http://nymag.com Daily coverage of New York's restaurants, nightlife, shopping, politics, and culture. en Copyright 2006, New York Magazine Holdings, LLC Tue, 29 May 2012 01:35:19 -0400 http://nymag.com/news/features/brigitte-harris-2012-3/ Brigitte Harris cut off her father's penis, accidentally killing him in the process, because, she says, he sexually abused her for years. In 2009, she was convicted of second-degree manslaughter, and sentenced to five to fifteen years. This week she'll have her first parole hearing. Should she be released? Read her story, and take our poll.]]> HASH(0xc855a10) http://nymag.com/news/features/brigitte-harris-2012-3/ Mon, 2 Apr 2012 16:12:05 -0400 http://nymag.com/news/crimelaw/newburgh-2011-10/ This tiny city has a crime epidemic reminiscent of the Bronx of the seventies. It is also the scene of some of the most ambitious gang raids ever conducted, led by an FBI agent who knows the young men he’s arresting only too well. HASH(0xc8c45d0) http://nymag.com/news/crimelaw/newburgh-2011-10/ Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:37:30 -0400 http://nymag.com/news/features/acs-chareece-bell-2011-9/ The last thing child-welfare supervisor Chereece Bell wanted to see was what happened to 4-year-old Marchella Pierce. The last thing she expected was to go to jail for it.]]> HASH(0xc8b9490) http://nymag.com/news/features/acs-chareece-bell-2011-9/ Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:26:39 -0400 http://nymag.com/news/features/paul-bergrin-2011-6/ And that’s saying something.]]> HASH(0xc85a008) http://nymag.com/news/features/paul-bergrin-2011-6/ Sun, 5 Jun 2011 21:55:36 -0400 http://nymag.com/news/features/long-island-serial-killer-families-2011-6/ Five prostitutes disappear. Bodies turn up on a beach. Now the families of the victims have formed a kind of sisterhood. They ask: Who murdered my daughter? Who was my sister—really?]]> HASH(0xc8c8358) http://nymag.com/news/features/long-island-serial-killer-families-2011-6/ Sun, 29 May 2011 21:27:17 -0400 http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/topic/lucali-mark-iacono-2011-5/ Thanks to a daylight knife fight in Carroll Gardens on April 15, food snobs know that in addition to his acclaimed $24 pizzas, Lucali owner Mark Iacono doles out slices. (Bada-bing!) Iacono’s opponent in the altercation was Batista Geritano, an ex-con with reputed mob links—and as this rundown shows, it wasn’t the first time gangsters and pizzaioli have crossed paths. HASH(0xc8cb97c) http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/topic/lucali-mark-iacono-2011-5/ Mon, 2 May 2011 12:05:10 -0400 http://nymag.com/news/features/berniemadoff-2011-3/ One evening, my home phone rang. “You have a collect call from Bernard Madoff, an inmate at a federal prison,” a recording announced. And there he was.]]> HASH(0xc8cee74) http://nymag.com/news/features/berniemadoff-2011-3/ Mon, 28 Feb 2011 07:57:19 -0400 http://nymag.com/news/features/71271/ Joe, father, won an Oscar for composing “You Light Up My Life.” Now he faces 127 counts of sexual misconduct, including rape. Nick, son, allegedly killed his girlfriend in Soho House.]]> HASH(0xc8bb54c) http://nymag.com/news/features/71271/ Mon, 7 Feb 2011 12:19:29 -0400 http://nymag.com/news/features/70978/ The juvenile unit of the New York City jail is a survival-of-the-fittest finishing school for the roughest kids in New York. And an upcoming case alleges the guards run the show.]]> HASH(0xc87453c) http://nymag.com/news/features/70978/ Sun, 30 Jan 2011 20:41:19 -0400 http://nymag.com/news/features/70308/ How do you get through college these days? You and four friends, police say, deal pot, coke, Adderall, ecstasy, and LSD. Until you make a few boneheaded mistakes. ]]> HASH(0xc8de670) http://nymag.com/news/features/70308/ Sun, 26 Dec 2010 20:01:12 -0400 http://nymag.com/news/articles/reasonstoloveny/2010/70079/ New York City in 1971 might seem seedily romantic today, but in reality it was a battlefield. That year, almost 1,500 people were murdered. Fast-forward to 2010, when there have been only 486 homicides.]]> HASH(0xa0a9814) http://nymag.com/news/articles/reasonstoloveny/2010/70079/ Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:17:08 -0400 http://nymag.com/news/crimelaw/68715/ Why do people confess to crimes they didn’t commit? ]]> HASH(0xc8ea064) http://nymag.com/news/crimelaw/68715/ Fri, 8 Oct 2010 13:01:17 -0400 http://nymag.com/news/features/establishments/68516/ They’re younger, harder to catch, and quicker to violence. Who holds sway where. HASH(0xc86eb7c) http://nymag.com/news/features/establishments/68516/ Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:06:45 -0400 http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/67406/ Why is a boy a more compelling killer than his mother?]]> HASH(0xc8fa510) http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/67406/ Sun, 1 Aug 2010 21:17:35 -0400 http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/neighborhoodwatch/67154/ Our roundup of news from around the city.]]> http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/neighborhoodwatch/67154/ Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:51:18 -0400