Violent crime in New York is way, way down, so perhaps it’s more than a coincidence that according to a new poll, women find New York’s public transportation system to be the safest in the world. More than 6,550 “women and gender and city planning experts” responded to a survey conducted by the Thomson Reuters […]
Crime in New York has gone down, but misdemeanor arrests are on the rise, concludes a comprehensive report [PDF] that culls through New York state and city arrest data from the past three decades. The New York Times reported on the 114-page study, put out by John Jay College of Criminal Justice on Tuesday, describing […]
Fed up with the world and all its bullshit, a raccoon had his Michael Douglas in Falling Down moment in Queens. According to NBC New York, the animal climbed up to the top of a light post at Woodhaven Boulevard and 95th Street in Ozone Park and refused to come down. It’s exact demands were […]
Patrick Lynch, head of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, condemned officers who helped Eric Garner’s mother change a headlight yesterday. After Gwen Carr received a traffic ticket over the expired light in question, an NYPD officer showed up to her house to fix it. Carr is the mother of the man whom the NYPD used a homicidal and […]
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26TH New York City’s Ebola skills are way more on point than Dallas’. Brooklyn church prays for Ebola… patient. Kids who live in public housing can check out the Museum of Natural History for free. Check out the flying dinosaurs exhibit. The so-called “Ground Zero mosque” is by far the New York Post’s […]
What if you could transform a single subway performance into a city-wide orchestra? That’s what producer Anita Anthonj and director Chris Shimojima succeeded in doing in their short film Signal Strength (embedded above), which used Wi-Fi to connect performers across nine different stops in New York City. On a sunny September morning, 11 performers were […]
At 2PM yesterday, a man wielding a hatchet attacked four rookie cops yesterday in Queens and was shot dead. The group of recent academy graduates were huddled for a photo in front of a freelance photographer on Jamaica Avenue when Zale Thompson, 32, charged at them swinging a hatchet, striking one officer in the arm […]
It was frustration all around on Thursday afternoon when protesters of the horse carriage industry nearly missed an opportunity to unveil their horse, valued at $20,000, that’s made of plush, for fear of rain. Members of NYCLASS, the organization dedicated to eliminating carriage rides in NYC, protested in front of City Hall offices amid a […]
An NYPD officer has been stripped of his gun and badge after a video surfaced of him kicking a fellow cop in the head, reports DNAinfo. The plainclothes officer ran onto the scene as reinforcement while two other cops held down an alleged fare-beater. He mistook the officer for the suspect, however, before he delivered […]
A new study (PDF) has found that the NYPD issues more tickets for riding a bike on the sidewalk in minority neighborhoods than others. Out of the 15 most cited neighborhoods, 12 had a population that mostly consisted of blacks and Latinos. This shouldn’t come as a surprise. The NYPD disproportionately targets minorities on any […]
