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A mysterious green slime has been spotted oozing from Gotham’s grates and manholes, causing some New Yorkers to wonder if a superhero comic had suddenly come to life. An X user from Manhattan first sent the phenomenon viral on Thursday, posting photo and video of the bright-hued liquid emerging from below the sidewalk. “So there’s literal green sludge bubbling up from the ground next to World Trade Center right now,” bystander Dan Pantelo wrote, along with a pic of the garish anomaly that has over 14 million views since being posted yesterday. The accidental citizen journalist posted a clip of...

Lives in Gotham. He's here to save us Is a billionaire. Has a fast car. Has an indomitable will. Has never been seen in the same room at the same time. Has a uniform. Has plot armour.

Over the past few months, I have been watching the Gotham series on Netflix. I have come to see parallels in the series’ plot to events now taking place. The machinations in the series of the League of Shadows and Ra’s al Ghul to bring down Gotham by creating chaos in the city seem to parallel the machinations of the Democrat Party. I see that the Democrat Party and their surrogates, Black Live Matter and ANTIFA appear to be doing exactly that on a much larger scale across the United States. The governors (especially Democrats) are ignoring their duty to...

San Francisco small business owners say their ability to keep the doors open is being threatened by the city’s high level of crime. Earlier this month there was a break in at a tea shop called Boba Guys. The owner published a photo of his smashed front glass on Instagram along with a message saying he’d seen the city “transform into Gotham” and suggesting it was time for small business owners to “take our city back.” We just had our third break-in in SF this year. Another broken window which we will board up immediately. Seems like we’ve seen...

The "Gotham" actor whose daughter vanished in Brooklyn earlier this week urged the 16-year-old to return home in an emotional message on social media. Donal Logue attempted to reach out to his missing daughter Jade early Friday morning on Twitter — nearly four days after she disappeared. "Jade. We miss you and love you. please come home," Logue wrote on the social media site. "If you can see this, just know I love and miss you dearly Jade, who is transgender and identifies as female, was last seen near the Barclays Center in Fort Greene around 2 p.m. on Monday,...

Mayor Ed KochÂ’s practical progressivism saved GothamÂ’s finances and restored its spirit.This past summer, Edward I. Koch, a Democrat, made headlines by noisily endorsing Republican Bob Turner in a special election to fill the congressional seat of disgraced Tweeter Anthony Weiner. The former mayor explained that heÂ’d decided to rally Jewish voters in Brooklyn and Queens to chastise President Obama for his Israel policy. KochÂ’s outsize role in TurnerÂ’s surprise victory made for big political news and led to speculation that Obama could be facing trouble in his reelection bid. The episode was unusual, but unusual has always been de...

For almost two years, federal stimulus cash has kept New York City's economy going like gangbusters. We shouldn't say thanks, though. Being on the dole will end up hurting Gotham. Since 2009, the city has gained back some 90,000 of the 132,000 private-sector jobs it lost from 2008 to 2009, according to Mayor Bloomberg's June economic report -- about 70 percent, while the nation as a whole has replaced only 20 percent of its lost jobs. Even as a national rebound stalled in early spring, New York's recovery accelerated. Last year, the city gained 4,500 private jobs each month, but...

NYC is missing a once-in-a-generation opportunity to seize a competitive advantage. New York and London have long competed to be the global capital of global capital. With plenty of business to go around, the competition has usually been friendly; now, as the West’s financial industry shrinks, it could become fierce. London is already stumbling in this race, giving New York a golden opportunity to pull ahead. But instead, our politicians are sacrificing growth to higher taxes and bad regulations, just as London is. The global finance industry awakened in the 1980s and soared in the 1990s. Wall Street and...

REUTERS A lawsuit charges hedge-funder Ezra Merkin "knew or should have known" that Madoff was a fraud, and seeks $500M from Merkin's funds. Merkin's Gabriel Capital Corp. received $tens of millions in fees from deals with Madoff. Stanley Chais of California was charged last Friday. Microsoft's wholly owned affiliate, Microsoft Licensing GP, one of the pioneers in the field of computerized stock trading, joined the Bankruptcy Court case against Madoff, but declined to discuss its claims against the swindler.

