Disagreements over building a waste transfer station along the waterfront of Gravesend Bay in Brooklyn raised the possibility of dredging up more than just your standard pollution because possibly hundreds of tons of high explosives may be lurking underneath! State Assemblyman William Colton argues on behalf of his constituents that required dredging to build a waste transfer station would release toxins like PCB, mercury, toxic ash, and lead out of the muck and back......

An update about the Tuesday-night incident where a reckless 19-year-old driver hit a bicyclist in Staten Island: The Staten Island Advance reports that Leon Wilson was high on painkillers while driving. And his past driving experience was so terrible that his learner's permit had been revoked in January. Yet somehow, he was behind the wheel of a rental car on Tuesday night, crashing into 47-year-old Juan-Han Guan, who had been biking home. Guan, who was......

In two weeks at IFC, a screening of Orphans will be shown in memory of one of the films' stars. Lily Wheelwright, the 24-year old who played one of the two estranged sisters in the film, Rosie, died on March 22nd. In the film, the twenty-something sisters reunite five years after the death of their parents only to "revisit their treacherous history." In real life, Ry Russo-Young (the writer-director) and Wheelwright were friends while growing......

We've all heard the old adage that there's nothing more dangerous in the kitchen than a dull knife. A sharp knife cuts cleanly through things. A dull knife forces you to use more pressure, then may bounce off the surface of the onion you're trying to slice and onto another surface, such as--for instance--your hand. Ouch! Our favorite knife sharpener in town is Henry Westpfal, at 105 West 30th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues.......

On March 13, 1967 Channel 5 launched the first prime time newscast in the tri-state area, just a few months after sister station WTTG in Washington D.C. became the first station in the United States with one. Since then, a lot has changed but there are still a few constants like the seemingly eternal question, “It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?” In 1967, channel 5, then called WNEW-TV, had been......

Gothamist is a sucker for the crazies, we're endlessly fascinated by the random reasons that people will come up with to explain why they are doing crazy stuff. So how could we pass up the sad story of Jonathan Julian, 29, whose lawyer yesterday claimed that he was not fit to stand trial for shooting two police officers back in March? On March 13 Julian's Brooklyn neighbors called the cops after a series of small......

On March 20th this year, the 3rd Anniversary of the US Invasion of Iraq, a group of artists will come together for the Bring 'em Home concert. Michael Stipe, Bright Eyes, Public Enemy frontman Chuck D, Rufus Wainwright, Steve Earle, Fischerspooner, Peaches and Devendra Banhart will join forces for the event which will benefit the Iraq War Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Peace. An event like this will of course include everyone's favorite......

On March 17th this message was posted on the Decemberists website: Hello All, At some time between 3 a.m. and 8 a.m., the band's gear trailer was stolen from outside a house in SE Portland, near the Aladdin Theatre. Heartbreakingly, it housed practically every piece of instrumentation belonging to the Decemberists. So this is a sort of call to arms; I figure if we get the word out, maybe we all can collectively track it......

The French are great at food, film, fashion, and opposition to the U.S.'s imperialistic tendencies. What they are not good at is prisons: Another Daring Jailbreak Embarrasses French Government. It sounds very dramatic, near Aix-en-Provence: While the helicopter hovered over the prison, a man was let down on a rope, then used the saw to rip through the netting stretched across the prison courtyard. He then helped the three men, whom officials did not identify,......