PHOTOS: Rihanna Rocks the Big Apple

In a performance that was broadcast live via MySpace.com, Rihanna rocked the house at Manhattan's Hammerstein Ballroom on Thursday night. The singer, who has been ping-ponging from NYC to London to L.A. and everywhere else in the world since the release of her latest album, Rated R, is slated to stick around the Big Apple at least for a couple days so she can perform on Saturday Night Live this weekend.