It's yet another Ivy League drug case! Proving that the pressure to pay student loans has become absolutely unbearable, a Dartmouth graduate was charged with attempted manufacture of methamphetamine after police raided his apartment and found what they believe to be a meth lab. 28-year-old chemistry student (were you expecting medieval literature?) Randy Lambreghts was narced out by his roommate who "feared" for his "mental and physical health," the Daily News reports. Everybody knows that when there's a sock on the doorknob, that means "cooking crystal meth," and you must leave them be. more ›

We're quite fond of the Greenwich Village live music club Le Poisson Rouge, so we were surprised to hear some grumbling about the bar, which seems to be charging patrons extra for drinks on the rocks (a common practice), but also charging extra for drinks not on the rocks, a.k.a. neat. One unhappy customer recently sent a copy of his or her receipt to Eater, and it shows a $3 charge for Glenlivet with ice, and a $3 charge for Glenlivet without ice. WHAT IS THIS RAPACIOUSNESS AND WILL THEY APOLOGIZE?, we asked the club. They got back to us promptly with an explanation that, well, kind of makes sense. more ›

Hey, has your face melted off yet? Oh, it has. Sorry, guess that came off as kind of glib. Well, look, there's a solution—just get yourself a job at an ice factory! Alternatively, you could try getting a job as a reporter desperate for a heat wave story on a slow summer Thursday, like the crew over at NY1. They've got the scoop on the guys with the coolest job in town. more ›

For a quarter century, an elderly Bronx woman has been selling flavored ices out of her second story window on Tiebout Avenue. The locals put 50 cents in a metal bucket, which 81-year-old Providence Lamultt raises up to the window, then lowers back down again with her popular frozen treats inside. "You can't buy these at a store," one customer raves to the Daily News. "Gramma's ices are so unique. The coconut has real chunks of coconut!" Here's a charming video about her little operation: more ›

One of the consequences of the many, many snow storms we've been hit with this winter is an abundance of collapsing roofs. And judging by all the collapses in the past week, your roof very well may be collapsing as we type, and you won't even know it (unless you have a magical dog)! more ›

We realize that just by writing this post we're perpetuating the once-amusing-but-now-just-silly media coverage of the Icicle Audi (which is free of ice now, by the way), but when the car's plight is the subject of a Today Show interview and a NY Post political cartoon, it must be noted that this has totally jumped the shark. Not only was the car compared to the freaking economy and its owner equated to President Obama in the Post, but Matt Lauer conducted an on-air phone interview with owner Pete Helfer basically confirming that yes, his car was covered in ice two days ago and yes, winter sucks: more ›

Ice is no joke! A woman was injured while driving in Sparta, NJ when ice flew off a passing truck and through her Jeep's windshield. According to the Daily Record, "The heavily damaged Jeep was left disabled on the side of the road while the truck, a 2009 Dodge box truck owned by Heine Plumbing & Heating of Newton, drove on - unaware of the flying ice and the damage it caused, according to police." more ›

Yesterday afternoon an 11-year-old Long Island girl, Sarah Thalhammer, chased after her neighbor's dog—a poodle-Maltese mix named Ace Ventura—who was running across the partially frozen Great South Bay. (There are conflicting reports that she was being pulled by him while walking the dog for her neighbor). She fell through the thin ice at about 30-feet out, and recalls, "I was screaming, the water was up to my neck." more ›

Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe is warning New Yorkers about one of winter's many silent killers: ice. Don't become a statistic, people, the ice doesn't have to win! Not this year! That is, not if you follow the ice safety guidelines provided by Benepe (below) and exercise extreme caution (and/or less extreme common sense). While you probably won't fall through the ice at Wollman Rink, you can AND WILL if you dare venture onto the thin ice coating ponds and lakes. more ›

If you've ever been to that drop-dead gorgeous Prospect Heights cocktail lounge Weather Up, you know how darn exciting it is that the owner, Kathryn Weatherup, is opening up a second location in Tribeca. The new Weather Up, expected to open at 159 Duane Street next month, will have the same vaulted tile ceilings like the original, and also offer a daily selection of oysters and caviar. Plus french fries! And it gets better. The Times has the scoop on the ice operation at Weather Up, and it's gonna make the half-assed ice at every other bar taste like paddy water. more ›

