Jose Duran, the truck driver who died yesterday after a dislodged manhole cover crashed through his windshield in the Bronx, was the 100th victim of traffic incidents, according to tallies kept by the WNYC. Their stats count half of the victims killed to be pedestrian. Five were bicyclists. It’s difficult to tell whether Mayor Bill de […]
In 2012, graffiti writers KET, NOXER, and TRES painted an Inwood wall with a mural that implicitly labeled the NYPD, the Koch Brothers, Halliburton, and a slew of other entities as “murderers.” Unsurprisingly, the police were displeased, and plainclothes officers buffed the wall despite its owner having signed off on the art. Now, the spot will […]
It was only a matter of time until the authorities came down to kill our Phrosties buzz. The State Liquor Authority, with the support of anti-partying Senator Chuck Schumer, is now investigating the icy drinks. “The SLA is looking into the illegal sale of this unregistered and potentially dangerous alcoholic drink by an unlicensed business,” […]
In an effort to curtail unsafe driving, the NYPD handed out 4,814 speeding tickets during a crackdown this Tuesday and Wednesday. Brooklyn was apparently the speediest borough this week, with 1,249 of those tickets. Queens came next with 1,219, followed by Manhattan with 1,175, the Bronx with 782, and Staten Island with 389. Last week, officers handed out 5,258 summonses […]
Keep up the good work, graffiti writers. Bill Bratton is very bothered by your exploits along the Long Island Expressway in Queens. “I have a weekend house out in Long Island, and I go out of my mind when I go back and forth on the LIE and I see that . . . graffiti […]
Saturday night, NYPD officers smashed a handcuffed 14-year-old’s head through a hookah shop window in the Bronx, according to witnesses. Javier Payne suffered a punctured lung and was critically bleeding after the incident, according to the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, and was rushed to the Jacobi Medical Center. No security footage exists, but according to Nageib Aldaylam, owner of […]
A New York Times report published today details New York’s role as a distribution hub for heroin, which has seen a resurgence in popularity in recent years. The office of the city’s special narcotics prosecutor has seized 288 pounds of heroin so far this year, and the NYPD took in 786 pounds in 2013 — the most […]
For a brief moment earlier this week, graffiti writers, photographers, and enthusiasts were freaked out at the specter of an NYPD Vandal Squad Instagram account. ANIMAL reached out to the squad to inquire about the account’s veracity, who told us they “wouldn’t allow such a thing on Instagram.” Clearly, this was some sort of hoax. […]
Photographing a police officer is perfectly legal, and yet somehow Shawn Thomas keeps getting arrested for it. Yesterday, Thomas went to trial for an incident in which he was arrested for recording video of a police officer in a Crown Heights subway station. Officer Rojas, the arresting officer — who can be seen manhandling Thomas […]
After the shitstorm fiasco of #myNYPD, it may come as a surprise that not all police activity on social media results in disaster. This week, NPR’s All Tech Considered blog is lauding all the ways that police departments around the world are using social networks to solve crimes, specifically Pinterest: “It’s a way for us to reach […]
