As soon as word got out that Jason Wulf aka renowned graffiti practitioner DG had died, supporters began tagging the Brooklyn subway station where he was reportedly electrocuted by the third rail. One local tabloid claimed that the NYPD had to dispatch officers to discourage the writers. Soon after, Instagram feeds flooded with blackbook homages […]
It is a sad state of affairs when would-be graffiti artists get caught by the police in a city as big as New York, where there is plenty of real crime vying for the NYPD’s attention. So, please take the following advice and you will save us and yourself some late nights at the courthouse. […]
At 12:37PM on Wednesday, the NYPD instructed carriage horse drivers based in Central Park to return to their stables due to 90-degree heat. Once the temperature reaches 90 or above, it’s a NYC law that all horses must be brought back to shelter. But carriage driver and industry head Christina Hansen broke the law, according […]
Mark Panzarino is a 42-year-old artist. He draws on the pavement with chalk. He does this out in the open, during the day, while tourists and even some curious New Yorkers watch and take photos. He has done Sandy Hook tributes, dog portraits, and yoga images for a Manhattan spa. He does not condone vandalism. […]
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton is on a mission to eliminate subway dancing. Earlier, Business Insider reported that subway panhandler and performer arrests have risen by 271% since he took office. Now, the AP reports that more than 240 people have been arrested on misdemeanors related to subway dancing in 2014; only 40 were arrested at the same time last […]
Several paintings and sculptures inside the Metropolitan Opera house at Lincoln Center have been spray-painted with obscenities, the NYPD says, suspecting an inside job motivated by labor disputes. “There was little or no permanent damage,” said a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Opera stated. “The New York City Police department is investigating.” Cops have also stated that the vandalism doesn’t […]
Compiled by the New York Daily News, here’s an interactive map of the various crimes committed on the subway, based on NYPD data recorded between July 2008 and June 2013, obtained via a Freedom of Information Law request. According to the stats, the annual number of crimes decreased 12% from 2009 to 2012. It’s a nice looking map […]
According to the Daily News, Grand Central is a magnet for perverts and ranks number one in creepiness: Straphangers throughout the city reported being the victim of creeps bumping, grinding, groping, flashing and assaulting them more than 3,000 times over a five-year period — and Grand Central Station is the epicenter of subway sleaze, an […]
Arrests of panhandlers and subway performers has risen by 271% since police commissioner Bill Bratton has taken over, Business Insider reports. Bratton thinks that getting rid of illegal performers is somehow linked to crime prevention, but the young UK filmmaker Scott Carthy disagrees. Watch his short documentary above. As they practice on a Brooklyn rooftop, their dancing […]
The City of New York will pay $583,000 in compensation to falsely arrested Occupy protestors, the largest settlement yet in any case against the NYPD for their conduct throughout the Occupy Wall Street protests. The previous highest was $350,000, won by lawyer Norman Siegel for the destruction of property when officers cleared Zuccotti Park in […]
