Dialing Doris: As we recently reported, Doris Diether, the legendary zoning maven of Community Board 2, was without a working landline and was making do with her fax phone. We recently spoke to Diether, 89, on her normal phone, which had finally been fixed after a month on the fritz, and we got the 411 read more here »

Trader Joe’s soon on Bethune? We hear from a favorite source that Trader Joe’s may be coming to the currently vacant former Mrs. Green’s supermarket space at Hudson and Bethune Sts. We had previously reported that Westside Market was interested in the space, but apparently it didn’t work out. When push comes to gov: As everybody read more here »

Rhino — oh, no! The death of Sudan, the planet’s last male northern white rhinoceros, hit home on Astor Place Tuesday, where a sculpture of him and the last two female northern white rhinos was unveiled just last week. Sudan, 45, passed away at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya Monday, where his daughter, Nejin, read more here »

Skaggs alert: April Fool’s trickster par excellence Joey Skaggs will really be “Trumping it up” this year. On Sun., April 1, at noon, he plans to convene a major “military parade” outside Trump Tower, assembling around 59th St. and Fifth Ave. “I’m amassing an army,” he told us. “I have Trump masks. I printed a read more here »

“Russiagate,” soup to WikiNuts: With former short-lived Donald Trump adviser Sam Nunberg having been subpoenaed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, everyone is now saying Roger Stone, Nunberg’s mentor, is once again the focus of the “Russiagate” probe. Mueller has ordered Nunberg to appear (preferably not drunk) before a grand jury and turn over all communications read more here »

Farina farewell tour: Outgoing schools chancellor Carmen Farina held a farewell town hall with Community School District 1 parents and teachers at Marte Valle High School on Stanton St. on Thurs., Feb. 15. Farina, who announced plans to retire in December, has been holding monthly town halls throughout the city in an effort to boost read more here »

Hard to stomach: In an act of desperation, to be allowed to return to their homes, displaced tenants from 85 Bowery will start a hunger strike on Thurs., Feb. 8, at 11 a.m., outside the offices of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, at 100 Gold St. The 75 low-income tenants were forced to read more here »

Literally…: The news from the Continental shots bar is that it will close in July — and also that anyone who uses the word “literally” inside will be given five minutes to finish their drink and then be kicked out of the place. But if you start a sentence with the word, the ejection will read more here »

Ragbir report: After being detained during a routine check-in at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office  at Broadway and Worth St. on Jan. 11, immigrant-rights activist Ravi Ragbir was promptly flown down to the Krome Detention Center in Miami. There, Ragbir, the executive director of the Judson Church-based New Sanctuary Coalition, was poised to be read more here »