Earlier this month, a woman was fatally stabbed in the Midtown hair salon where she worked. Police immediately pegged Denise Kenny's murder on her ex-con husband, Mike Kenny, who they said left "a trail of bloody footprints as he bolted with stolen cash" from the salon. Kenny was arraigned yesterday on murder charges, and his rambling, profane confession/statement was released: "Is my wife okay? Do you know I stabbed her? Seven times. With a knife," he allegedly told cops the day of the murder. more ›

So, John Galliano, the flamboyant bad boy designer, was fired from his position at Christian Dior over alleged anti-Semitic remarks (and a video of him saying, "I love Hitler"), is currently in rehab and faces prosecution for the remarks, which supposedly include calling a woman a "dirty Jew face." But now his accuser says, "I don't believe he's racist or anti-Semitic ... I think above all that he's very ill and that for him it was about provocation." more ›

At his arraignment via video from the Bellevue Hospital psych ward, Michael Findley, who was arrested after stealing a cab and crashing it into a lamppost off Union Square on Sunday morning, ranted at the judge over wanting to represent himself. Of course, it doesn't help his case that he is perfectly sane by beginning his arraignment with the question, "Who is the defendant?" more ›

In the past week, the DOT has revealed details about two bold new plans to create pedestrian plazas in high-traffic parts of Manhattan. As part of a proposed 34th Street Transitway, a pedestrian plaza would be created on the block between Fifth Avenue and the Avenue of the Americas. Further downtown, the DOT wants to turn a block of Broadway north of Union Square into another pedestrian plaza, which would extend along East 17th Street to the eastern corner of the park, at Park Avenue South. But the two proposed changes have come at a price: the fragile inner serenity of NY Post columnist Steve Cuozzo. more ›

The war on Park Slope bar babies continues! The NY Times published a rant from 20-something year old Risa Chubinsky, who lives in the neighborhood and says she refuses to share her bar space with infants. She opines, "No matter what breeders might think, bars are not family-friendly. If I am out drinking and sobbing about a bad breakup, I don’t want my cries to compete with those of an infant sitting next to me. If I go to the bathroom to correct my wayward mascara at the end of a long weekend night, I don’t want to watch a baby being wiped down on the soggy sink counter." more ›

Now that nearly everyone has the ability to capture video on their fancy telephones, we are able to view uncomfortable scenarios that we would have otherwise been blissfully ignorant to. The latest is a disturbed woman screaming cringe-inducing musings on the subway — such as threats of cutting her mother's breasts off. more ›

If you have been to Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, you have seen the ranting grey-haired man pacing up and down the middle of the street. Usually positioned between North 5th and North 7th, sometimes later in the day he'll make it all the way down to the South Side, probably on his way home. Lawrence LaDouceur lives at the Glenwood Hostel, and prior to that he's led quite a life. One brave soul has now gone one-on-one with him, making him the subject of a short film; Russel Fong captures LaDouceur's thoughts as they pour from his head, and he even visits his current home. Maybe next time you see him you'll give him a chance and have your own one-on-one (it's a bit heart-wrenching when he tells Fong of their talk: "you don't know how good this is for me.") more ›

Straight from the front lines of gentrification comes the above public rant. Following the Election Night celebration, and arrests, it seems some of the other Williamsburg locals (artists and teachers born and bred in New York and Ivy League educated!) are lashing out against their fellow Obama supporters. The self-described "working left" advises the "trust fund Midwest spoiled brats" to stop using the new President-elect as a reason to "blow shit cocaine" up their asses, or something. more ›

A waiter who turned his service industry lemons into publishing lemonade with his blog Waiter Rant has unmasked himself for the Post today, just in time for the release of his tell-all book. After years of anonymous venting about his miserable experiences serving swells at an unspecified restaurant in “the city's affluent suburbs,” Steve Dublanica has outed himself as the man who “prefers more elegant methods of revenge" than spitting in diners’ food – though he assures the Post this does happen often enough. more ›