The family of Josh Rubin, the Ditmas Park cafe owner who's been mysteriously missing since October 31, has hired a private investigator to search for Josh and are offering a $5,000 reward to anyone with information leading to his whereabouts. more ›

Say you're a relatively famous musician, and your laptop gets stolen while you're on tour. You offer a $1 million reward for anyone who returns the computer, and about a month later, someone does. So instead of paying them the cool mil you promised in a very public way, you act like that whole reward thing never happened. Cool, right? That's exactly what Harlem-based rapper/producer Ryan Leslie did, and now, unsurprisingly, he's getting sued. more ›

Oh for crying out loud, ANOTHER groping in Brooklyn? Yes, sadly, last night some deviant p.o.s. sexually assaulted a woman walking her dog in Windsor Terrace on 17th Street near Seventh Avenue, around 10 p.m. Police say the sick puppy sneaked up behind his victim, told her he had a knife, and felt her crotch. She screamed, he ran away, and the unidentified female joined the growing roster (13 or 14?) of victims—though investigators say it's too early to tell if this assault fits the pattern. more ›

The Humane Society of the U.S. and their Wildlife Land Trust are now offering a reward of up to $2,500 for information leading to the person who shot a short-finned pilot whale recently. more ›

Not to be an alarmist, but, Bongo is still missing, you guys. The stuffed monkey toy that a middle-aged couple lost in Park Slope on Sunday night has been in their lives for a decade, and Bonni Marcus and Jack Zinzi say it's been like "losing a child." They offered a $500 reward for his return, and say they'll know if it's their Bongo, noting that he "has specific marks and features." more ›

You guys seen Bongo? He is the beloved stuffed animal of Manhattanites Bonni Marcus and Jack Zinzi, and he went missing on their semi-regular outing to Park Slope on Sunday night. And now it's in an actual newspaper! And he we are, concerned as well! So let's go retrace some steps... more ›

It has been six months since police first started discovering bodies of murdered sex workers on Gilgo State Beach on Long Island and yet police have still not found the killer (or killers). And so the Suffolk County police have decided to up their cash reward for any information in the case. more ›

In November 2005 Gloria Aguilar was crossing West 50th Street at 10th Avenue when she was struck down by a city bus. Afterwards EMS took her to Bellevue where doctors amputated her leg at the knee. Leading Aguilar, a mother of three, to do what we suspect anyone who lost a leg to a city bus would do: she sued. And she won. Big. In 2009 Aguilar was awarded $27.5 million for her troubles, "the largest ever for a lost leg." The number didn't quite stick, however. This week an appellate court decided that Aguilar's payout was inflated due to a clerical error on the verdict sheet and reduced it to a mere $17 million and change. more ›

A unicorn has gone missing near Central Park and West 72nd Street! There's a reward—and probably some good karma—if you can lead to the retrieval of the magical creature. We called the number where a friendly sounding woman has left a recording asking for any information that could lead to the return of her horned pet. Let's just hope it doesn't turn up in Prospect Park or pulling a carriage. more ›

Relatives of Mattia Filippazzo, whose cadaver was stolen from its mausoleum under mysterious circumstances last week, put out another desperate plea for any information on the whereabouts of her body. "Her eternal peace has been disrupted by these...animals," said one relative on WABC 7 yesterday. more ›

The Humane Society of the U.S. has announced they're offering a reward for the Canada geese killings in Westchester County. Allegedly four geese were killed in Cortlandt on Wednesday of last week, and they're offering $2,500 for any information that helps unveils the killer. Here's the information they have so far: more ›

In addition to the $2,000 offered by NYPD crime stoppers, Sen. Pedro Espada and the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation each pledged $5,000 to whoever finds the man suspected of raping a 79-year-old woman with Alzheimer's in her Bronx apartment building. One investigator told the Daily News, "We have been getting lots of tips with some basic information, and following them up aggressively." A neighbor also recalls the victim ringing her doorbell after the incident, saying, "She was naked and hysterical. My sister Yolanda gave her a robe and tried to comfort her...People are shook up. Nobody is in the halls late at night and I'm concerned about my wife coming home from work." more ›

