The couple that lost the stuffed monkey that they've been raising like a son for ten years was reunited with Bongo over the weekend, and the NY Post has the exclusive! And check out those exclusive photos, too! They seriously make it even more impossible to figure out if this whole thing is heartwarming, or just depressing. more ›

Yesterday's $355 million Mega Millions jackpot fostered many dreams, most of which are dead today. Psychics and spiritualists believed that the winner would be a woman (probably a Gemini) from New York... but the two lucky ticket holders are out-of-towners, from Idaho and Washington to be exact. According to CNN, their odds were one in 176 million! And the psychics weren't totally wrong, there were eleven $250,000 Mega Millions Winners from New York. more ›

A Pennsylvania couple, David and Kimberly Reim, did that whole "oops, we left our irreplaceable items in a cab!" thing at the end of their wedding day. The newlyweds left behind their camera (and with it the memory card holding their wedding photos) when they were dropped off at the Cassa Hotel and Residences at West 45th Street and 6th Ave avenue on December 3rd around 11 p.m. Now they tell the Daily News they're "looking for a holiday miracle. All we want is just the memory card. I don't care about the camera. They can have the camera." more ›

Two sisters are suing the NYPD over being arrested for simply not knowing where they were going. The women, identified as Miriam and Bracha, were on their way to an engagement party on July 7th, 2009 when they realized their directions had led them astray. A passerby directed them down an apartment complex driveway when a car pulled up behind them. The driver got out and tapped on their window and asked where they were going, and when they said they were lost he reached in and snatched their directions. The man identified himself as a cop, but the women wanted more proof. more ›

The Emmys showed the nomination love to Glee, Mad Men, Lost, Modern Family, The Good Wife, and many more programs. Glee's Matthew Morrison and Lea Michele got lead acting nods, while Chris Colfer and Jane Lynch were recognized in the supporting category (if Lynch doesn't win, it'll just be another Emmy screwup), as part of Glee's 19 nominations. And here's a show that we'd like to see win: Conan O'Brien's Tonight Show was nominated for best variety or sketch comedy program (as well as best writing for variety or sketch comedy), while Letterman and Leno's show weren't. more ›

Talk about a Prince Charming, fuggedaboutit! This guy found a Christian Louboutin shoe somewhere in the vicinity of 96th Street and Broadway (where this flyer is posted) and A) identified it as an expensive shoe (these puppies probably cost about $695), and B) went to the trouble of trying to find the woman who lost it. more ›

The pitching coach for the Yankees' minor league team is probably feeling pretty embarrassed right now. The Staten Island Advance reports that Patrick "Pat" Daneker reported his World Series ring, plus two cellphones (one of which was issued by the Yankees) stolen "after a night of partying with two women at a bar and in his Tampa, Florida, hotel room." Oh, and Daneker is married. more ›

Happy Day After LOST Day! (Spoilers ahead, for those who haven't seen it yet.) So what did you think of the finale: was it more Cosby Show (which according to this article had a series finale “no one remembers at all") or more Sopranos (which you can likely replay back in your head on command)? more ›

Tonight is the two-and-a-half hour series finale of Lost (these guys know what I'm talking about). We're sure that all your questions about the Man in Black, Walt, island pregnancies, Egyptian statues, the Dharma Initiative, the sideways world, and Driveshaft's mythical third album (the prog-rock concept album) will be fully illuminated and answered...but just in case, there's always drinking games! Holy Taco has a particularly good one—sip 5x whenever Hurley says "dude," chug 2x is Claire says "baby," etc (see it after the jump). more ›

If you stop by Professor Thom's on 2nd Avenue right now, or anytime through Sunday night, you'll find three former college pals on the balcony watching Lost. Every episode, from beginning to Sunday night's series finale. All in all that's 96 hours of being on (and sometimes off) the island, and we're guessing by now they've already lost any ability to keep up with plotlines we can barely understand when we've gotten 8 hours of sleep. Because... why else would they be totally ignoring the television?! more ›

