Scenes Of Queens: Positively 118th Street

 

This scene is in South Richmond Hill, 118th Street and 103rd Avenue. Back again.

The sinking hole is “repaired”. Just like the other ones on the ave.

Seriously.

Didn’t even know there was a sewer cap there before

Asphalt is not even hardened, and it’s sinking again. It’s like they opened up the street immediately after it was patched up.

 

Another great shit job D.O.T Commissioner Gutman, fucking asshole, a bulbous waste of flesh Blaz crony hire who has 0 experience about city road infrastructure and traffic issues, who is using his shyster skill sets in “intellectual property practice” to “re-imagine” city streets.

Portrait of NYC DOT Commissioner Henry Gutman taken outside, in front of the Brooklyn Bridge.

D.O.T. Commissioner Asshole

Keep pandering to the fucking Bike Taliban and rendering policies and designs from those agents of the city shitbricks at Transportation Alternatives asshole. If this street collapses, the blood’s on your hands motherfuckers. And that goes for you too Donnie Richards, enjoy gorging on food at “hip” restaurants with the dotard mayor.  Dick.

 

Scenes Of Queens: Across 118th Street

This scene takes place in South Richmond Hill on 118th Street and 103 Ave.

In the middle of the road yeah.

This is not infrastructure maintenance, this is a meme

I remember when this slowly collapsing sinkhole was just a baby back in Mid-August…

 

 

There are more pitiful asphalt patches here than a pair of hippie bell bottom pants. All these cracks indicate that it’s going to reach a full cave in the not so distant future. It’s a mystery who put that plundered shopping cart there, but it was a yoeman thing to show how deep the crevice is.

 

All signs indicated that current mayor de Blasio’s Department of Transportation, which is run by one of his Brooklyn aristocrat city planning buddies Hank Gutman, did a major less than half ass job laying the blacktop on this. Because this is what it looked like a week before some creative type did a near approximation of Homer Simpson’s rage motivated contemporary art piece.

Truly a WTF FUBAR in process.

Apparently the DOT got some 311 calls and filings and sent some workers to remove the shopping cart the following day and marked the territory in orange spray paint and placed less damaged but not really new hazard cones to warn approaching drivers coming from both sides and from the north.

Another day went by and those poor cones couldn’t survive the rigors of traffic, so de Blasio’s D.O.T., or more likely some local denizens took matters into their own hands again to salvage the dreaded sinkhole and filled it with cobble stones and a strip of aluminum siding.

 

 

 

 

 

Noice!

Although this is another embarrassingly abominable display of city neglect and incompetence and another example of the city infrastructure dilapidation, this will eventually be remedied with a better and hopefully more thorough renovation, because this evolving crater is not to first to infect 103rd Ave. For their were similar former and potential cave-ins discovered on numerous blocks west from this current blight.

Both examples were found on only 2 blocks away on 116th, with one recently blanketed over in the intersection and the other that is certain to collapse in probably a week or a day.

Another dilapidated touch up found on 115th.

Surrounding cracks for this shit job between 114th and 113th shows this asphalt comb over will fail soon

More dilapidation on 112th St.. The jagged double yellow stripe indicates that they didn’t even wait for the asphalt to dry when it was painted over.

Same case with this baby on 107th Street as well.

 

Crossing the border into Ozone Park at 102nd St.  is where the last of the asphalt wonder chasms got the shit as extra frosting treatment. But it’s obvious that vehicular wear and tear is having an effect.

The contractors sure were in a rush to steam roll this hole by the look of the detritus that got stuck in the tar.

Can’t recall the last time this avenue was milled and repaved but it doesn’t look that long ago. But there’s still something disturbing going on here to see these many chasms on consecutive blocks and not so far apart on one avenue in just two zip codes. Especially an avenue that is only about over a mile and a half. (It’s about 50 blocks running from 84th to 134th). It’s even more infuriating that as this avenue continues to turn to shit and is most likely to lead to injury or fatality if the ground just gives way as someone is driving over it, that the city is prioritizing building fucking “bike boulevards” and designating and blockading “open streets” for Queens cycling colonizers to play on.

Here’s a good example of one of these open streets on 34th Ave. in Jackson Heights (where a massive inferno engulfed an apartment building, disenfranchising over 400 people from their homes), what the current mayor and bike taliban agitprop news site Streetsblog calls the “gold standard” of returning streets “back to the people”.

