From Taiwanese American producer Dan Lin, named one of “10 Producers to Watch by Variety in 2008,” comes GANGSTER SQUAD, a stylish retelling of events surrounding the LAPD’s efforts to take back their nascent city from one of the most dangerous mafia bosses of all time. The film stars Oscar® nominees Josh Brolin (“Milk,” “True Grit”) and Ryan Gosling (“Half Nelson,” “Drive”), and Academy Award® winner Sean Penn (“Milk,” “Mystic River”) as Mickey Cohen. The film opens in on January 11, 2013. [Read More]

A commuter ferry crashed as it was docking in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday morning, injuring 57 passengers, two critically. The ferry was taking hundreds of commuters from the New Jersey shore into New York City’s Wall Street area. [Read More]

It has been abandoned for five decades, a railway relic that once served Queens passengers on the old Rockaway Beach branch of the Long Island Rail Road. For all those years, no one paid much notice to the ghostly tracks, long overgrown with trees and vines, as they ran silently behind tidy houses in Rego Park, dipped through ravines in Forest Park and hovered above big-box stores in Glendale. [Read More]