Monica Melton

We love us some ice cream. (Well, most of us do.) That's why we hooked up with the folks at Big Gay Ice Cream and Food Network’s Anne Burrell to create a killer sundae as part of our celebration of the best ice cream flavors in town. The sweet concoction, dubbed the strawberry blonde parfait, is exclusively available at Big Gay Ice Cream Shop’s 61 Grove Street location, which is celebrating its fifth anniversary this summer. And it’s pretty friggin’ sweet, a mix of organic vanilla ice cream, chocolate crunch and valrhona-cocoa hot fudge that’s topped with limoncello-spiked Union Square Greenmarket strawberries and house-spun cotton candy. It’s yours for the next week—through July 19—for $9. Pick one up today. RECOMMENDED: Full list of the best ice cream in NYC 

It’s the age-old question: Are are you an asshole because you live in New York or do you live in New York because you’re an asshole. (Or are you a perfectly lovely person who happens to call NYC home—in which case, screw you.) We polled hundreds of denizens about the state of assholery in the city right now. See the results below!  

We’re way into assholes this week. As part of our cover story on New York and the jerks who inhabit it, we asked residents to tell us what they think about the New York asshole—and, specifically, to tell us a story about the biggest jerk they ever had the displeasure of running into. Take a look at some of their experiences below—and let us know about the jerk face you had to endure in the comments.  "A person fell down the stairs on his way to the subway and a guy stepped over him instead of helping him up.”  “I once had a homeless guy tell me I would be cute if I lost 30 pounds.” “When I was standing on the subway and eight months pregnant with twins, an asshole told me to move because my ‘fat stomach’ was in his way.” “One marketing exec from a Fortune brand joined my group for a dinner recently. The waiter delivered a basket of breads and individually wrapped butters. This guys stood up, went and got the waiter and demanded that he unwrap the butters out of their foil.” “The guy who loudly proclaimed that he supported being drunk during his Tinder first date, complained that his drink looked ‘girly,’ snapped his fingers at the server and then left a huge tip just to impress the girl he was with. I would have preferred he left a lousy tip. He was a lousy human.”  “Guy at a birthday party who, as I was telling him my name, gives me an up-and-down and turns to the next person without even responding.” “While working the front desk at a gym, a man called me a cunt and threate