Good luck finding the people.

 

With Speaker Cojo the Derelict Dancing Clown and the City Council Cronies and a pandering and weak NYC mayor hiring a fellow Brooklyn patsy like Hank Gutman to run the D.O.T., this confederacy of dunces and douches exerted more effort into open streets and now bike boulevards for self-serving enlightened bike and “open space” lobby groups, they abandoned the rest of the streets in deeper enclaves of Queens, streets that are necessary for commerce and personal livelihoods. Also got to mention all the new bike lanes they painted that doesn’t do a fucking thing to keep pedestrians bikers, drivers and even the environment safe. But the dirty underlying reason why 103rd Avenue is decaying is that it’s part of the city’s neoliberal plan to induce demand into people to give up their cars, their choice to commute. And what better way to do that to use hostile redesigns like keeping open streets closed to vehicles and using demolition by neglect to let the streets crack and collapse below them, and certainly local cyclists and pedestrians too. But I guess they will all just be collateral damage to satiate the self-righteousness of these fauxgressive politicians and social media urbanish gadflies.

Sure it sounds conspiratorial, but this is how NYC government has been operating for the last decade, notably under Bloomberg’s illegal third term and through 8 years of slow water torture governing by the Blaz.

On the way back to South Richmond Hill, there was a hole on the street I rode past over by 112th St. and sure enough it’s the same protrusion I caught on 118th back in August. It’s a sure bet that this will progress into something bigger, but at least it will lead to more inspiration in an effort to conceal it.

From the looks of this little weed, this cave-in is already alive.

Meanwhile, back on 118th St., Autumn equinox:

The siding is destroyed, the road hazard cones are gone, but more cobblestones have been dumped in the hole to convey the illusion of infrastructure road remediation.

Keep safe while driving Queens…

 

 

New Bad Days 88, Summer Of Blaz Strike II: Times Square Regresses Into Decline With Random Attacks And Shootings (One Unsolved And One Memory Holed); Violence And Homelessness Makes A Gloomy Return To Penn Station; Homeless Woman Gets Murdered Trying To Shelter In A NYCHA Building; Hooligans Gamble And Shoot A Gun All The While Cops Were Loitering; Homeless War Vet Tries To Butcher Man With A Hatchet At A Bank; Reckless Driving And Vehicular Slaughter Rises Again As Bike Stunt Nazis Monopolize The Streets; Cop Tells Citizen Civil Liberties Don’t Matter; 7-Year-Old Girl Killed By Abusive Brother And Failing City Services; Woman Stabs Man In Supportive Housing Building And Cops Bring Him To Precinct Where He Dies Of An Overdose; Undercover Cops Shoot Down Gunman Then Battle His Dad In A Shootout; Woman Assassinates A Friend Of Her Family; Woman Gunned Down On Her Way Home From Work From A Gangbanger’s Shitty Aim; Mass Shootings Occur At Two Outdoor Evens And A Dice Game In Brooklyn; Woman Beats The Shit Out Of A Stalker On The Subway; The Transit System Blacks Out As Homelessness And Violence Makes A Resurgence In The Stations And On The Trains; NYPD Gets More Guns And Gangs Off The Street While Shootings And Gang Warfare Continue To Maintain A Steady Presence On The Streets

Current Mayor de Blasio: non-plussed, uninvolved, disinterested

Manhattan

In Times Square, eight men ran an 24/7 crack distribution ring on a street corner making over 10 g’s a week in the biggest tourist attraction in the world in the past year. Ain’t no stopping New York City!!

Also in Times Square, a bunch of kids got corralled by cops who caught them cutting off cars while doing reckless stunts on their bicycles.

Again in Times Square, a woman tried to push a man onto the tracks from the N/Q/R platform. Cops caught her at the Herald Square Station. The woman had six priors for assault in the last month, all of them she committed on the subway.

And again in Times Square, a man shot four times at someone on the street and a stray bullet hit the TKTS booth and seating area. Two men that were accompanying him got into an SUV and sped off as the gunman ran away.

