Not to point fingers, but after six-year-old Natalie Shea was busted for chalking up a sidewalk back in 2007, it's been rough going for the rest of the city's chalk artists. The (adult) chalk artist Ellis Gallagher has been arrested three times since then, and now he's fighting back by bringing the NYPD to court. All summonses have been dismissed, but he's now suing the city for $1 million as a punishment to the force that forced him behind bars for a legal art form, according to the Brooklyn Paper. [ MORE]  | Cathie Black, Shael Polakow-Suransky Mayor Bloomberg and the rest of New York state have reached a compromise about what to do with Cathie Black, and it looks like they got their advice from The Office. Like Jim Halpert and Michael Scott before them, Black will serve as Chancellor with... [ MORE ] |  | Now that Black Friday is over, let's survey the damage some shoppers did. A 23-year-old student who had been camping outside at the Union Square Best Buy since Tuesday afternoon bought "a Sony laptop for $399, saving $300, and buy a 32-inch Samsung TV and Nintendo Wii, both for just... [ MORE ] |  | Hey, remember Melissa Petro? She used to teach art at P.S. 70 in the Bronx until her Huffington Post essay about being a sex worker came to light. But now that she's been banished to the rubber room, she's had a lot of time to think...and complain on her... [ MORE ] |  | Mohamed Osman Mohamud A 19-year-old Oregon resident was charged with suspicion of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction during an attempted bombing at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland Oregon. Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Somalia and student at Oregon State University, was... [ MORE ] |  | To promote his new book "First Stop 2 Forever: My Story," the Biebs headed to New York yesterday to sign 1,000 copies for fans, many of who had been camping outside the Barnes & Noble on Fifth Avenue for days. One fan told Sky News, "It was amazing. It took... [ MORE ] |  | Back in the summer of 2008, before we were worrying about the collapse of the financial industry, America was obsessed with a super fat cat named Princess Chunk. The 44-pound cat was found wandering NJ streets and taken in by a shelter and quickly went on a media tour,... [ MORE ] |  | Michael Stephen Bowden A retired NYPD cop, firefighter and Navy veteran was arrested for allegedly making threats against the President. Michael Stephen Bowden, 78, told a Veterans Affairs clinic nurse in Spartanburg, SC that he "would like to shoot the president," because Obama was "not doing enough to help... [ MORE ] | | |
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