Alfonso Cosentino told Saddam Husein "No" when the deadly Iraqi dictator offered him lavish riches to equip his military in the early 1980s. If that was the only thing he did, that would be more than enough to make him a folk legend. But Cosentino did much more.

Wineries owned by California's millionaire Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom were spared significant financial losses by Pres. Joe Biden's bailout of a failed bank favored by Tech Titans. A magnum of Newsom’s 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon will set you back $1,699.99.

My 2009 report for The Villager newspaper about the murder of 33-year-old advertising executive John Reisenbach in the West Village in 1990. The murder remains unsolved.

Timeline of the Silicon Valley Bank Crisis.

The FBI suspects Anarchists are behind a trio of unsolved New York City bombings that hit the British Consulate in 2005, the Mexican Consulate in 2007 and the US Military's recruitment office in Times Square in 2008. Now the FBI is upping its cash reward for info to a quarter-million dollars.

Blogger Frank Parlato Brought Down Svengali-like Sex Cult Leader Keith Raniere, Freeing NXIVM Slaves

Attorney General Letitia James has a solid-gold Liberal reputation but her defense of New York City's right to dump its trash on a tiny upstate town raises questions about her commitment to protecting the environment, a State Supreme Court judge and environmental advocates say.

EDITORIAL

“These Digital Age Puritans speak a new language but operate in an old mold. The liturgy is different but the preaching is the same.”

Two train derailments in Ohio in a month have focused public attention on rail safety. CSX runs dozens of so-called "bomb" trains loaded with explosive Bakken crude oil and other toxic chemicals literally beneath the American Military Academy at West Point on the Hudson River every week.

As the New York City Council weighs whether to order the NYPD to disband its special purpose Strategic Response Group, here’s a history in photographs of past special purpose NYPD units, including those charged with policing protests.

Female prisoner’s lawsuit for rape by guards on Rikers Island provides window into daily life for women there, circa 2018.

Teenagers were sold to men to rape on the Internet website that bears his name, Craigslist, and Craig Newmark's response was to defend his Cyberspace empire by falsely alleging journalists reporting it committed ethics violations. Now he’s reshaping journalism with millions of dollars in donations to news organizations, colleges and institutions.

Teenagers were sold to men to rape on the Internet website that bears his name, Craigslist, and Craig Newmark's response was to defend his Cyberspace empire by falsely alleging journalists reporting it committed ethics violations. Now he’s reshaping journalism with millions of dollars in donations to news organizations, colleges and institutions.

JOHN MUIR'S 'IMMORTAL SOUL SYMPATHY' WITH HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN AND THE HUDSON VALLEY CASTLE THAT HELPED BIRTH HITLER

JOHN MUIR'S 'IMMORTAL SOUL SYMPATHY' WITH HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN AND THE HUDSON VALLEY CASTLE THAT HELPED BIRTH HITLER

This week’s Throwback Thursday feature is a report I published in the Village Voice in 2016.

Farmers and native American allies rebelled against slave-like conditions on massive manors owned by a wealthy, privileged few and laid siege to New York City in 1766.

“In 2010 when the Syracuse Post-Standard visited New York’s maximum-security prison in Auburn to report on Corcraft’s license plate franchise, one prisoner working on the assembly line “called out that working on the line is ‘slave labor.’”

City officials want to replace letter mail in city jails with scanned electronic messages. That’s inhumane, and adds to the misery New Yorkers already suffer on Rikers Island.