Yesterday, we were all a bit disturbed by a video of a bloody, disoriented man rolling around on the L train tracks after falling off the platform at the DeKalb Avenue station in Bushwick as another person filmed the injured man while mocking him. But below, here's a nice story from reader Hossannah Asuncion that shows not all New Yorkers are so inured to bad situations in the subways. more ›

Mark Malkoff has already hit up 171 Starbucks in one day, lived in an IKEA... and now he's projected his latest project onto the YouTube screen: getting carried through Manhattan. He tells us the project helps disprove the myth that New York is unfriendly, as he managed to get carried 9.4 miles on stranger's backs, from the Staten Island Ferry to 141st St & Broadway. But when you have a camera and microphone... people might be more willing to help out. All in all, 155 people made it happen—and during his trip, some theater kids even sang him that Ke$ha song. more ›

Official crime statistics recorded by the city this year indicate that New York is on track to record fewer than 500 murders in 2007, the lowest number since reliable statistics began to be recorded in 1963. The trends recorded thus far this year, show that murders by strangers are also down dramatically. So far, there have only been 428 murders recorded in 2007––412 killings and 16 people who succumbed to injuries sustained earlier. According... more ›