Two young men who were killing time by taking some photos in front of a Brooklyn synagogue have been cleared of any wrongdoing by the NYPD, which is good considering they didn’t do anything wrong in the first place. In a classic knee-jerk reaction, the New York Post (and then the rest of the local […]
If a man approaches you on the street and says, “Wanna buy a Cornish Game Hen?” and opens his trench coat to reveal raw poultry and steak dangling from the lining, don’t buy it, because that meat is hot! A bandit gourmand broke into three delivery trucks in Midtown on February 26th and 27th, DNAinfo […]
Pointing lasers at planes might sound like a dumb prank, but it’s an arrestable offense. Let the story of 36-year-old Frank Egan be a cautionary tale to anyone considering it: From inside the third-story apartment where he lives with his mom, Egan pointed his Laser 303 at aircrafts on the La Guardia Airport runway on […]
While most of the city has bounced back after the 9/11 attack, a four-block strip in Chinatown by One Police Plaza remains barricaded; visitors and residents passing through are required to show ID. Lawmakers, who have repeatedly asked the mayor to reopen the area to traffic, are taking up the issue again. WNYC reports that […]
Three months after Akai Gurley’s killing and three weeks after the indictment of Officer Peter Liang, some residents of the Pink Houses public housing building in East New York – where Akai Gurley was killed – aren’t convinced the indictment will bring about a change in how the police operate in their community. “I don’t […]
The city has limited the involvement of police in its new school suspension policy, but a new video by the New York Civil Liberties Union compels one to wonder how in the world this could count as reform. “I’ve had instances where we had police assigned to our building, who I believe overreacted to particular […]
Though four police unions have negotiated new contracts with the city, Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association Patrick Lynch does not seem to be interested in working with the Mayor De Blasio’s administration, Capital reports. This comes as no surprise, as Lynch has had a strained relationship with de Blasio, to say the least. One of the major […]
Police are attempting to track down seven people in connection with a brutal assault at a Unionport deli in the early hours of Sunday morning, the New York Daily News reports. Around 4:25 AM on Sunday, a verbal dispute turned into a one-sided attack at 1253 Deli on Castle Hill Avenue. Two women and five […]
Ed Mullins, the head of the Sergeants Benevolent Association and one of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s most vocal critics during the Eric Garner protests, has warmed up to the mayor after signing a new seven-year labor contract. The chummy banter that Mullins — who famously called de Blasio a “total nincompoop” for supporting protesters and […]
WNYC has done a true public service and determined the approximate locations of many of the city’s controversial speed cameras. The cameras issue tickets to drivers going more than 10 MPH over the speed limit. In 2014, they generated a revenue of over $23 million in fines. About half of the city’s 51 secret cameras, […]
