Here in New York, there's always something interesting going on. This is a welcome change from growing up in The Middle of Nowhere, New Jersey, where nothing interesting ever went on. Like, ever.

These things happened recently in NYC, courtesy of New York magazine:
During a massive food fight, staff at a high school called the police for backupA man who had been impersonating his dead mother for six years in order to collect her Social Security was arrestedThere was a runaway ponyTwo balloon art