And again in Times Square, a homeless man punched a man in the face on the sidewalk and then tried to continue his attack but the other man fought him off. Cops patrolling the area (there are 100’s of them) detained the kook but he resisted arrested and tried to spin his way out of the grips of three cops but fell hard on his ass on the pavement. The cantankerous derelict also randomly assaulted a man three months earlier on the Upper West Side for walking past him after getting out of his car.

And again in Times Square at the 42nd St. Station, a man mumbling to himself on the Q train got up from his seat and then randomly spat, then punched and slashed a man in the face.

And again in Times Square, a man got into an argument with two other men and got shot in the le…oh wait they got into a tussle that caused a planter to fall which panicked hundreds of people and cause them all to flee the area and dozens of cops and higher brass NYPD to flood the zone to arrest at least one perp. The man wound up wounded when a pedicab ran over his ankle and wound up arrested for weed possession, even though carrying an oz of weed is legal.

There was no shooting there at all. Nope, no shooting at all, and if you continue to question this blatant discrepancy you are a conspiracy theorist. Despite witness testimony on social media that it was definitely a shooting. All that matters is to ensure people with a semblance and the optics of safety, which the current mayor of New York City finds wholly and despairingly acceptable.

In Midtown, three thieves accessed an apartment being used as an airbnb by three women and robbed all their cellphones and wallets.

Also in Midtown, a man hassled then slapped a woman in the face on a street corner.

Again in Midtown at the 42nd St. Station, a man and a woman pushing a stroller got into an argument with a 67-year-old woman and then punched her multiple times and knocked her cellphone out of her hand when she tried to film them.

And again in Midtown, a man on a bike got into an argument with a 63-year-old, called her xenophobic slurs, and then he shoved her to the pavement and punched her twice.

And again in Midtown at the Grand Central Station, two men got into a roughhouse brawl on the 7 train platform and continued to fight nearby the train that was departing and both men got knocked down from the impact. One of the combatants wound up with a nasty gash on his head.

And again in Midtown at the 42nd St. Station, a woman randomly shoved a station agent on the ground.

In East Harlem, a man and a homeless woman went inside an apartment building at the Wagner Houses to take shelter at the top of the stairwell and got into an argument that tragically escalated with the man stabbing her multiple times. Then she ran away down the stairs and into the neighboring building and banged on residents doors to get help and wound up dying on a stairwell after bleeding out leaving a crimson trail in both buildings. The staircase in the first building has been regularly used as a sanctuary for homeless people as a safer alternative than sleeping on the streets and in one of current mayor Bill de Blasio’s dangerous and carceral influenced homeless shelters.

Also in East Harlem, a man tied another man up to a lamp post with duct tape and smacked him around as passerby gawked and taunted him thinking that he was caught in the act trying to rob somebody . After the perpetrator smacked him again when an NYPD vehicle rolled by, cops came out and brandished their guns as if they were about to arrest them, but it turned out it was just a gag video being produced for their social media account. The cops then laughed and moved along.

Again in East Harlem at the 125th St. Station, a man stabbed another man in the head as he was entering the 6 train following a dispute on the platform.

And again in East Harlem, a man got shot in the torso on the grounds of the Wagner Houses.

In Harlem, a man walked up to another man on the avenue and shot him in the leg, then got on his unlicensed moped and split. These scooters have become quite a convenient alternative to using cars with phony temp plates to commit crimes with.

Also in Harlem, a man ran down on the middle of the avenue shooting at someone or something.

Again in Harlem at the 135th St. Station, a man stuck a knife at another man who bumped into him and then punched him over and over again on the 2 train.

And again in Harlem, a group of men rolling dice on the sidewalk and drinking beers right in front of two cops leaning against the wall (one with a foot up against it) and two cops in a NYPD cruiser got disrupted when a man stood up and pulled his gun out and shot his own foot, causing all of the men to scatter and run away. The two cops on foot patrol don’t bother give chase and the other two cops don’t even move from their vehicle or even use it to pursue the fleeing gang.

The four cops were ultimately suspended for their insouciance, but it’s possible that they are only following orders because the city can’t put anymore criminals on Rikers Island because we are trying to close it down for our real estate developer overlords.

And again in Harlem, a man ran towards a parked car and shot a man to death who sitting in the drivers seat. The killer is still on the loose.

And again in Harlem, a man crashed his car into another car that was going the other way and then he tried to throw his gun into the river moments before the cops arrived.

