Mickey Rourke recently said, "Sometimes when a man's alone, all you got is your dog." The same probably holds true for the man that the Post checks in with who "lives in a van down by the river, literally." Jimmy Tarangelo is able to sustain himself in Manhattan along with his four dogs inside the 20-foot-long Boise Cascade Aristocrat he picked up used for $700 and is attached to the Ford Econoline he uses for storage. He does it all on the $750/a month he takes in via a Social Security disability check for depression. His $7,000 in parking tickets averages out to $600/a month for keeping the van on Clarkson Street near the Hudson in the West Village. He watches DVDs checked out of the library and scores free meals inside a strip joint. Tarangelo says, "I don't like paying rent. I had a house once. I don't mind owning something." As for his biggest problem—finding a toilet when he needs one—we hope that Tarangelo knows he's one printout away from a pee pee dance cure. more ›

Authorities arrested the girlfriend of the fugitive hedge fund scammer yesterday. Debra Ryan reportedly confessed that she helped Sam Israel, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for swindling hundreds of millions from investors, plan his disappearance a week and a half ago. more ›