Andy Soltis
The Archive
Here's what to expect at the World Chess Championship
Bobby Fischer wouldn’t recognize the world championship chess being played at the Fulton Market Building this month. Champion Magnus Carlsen and his challenger, Sergey Karjakin, play longer, more intense games...
Hoffman died from toxic drug mixture
Philip Seymour Hoffman died from a “speedball,” a concoction that has killed several other celebrities, the city’s Office of Chief Medical Examiner said Friday. Hoffman’s death in his Village apartment...
Sicilian mafia sent hit man to whack Giuliani
The head of the Sicilian mafia sent a hit man to America to arrange the murder of Rudy Giuliani in the 1980s, Italian news media reported. “Boss of bosses” Salvatore...
Watch Obama & Biden jog around the White House
http://youtu.be/Z7Z4rGQi2cQ The president's on the run. Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move website released a stagey video on Friday that shows her husband — and 71-year-old Vice President Joe Biden — jogging through the...
Bridgegate 911 calls reveal traffic chaos
Newly released audio tapes show how New Jersey police and 911 personnel fielded hundreds of desperate calls from residents during the Bridgegate traffic chaos that has embroiled the administration of...
Spike Lee rants on hipsters, gentrification
Spike Lee went on a seven-minute, profanity-laced tirade against the influx of white “hipsters” into the city’s formerly poor neighborhoods during a Black History Month event on Tuesday. When an...
The NYC neighborhood that uses condoms the least is...
The city’s birth rate has plummeted to its lowest level in 35 years -- even though condom use in some neighborhoods is stretched mighty thin, city Health Department data shows....
Christie: 'Bridgegate' is not a 'real' problem
Bridgegate is not a “real” problem, Gov. Chris Christie said after a town hall meeting in New Jersey on Thursday. No one asked about the George Washington Bridge lane closings...
NASA video shows path of polar vortex
This is what the polar vortex looks like. NASA posted this chilling video on its Facebook page to illustrate how the huge blast of frigid air – the purple and...
Militia viciously attacks Pussy Riot members with whips in Sochi
http://youtu.be/ivT-I-yxtdY Pussy Riot singers — including two who were jailed for months in Russia and then hailed as heroes in New York — were beaten by Cossack militiamen and cops...
State overpaid $320,000 for travel expenses to eight workers
The state paid $320,000 in unwarranted travel expenses to eight workers because officials thought they were working out of a more distant office, an audit revealed Tuesday. The workers were...
Monkeys can control sleeping peer's movements by thought
Scientists inspired by the movie “Avatar” have demonstrated that one monkey can use his thoughts to control the movements of a second, sleeping monkey. Researchers at Harvard Medical School said...
Disgraced ex-congressman arrested with porn in Zimbabwe
A disgraced former Illinois Congressman is under arrest in Zimbabwe after allegedly taking hundreds of nude photos and pornographic videos. Melvin Reynolds, whose promising political career crashed in 1995 after...
Young New Yorkers want legal weed, folks 65 and older don't: poll
Legalizing marijuana is blowing the generation gap wide open. By an overwhelming 83 to 14 percent, New Yorkers aged 18 to 29 support making pot legal in small amounts for...
UN panel: Kim Jong Un crimes evoke Nazi-era
North Korea is guilty of crimes reminiscent of those committed by Nazi Germany — and “Supreme Leader” Kim Jong-un can be tried for monstrous offenses that have no “parallel in...
Shacking up in NYC won’t save you a lot of money
New York couples thinking about celebrating Valentine’s Day by moving in together should do it for love, not money. Shacking up saves huge rent bucks in almost every major US...
Another winter storm bears down on the city
The city was bracing for another six-plus inches of snow — plus just about everything else — Thursday, as the flakes fall at more than twice the pace of a...
De Blasio's bishop buddy boasts ties to Obama
He has more than one friend in high places. Politically connected Bishop Orlando Findlayter of Brooklyn posted a photo of himself and President Obama on his Facebook page. It appeared...
Storm to bring NYC 6 to 10 inches of snow
The city is looking at six to 10 more inches of snow on Thursday as a new storm roars up the East Coast — with small storms following this weekend....