January. New York saw the largest nationally coordinated organized crime takedown in the FBI’s history. Members of New York’s infamous Five Families—the Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Luchese crime organizations were rounded up and arrested.

February. Maksim Gelman committed a 28-hour killing spree that lasted from February 11 to 12. It included the stabbing and killing of four people and the wounding of at least five others.

March. A cobra went missing from The Bronx Zoo and went on a Twitter frenzy. The famous Bronx Zoo Cobra was later found….at the zoo.

April. Land’s End, the house rumored to be the inspiration behind The Great Gatsby was demolished. Wanna get upset? Watch the video.

May. Just a few months before the 10th anniversary of September 11th, Osama Bin Laden was captured and killed. International news story? Yes. But it hit home in NYC.

June. New York politician and liberal idol Anthony Weiner admits to photographing his wiener and resigns. He will always be this liberal blogger’s idol.

June. On the heels of the Weiner scandal, the most awesomest story for New York, perhaps for the decade, was that gay marriage became legal in our state! Proving that you win some, you lose some.

July. The search for a missing eight year old Boro Park boy ended badly when police discovered his dismembered remains in a refrigerator and garbage bin. Leiby Kletzky was a member of the Hasidic community and murderer Levi Aron is orthodox. The community came together to search for the boy.

August. Hurricane Irene was over hyped in the city but devastated parts of Upstate, NY and Long Island. Whether you got hit by it or not, it was the talk of the town that weekend in August.

August. If you blinked you missed it, but yes, New York did have an earthquake. Mother Nature wasn’t happy with us that month.

September. What started in Zuccati Park became an international movement in no time. Occupy Wall Street protests began in downtown NYC only 3 months ago.

September. Ten years after the most devastating event in New York history, the 9/11 Memorial opens to the public.

October. Nothing spectacular, but we saw a freak autumn snow storm.

November.  Tragedy struck in Park Slope on Thanksgiving Day when a home caught fire injuring five people. Among them, an infant who went into cardiac arrest and was revived at the scene.

December.  Old enough to remember Bernhard Goetz? The subway vigilante came to fame in 1984 when he shot four teens who approached him asking for money. Hero to some, nut job to others. Well, one of his shooting victims, James Ramseur died of a drug overdose on the 27th anniversary of the event. Turns out he was kind of a bad seed after all.