[UPDATE BELOW] This YouTube video has it all: a highly intoxicated person, an unsteady documenter, very little information, no closure, and an MGMT soundtrack. The footage was uploaded last night, and we've contacted the uploader to get more details about the scenario. But until we hear back, let's discuss: should the fellow straphangers have made more of a hands-on effort to help this guy out? Or were they all (except for the MTA worker who has a brief interaction with him) too drunk from the big game, too? more ›

Last night TMZ was reporting that pop singer Gavin DeGraw was brutally beaten after a night out in New York City, noting he was still in Bellevue Hospital under observation. Today some more details come to light, with the Daily News reporting that DeGraw was intoxicated when he left a restaurant in the East Village at around 4 a.m. yesterday morning. On 1st Avenue between 5th and 6th streets he was accosted and brutally beaten by a group of men, after being separated from his friends, according to ABC. And his drunken nightmare didn't end there... more ›

The trial of two East Village police officers accused of raping a drunk woman they were asked to help continued yesterday with testimony as well as surveillance footage showing the cops and victim enter the building. The Post reports, "The bulk of the video is hugely incriminating, showing accused rapist Officer Kenneth Moreno and accused lookout Officer Franklin Mata making three return trips to the drunken woman's apartment over the course of five hours," but the NY Times notes, "The woman briskly bounds toward a door, making a brief half-turn and gesturing to the police officer just behind her. A few steps back, another officer follows." more ›

Officer Kenneth Moreno has his work cut out for him beating charges that he raped a drunk woman in her East Village apartment after helping her into her apartment. The alleged victim later recorded a confrontation with Moreno, and though he denied raping her when she was passed out in December 2008, he allegedly told her he used a condom when she threatened to make a scene. But as Moreno's trial (and the trial of his partner, three-year-vet Officer Franklin Mata) kicked off yesterday, his lawyer insisted it was all a big misunderstanding. more ›

The Triathalon spirit seems to be spreading all over town this weekend. A 65-year-old man had to be pulled out of the Hudson last night after he dove in and attempted to swim out onto the Intrepid. He made it 50 feet off of shore before firefighters caught up with him and assisted him onto a ladder leading to a rescue boat. An FDNY source told the News, "He felt like he had to go and touch the Intrepid, so instead of paying for admission and going on board, he decided to jump in the water. He was intoxicated. ... You could smell it." The man was taken to Roosevelt Hospital for observation and treatment for minor injuries. Where will the Dutchman's celebratory Quadricentennial festivities lead next?? more ›

More revolting details emerged on the rape charges against two NYPD officers during their arraignment yesterday, and Commissioner Ray Kelly held a special press conference to publicly condemn the men. Officer Kenneth Moreno—a 17-year veteran on the force and 41-year-old married father of two—pleaded not guilty to allegations that he illegally entered an unidentified woman's East Village apartment and, according to Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau, "had sexual intercourse with the physically helpless victim as she lay face down on her bed, having previously vomited multiple times." more ›

The 24-year-old trader who set a fire in 7 World Trade Center early yesterday morning apparently was trying to send a rescue signal. According to the NY Post, 24-year-old Ryan Brinkerhoff "got stuck in a freight elevator and then foolishly tried to get out by starting a signal fire." more ›