A tipster sent in this video that he took on New Year's night, January 1st, around midnight. The scene takes place on Elizabeth and Kenmare in Manhattan, and the guy who recorded it tells us that the "entitled hipsters got pissed at the 'off duty' light" and kicked off the cab driver's right side mirror after having some words with him. more ›

Some New Yorker subscribers have had a few days (or not) to LOL about this week's cover of Mayor Bloomberg gazing at himself in the mirror while seated at a vanity with a box of chocolates (the card reads "To Me"). Today, the press corps asked the cover boy what he thought of the Barry Blitt illustration—turns out that double the Bloomberg is all right with Mike! The Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Howard Saul described Hizzoner as such, "Bloomberg gushed with tremendous pride and happiness. In Yiddish it’s called kvelling." more ›

An unofficial memo is circulating through NYPD precincts warning officers to be on guard against perpetrators who conceal blades in their cell phones and other hand-held devices. The handout shows how you can easily hide a razor blade in the battery compartment of a T-Mobile Sidekick, and also reminds officers about the recent arrest of a suspect in Harlem who converted his cell phone into a stun gun. A police source tells amNY that the improvised weapon "was unlikely to cause much harm, as the jolt was described as low-level." And then there are the hospital meal trays you've got to watch out for! Cops assigned to guard hospitalized prisoners are being warned that meal trays have a vanity mirror that can easily be fashioned into a makeshift shiv. The vanity mirror is in a second-level compartment and that "can pop up for easy use by a patient." Of course, one way to eliminate that threat would be to serve the prisoners' meals on regular trays, but then officers would be forced to guard prisoners with food stuck between their teeth, and we don't pay them enough for that. more ›

The latest happening from the pranksters at Improv Everywhere – masters at getting weird looks from people as they plug in big desktop computers at Starbucks, flood Abercrombie & Fitch with shirtless average Joes, and (the best) freeze in Grand Central – is all about twins. Organizers recruited nine sets of identical twins in matching outfits to ride the 6 train uptown, sit across from each other and mirror each other's gestures. It's not The Shining, but bemused looks ensue.