FUNNYMAN EDDIE MURPHY will play The Riddler in the next Batman movie, The Sun can reveal. Gotham villain ... Eddie Murphy The Beverly Hills Cop star, 47, has been signed up by British director CHRISTOPHER NOLAN to reprise the role played by JIM CARREY in 1995’s Batman Forever. The surprise move follows speculation linking Pirates of the Caribbean star JOHNNY DEPP to the part. The film, set for a 2010 release, is being developed under the working title Gotham. Execs have also signed up rising Transformers star SHIA LABEOUF, 22, to play Robin.

(Gov. David Paterson, with his wife, Michelle, at his side, publically addresses his past extramarital affairs - a story first reported by the Daily News.) In an extraordinary public confession less than 24 hours after taking office, Gov. Paterson said Tuesday he has had affairs with "a number of women" in the not-so-distant past - including a current state employee. Standing shoulder to shoulder with his grim-faced wife, Michelle, the governor said his "conscience is clear" - now that he has come clean about his private infidelities. He said he hopes now to focus on the public's business. "I...

NEW YORK - Saturday night in midtown Manhattan, and 25 college students are packed into the living room of a small apartment. The festivities are about to get underway...when the student in charge of this shindig says it's time for the evening to begin, he doesn't bust out a cooler of Smirnoff Ice. He asks everyone to bow their heads and pray. "Dear Lord God, we thank You so much for this evening. God, I just say that we who believe in You, we trust You, Lord; we trust that You are working for good. I ask that You be...

New York’s anti-cop forces have roared back to life thanks to a fatal police shooting of an unarmed man a week ago. The press is once again fawning over Al Sharpton, Herbert Daughtry, Charles Barron, and sundry other hate-mongers in and out of city government as they accuse the police of widespread mistreatment of blacks and issue barely veiled threats of riots if they do not get “justice.” The allegation that last weekend’s shooting was racially motivated is preposterous. A group of undercover officers working in a gun- and drug-plagued strip joint in Queens had good reason to believe that...

February 12, 2006 - During his WonderCon panel, Frank Miller discussed his next graphic novel. Once again, Miller returns to the world of the Batman, this time with Holy Terror, Batman!. Though the title plays with Robin's classic catchphrase, the book deals with a serious subject. Gotham has been attacked by Al Qaeda and Batman sets out to defend the city he loves. The book, which Miller has inked through 120 pages, is expected to run roughly 200 pages total. Miller proudly announced the title of his next Batman book, which he will write, draw and ink. Holy Terror, Batman!...

Thirty-eight billion bucks. That's how much cash went to victims of 9/11, mostly in the New York area.... Some 92 percent was, or will be, paid by government (the feds, mostly) and through claims. In return, New Yorkers expressed their enormous gratitude to insurers, saluting their role in the city's rebound and in greasing the economy generally. And they thanked President Bush, backing him in huge numbers on Election Day. Not. The truth? New Yorkers skewered Bush. And the state's attorney general won press and popular acclaim when he went after "Big Insurance" like it was al Qaeda. There's no...

I am not a fan of newer movies mainly because they either suck rocks or they hold no appeal for me. The last movie I paid to see in a theater was Terminator 2: Judgement Day and I saw it twice. Thankfully someone out there has come up with an idea so refreshing I would actually pay double to see it.This trailer is even more incredible when you consider that absolutely no studio money was used to make it. Director John Fiorella and cinematographer Gabriel Sabloff made it on weekends and wherever they could find even taking over a library...

ALL OF GOTHAM IN CROSS HAIRS By PATRICK GALLAHUE, LARRY CELONA and ALY SUJO August 29, 2004 -- Two men charged with plotting to blow up the Herald Square subway station were also planning a "holy war" rampage against seven other crucial targets around the city — including at least two other stations, three police precincts and the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, officials said yesterday. "They had the intention to cause damage, to kill people," said Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. But "they did not immediately have the means to do it." Shahawar Matin Siraj, 21, a "loose cannon" from Pakistan, and...