Forget giant rats or pizza-loving, petting zoo poseurs: feral boars are just (300) miles away in sleepy Peru, New York, feasting on apples and other crops and copulating like, well, pigs that start having sex at the age of six months. “There’s a real sense of urgency,” Ed Reed, a biologist at the DEC tells the Times. “Once the pigs get established, they are very difficult to eradicate completely.” When will Governor Cuomo follow Texas' lead and allow us to kill them with automatic weapons from helicopters? more ›

The bucolic town of Sherman, New York was shattered by a collision between a county police car and... an Amish buggy carrying four people. According to the Post-Journal, Chautauqua County Police "were responding to a report of an underage drinking party on Heslink Hollow Road and en route to the location, deputies encountered several Amish buggies traveling north and taking up both lanes of traffic on Clymer Hill Road." Buggies gone wild! more ›

A draft report released by the EPA on Thursday indicating that hydraulic fracturing for natural gas is probably the cause for contaminated water supplies in central Wyoming may affect New York's impending decision on whether to permit fracking upstate. Sandra Steingraber, an Ithaca College biologist, tells the Daily News, "It takes away the industry's claim that there has never been a documented case of groundwater contamination because of fracking." more ›

Yes, Irene by and large passed over New York City with less damage than some had feared, leading some to glibly announce that we were a bunch of overreacting ninnypants. But the same cannot be said for our neighbors to the north—in many parts of upstate New York and Vermont, the damage is still being fully assessed, with state parks and historic sites looking to be in bad shape. more ›

A man can only make so many Meximelts, and be burned from Cinnamon Twist grease so many times before he reaches his breaking point. Adam, a shift manager at a Taco Bell / KFC combo store outside Buffalo, was upset that he reportedly had to work 22 days in a row and was denied a day off on July 4. So he ended his career in a flash of brilliance, posting the above farewell message for his overlords and the public to see. more ›

Though Suzanne Corona is only the 13th New Yorker to be charged with adultery since 1972, Officer Eric Hill of the Batavia police told the Democrat and Chronicle, “It’s not very often you have people engaging in sexual activity in a park in broad daylight. This particular circumstance met all the criteria for the charge." Corona, 41, was arrested on Friday with her 29-year-old coworker for public lewdness, after a mother saw the two getting it on on a picnic table in Batavia's Farrall Park. But because Corona is a married woman with children, police slapped on adultery charges as well. more ›

After nearly a century in Brooklyn Heights, Jehovah's Witnesses are abandoning their official headquarters in favor of new digs upstate. Currently the offices of the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society occupy two large buildings at 25 and 30 Columbia Heights, right by the promenade. Their new property will hold 850 people, and it will be Green! “Yes, it will be sustainable. In fact, we’re shooting for a LEED Gold designation on this one,” Richard Devine, the religious group's real estate manager told the Eagle. But what about all that other property Jehovah's Witnesses own in Brooklyn Heights? more ›

Unfortunately, Gothamist isn't old enough to have watched Floyd Patterson fight. Our childhood memories of him consist of hearing Billy Joel sing "Liston beats Patterson" about their 1962 fight. Born in North Carolina, Patterson and his family moved to Bed-Stuy when he was a child. After a brief period in Upstate New York, where he first took up boxing, Patterson returned to the city and, before long, started to train with Cus D'Amato at the Gramercy Gym in the Lower East Side. more ›

Jeanne Fleming, 32nd Annual New York's Village Halloween Parade more ›

Sean Howe, Editor more ›