A new documentary-in-the-making seeks to recapture the spirit of the ’90s-era Lower East Side squatters and their fight with the NYPD under then-New York City Mayor Rudy Guiliani and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton. Anytime, Baby: The War for the Lower East Side, by Queens resident and filmmaker John Frisbie, revisits the sordid era of New […]
Climbing the Brooklyn Bridge for a hot photo op has become the tourist activity of choice lately. This Sunday, 23-year-old Jonathon Souid became the latest thrill-seeker to scale the iconic structure in a matter of months. He was caught in the act by the NYPD and taken to the 84th precinct in Downtown Brooklyn to be […]
What a week for weed. Days after the police commissioner and mayor held a joint press conference to announce sweeping new changes to NYC’s pot polices — ironically bringing them more inline with the existing 1977 law — the speaker of the City Council voiced her support for the full legalization of cannabis. “It’s not […]
To some, the idea of a gang of crooked cops gone rogue may sound like fiction, but it was a reality in the late ’80s and ’90s in New York City. On Friday, the premiere of documentary The Seven Five will reunite disgraced NYPD officers Michael Dowd and Kenneth Eurell and their gang, known as […]
The death of Eric Garner has sparked a public debate on the use of chokeholds — banned since 1993 by the NYPD — by police in this city. On Thursday, the NYC council will introduce a bill that would make them illegal. That’s not sitting well with Mayor Bill de Blasio, who told reporters on […]
When news leaked earlier this week that Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner William Bratton would be jointly announcing a new city-wide initiative to, essentially, honor the 1977 statute that decriminalizing weed, City Councilman Mark Levine was already way ahead of them. Through Twitter, Levine, a Democrat, announced his support for an end to […]
Who steals a teenager’s phone by pretending to be an NYPD officer? Apparently, this asshole. Back in mid-October, a guy posing as a cop — not creepy at all — stopped a 13-year-old for crawling through a subway turnstile without paying, then stole his cell phone. Stay hot, guy. […]
Although weed has been decriminalized in New York state since the late 1970s, the NYPD exploited the law so badly that the City had to take steps to correct the policy. On Monday, at 1 Police Plaza, Mayor de Blasio and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton announced the plan. Here’s what you need to know: It […]
Basically, everybody on this F train sucks. From the rudely taunting lady to the instigating pack of women to the face-slapping man and the squealing halfwit who filmed it all, no one wins. The NYPD is reportedly investigating the incident, but from here, it looks as if almost every person riding that subway car is […]
In what has been an affront to every tax payer in this city, former police commissioner Ray Kelly — for some ungodly reason — felt the need to keep a 12-member security detail with him at all times after his post as the city’s top cop was over. But now, word is that Kelly is […]
