Jogger shot after stealing his landlord’s model girlfriend. Disguised convict sneaks out of jail.

It was the last Friday of the term, and tinged with discontent.

". . . The first wave of newspaper stories splashed happily over the 'love triangle.' Older-guy-loses-girl-to-younger-guy . . ."

In a shed on the museum’s construction site, Carl Carrara painted a vivid, obscene picture of mob life—and the Feds taped it all.

A jailed Basquiat faker goes without food so that he can make (and sell) art.

Notorious tippler-about-town Anthony Haden-Guest is finally sobering up -- if his friends will let him.

Bob Guccione pushed the soft-core envelope, building one of the most profitable porn empires in the world. Now he lives as a near-recluse in his townhouse, one of Manhattan’s biggest, which has been foreclosed on by his creditors. How Guccione was stripped.

High-end gallery owners all over the world used Michel Cohen to sell their Picassos and Chagalls -- secretly -- to each other. Then he disappeared with nearly $100 million of their money. Had they trusted the charming Frenchman too much? Or their competitors too little?

How Lloyd Kaufman of Troma Entertainment (Class of Nuke 'Em High; The Toxic Avenger) became the city's leading B-movie auteur.