Bicycling magazine has just ranked New York City as best for bicycles, among cities with a population of 100,000 or greater. Just two years ago, NYC ranked #7. Now we’re #1! We’re #1! Despite those scary streets. The climb is credited to all those new bike lanes — 900 miles across five boroughs and growing — as well as intersection redesign and other […]
Rosella Best, 36, was arrested on Monday for allegedly tagging police cars, vans, scooters, and a school in Brooklyn with anti-cop sentiments. The messages “Nazis=NYPD” and “NYPD pick on the innocent” were discovered on PS 31 near Lorimer and Meserole Streets. Other spray-painted statements included “NYPD pick on the harmless” and “a wrongful arrest is a crime.” The NYPD says that […]
The NYPD has launched an investigation to find the person who spray painted powerful sentiments onto the 94th Precinct in Greenpoint, a police cruiser outside the building and PS 31. The Daily News reports: “NYPD = NAZI,” one hate message read. “NYPD Picks on Harmless People,” said another. The suspect also wrote “NYPD” next to a swastika. […]
About three weeks after Israel Defense Forces launched Operation Protective Edge and invaded Palestine, Brooklyn-based street art duo Icy and Sot painted a pro-Gaza mural on a wall provided by the Bushwick Collective. Entitled “Rocket vs Rock,” the image shows a giant-like Palestinian freedom fighter — not outfitted in Hamas colors — emerging out of […]
New York City will install 214 new surveillance cameras and 165 light towers at the Lincoln Houses public housing development in East Harlem, according to a new announcement by Mayor de Blasio. The city will also take down old scaffolding and and sheds at NYCHA facilities. “We have to keep making these developments better and […]
The number of New Yorkers dying from heroin overdoses has doubled over the last three years. The New York Times reports: In all, 420 people fatally overdosed on heroin in 2013 out of a total of 782 drug overdoses, rising to a level not seen in a decade in both absolute numbers and as a population-adjusted rate, according […]
A quarter of complaints against NYPD officers by the Civilian Complaint Review Board have been dismissed without any repercussions for officers, according to the New York Times. The CCRB is the main recourse for those who wish to challenge police conduct, and the process of getting a complaint through their system can be long and complicated. In […]
The rap group G-Unit featuring 50 Cent, Young Buck and Kidd Kidd released a video for “Ahh Shit,” a scathing indictment of police brutality and violence against blacks. The video features footage of Eric Garner as he was put in a fatal chokehold by a police officer and Reverend Al Sharpton’s condemnation of the NYPD, as well […]
Taking the “broken windows” law enforcement theory to absurd extremes, New York State Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder, of Queens, has voiced his desire to ban a toy called Kidffiti. The kit sold at Toys R Us includes stenciling tools. Sprayable chalk that imitates spray paint is sold separately. “Graffiti is just the first act of vandalism. It oftentimes […]
Tourists have discovered a new attraction, previously hidden by the waters around New York City — whale watching. While it may not be as exciting as the lights of Times Square and its suddenly notorious mascots, visitors to the city are apparently thrilled to sit on a boat and wait for a glimpse of a humpback […]