Last night we went to a sneak preview of the LOST installation currently at the Vilcek Foundation (which opens today and will be running through June 5th). We weren't quite sure what this was all about until we arrived and immediately stumbled upon a VW bus littered with Dharma Initiative cola cans. Yep, the island is currently on the Upper East Side! The exhibit is filled with island artifacts, as well as photographs and biographical profiles of immigrant and first-generation American members of LOST (the foundation honors foreign born artists who have contributed to society). more ›

A French bulldog named Lola was lost recently in Queens. Her owner, 24-year-old Liliana Intrabartolo, tells the Post that she hasn't slept or eaten since her dog—who needs surgery and could be going blind—went missing last Friday. It's believed the dog ended up at Metro Puppy on Metropolitan Avenue in Forest Hills, where someone brought the dog in saying it needed a home—an employee then gave her away to two other customers in the store. more ›

Delaware police have tentatively ID'd a little girl found Sunday in a men's bathroom stall at a Shell station in Delaware. They believe she's about 2 years old and that she comes from New York or New Jersey, but haven't released other details. According to the Daily News, the child's hair was "pulled up on top of her head, and she was wearing a puffy tan winter coat over a purple shirt with small flowers printed on it. She also was wearing blue jeans with pink, white and purple sneakers with purple laces and white ankle socks." The AP says she's been placed in foster care family while police search for her family. more ›

One Park Slope family is fretting after losing one of their chickens. According to the Brooklyn Paper, Rebecca Lax and her two daughters just procured two of the feathered friends to provide them with fresh eggs from their backyard on 6th Avenue and 1st Street—but upon getting them home, one flew the coop! more ›

Finally, we can talk about LOST now—someone has created a subway map for the island, and just in time for the final season. What do you think is more difficult: getting from Williamsburg to Park Slope, or from the Looking Glass to the Orchid? [via John Cabrera] more ›

This isn't really as exciting as the recent MIdtown macaw rescue, but last week the Brooklyn Paper spread the word that an African Grey Parrot had gone missing near Flatbush Avenue in Park Slope. The bird—named Gracie—belonged to Lora Myers, who kept him as a pet for 12 years. more ›

A 13-year-old boy with Asperger's Syndrome—a form of autism that often causes difficulty with social interaction—spent 11 days in the subway system last month. In a heartbreaking Times article, Francisco Hernandez Jr. tells how he took refuge in the subway for over a week because he got in trouble in class and "didn't want anyone to scream at me" at home. He says nobody spoke to him the entire time he rode the trains, and when the reporter asked him if he "saw any larger meaning in that," Hernandez replied, "Nobody really cares about the world and about people." more ›

The fashionable UK stroller company Maclaren is going to recall all the strollers they've sold since 1999, now that a dozen children have lost fingertips in the carriage hinge. The recall, which is expected to be officially announced tomorrow, affects some 1 million strollers. But for those parents who'd rather part with a child's finger than their beloved Maclaren, the company is also planning to send owners protective covers for the dangerous hinges. more ›

Another goat has been found wandering around near the Hutchinson River Parkway in the Bronx, the third such incident this summer. City Room reports that the goat, a brown male Nubian believed to be about a month old, was at death's door with pneumonia when it was discovered on Tuesday wandering around a nursing home near where the parkway intersects with Interstate 95. Employees corralled the goat, and it was taken in by Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, N.Y., where it's still quite ill, but expected to survive. The location where the goat was found is not far from where two other goats were found wandering in late July. Richard Gentles at Animal Care & Control tells the Daily News that he doesn't know why the area is so popular with goats, but speculates that "someone owns them and are keeping them in their backyards." (That's illegal in New York City.) And Farm Sanctuary's director believes the Hutchinson River Parkway "has become something of an 'underground railroad' for goats looking to escape New York City's live markets with their lives." more ›

