The daughter of the woman who was neglected in a hospital waiting room and died after being ignored by staffers has will sue the hospital, city and city's hospital agency for $25 million. Last week, a video revealed that 49-year-old Esmin Green had been sitting in the waiting room of Kings County Hospital's psychiatric ward emergency area for almost 24 hours. Around 5:30 a.m., she collapsed on the floor, and while staffers saw her there,......

The NY Post has a two-part series alleging that city parks, which make up 14% of the land mass of New York City, are the domain of "HOS, JUNKIES, [and] PUSHERS". In part one today, an inspection of a random selection of dozens of parks suggests that they were unmaintained, trash-strewn, and havens for criminal activity. A brief summary of the Post's investigation:Multiple encampments of homeless people in ten separate parks. Prostitutes doing business in......

After a surveillance video showed hospital staff ignoring a psychiatric patient's last dying hours in the emergency room of Kings County Hospital, city health officials say they will make a series of changes, like checking on patients every 15 minutes. When asked what he thought of the video, Mayor Bloomberg said, "Horrified is much too nice a word. Disgusted, I think, is a better word." The patient, 49-year-old Esmin Green, had been waiting in the......

A distressing video was released showing a 49-year-old psychiatric patient left to die in the waiting room of Kings County Hospital. The video shows the woman, identified as Esmin Green, slump and fall to the ground--and two guards and a doctor look in and ignore her. Finally, a nurse comes to check on her, but not before kicking Green, who was dead at that point. Attorney Robert Cohen told WNBC, "It's an emergency room,......

A 23-year-old animal groomer in Brooklyn is facing charges of animal cruelty and could spend up to a year in jail if convicted. The charges stem from an experience Igor Kisil and his Burmese cat Nusha had with groomer Bechir Bejaoui of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Kisil says that when he went to pick up his small cat, who weighs only three pounds, she was returned to him in a carrying case covered with blood. Kisil......

New York magazine has an extraordinary cover story on the life of Brooke Astor, months after the "doyenne" of the city's social scene passed away. It is a sordid tale of jealousy, greed, enmity, conflicting agendas, and familial conflict worthy of the most outlandish soap opera. Her son Tony is now under i investigation by a grand jury and control of her estate has passed to Astor's friend Annette de la Renta. The litany of......