A photo of this woman prepping some food on a cutting board while riding the rails is being passed around Facebook faster than that cat video you saw that time (you know the one with the deer, the butterfly, and the shoebox?). Something told us that this rather sane-seeming woman wasn't just chopping onions on her commute for the sake of saving time on dinner prep, but in fact was performing the domestic act on some sort of higher "art" level. But what does it all mean? We got in touch with the woman behind the stunt, Bettina Banayan, who told us: more ›

A member of a Queens-based robbery crew has been taken into custody in Georgia on a murder charge, and will be transported to New York for arraignment in the near future. Police believe that Erick Mejia and the crew posed as cops in order to pull off several high-stakes robberies of drug traffickers along the East Coast; they also believe that Mejia used several different torture techniques on the victims, including stuffing a victim's head inside a bag of onions. more ›

Since you probably can't Snap, Crackle & Pop yourself away from Swine Flu, what can you do armed with only a complete lack of scientific proof and the goods in your cupboard? The Wall Street Journal revisits some old wives tales. more ›

Yesterday there was a pink house for sale in Brooklyn that made headlines, and today there's a haunted house for sale in the West Village! Just in time for trick or treating, the Daily News reports on "the historic Gay St. property, on the corner of Waverly Place... rumored to be inhabited by a restless spirit who walks the creaking floorboards at night." Some believe the ghost to be that of former Mayor Jimmy Walker, who once owned the home. more ›