Cops are telling bar owners to require SantaCon participants to remove their fake beards before entering drinking establishments (Daily News).
Opinion: The time has come to bring SantaCon under control (NYT).
The federal government has concluded its investigation of interstate bus...
An insurance executive at the center of the Met Council corruption case pleads guilty (NYT).
Sheldon Silver says his job is secure (Newsday).
Credit card numbers were stolen from the Fine Fare on Clinton Street (Post- fourth item).
There's a rally this...
New York City rents are dipping, but experts says you should "contain your glee." On the Lower East Side, prices are off about 2.5% year-over-year (Curbed).
The legal battle for the Hells Angels' clubhouse (Post).
The judge in a lawsuit against...
A new advocacy group seeks to weaken New York's illegal hotels law (Daily News).
The city is going after Jerry's Newsstand again (EV Grieve).
Helpful advice from Santacon organizers: no puking, "messing with kids or cops," or sexually assaulting people (Eater).
The...
The New York City Housing Authority awarded a new contract to a construction firm accused by the federal government of cheating workers on the renovation of the Grand Street Guild apartments (Daily News).
Claiming that she really lives in Italy,...
Report: Sheldon Silver is preparing to "re-emerge as a forceful liberal counterweight" to Governor Cuomo (Capital NY).
A judge declines to hear the City Council's lawsuit against NYCHA's market rate housing plan, saying it's premature (Capital NY).
Here's what the new...
In spite of protests, SantaCon will return December 14, launching from Tompkins Square Park and "wend(ing) its way through the East Village and the Lower East Side before jumping over to Brooklyn." (Daily News).
Sheldon Silver has paid $65,000 in...
The New Museum appoints a "rising star" in the tech world to run its new incubator (WSJ).
Editorial: The Moreland Commission's "Portrait of Sleaze" begins to emerge, evan as "Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Republican boss Dean Skelos (resist)...
A drunken passenger, who hailed a cab on the Lower East Side, refused to pay her fare and now faces assault charges (Post-last item).
Sheldon Silver's law firm wrote a big check to the political action committee that unsuccessfully pushed...
The 7-Eleven on St. Mark's Place has closed (EV Grieve).
Bill de Blasio will drop in on Sheldon Silver's annual holiday luncheon today (Daily News).
Kids actor Leo Fitzpatrick - hanging out around his Forsyth Street gallery and lamenting the death...