State police will not be conducting a criminal investigation into a 22-year-old NYC resident's crash off the Taconic State Parkway. After veering off nearly 500 feet off the highway early Sunday morning, Thomas Wopat-Moreau survived four days in a swampy ravine and was found on Thursday. Captain Scott Brown said, "There is talk of a party on Saturday evening, but given the seriousness of his injuries, we're concentrating on helping him make a full recovery. There is no criminal investigation." more ›

For four days, friends and family had been searching for Thomas Wopat-Moreau, a 22-year-old East Village resident who went missing after leaving a party in Dutchess County. A friend said, "I think he tried to go home and something happened on the way. An entire car vanished, it’s not just a person. No one’s seen either." And what happened was he lost control of his car and crashed off the Taconic State Parkway about 40 miles outside of Albany, landing 480 feet from the highway. more ›

Last Friday, a man jumped off the George Washington Bridge—and survived and managed to swim to the NJ side, where he was taken to a hospital. According to the NY Post, "Adrian Rawn, 28, took the plunge without so much as a pause after abruptly stopping his car on the span's lower level at about 11:30 a.m." And that would be a 212-foot plunge into 55-degree water. more ›

Yesterday afternoon, a man jumped into the frigid Niagara River, was swept down the Horseshoe Falls—all 180 feet—and survived. The Buffalo News reports, "Naked and despondent, with a gash on his head, the man was caught in a slow-moving circle of frigid water below the falls when rescuers made it down a steep embankment shortly after 2 p. m. to a point where Firefighter Todd Brunning could enter the water." more ›

A distraught 34-year-old woman threw herself from the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday, plunging 100 feet from the pedestrian walkway near the Manhattan shoreline into the East River. An NYPD Harbor Unit quickly responded to the scene and pulled the suicidal woman from the water. Somehow she was relatively unscathed--without a scratch or a broken bone--and was treated at a hospital for aspirating some water, which is common in near drowning incidents. more ›

Scaremongering just hit a whole new level underground, with Subivor -- the subway survival kit. The website (after a short video montage of all the ways the subway will ultimately become your tomb) warns straphangers:

Dear Subway Commuters, more ›