Things not to leave behind in a taxi: $500,000, 184-year-old violins on loan. The NY Post reports on one musical prodigy, Hahn-Bin, who did just that yesterday after a trip from Lincoln Center to Chinatown. He called 311, who "put him in touch with NYPD Detective Ming Lee and Taxi and Limousine Commission officials Azam Kifaieh and Sam Shady. Hahn-Bin then waited—for 15 tense hours—as the NYPD and TLC scoured GPS records to figure out which cab driver dropped him off" (though CityRoom reports it only took one hour to actually track down the instrument). The driver was contacted while off-duty at his home in New Jersey, and told them he had indeed found the instrument, which Hahn-Bin has since been reunited with. TLC Commissioner Matthew Daus declared musicians to be the most forgetful fares, saying, "There are enough instruments left in taxis to start a small orchestra." Official protocol for cabbies who find an item in their cab is to take it to the nearest police precinct "without delay." more ›

On Saturday morning, 86-year-old Betty Zengel, who suffers from Alzheimer's, managed to disappear from her caretaker's watch on the Upper East Side—and somehow ended up outside a Chelsea nightclub at midnight. M2 Ultralounge's owner and head of security contacted the NYPD, whose officers escorted Zengel away. But later the club's owner and security noticed Zengel wandering in the rainy streets a few blocks away—and now the club claims the NYPD abandoned Zengel. more ›

Paul-Louis Arslanian of France's accident investigation agency was "not optimistic" that the black boxes belonging to Air France Flight 447 would be recovered. Wreckage believed to be from the Paris-bound Airbus 330, which disappeared hours after taking off from Rio de Janeiro on Sunday and was carrying 228 people, was found in the Atlantic Ocean yesterday, about 410 miles from a chain of islands (map). The water in that area may be over 13,000 feet deep. Arslanian added there were no signs of plane trouble before take-off while Air France said the plane did experience heavy turbulence and its automatic message system signaled that "several pieces of aircraft equipment were at fault or had broken down." A NYC couple, Yu Lan Xu and De Qiang Chen, are grieving because their son Charles Chen, who attended Seward High and graduated from Baruch, was on the flight. Xu, who runs a dry cleaning business on the Upper East Side with her husband, thought he might have flown on Saturday, but the airline confirmed he was on the Sunday flight, "I don't want to live anymore. There is no hope. I want my son back." more ›

The survivors of that airplane that miraculously survived an emergency landing in the frigid Hudson River should really stop talking to the tabloids. Though they surely don't intend to come off as a bunch of ungrateful whiners, the Post is doing a pretty good job painting some of them with that brush. more ›

Three "blockheaded" teenagers, as the Daily News puts it, were enjoying a good old fashioned romp in the sewage system yesterday when they got confused and lost their way. 16-year-old Schiller Milfort and 17-year-old Marvin Ottley were joined by an unidentified 15-year-old boy during the misadventure in Queens. An NYPD source mused, "These three idiots were playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and wanted to go into the sewers." The News reports that the trio were finally rescued unharmed from a sewer in Kissena Park, sans shirts or shells, and Milfort and Ottley were charged with trespassing. more ›

A violist with the NJ Symphony Orchestra was very lucky when the Taxi and Limousine Commission was able to find the $40,000 viola she left in a cab. Ann Roggen didn't take a receipt, but the TLC used GPS to figure out which cab had driven her from Fairway back to her Upper West Side apartment on Thursday. The TLC contacted driver Deniz Getting, but the night-shift driver was sleeping when the TLC sent messages on Friday. Fortunately, when he did get the messages, the viola was still the backseat! The Post reports that TLC Commissioner Matthew Daus himself returned the viola to Roggen, and Getting drove her to her concert in Newark. As for Roggen, who cherishes her instrument's the "unique sound," she promises to "always make sure to take a receipt." more ›