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Because Trump is getting dirtier, check out today's mid-day links: SNL Trumping, NY's first Hasidic state judge, Liam Gallagher on potatoes, Tube chat buttons, and dogs battle water hose. Don't forget to follow Gothamist on Twitter, Instagram,...

A 90-year-old Holocaust survivor successfully fought off a would-be robber in Greenwich Village this week. Gina Zuckerman was walking to a senior center near Fifth Avenue and West 12th Street around noon Tuesday when a woman grabbed her from behind a...

Residents of the Upper West Side co-op cluster Lincoln Towers are angry that the Department of Education's latest elementary school rezoning proposal draws a line through their complex, zoning children at 165 and 186 West End avenues to PS 191, a sch...

This week, Gothamist is running excerpts from The Brooklyn Wars, a new book from journalist Neil deMause about the social, economic, and political forces that have radically reshaped Brooklyn over the past four decades. This five-part series, the Bus...

One person was killed and 108 people sustained injuries in this morning's train crash at the Hoboken Terminal building in New Jersey, according to the latest information from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Thei...

During Monday night's feisty presidential debate, Hillary Clinton brought up Donald Trump's demeaning treatment of Miss Universe Alicia Machado, who Trump had previously insulted for gaining weight. Now The New Yorker has taken it as inspiration for...

A man is in police custody after allegedly stabbing his roommate to death in Ridgewood last night during an argument. [ more › ]...