No Ifs, Ands Or Butts

City smokers are being snuffed out, and if Mayor Bloomberg has his way, soon there may be no place left to inhale but your living room.

In 2003, New York City implemented in a smoking ban in all restaurants and bars, severing the sacred bond between nicotine and liquor and forcing the 17 percent of New Yorkers who classify themselves as smokers to take their habits to the curb. Read more

Convenient Robbery

A store clerk at IJ Convenience Store, at 535 Amsterdam Ave. and West 86th Street, notified police after finding the shop ransacked. Police said that sometime between May 2-3, someone popped the front lock of the store and broke the metal gate. Once inside, the burglar stole $500 in cash, 50 cartons of cigarettes and $3,200 in phone cards, cops said.