A student from Kings College was on his way to class yesterday afternoon when a futon mattress struck him d0wn in the Financial District. Jesse Scott Owen was walking from his house to the Broad Street J/Z station before the blow from the mattress left him unconscious on the street. Several witnesses saw the mattress 
Lindsay Lohan was arrested early this morning after allegedly pulling a hit-and-run on a man outside of a club in the Meatpacking District. According to police, the 26-year-old actress was on her way to Dream Downtown, a luxury hotel near the Hudson River, when she hit a pedestrian. Lohan was arrested at the scene at 
by Nora Bosworth About 1,500 food lovers swarmed Governor’s Island on Saturday to sample two dozen food trucks for the 8th Annual Vendy Awards. The grand prize went to the Piaztlan Authentic Mexican food truck based in Red Hook, Brooklyn, which served their beef, pork and goat tacos to excited attendees. “This is my American 
11:54 a.m.: Protestors gather at bowling green in front of National Museum of American Indian and Battery Park to report back on events before heading to next location. Protestors are wearing birthday hats and holding balloons to celebrate first anniversary. 12:05 p.m.: Occupy protestors invade battery park and form groups in front of 
By Naomi Cohen An 11-year-old girl’s fishing trip turned dangerous when she fished a red-belly piranha out of Brooks Pond in Staten Island last week. “It was a fat, sassy fish,” Kaitlyn Crabbe’s grandfather Robert Crabbe, 63, told the New York Times. After a struggle with what she thought was a turtle, Kaitlyn showed her 
By Naomi Cohen The Broadway-Bleecker Street transfer is now taking longer to open than all of the first part of the IRT in the early 1900s. After rumors of openings in June, then July, then mid-August, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is taking an oath of silence in finalizing a date. The project, over budget at $135 million, will 
By Naomi Cohen As Manhattan apartment rents are reaching an all-time high, landlords are signing fewer leases in a usually busy month. With vacancy rates averaging 1.19% in August—the widest rate since 2009—a breaking point may be approaching this winter, according to Gary Malin, president of City Habitats, the real estate company that published the report. 
By Naomi Cohen The NYPD reported Monday that a woman, 56, was raped and thrown off of the Pier 15 park railing after meeting a fellow Occupy Wall Street protester, 44, for this weekend’s anniversary festivities. She was found without pants or underwear, with a broken pelvis and right arm. The woman recognized the suspect, 
by Nora Bosworth On Thursday, the New York City Board of Health approved Mayor Bloomberg’s “soda ban”, which prohibits the sale of soda and other sweetened drinks in any container over 16 ounces. The average soda bottle actually exceeds this size, according to the New York Times. Bloomberg’s desire to curb the city’s obesity epidemic 
Speaker Christine Quinn, along with other elected officials, introduced a new legislation that would increase the fines and crack down the operation of illegal hotels throughout the city, at a hearing on Wednesday afternoon. Owners of residential single room occupancy buildings have been converting their properties into illegal hotels, by renting rooms to tourists at 
