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December 4, 2014 Prachi Gupta

New Yorkers expressed their collective anger, frustration, and disappointment over a grand jury’s decision not to indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo over the death of unarmed black man Eric Garner on Wednesday night, launching a 50-person “die-in” in Grand Central Station, sending dozens to the Staten Island street where Garner was arrested this summer, and […]

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December 3, 2014 Prachi Gupta

While many Americans tuned into watch the annual tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, just blocks away, demonstrators marched through the streets of New York to protest a Staten Island jury’s decision not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo for the death of Eric Garner. The protesters demanded justice not just for Garner, who died as […]

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October 1, 2013 Andy Cush

The Daily News is reporting the driver in the West Side Highway motorcycle chase/fight footage that went viral yesterday is Alexian Lien, a 33-year-old man working in finance and tech. As was initially reported, his wife and two-year-old child were in the car with him. According to police, after Lien stopped his car near the end of the […]

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September 30, 2013 Andy Cush

Not a ton of context for what’s going on here, but here goes: a group of motorcyclists are out for a ride on the West Side Highway Sunday, when, for some reason we’re not privy to, one of them brake-checks the driver of a black Range Rover. The driver doesn’t slow down in time and […]

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