and it's not cheap, either: developer Mitsuyuki Ikeda says "at the moment, our 'artificial meat' is 10-20 times more expensive than normal meat." But it is low-fat! And if you're one day lucky enough to bribe your way into one of the elite, post-apocalyptic underground bunker colonies, you can look forward to violently shivving your bunker-mate for this delicacy. Thank you, Japan! more ›

Love that chicken? Maybe not so much. An East New York Popeyes that's been out of business for several weeks is filled with thousands of flies (dead and live), and the garbage they so love is spewing out around the restaurant itself, according to the Daily News. And, surprise surprise, no one wants to clean it up! more ›

We thought we already had this covered: nail clipping on the subway is not cool, under any circumstances. As it is, we think even nail filing is on the edge of acceptability. But clipping? Between the nails-on-chalk sound and the discarded bits that fly all over the place, it is absurd that we're even having this conversation. And this assumes that we're only talking about fingernails! And yet, in the video below, a man is called a "mental case" for pointing out to a stranger that it's "kinda gross" that he was clipping his nails on the subway. more ›

After a city bed bug expert announced he had seen bed bugs on benches at subway stations as well as one bed bug "catching a ride on an unsuspecting straphanger's caboose at Brooklyn's Hoyt-Schermerhorn station," we suggested wearing disposable jumpers during your commutes. Well, keep that in mind while you watch this video, which is described on YouTube this way: "On my way to work (11/16/2010) a lady across the aisle had a look of horror upon her face. I looked at her and she said 'the bed bug'. Sure enough there it was. It was brown from being filled up with some poor commuters blood. We had just passed the 36th st in Brooklyn when the lady discovered it." more ›