The great-grandson of one of an early owner of Macy's is being accused by a 52-year-old jewelry designer of imprisoning the woman and torturing her with, of all things, a lobster trap. Bette Marchek claims that William Straus kept her captive on his Westchester estate, starved her, beat her, and eventually attacked her with a lobster trap while the pair were on City Island in the Bronx. That was the figurative straw that broke the......

Tired of that cramped studio? Dying to have a view other than a brick wall to look at? Has public urination gotten you down? Then head on out to the suburbs where the air is clean, the housing is bigger and the rents are cheap(er). Just make sure to read the hilarious piece in today’s New York Times first. Among the priceless quotes that Gothamist loved were: "Out there, you have to work at being......

An NYU senior with a major in math was arrested in his family Pound Ridge, NY home when bank and postal officials discovered he had been shuffling about $43 million in fake, certified check between banks in Greenwich, CT, and Switzerland, where there are many, many banks. Hakan Yalincak opened up a number of fake corporations and deposited fake checks into the bank accounts here and overseas. With millions in "phantom money" in each, he......