Celebrating the Giants' Super Bowl victory might have meant cheering and high-five-ing folks in Times Square, but when you're in Bay Ridge, it means toilet paper, firecrackers, and standing in front of cars. (Tomorrow's ticker tape parade should be real!) Check out videos of some celebrations in neighborhoods including Bay Ridge, Howard Beach, the Upper East Side and Astoria. more ›

What qualifies as a "crime wave" these days? Increased grand larceny on the subway? A spike in shootings? According to the Post, cutting power lines, stealing electrical wire and a "suspicious boardwalk fire" add up to a "cyclone of crime" in Coney Island. Never mind the real atrocity: that Nathan's on the boardwalk doesn't offer raw, diced onion on their hot dogs. more ›

Nothing like a public shaming to get your TP in order! After the Post yesterday scared the bejesus out of Coney Island-bound frolickers when it reported the Parks Department was rationing out its toilet paper, the cash-strapped city agency jumped to attention. Long story short: There was no rationing of single-ply on the Coney Island Boardwalk yesterday. more ›

Alert the air marshal and contact the FBI—there is a fearsome new form of terrorist upon us: toilet paper bombers. Toilet paper bomber Warren Saunders, 60, was apprehended by police for his suburban attack; he was charged with "basically a fourth-degree crime of dropping things from a plane." more ›

Because the Newark City Council deferred on making a decision on creating a municipal utilities authority, the Star-Ledger reports, "Newark Mayor Cory Booker, facing a mounting budget deficit, announced a series of 'savage' cuts today, including a four-day work week for 1,450 non-uniformed city workers, shuttering the city’s pools and even banning the purchase of toilet paper." He said, "I’m going to shut down as much of city government as I can. We’re going to stop buying everything from toilet paper to printer paper. Call me Mr. Scrooge, if you want, but they’ll be no Christmas decorations around the city." Booker also Tweeted, "#Newark - we r in a budget crisis," and linked to video of his emergency budget conference. more ›

A few years ago, Charmin decided to take some empty retail space in Times Square and turn it into a destination for people to enjoy some of its toilet paper during the holidays. Now, Charmin is looking for this holiday season's workers, asking, "Do you enjoy going to the bathroom enough to earn $10,000?" more ›

You're never to young to be swindled by Bernard Madoff! The Palm Beach Post reports that the $50 billion-Ponzi scheme-man's estate was toilet-papered. The PB Post found out because the alleged perpetrators called them:

Some teenage boys called The Palm Beach Post newsroom Sunday evening to take credit for the prank - one they said was sanctioned by their parents. They said they were acting in retaliation after they lost their trust funds to the accused swindler. more ›

The "owner" of the super-exclusive secret club El Baño, who mailed us a much-appreciated roll of toilet paper last week to promote the joke lounge (accessed through a sliding door in the stall of a locked bodega bathroom), has sent us an email expressing outrage that a fake club has been "mocking" El Baño. This one, which has a website bearing a striking resemblance to El Baño's site, is called El Evator. You can guess where it's located. At this point, the parody of a parody of pretentious clubland is starting to wear a bit thin, but we do love that El Evator is opening for Administrative Assistant Week. Says El Baño's unidentified owner/prankster, "I guess when you're the best of the best you pick up haters along the way." more ›

The current global food crisis signifies many things, including waning tolerance for exclusive, speakeasy-style bars. The newest, most secretest Lower East Side club of all, called El Baño, has all of the trappings of Marcel Duchamp readymade, only more scatological. From a post on Down By The Hipster last week, quoting the club's reps:

El Baño is a secret club, and like all things secret it's only known by few. more ›