MOMO and Sam3 finished their first collaborative painting last month, a head-scratching image in an abandoned Long Island City lot. The two street artists freestyled the single line portrait according to MOMO, who’s no stranger to continuous drawings after tagging Manhattan in 2007. Watch a stop motion video of the illicit action after the jump. Read more »
A Queens couple seriously misjudged their friends and family’s sense of humor. When 24-year-old Angelea Haynes and 27-year-old Jesse Kendall emailed out photos of their 5-year-old and infant sons posing with handguns, one of them forwarded it to Child Services, leading to their arrest on a variety of charges. |NYP|
Booted out of the Rouge Gentlemen’s Club, a Queens strip club enthusiast sought revenge by beating the crap out of himself and blaming it on the bouncer. Unfortunately for Khuram Murtaza’s poorly planned plot, surveillance cameras caught the 34-year-old smashing his face against a parked car outside, resulting in police charges him for filing a false report. |NYP|
Performing his human ashtray stunt on Saturday, magician Richie Magic suppressed his urge to vomit long enough to break the little known world record for “orally extinguishing, chewing and expelling” 200 cigarettes. The cancer stick-chomping magician proudly proclaimed, “Kids told me it was so disgusting that they’d never smoke. I couldn’t be happier.” |NYDN|
As some type of inspiration to others, a cigarette-smoking magician will close out his 40-year habit by stubbing out 200 cancer sticks in his mouth. Richie Magic will perform the human ashtray feat outside his Queens magic shop tomorrow night. After recently setting an unenviable record for “stuffing 20 lit cigarettes in his mouth in 29 seconds,” the 53-year-old former corrections officer has spent weeks training for his new publicity stunt. This month Magic has eaten more than 2,000 cigarettes, which he admits is disgusting. |NYDN|
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Animal experts are attempting to rescue dozens of white doves found “cold and huddled” outside the Hall of Science in Flushing, Queens. It’s speculated that the domesticated birds were released by ignorant newlyweds, unaware that the doves can’t fend for themselves and “usually end up as hawk food or owl food” if they don’t die first. |NYT|
After sinking a recent piece in Central Park’s pond, street artist Judith Supine swam his latest installation to a less conspicuous location where few will ever find it: Linden Brook sewer in Queens. |New Image Art|
Globetrotting graffiti writer UTAH has been locked up for months, but she was only officially sentenced today for her crimes in Queens. In a press release, the District Attorney’s office trumped the previously announced sentencing covering her charges throughout the boroughs: $10k in restitution to the MTA, a six month prison sentence on the vegan unfriendly Riker’s Island, as well as five years probation. Additionally, the announcement offered insight into the preferred tools of the trade for “so-called graffiti ‘artists’ and their ego-driven vandalism of public property,” as Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown puts it: Read more »
A street corner in Hollis, Queens is being renamed in honor of legendary rap group Run-DMC. The new mouthful of a name, “Run-DMC JMJ Way,” was approved by City Council for the corner of 205th Street and Hollis Avenue. The groundbreaking Kings of Rock disbanded in 2002 after Jam Master Jay, the DJ for the group, was gunned down in an unsolved murder at a Jamaica, Queens recording studio. This past April, the Hip Hop trio’s surviving members, Joseph Simmons and Darryl McDaniels were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Read more »
A weapons buy and bust went especially bad yesterday when a Queens narcotics cop had his gun stolen by the arms dealer he was supposed to be busting. Worse, the dealer made his getaway with the undercover cop’s car. At least he didn’t keep driving around the block taunting the cop with his middle finger though. |NYP|
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