Click on the film stills for more details and reviews of Date Movie, When You're Strange: A Film About the Doors, The Square, After.Life, La Mission, Everyone Else, Letters to God, The Black Waters of Echo's Pond, Ace in the Hole, and The NeverEnding Story. more ›

Yesterday, St. Vincent's announced that starting today, "St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan emergency department, in coordination with the NYS Department of Health and FDNY EMS, will be placed on permanent diversion of ambulances for all services except for behavioral health. The ED will remain fully functional with the ability to treat and admit all walk-in patients as needed.” Instead, ambulances will take patients to Beth-Israel, Roosevelt, NY Downtown or Bellevue. more ›

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance is one of the most powerful prosecutors in the country, but yesterday he was in criminal court, trying to help his underlings get through a backlog of over 16,000 cases. According to the NY Times, "Such a backlog leads to significant delays: Last year, the average case in criminal court took 316 days to go from arraignment to completion, he said. The logjam also results in the dismissal of thousands of cases each year that fail to proceed to trial quickly enough. More than 4,800 such cases were dismissed last year in Manhattan, according to court records." more ›

Click through for more on Thom Yorke's supergroup, Webster Hall-headlining Girls, a Rites of Spring Benefit featuring Bjork, and Columbia University's spring Bacchanal. more ›

Last month 57-year-old Megan Charlop, an avid cyclist and foster mom, died when she fell under a bus after getting clipped by a car door in the Bronx. Tomorrow there will be a memorial ride and Ghost Bike dedication for Charlop, whom one local resident called "our angel. I waved her goodbye as she rode away. She looked so happy. She died doing something she loved." more ›

Heads up, Queens: Iron Man is coming your way! The blockbuster's sequel starring Robert Downey, Jr. is due out this May, and currently has a regular website set up along with a promo site for something called Stark Expo. Yes, it's all part of a well-oiled marketing machine, but the latter features Flushing Meadows Corona Park as the venue for the fictional event. It's just too bad the Hollywood fat cats didn't rejuvenate the now-decrepit World's Fair site for real. more ›

Our city's most famous groundhog, Staten Island Chuck, may hog all the spotlight (after all, he's attacked the mayor!)... but let's focus our attention on Tyrone and Maggie of Fort Tryon Park. The names were given by the photographer of these photos, who says she chose "Maggie for Margaret Corbin, for whom the traffic circle at the front of the park is named." Check out some live action video of one of these Fort Tryon creatures, or their friend, below: more ›

Cops are still searching for the individual who shot four teens Wednesday afternoon from a Crown Heights rooftop. And in the aftermath of the shooting—which sent pedestrians running for their lives—many in the neighborhood were gripped with fear over the city's surge in violent crime. But others thought it was funny, like the teens seen laughing after they got shot! more ›

An eight-months pregnant woman was recently given a $75 summons for traveling between subway cars. And why, given her condition, was she traveling between subway cars? Because she couldn't find a seat on the 1 train! Nora Hsu told the NY Post, "I told the cop, 'Cut me some slack. I'm 32 weeks pregnant, and I'm just trying to get home.' I was out of breath." But the officer allegedly told her, "It doesn't matter... You know what you did was illegal ... You'll have to come with me." Hear that everyone: Pregnant ladies are just like regular people. more ›

Pablo Picasso denied ever having painted this "Erotic Scene" piece (pictured), telling his friend, and author Pierre Daix, "I’ve done worse. But it was a joke by friends.” But he probably never counted on future experts having the capabilities of finding out if the sexually charged painting was indeed the work of Picasso's own hands. And it seems that it is! more ›

The last three days have averaged out to about 24 degrees warmer than normal. This morning's low, however, dipped to a chilly 55 degrees, which is three degrees cooler than average. Oh, wait, the morning minimum was three degrees cooler than the average maximum temperature for today. Today's temperature pattern is out-of-phase as the high of 66 was at midnight and the low will likely be at midnight tonight. more ›

When a sewer main circa 1939 collapsed in Bedford Park, Bronx yesterday, it created a sinkhole reminiscent of War of the Worlds on Webster Avenue at 198th street. The 25-feet wide, 20-feet deep hole has left 200 people out of water and street closures into this morning, according to NY1. And the smell of gas was still lingering in the air after a gas service line was damaged in the collapsing sewer main. No one was hurt, but the tripods will soon change all that. more ›

From today's mid-day links: Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says insurers shortchange college students; the widow of Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle, who died when he and a flight instructor crashed a plane into an Upper East Side building, is remarrying—her son's Little League manager; three teens are in custody for allegedly beating a Mexican man on Staten Island; an 11-year-old Long Island girl managed to kick a stranger who tried to grab her and get away; and does Miss Precious Perfect have a Twitter account yet? Keith Olbermann is now Tweeting. more ›

As expected, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the court's oldest and most liberal member, has announced his retirement. (Analysts had been expecting Stevens's retirement since last fall after he only hired one clerk.) In announcing his retirement today—just 11 days before his 90th birthday—Stevens said he hoped his successor is confirmed "well in advance of the commencement of the court's next term.'' He will step down when the court finishes its session in June or July. (Here's a pdf of Stevens's short letter to Obama announcing the retirement; it begins "My dear Mr. President.") more ›