Your overstuffed kitchen drawer of take-out menus is minuscule compared to the menus Daniel Rayas collected over a four month period. Newsday has a fantastic profile of the Texan grandfather who moved to New York City to help care for his newborn granddaughter and found a flexible part-time job that has taken him all over the city. Looking to make some money to pay for room and board, Rayas responded to an ad on Craigslist......

The city has agreed to pay $2 million to the parents of an unarmed Brooklyn teen who was fatally shot by a police officer three years ago. In January 2004, police officer Richard Neri was patrolling a Brooklyn rooftop with another officer at 1AM. Around the same time the other officer had opened a door to the stairwell, Timothy Stansbury and his friends were heading upstairs, to go to a party in another building in......

- Streetsblog notes how the NYPD parking abuse scandal gets crazier as one cop harasses a CBS 2 reporter and as one Chinatown businessman is arrested for photographing illegaly parked cars - Something all three candidates for Governor can agree on: SUNY and CUNY should not be merged - Horrible story: A woman abandoned her three year old child in Chinatown, after an argument with her husband - bitter divorce or no bitter divorce,......

Valentine's day. We're on the fence. Getting flowers is nice, but we also like getting flowers on the 13th and 15th. Overall there is too much pressure put on the day, on singles and couples alike, and we hate when companies use it to wrangle up the former and pour lemon juice cocktails into their wounded, bleeding, unloved hearts (ahem, Fresh Direct). You can ignore it or embrace it but it's coming up tomorrow either......

The Crooners, Old-Timey Musicians...