A Barnard professor makes noise about noisy night life. Serious Eats decides that Mimi’s Truffles are, in fact, “onto something special.” The 1, 2, and 3 trains are actually tomato red, not just plain red. The Upper West Side gets its own walk of fame. Update, 3:15: This just in! More Orgo Night recaps from […]

Some of you are done with finals by tonight or tomorrow, and that means it’s time for you to plan your escape route from Morningside. Use Carsplit to split cabs to the airport and save money. It’s a win-win! For a some before-noon procrastination, watch 50 of your classmates do the Soulja Boy dance (PROM […]

Call your mom and complain about finals!  And tell her that she’s awesome. Through May 16, get half-off a (now even more customized) Frappucino between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m.  Lucky Columbian, you have two Starbucks to pick from! A new art exhibit has opened on the High Line. Take the subway instead of the […]

More suspicious packages. (Gothamist) Another Staten Island Ferry crash. (City Room) Emma Watson likes Brown. (Vanity Fair) Oh, and don’t respond to that phishing email everyone’s getting from the “COLUMBIA Webmail Maintenance Unit”.

Whilst we suffer through finals… …grandmothers protest the war(s) (NYT) …the MTA budget continues to suffer (Gothamist) …CUNY is forced to limit the number of applications (City Room) …and Spec has video of Orgo Night

This Morningside Heights landlord stole $900,000 in rents, possibly from you! (NY Daily News) This Washington Heights barber cut hair, and also killed people. (NY Post) The New School will expand, and people won’t get that upset. (NYT) Maybe not the best time for an art installation with a fake bomb? (Gothamist) 6,700 NYC schoolteachers […]

A happy Cinco de Mayo to you and yours! We hear the Reference Room is craazy right now. Floridita isn’t giving up without a fight. (City Room) Bloomberg goes to Washington: the city needs more homeland security funds. (NY Post) Last night at Christie’s Picasso’s “Nude, Green Leaves, And A Bust” became the most expensive […]

A meeting of minds at Campo.  Who’s to say they too weren’t drunk and screaming? The owner of the Times Square SUV was arrested while trying to flee to Dubai. Summit Security employees get wage and benefit increases in a new contract. The MTA and Port Authority have been paying huge amounts of overtime. We’ve […]

Meet Kyle Smith, your new head coach for the men’s basketball team. (Spec) Meet Nick Tsoulos, who will soon be opening Mel’s Burger Bar in mid-June or early July. (nycfoodguy.com) Meeting new people is better with social networks… or not. (Gothamist) Midtown meets London, as the NYPD plans on installing a new security network. (NYT) […]

The Senior Fund wants you. Say goodbye to St. Vincent’s. (NYT) Local residents question the future of Section 8. (Spec) Ducklings take over Park Ave. (NYP) Photo via Wikimedia Commons

The new Deputy Mayor is a Midwesterner, and a really swell guy. (NYO) NYPD told the parents of  Stony Brook student he died in a car crash, but he didn’t. (WCBS) A new newsstand is opening at 116th and Broadway, causing drama with the one that already exists across the street. (Spec) The Times’ Cityroom […]

ABC elects new reps. Congratulations to the new board! The geopolitics of Morningside media: the new news guy threatens to take over 116th. Stand strong, Rose! (Spec) A teacher and student get into a fist fight…um, accidentally? (Gothamist) Columbia announces a new filmmaker award. (Futon Critic) Oh Housing, you tease! 60 sophomores are still waiting for […]

Floridita closed–forcibly, and by Columbia–for “repairs.” You got some ‘splainin to do, PrezBo! (Spec) If it’s any consolation, Maoz opens today, and we’ll have a taste test up later in the day. Falafel, anyone? (Spec) A trip into the Village Voice archives takes us back to wild-riotin’ CU. Dated references abound: “Jimi Hendrix blared from […]

New York City workers (hey, that’s some of us after graduation!) earn more here than they would in other cities … at least while they’re still young. (NYT) New York Senator Chuck Schumer doesn’t like Facebook’s privacy policies. (NBCNY) New York City may see its first Walmart in Brooklyn. (NYDaily) New York City Mayor Michael […]

The J-School steals a mixed-media mastermind away from The Guardian. (Wired) Want to be an eminent domain holdout? The Times lists places you might consider moving to. Gentrification is upon us! (and guilty liberals complain). (Spec) The L Hostel in Harlem was shut down by the city. (Gothamist) photo via flickr/paraflyer