And again in Harlem, a man beat another man to death on the stoop of an apartment building after he accused him of constantly sexually harassing his 14-year-old daughter for a year.

In Washington Heights, four men got into a shootout in front of a bodega after one of them held up a worker at gunpoint, two women and a 78-year-old man got hit by a stray bullets.

Also in Washington Heights at the 168th St. Station, a man hassled a woman for money on the C train and then he slammed her against the bench and strangled her, causing her to pass out. After he fondled her breasts, he dragged her from the train when it stopped at the station and left her unconscious on the platform.

And again in Washington Heights, a young man set an NYPD van and four other piles of garbage bags on fire in a one day spree. The dude has been a pryomaniac since the age of 10.

In Central Park, a branch snapped off a tree and hit a man and woman while they were sitting on a bench in a playground.

Also in Central Park, an owl committed suicide by flying directly into a NYC parks patrol vehicle.

Again in Central Park, two teenagers mugged a woman for her purse.

In the Lower East Side at the Essex St. Station, a woman got caught trying to beat the fare by an undercover cop and then after resisting arrest and trying to kick him, the cop threw the woman to the ground and cuffed her. Commuters witnessing the arrest filmed the cop on their cellies, which infuriated the cop and used his authority to intimidate them from documenting the arrest and ticketed a woman filming it. Then the cop confronted two men walking away from the incident on the street and then he grabbed one of them and threw him down to the concrete and stole his cellphone. The cops has cost city taxpayers nearly $300,000 for prior abuses of the badge from excessive force lawsuits against the city.

Also in the Lower East Side, tenants at the Wald Houses were throwing their trash out of their windows, where they landed on the ledge by a woman’s apartment, causing a colony rat infestation an olfactory hazard. When Monica Morales showed up to report it, NYCHA cleaned it up the next day, showing once again she’s doing Bart Shwartz’s six figure earning monitor job for free.

Again in the Lower East Side, a homeless man stabbed another man in the chest to win an argument at a park nearby a luxury housing tower.

And again in the Lower East Side, a man shot another man in the gut after they got into a tussle in the lobby of a building. The victim sought help at a nearby deli while dripping blood on the pavement.

And again in the Lower East Side, selfish obnoxious young and youngish people continue to monopolize the streets making a racket while inebriated as djs blare music from bars and bluetooth amplifiers on street corners till the crack of dawn.

And again in the Lower East Side, the NYPD deployed cops to barricade and shut down park space to the public because of homeless occupations, open drug abuse and periodical street violence.

In the East Village, the NYPD deployed cops to barricade park space to keep homeless people from using it to sit on the benches.

Yeah, this is a great look for NYC.

Also in the East Village, an argument between two men on the street escalated and concluded with one of them slashing the other in the face with a knife.

Again in the East Village, a man chased another man down the street while holding a gun and then h

Again in the East Village, cops caught a stupid hipster from another state an apartment he shares with another hipster for spray painting his lame graffiti tags on the E, C, and 1 trains at stations in Forest Hills, Harlem and Washington and an advertisement poster in Times Square and had a good cry during processing.

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And again in the East Village, a man brought a hooker to his apartment and awakened his roommate in his bedroom and then the hooker asked him he wants to have a good time and the tired man refuses. Then the unwilling john woke up and noticed his $30,000 watch was robbed. The hooker also stole his credit card which used to spend $1,300 on some personal shit.

And again in the East Village, a man walked into a laundromat and threatened the manager to give him money, she refused and pulled out a screwdriver and tried to use it, but the thug overpowered her and robbed $250 from the till.

And again in the East Village at the 1st Avenue Station, four homeless men formed a congregate shelter rec room at the end of the platform.

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In Greenwich Village at the Christopher St. Station, a man slashed a drunk man in the face and stole his wallet on the 1 train.

In Washington Square Park, a man died of a drug overdose inside his parked car nearby an entrance. A man and a woman were found dead on the grass lying on their backs and they were also diagnosed as O.D.’s.

In Chelsea, a man lit a restaurant and the shanty they built for outdoor dining on fire. The pyromaniac also set fires in 13 city garbage cans before hitting the eatery.

Also in Chelsea, a 19-year-old man attempted suicide by trying to jump off a tower net on a driving range at the pier studios.

