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Police union leaders are not known for their strong grasp of reality. Here’s another one: Detectives Endowment Association President Michael Palladino complained during a Thursday press conference about Commissioner Bratton’s discipling of Detective Patrick Cherry, who was placed on modified duty after he was caught on video verbally abusing an Uber driver. According to DNAinfo, […]
Novelist Alan Kaufman is drumming up support for the victims of the East Village fire, including getting a sizable $36,000 donation from musician Sting and his wife Trudy Styler. The donation was made as part of a larger effort to engage both celebrities and the local community in rehabilitating the Second Avenue block that lost […]
Jamarco, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Possible sea witch loose in Bed Stuy. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
According to Buzzfeed, the East Village explosion was a terrible tragedy that could have been prevented if it were not for the gas leak old bricks. Reporter Nicolás Medina Mora argues that the “destruction…highlighted the lingering pitfalls of an aging stock of buildings that is ill-equipped to withstand any sort of significant trauma.” Considering the […]
Capital New York examined data from reported police stops between 2005 and 2014 and compared those numbers with shootings in the city and found no conclusive link between number of stops and number of shootings. The controversial, unconstitutional policy of stopping “suspicious” people is ideally meant to stop violent crime before it happens, but mostly […]
It’s about time: Someone from within the organization has finally stood up to the bullies at the Boy Scouts of America, who have imposed a national ban on openly adult gay members. And guess what? The BSA did not implode. NBC New York reports that the Boy Scouts’ Greater New York Council has brought 18-year-old […]
Back in the day, when urban exploring was a sophisticated affair and the city was busy dealing with real problems, the authorities weren’t too concerned with New Yorkers climbing vital infrastructure. Some people even formally volunteered to jump off newly built spans. In a New York Times article dated February 4, 1909, the newspaper wrote […]
There are no mosques in Cuba. The closest thing there is to a public prayer room for Muslims is an exhibit of a prayer room at a state-run Arabic museum in old Havana. Inside the Casa de los Arabes, which translates to “House of Arabs,” there are mannequins and dioramas of old school-looking Arabs in […]
New Census estimates published last week showed that the population of New York City has grown to 8.49 million people as of July 2014. On Wednesday night, YIMBY put it together that if the city is growing at the same rate it in previous years, the city has potentially already surpassed the Census’ most recent […]
