In honor of the one-year anniversary of Obamacare passing yesterday, Rep. Anthony Weiner decreed it, "Ask Me Shit On Social Media Day." And more than anywhere else, he was inundated with questions on Reddit, in a thread which got more than 4000 comments by the end of the day. Some tough issues were addressed, some "weiner" jokes were made, and there were no awkward moments regarding his alleged mayoral aspirations. Here's a sampling of some of his responses to those hard-hitting questions on Israel, healthcare, his fear of The Count from Sesame Street, and bike lane jokes gone wrong: more ›

In honor of the one year anniversary of Obamacare passing, Rep. Anthony Weiner has decreed today, "Ask Me Shit On Social Media Day." He is taking questions all day on Twitter, Facebook, Daily Kos, and most amusingly, in the AMA section of Reddit, which has already generated well over a thousand comments in the last hour. Because where else could you get questions such as, "Have you considered going into humorous porn? (GET IT EVERYONE? WEINER JOKES)" ? more ›

In October word got out that the Hotel Chelsea is on the market, and yesterday the NY Times took the pulse of the legendary beast of a building on West 23rd Street. Turns out while some thought the sale of the hotel—which has been in the same family for 65 years—would be the death of it, it may just be dead already! Michael Musto told the paper, “Its legend has been slowly evaporating." Now tenant Ed Hamilton seems to be questioning ... everything. He asks (and asks and asks): more ›

Mayor Bloomberg was apparently quite brusque with reporters after an event at the Morgan Library and Museum yesterday, refusing answers and insulting anyone who dare ask him his opinion on things like the indictment of campaign aide John Haggerty. "There’s nothing else I can say about this," he snapped to one reporter. “Miss! I’m sorry that my English isn’t apparently good enough for you," he barked at another who prodded him. There was no end in sight to the cruelty, until he told one reporter, "We will take a legitimate question from you." However, the situation did not rise to disgrace-ful levels. more ›

NYC Transit is having fun with Twitter, and today started a new, interactive feature, "What Up Wednesdays." They're soliciting "Questions about the subway system? We're here to answer up to 5/day. Play nice, please." So what is up today? "The longest subway line w/o changing trains is the A - 31 miles from 207th St in Manhattan to Far Rockaway in Qns." Also, "The numbers pop up on some turnstiles after recent maintenance. The # has to do with maintenance codes, not your MetroCard." That's cool, but can they tell us when we'll finally be able to transfer to the uptown 6 train at Broadway-Lafayette without going above ground? So annoying. more ›

Frank Bruni, the senior restaurant critic at the most influential paper in America, has submitted to a loooong Q&A from Times readers. Some fun revelations: His biggest tab was probably at Per Se, somewhere in the neighborhood of $1,300 for a party of four. He says there was "a Jeopardy answer/question thingie that said something like, 'Frank Bruni spends $325,000 annually on his beat.'" Not true; it's way less than that. He eats out at least six nights a week, and on the rare occasion he eats at home, Bruni orders a "messy, sloppy, undistinguished Chinese delivery. There's nothing as thrilling as refined, accomplished, superbly prepared food. But there's also fun in uneventful food." Also, "some restaurants are so ludicrously loud that no more than 15 percent of their customers could possibly want it that way, and the servers must be in aural and vocal and psychic agony by night’s end." more ›