|  |  |  | | | | | Gothamist | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A week after U.S. Special Forces successfully raiding Osama bin Laden's Pakistani hideaway and killing the Al Qaeda leader, the Defense Department shared five home videos found in the compound. The videos apparently show him getting preparing (and practicing) to give one of his infamous messages to the United States. According to ABC News, one of the videos "shows bin Laden watching himself on television and holding the remote control to change the channels between what appear to be Arabic news channels" while in another Bin Laden, who "appears to have dyed his beard black, is wearing a gold shawl over a white vestment and is wearing a white skullcap." [ more › ]
   
    | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  This week when President Obama visited Ground Zero, he met with 14-year-old Payton Wall; Wall had written a letter to the President about her father, who was killed on 9/11, and how she had been inspired to share her story by our favorite cyborg Christian pop star, Justin Bieber. And this morning, the President related her moving story while speaking to troops at Fort Campbell. By the transient properties of inspirational stories, does that mean that President Obama is now a Belieber? [ more › ]
 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  President Obama met with the members of the elite Navy SEAL unit that executed the raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound and killed the terrorist leader, before giving a speech to the soldiers at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, CBS reports. The meeting, which took place behind closed doors, was held so that the president could "offer his personal admiration and gratitude for our servicemembers." The president also gave the SEALs the Presidential Unit Citation, which is "the highest such honor that can be given to a unit." It's unclear whether the "war dog" received a citation as well. [ more › ]
 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Last night, The Low-Down reported that the NYPD closed venerated Lower East Side bar Max Fish for "alleged underage drinking and operating after hours." While the police have pledged to work with bar owners to avoid shutdowns like these, Max Fish's closing comes after LES bars Mason Dixon, Los Feliz, and Gallery Bar all felt the icy hand of the law after allegedly serving minors. Usually after paying a large fine and hiring private security, the offending bars are allowed to reopen, and the Low-Down notes that Max Fish will probably "be closed for about a week." [ more › ]
 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Today, the Voice pointed us in the direction of the newest nominee to the Indulgently Fatty Foods Hall Of Fame, joining other absurd Frankenstein-ian concoctions such as Meat Munchkins, Pop-Tart sushi and the Peanut Butter & Bacon Burger: the "fries sandwich," which can be found at Lebanese restaurant Man'ouChe in Bay Ridge. Now, if we can only figure out a way to snort the sandwich into our bodies, we'd truly be set. [ more › ]
 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  We briefly noted yesterday that a 23-year-old business student at NYU made over $100,000 in two days selling t-shirts that trumpeted the death of Osama Bin Laden. But now CBS is reporting that the budding entrepreneur, Maurice Harary, had a change of heart, and is refunding all of the proceeds: "Celebrating over the death of someone, whoever it is, is evil in my eyes." No word on whether the newly-enlightened Harary plans to confiscate every Che Guevara shirt at NYU. [ more › ]
 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  It might not be the latest fashion trend, but it's certainly something that'll get you noticed: a woman was arrested wandering around the lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel earlier today with a gun sticking out of her jacket pocket, and her neon pink underwear on top of her pants. [ more › ]
 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  F. Scott Fitzgerald once said there are no second acts in American lives...but there sure are for pot-smoking, egg-throwing Staten Island teens. After 14-year-old Rayshawn Moreno threw eggs at cars in Staten Island on Halloween night in 2007, the cops "taught him a lesson" by beating him, taking his clothes and leaving him out in a "swampy area" to fend for himself. That sort of tough love is illegal, and the officers involved pled guilty to "disorderly conduct" and were disciplined. Now 17, the Post reports that Moreno was busted with a bag of marijuana last night around Mariners Harbor. [ more › ]
 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  We've been a little concerned about our tipping habits ever since we stumbled across the controversial bad tippers website recently. It's prompted us to start questioning all of our assumptions about tips, and it seems that others are also in a similar state of mind: the WSJ wonders today when the default tipping options became so expensive in cabs. "It's obnoxious!" said former cab driver Bruce Verstandig. [ more › ]
 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  In 1919 this truck rolled through the streets of New York City, carrying cooped up pigeons... or as the sign declared: CAPTURED GERMAN WAR PIGEONS. They made their appearance during a parade celebrating Armistice Day and the end of WWI. The pigeons at the time would carry messages, or be equipped with cameras for aerial reconnaissance... and these guys pictured were the enemy. (Do you think their ancestors are flying around New York right now?) [ more › ]
 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden sought to harm the US by "attempting to inflame race and class tensions in hopes of tearing down the country from the inside out," sources who have seen the evidence recovered from Bin Laden's compound have told ABC News. In addition to traditional terrorist attacks, Bin Laden wished to "create a divisiveness that would cause more damage than al Qaeda could ever do on their own." This included recruiting blacks in the US, "to capitalize on them to further the jihadi cause." [ more › ]
