Oh, teenagers and their "raw-dogging"! Did you know that over 25% of all NYC's STD sufferers are adolescents? And then there's the teen pregnancies, which only end up creating more teenagers—which is the last thing anybody needs. And so the Community Healthcare Network's teen outreach program, called Teens P.A.C.T. (Positive Actions and Choices for Teens), has created workshops for its participants to make videos like this, in an attempt to grapple with these issues in terms teenagers can relate to: more ›

Brooklyn members of The Arab American Association of New York say they were ostracized at a July 4th picnic in Bay Ridge sponsored by state Senator Marty Golden (R-Bay Ridge) and Councilman Vincent Gentile (D-Bay Ridge). The Arab American Association of New York offered to help with the entertainment for the annual event, which raises money for local community groups. But the event's organizer, Chip Cafiero, turned them down, telling the Brooklyn Paper, "Arab Americans are more than welcome to come down, but they come down as American Arabs. If the Italian Americans wanted to come down, they can, but we’re not going to play Italian music." more ›

In the wake of a judge dismissing charges daredevil Jeb Corliss for his attempted jump off the Empire State Building, Mayor Bloomberg is very upset.

"If I understand the ruling, just from reading the headlines, the judge said the guy did nothing wrong and should be able to jump off buildings with a single bound or whatever - I don't know where the judge is coming from. Whether it's legal, that's up to the court system to decide. But we do not need people jumping off of tall buildings in New York City - certainly [not] without a permit."