Anyone who believed the Census was just a way for the government to ferret out illegal immigrants may add some fuel to their fire after this story from the Times. In January, New Yorker Caroline Jamieson wrote to President Obama for help with her husband's immigration issues. A citizen of Cameroon, Hervé Fonkou Takoulo has an outstanding deportation order, but no criminal record, and she wanted help to keep him in the country. Six months later, immigration agents showed up at their door, arrested Takoulo and sent him to New Jersey to await deportation. Immigration officials apparently told him, "We’re ICE and we’re here to arrest you because President Obama sent the letter for a review, and we reviewed it and we denied it." more ›

A Richmond Hill man is accused of pretending to be an immigration officer so he could pull off $1.75 million of green card and real estate scams that exploited 19 West Indian immigrants. Shane Ramsundar, 50, allegedly dressed like an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer—armed with an air gun and a fake badge—and convinced immigrants he could help them buy property or become legal residents. more ›

The owners of the Sony Building at 550 Madison Avenue were fined $25,000—for failure to maintain the building— after glass panels in its atrium fell during a Saturday night Purim party. Fifteen people suffered minor injuries and workers were seen trying to repair the roof yesterday. According to the NY Times, "ice fell from the 32nd floor of the 37-floor high-rise... striking two three-feet by five-feet glass panels at about midnight." The Daily News says the glass panels then fell 80 feet. more ›

The push to shut down a little-known immigrant jail in the West Village has been complicated due to the poor health of detainees—some of whom allege their medical problems have been overlooked by jail officials. Though Friday marks "the official end of detention operations" at the Varick Federal Detention Facility with the scheduled transfer of the remaining 300 detainees to New Jersey, authorities have struggled to find new places to hold non-citizens with illnesses and mental problems, the Times reports. And more detainees are arriving every day. more ›

Remember when you fell on that patch of ice on North 12th and Bedford? Your embarrassment was caught on tape and will now live forever on the internet. One Williamsburg voyeur says he "noticed 4 out of every 5 people that walked by ate it on the ice there." Instead of warning the unfortunate pedestrians or throwing some salt down, he hit record and later uploaded the montage to YouTube: more ›

According to CBS News, data from a British team of explorers suggests "the Arctic will be ice-free in summer within 20 years, and that much of the decrease will happen within 10 years." The Catlin Arctic Survey was working with the World Wildlife Fund, and the WWF warns, "Such a loss of Arctic sea ice cover has recently been assessed to set in motion powerful climate feedbacks which will have an impact far beyond the Arctic itself...This could lead to flooding affecting one-quarter of the world's population, substantial increases in greenhouse gas emissions from massive carbon pools and extreme global weather changes." more ›

The Arctic is making a cameo in New York this month, as the Brooklyn Museum houses The Distance Between What We Have and What We Want by Tavares Strachan. "In 2005, Tavares Strachan journeyed to the Alaskan Arctic and worked with a skilled team to extract a single two-and-a-half ton piece of ice from a frozen river. This ice block was shipped to the Bahamas (the artist's birthplace) and exhibited there in hot summer weather, kept cold in a specially designed freezer powered by solar energy," which is now at the museum. The sun keeping the ice freezing? Far out man. more ›

Yesterday's rare snow day with the Department of Education closing public schools was a blessing for children and a mess for parents. One mother told the Post, "When I found out it was a snow day, it was too late to make arrangements. When you count on school every day, it's hard to find people to take care of your kids. Had I known [Sunday] afternoon, it might have been easier." more ›

In a 1996 article about the ultra-rich, the NY Times points out that Billy Cosby's Manhattan sidewalk is heated and therefore "remains opulently snow-free," which also leaves him lawsuit-free. The ultra-non-rich use the archaic shovel, but the job still gets done, and you may even receive a thank you for your hard work. Not everyone does their duty of de-icing, however. more ›

Chances are you're not trying to ride your bike anywhere today in this mess, but anyone who's tried to pedal over the bridges connecting Brooklyn with Manhattan this week was in for a treacherous trip, because the city has yet to adequately plow or salt the bike and pedestrian paths. As of last night, much of the Williamsburg Bridge path (pictured) remained impassible on two wheels, and commenters on Streetsblog say both the Manhattan Bridge and the Brooklyn Bridge remained unsalted and icy. more ›