A couple who found a wallet filled with $5,000 in cash at Bloomindale's returned it to its grateful owner. According to the Post, couple Sandi Castro and Bruce Migliaccio saw the wallet on a scarf display. Castro said, "I felt panicked for him and felt like I needed to get it back to him as soon as possible." They asked a store manager to put the wallet in a safe while they called American Express, which then called owner Robert Slatkin. They inititally refused his repeated offers of a reward, but they finally "relented and Slatkin gave the couple $300 and an open invitation for them to use the indoor pool in his posh Upper East Side apartment building -- a perk they won't be turning down." more ›

Deborah Yannicelli of Long Island and Maurice Keshner of Brooklyn, will walk away with $1.6 million and over $250,000 respectively after blowing the whistle on three city-based home health-care companies who were fraudulently collecting government money for uncertified home health aides. The reward money is part of the $24 million recovered from the companies after the two finked. Yannicelli's lawyer, Timothy McInnis said: "She's delighted. She's been waiting for a long time for this." more ›

Police say a man who forced his way into a 28-year-old woman's apartment at St. Nicholas Avenue and 147th Street Monday night and raped her at knife point is the same perpetrator suspected in a series of Upper Manhattan sex assaults. Officers fanned out across Hamilton Heights last night to distribute fliers with surveillance photos and a police sketch of the suspect, and a $12,000 reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction. He's described as "a black male in his thirties, about 5-foot-9 to 6-feet tall, wearing a black hoodie, blue jeans, and white sneakers with red stripes on the sole." The suspect was caught on camera on August 10 after raping a 23-year-old at West 144th Street and Convent Avenue, and through DNA investigators have linked him to two other rapes, of a 69-year-old woman and a 59-year-old. Residents in the area are considerably alarmed, and Hamilton Heights local Edna Kirk tells NY1, "I feel terrible. I'm just hoping he doesn't come to me. I feel awful bad about this and I hope they hurry up and catch this guy." more ›

You may have to suspend disbelief here, but we assure you this is real life; you didn't just wake up in a 1984 Ron Howard film. Somewhat recently there were multiple mermaid sightings off the coast of Kiryat Yam (near Haifa in Northern Israel) which prompted the town to offer up a $1 million reward for anyone who could prove the mythical creature exists. Once this news traveled all the way to New York, the Brooklyn-based Mermaid Medical Association got involved. (Also: there is a Mermaid Medical Association.) more ›

After a teenaged boy was shot dead Friday night on West 144th Street in Harlem, the police are now offering a $12,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of his killer. The Daily News reports that Scotty Scott, 13, was on his way to buy sneakers, but stopped to chat with friends playing dice and apparently got caught in some gunfire. The two other teens who were wounded are not cooperating with police. Scott's sister said, "No one had a beef with Scotty. I mean he was 13 - who has a beef with a 13-year-old? We have babies shooting babies right in our streets, right in front of all of us. Something is very wrong with the world." more ›

A street sweeper employed by the Doe Fund, a charity that employs homeless New Yorkers to clean city streets, picked up a $2,500 bonus last month by defending the pigeons on the Upper East Side. According to In Defense of Animals, Desi Stewart witnessed a man spreading bird seed on the ground and “netting a large number of pigeons.” more ›

NYC Parks & Recreation is offering a $500 reward to find out who wantonly chopped down a grove of Eastern Red Cedar trees in Inwood Hill Park. The trees were planted in 1996 and were thriving, until visitors to the park discovered that 35 of the Red Cedars had been hacked to death with something like an ax. Surrounding species of trees were left unharmed. Someone out there has a serious problem with Red Cedars. In November 2006, park officials found 28 similarly chopped Red Cedars in a separate section of the park. more ›