Speaking at a women’s luncheon yesterday, famed tennis player and short-tempered New Yorker John McEnroe went on a rant about how terrified he is of cyclists in Central Park: I used to ride my bike [in Central Park]. But this has gotten to be a problem. There’s so many people, and there’s these lunatics that […]
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration is on course to equal the number of petty weed arrests as Bloomberg’s. According to a new report by the Drug Policy Alliance, by this time last year, the NYPD had made 20,080 arrests for pot possession as opposed to 19,684 in 2014 — a difference of just 396. That […]
Good news graffiti writers, you’re getting noticed. Complaints about graffiti are not only increasing in places like Sunset Park and Woodside, but also citywide, according to Capital New York: [A]s of Oct. 12, graffiti complaints have increased 24 percent over the same period last year, from 6,947 to 8,635. This is bad news for NYOD […]
Das Racist, the beloved Brooklyn hip-hop group, may be no more, but former member Dapwell is keeping busy and still hilarious. For just one of his many projects, he’s printing stop-and-frisk shirts featuring our former mayor and his infamous statement that the NYPD “disproportionately stop whites too much and minorities too little.” At the time, 91% of those subjected […]
Walking by the alley at Crosby and Jersey Streets in Soho earlier today, it might have seemed like a ton of brand new graffiti just went up, but upon closer inspection, everything is fake, including the dead body and NYPD detectives inspecting it. The make believe crime scene is part of the set for a […]
The excerpt below is Section 1050.6 of the MTA’s official rules of conduct (emphasis added). Except as expressly permitted in this subdivision, no person shall engage in any nontransit uses upon any facility or conveyance. Nontransit uses are noncommercial activities that are not directly related to the use of a facility or conveyance for transportation. […]
A tiny violin is playing for Police Commissioner Bill Bratton today because he’s unhappy that Google and Apple’s new encryption techniques won’t allow law enforcement to search your phone. Responding to the companies’ latest effort to make phones with default encryption settings that even they can’t access, Bratton says: It’s disgraceful that these two companies are… consciously… thwarting […]
According to WNYC, the number of people killed by cars this year is: 200. Now compare that to the number of people killed by bikes this year: 2. Yet, it’s the latter figure which somehow sends the local tabloids (and the NYPD) into a tizzy, despite the statistical evidence. […]
Afroduck, the maniac who set a record-breaking lap around Manhattan and was subsequently arrested by the NYPD, has uploaded a video of a plain-clothes cop trying to beat his time. And the winner is… Afroduck. For the record, the police officer never seems to exceed the speed limit and never runs a red light — […]
Today, Lt. Jennara Cobb, 41, became the first NYPD officer to be convicted in a broad ticket fixing scandal. Cobb was found guilty of divulging an eavesdropping warrant, official misconduct and obstruction of governmental administration. She could serve up to one year in prison. Lt. Cobb’s conviction is the first in a trial that includes […]