 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Legendary director Alfred Hitchcock once said, "In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director." And considering all the stories about how the auteur treated star Tippi Hedren, it certainly seems like he had a bit of a God-complex himself. Now, a church in Astoria is exploring the world of "Hitchcock and the Catholic Conscious" with a free film series! [ more › ]
 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  We know that New Yorkers are a bunch of slobbering salt monsters who can strip the crystals off a Super Pretzel faster than you can say "hypertension." But don't prisoners deserve a modicum of salt to take the pain away of you know, being in prison? Mayor Bloomberg apparently disagrees: buried in his much decried budget is a provision that would slash $350K from the Corrections Department's food budget, the Daily News reports. Can't we give the salt demonizing a rest since it doesn't even give you heart disease? [ more › ]
 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  While we weren't crazy about avoiding eye contact with the grumbling, chain-smoking masses outside the OTB on Delancey street, it looks even SADDER when it's dormant. But there's good news in today's Post for equine enthusiasts who happen to enjoy gambling: a Democratic state assemblyman and a Republican Senator are joining forces to resurrect off-track betting. [ more › ]
 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Yesterday, we had images of Brundlefly buzzing through our heads when we heard about the abandoned Popeyes in East New York which has been stinking up the neighborhood while also becoming a popular vacation spot for thousands of flies. Now, you can see just how gross it is for yourself with the video below, taken by NBC. "It smells like there's something dead in there, it doesn't smell like rotten food, it smells like there's something dead," one man told ABC. [ more › ]
 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Finally, Justin Bieber's Long Island mall nightmare is over: The 17-year-old has agreed to film a PSA about cyberbullying in exchange for criminal charges related to a cancelled 2009 mall appearance being dropped against his manager and other record label executives. Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice said, "To have someone like Justin Bieber, who is emulated by kids his age across the world, educating people about the dangers of cyberbullying, that's invaluable." Invaluable for his anti-abortion opinion, too? [ more › ]
 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  A CIA Predator Drone strike in Yemen on Thursday failed to hit its intended target, American citizen Anwar al-Awalaki, but may have killed other members of Al Qaeda, the Times reports. Al-Awalaki, a Muslim cleric who was born in New Mexico and recruits English-speaking extremists through internet sermons, is believed to be a member of Al Qaeda's branch in the Arabian Peninsula. [ more › ]
 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  We've heard about "kool" teachers sharing pot with their students, and high teens pulling guns on school aides, but this is some perverted mash-up of those two stories that is truly a first: a Bronx school aide was arrested yesterday for allegedly threatening a student at knife-point if they didn't deal drugs for him. "Do you remember what I told you, if you don't do this for me I will kill you and hurt your siblings and mother," teacher's aide Anthony Davis allegedly said to the teen. [ more › ]
 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  The novel may be going the way of the Nook and the iPad, but there's still one form of larger-than-life storytelling which truly benefits from its physical incarnation: comic books! And today really is the greatest day to be a fan, or to dip your toes in the water of spandex-clad superheroes: it's the tenth annual Free Comic Book Day (FCBD). Check out the introductory video below. [ more › ]
 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  No one is happy with Mayor Bloomberg's 2012 Fiscal Year budget, a $65.7 billion plan that will involve 5,400 city layoffs—4,100 of them coming from the ranks of teachers (a 5% reduction in city teachers). A Brooklyn teacher whose job is threatened told the Daily News, "I'm really disappointed. With the population increases, I can't imagine what class sizes are going to be next year... The most vulnerable children will be hurt the most." For his part, Bloomberg blamed a lot of the mess on Albany and Washington D.C. [ more › ]
 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Is it time to start pitying Donald Trump?* He was kicked around at the White House Correspondents Dinner, his show was interrupted by the President's Bin Laden announcement, he backed out of driving the pace car at the Indianapolis 500—and now a new poll suggests that New Yorkers don't even appreciate him. And after all the affordable housing and greenspaces bloated, gaudy monstrosities he's given us! [ more › ]
 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  They say it's hard out there for a pimp, but it seems like its much harder for a prostitute these days: two Craigslist prostitutes were attacked and robbed by the same man in separate incidents in the past week. The attacks took place at the upscale Roosevelt and Wellington hotels; both victims fought their attacker, and one was slashed with a knife, while the other was put into a choke hold and left unconscious by the robber. [ more › ]
 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Yesterday afternoon, a woman driving on Avenue I apparently barreled down the road, jumping the curb, going through a bus stop on McDonald Avenue and finally crashing into a deli. A witness told NBC New York, "She was speeding. She was flying." Six people were injured, and another witness said to the Post, "There was one man who was totally drenched in blood, head to toe." [ more › ]
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