Helmer Toro, owner of H&H Bagels, was indicted for tax fraud yesterday. He pled not guilty to charges of withholding over $360,000 in payroll taxes. Surely the owner of the self-described “largest bagel manufacturer in the world” wouldn’t risk an enterprise that promising just to get out of paying some taxes?
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A couple in Staten Island have recently decided to call it quits after being together for over three years. The real victims in this kind of tragedy are always the little ones who get caught in the middle. In this case Benjamin, the innocent in question, is only a year old and yet he has to bear the burden of a bitter custody battle between two hurt ex-lovers. Right now the police are siding with Audrey Hesselberg because hers is the name on Benjamin’s official certificates. Mark Granquist, her ex, isn't going to take that lying down, and is threatening to take her to court. He says Benjamin belongs with him because he bought him for $700. Benjamin is a pug, by the way.
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Have you ever overheard people in the next room getting some while you lay there alone in your cold, baron bed? It's happened to the best of us. Usually the reaction is a pair of headphones, a polite bang on the wall or perhaps a passive-aggressive note taped to the offender’s door. How does a filing for a noise abatement order to legally stop your neighbors from ever ''shouting, screaming or (making a) vocalization at such a level as to be a statutory nuisance” sound? One British couple is facing the possibility of arrest if they should get too passionate in their own bedroom.
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The Library's lion is getting a haircut! The Times is reporting that the New York Public Library is unveiling a new logo which is designed to look better online when shrunk—the old one was too detailed and wouldn’t translate digitally. Also Patience, the lion who is featured in the logo, just really wanted to try something new, you know? It was time! Too bad the king of the jungle ended up with an 80s blowout.
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If you thought Twilight had a monopoly on the “melodramatic vampire movies that appeal to tweens” genre, think again. Amy Heckerling, the writer-director of Clueless, has signed on to a vampire rom-com involving a blood-sucking love triangle. Claire’s and Hot Topic combined can’t possibly carry enough black-eyeliner for the blowback of this project.
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Looking for a free game to play here in New York that requires almost no commitment while at the same time offers fabulous prizes? Your prayers have been answered by a man dressed as a leprechaun. Once a week Bob Freedman, the man behind the game “Beat the Mob” will find a hiding spot and Tweet clues about his whereabouts, waiting for the first person to come find him and win a prize. It’s too soon to say that this new game is sweeping the city, but it is certainly creating a dedicated fan base. I spoke to Mr. Freedman, half of the duo who came up with the game only a few months ago.
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No, it wasn't stabbed by a drunken resident of the Bowery Mission, this was a self-inflicted wound. William Powhida’s new cartoon, entitled "How the New Museum Committed Suicide with Banality,” shows how the institution that was designed to be a showcase for new art that wouldn’t play anywhere else is instead being used as a forum for trustees to get their private collections put up. At least, that’s what Powhida thinks.
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Tinsley Mortimer, a socialite—which, according to Webster’s is a woman who marries rich and makes handbags—was spotted at new sports bar The Doghouse Saloon, which is taking over the Annex's old space (just when we thought the block couldn't get shittier). Mortimer was filming her new CW reality show in the Lower East Side bar, both of which will probably be enjoyed by enough out-of-towners to limp along for a few years.
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Porn icon Robin Byrd has cast her vote for Senator Chuck Schumer. The star of the classic adult-film Debbie Does Dallas and host of the famous The Robin Byrd Show recently donated $500 at an event for the sitting New York Senator.
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