Mayor Bill de Blasio campaigned on on a concept “vision zero” — the idea that traffic deaths are preventable, and can and should be eliminated entirely in New York — and yesterday, he unveiled some of the steps his administration will take to try to make it a reality. The NYPD’s Highway Division will grow […]
Jael and Jan Sanchez, two 20-year identical twin brothers, finished a neck-and-neck race for New York City’s biggest dummy in a dual arrest over the weekend. Jael was stopped in his car Sunday morning, and attempted to hide some weed in his waistband during the stop. When cops saw the herb, they searched Sanchez and found […]
Snowstorms are important weather happenings for many graffiti artists. With the NYPD busy doing mundane tasks which require them to sit in heated patrol cars and occasionally flash on their lights and sirens, there’s not a lot of enforcement going on. This gives vandals plenty of opportunities to take advantage of otherwise hard-to-hit spots. Or […]
A cop afraid of a dog and its unarmed owner opened fire on them inside their own Coney Island apartment building, according to a lawsuit. Fortunately, the shots missed and neither Elizabeth Villafane nor her bullmastiff Bubba were hurt. The pair cops were in Villafane’s building to issue a warrant for her arrest for walking an […]
Yet another NYPD officer has come forward and admitted he was riding with the group of motorcyclists who chased down and beat a driver last month. Matthew Rodriguez, 28, serves in the internal affairs bureau–ironically, the division of the NYPD devoted to investigating wrongdoing by cops like this one. Rodriguez is the latest to come forward […]
Banksy’s latest Better Out Than In piece arrives in a markedly more off-the-beaten trail neighborhood than any of the work so far: East New York, Brooklyn. It’s got none of the overt political commentary of yesterday’s Wikileaks-referencing piece: this one is just a small stenciled Beaver, knocking down a “No Parking” sign. We’re on our way to […]
The drama never stops coming in the case of last month’s motorcycle-vs.-SUV chaos. Wojciech Braszczok, an undercover detective who rode with the motorcycle gang, had his charges upgraded from criminal mischief and riot to assault and gang assault (the riot charge was dropped) for his involvement in the attack on SUV driver Alexian Lien. In a […]
As we reported yesterday, one of the motorcyclists involved in the chasing and beating of Alexian Lien–an incident that’s received widespread attention due to a viral video–was an undercover cop. Now, Wojciech Braszczok, an NYPD detective, has been arrested for riot and criminal mischief. According to the New York Times, “more counts could be added.” Braszczok told police of […]
It turns out that undercover detective who as at the scene of the West Side Highway motorcycle chase was involved in beating up SUV driver Alexian Lien, contrary to what was originally reported. NYPD sources say a video–not the one that went viral on YouTube–shows the detective banging on one of the the car’s windows until it […]
Last weekend, a group of motorcyclists out for a group ride were involved in an altercation with a driver on the West Side Highway that resulted in an SUV running over one of the bikers, and the subsequent beating and knifing of the SUV’s driver. Now, it turns out three of the bikers in that […]
