Boy in Bushwick

The visage of four men--President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cambridge [Mass.] police officer James...

A little more than a day after a car bomb injured more than 40 people in Burgos, a second device killed two Spanish police officers on Mallo...

Police arrested a veteran Union Leader sports reporter at his Manchester home earlier today in connection with prostitution-related charges ...

It's currently 78 degrees at the Weatherbug reporting station near my apartment; that must mean summer has made a long-delayed appearanc...

For those who may naively conclude New York lawmakers have a monopoly on less than ethical political practices, the arrest of dozens of poli...

Roughly a day after a Jersey City police officer succumbed to wounds he suffered during a wild shootout last Thursday, members of the U.S. S...

The beautiful weather that graced the beach this weekend did little to mask the tragedy that struck Cherry Grove late Saturday afternoon. A ...

An Onondaga County jury has just found Dwight R. DeLee guilty of manslaughter as a hate crime in connection with the murder of Lateisha Gree...

While members of the Senate Judiciary Committee continued to question Judge Sonia Sotomayor during her Supreme Court nomination hearing, law...

With summer finally in full swing, an increasing number of New Yorkers (and others) have begun to make the weekly trip to Fire Island. This ...

After more than a month of gridlock, the New York State Senate could finally return to business with dissident state Sen. Pedro Espada's...

I joined the untold millions who paused yesterday to watch Michael Jackson's memorial service on television. I expected a touching spect...

I am listening to the Michael Jackson memorial service as I write this blog, but an interesting tweet this morning that compared the massive...

This is arguably old news after the long holiday weekend, but Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announced last Friday she plans to resign by the end o...

As activists in this country continue to lobby the White House and state legislators to act upon a series of LGBT-specific proposals and bil...

As I look forward to a long (and busy) holiday weekend on Fire Island, I am at home in Bushwick reflecting upon the fact I moved to New York...

As New Yorkers prepare to leave the city en masse for the Independence Day holiday, this blogger recounts a series of events that have domin...

To almost nobody's surprise, the New York State Senate adjourned its latest special session yesterday without voting on the marriage bil...

Fiasco is one of many appropriate words to described yesterday's special session of the New York State Senate, but Gov. David Paterson h...

I am back in Bushwick after a weekend of torrential downpours, perusing for discount designer fashions and partying in a toga, but news of t...