In last night's Mad Men a "thing" happening in Bed-Stuy was mentioned. We found out what it was... more ›

Residents of Concourse Village in the Bronx say cops randomly arrested bystanders in a massive sweep of an apartment building after bottles were thrown from the roof at police officers Saturday. A massive police presence surrounded the building around 6 p.m., as a crowd of some 50 people gathered outside, according to DNAinfo. Witnesses and those arrested say police indiscriminately pepper-sprayed and arrested innocent bystanders, including an eighth grade boy and a mother who said she was pepper-sprayed and arrested while trying to keep her children out of it. more ›

During his weekly radio address this morning, Mayor Bloomberg looked into his crystal ball and saw a grim, violent future if the masses don't get a job. "We have a lot of kids graduating college, can't find jobs," Bloomberg said. "That's what happened in Cairo. That's what happened in Madrid. You don't want those kinds of riots here." Especially not if you live in one of those extravagant mansions that angry mobs just loooove burning down, amirite Mike? The mayor then went on to voice his qualified support for Obama's jobs bill, acknowledging that "at least he's got some ideas on the table, whether you like those or not." Hopefully those ideas include federal funding for fireproof panic rooms. more ›

Former NYPD Police Commission Bill Bratton, who was hired under Mayor Giuliani and is widely credited with stemming the city's reputation for crime through the broken-window theory and Compstat, has been appointed as an unpaid "consultant" to Scotland Yard. Bratton was personally chosen by British Prime Minister David Cameron, who told Parliament that the UK "should be looking beyond our shores to learn the lesson from others," with regard to the widespread rioting that has gripped London in recent days. "He thanked me for accepting the engagement," Bratton told the Daily News, "I thanked him for the opportunity." more ›

On Thursday, shit was seriously stirred up at the Murry Bergtraum High School in Lower Manhattan, when Principal Andrew Lewis took away students bathroom privileges after a fight between two students. A twenty minute riot ensued, with kids screaming and running through the hallways like a tween version of a jailhouse riot, or a Justin Bieber concert. Yesterday, things were tense in the school, but remained under control thanks to an increased presence of guards. Those kids should have known they could always use Shell Bank Creek if they really had to go! more ›

Hundreds of students rioted through the hallways of the Murry Bergtraum High School yesterday after their bathroom privileges were taken away by principal Andrea Lewis. Though a teacher told GothamSchools that Lewis “also said that in the case of emergency, kids could use the bathrooms in the nurse’s office," the damage was done and many of the school's 2,600 resorted to mayhem during yesterday's fifth period. more ›

At least 15 people are dead in Kashmir, India today as rioters attacked a Christian school and government buildings. And amidst chants of "Down with America" and "Down with Israel," chants of "Down with Koran desecrators" can also reportedly be heard. Kashmiri officials say the state-run Iranian station has been airing videos of American Koran burnings, especially the footage of a man who ripped and burned pages from the holy book during a protest near Ground Zero. Taj Mohi ud Din, a senior spokesman in the Jammu and Kashmir government, told the NY Times, "Today was the spontaneous religious reaction over the issue of burning of the Koran, which was on television." more ›

Roughly 100 protesters, most of them Tibetans, demonstrated outside the United Nations today against the Chinese government, which has been trying to put down protests and rioting in Lhasa. Three demonstrators were arrested for trying, unsuccessfully, to enter the U.N. and six were arrested for disorderly conduct. more ›

At the 1968 Democratic Convention, anti-war activists were denied permits to demonstrate by the city and spent most of the week getting their skulls cracked courtesy of the Chicago Police Department, witnessed by a television audience of over 50 million. A year later, eight of the most high profile radicals – guys like Abbie Hoffman and the Black Panthers' Bobby Seale – were tried on charges of conspiracy and inciting riots. The courtroom was a circus, with Seale gagged to silence his outbursts and ultimately sentenced to four years for contempt, while testimony from counterculture icons such as Phil Ochs, Arlo Guthrie, Norman Mailer and Timothy Leary drew massive crowds for the National Guard to disperse. more ›