Again in Chelsea at the 28th St. Station, a man stood over a woman and put his dick on her arm on the 1 train. The he followed her off the train and smashed her phone on the ground and pushed her down after she took pictures of him.

In Union Square, a man fell onto the local train tracks on his wheelchair and was rescued by a Samaritan as the 6 train was approaching to the station. Nothing was reported about how he fell down there. There were no follow up reports on whether this man was pushed, if he had a medical episode or if it was a suicide attempt.

Also in Union Square, a man walloped another man in the head with a hammer and caused the victim to fall onto the tracks on the N/R transit line. The the lunatic snatched a chain off a young man at the 125th Station in Harlem and then threatened to whack with his hammer. The victim recognized him from the news about his attack downtown and gathered his crew and went back to the 125th Station to find Hammerman still loitering at the station. The skell flees from them onto to the tracks and ran into the tunnel. Then the young man and his friends caught the thief back at 125th and they chased him on the street and the young man took the lunatic down until the cops intervened and after a brief misunderstanding where they tried to collar the victim but saw the perp with the hammer and figure out he was the wanted man.

In Downtown Manhattan, a moron tourist flew his drone into the 7 WTC building while he was taking video footage and it got stuck, sparking a terror alert that required a deployment of nearly 50 cops to secure the vicinity. The dipshit came away with his irresponsible stunt by calling it a genuine New York City experience. Too bad the cops didn’t let him experience more of what this city has to offer like a night in the tombs.

Also in Downtown Manhattan at the Fulton St. Station, the C train crashed into a shopping cart that was left on the tracks during the evening rush hour.

Again in Downtown Manhattan, the man who killed an actress he ran over with his unlicensed motor scooter in a hit-and-run as she was crossing the street with the green light got arrested and arraigned on charges for her death and was nearly released on bail.

And again in Downtown Manhattan, nine gun traffickers/inspiring rappers got indicted for transporting 87 guns from Georgia to use in their music videos and to eventually sell on the streets.

And again in Downtown Manhattan in the Tombs, a cop brutalized and beat up a prisoner whiled he was still handcuffed by throwing him against the wall and on the wet floor inside a cell.

In the Financial District, a man gripping a hatchet walked into a bank and then attacked another man from behind as he was about to use the ATM machine, gashing his victim on his head and leg while relentlessly swinging it. Then the man cracked the screens on the other ATM’s with the weapon. Another man walked into the bank and stared him down and challenged him as the deranged man was gripping his weapon but he ran away and left his hatchet behind. The man then went across town and randomly kicked a man in the face near an upscale restaurant and rooftop concert venue. Cops caught the disturbed man breaking car and store windows in Chelsea a few days later.

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The mentally ill man continued his rampage against humankind in Chelsea, where he found a hammer and smashed car windows and a few restaurant windows until the cops caught up with him and collared him.

The man was an Iraq War veteran who suffered from mental illness most of his life, which exacerbated after he finished his service with the Army and wound up in a VA hospital and wandering the streets. Where is fucking THRIVE? Oh yeah, this service is too sophisticated to handle cases where mentally and emotionally disturbed people are prone to violence and besides the human tax boondoggle Chirlie’s Wilhelm’s husband says that attacks from these mentally ill people don’t happen that much and they shouldn’t be subjected to stereotypes.

Also in the Financial District, two gangbangers murdered a hooker in their airbnb rented apartment and stuffed her corpse in a 55 gallon drum barrel and ditched her in Jersey. The prostitute was a frequent visitor to that building.

Again in the Financial District, a dead woman was found floating in the East River.

In Soho, a man sucker punched a 68-year-old woman in the head while she was collecting recyclables from a garbage can and putting them in her shopping cart.

Also in Soho, a 73-year-old man had his path obstructed by a homeless man who was laying down on the steps of an apartment building where he lived, then the bum bashed his face in when he asked him to get up.

Again in Soho, a security guard stabbed his supervisor six times in the chest and arms with a machete at an NYU dorm building after he was reprimanded for not complying with COVID-19 protocols for working inside the building. The guard had a stellar work record at the University and was rewarded for his service during the worst of the pandemic.

And again in Soho, three men looted a high end fash designer store and robbed clothing worth thousands of dollars, but fucked up when one of their co-horts dropped his gun, giving cops on patrol in the vicinity enough time to bust them.

In Chinatown, a man with his face covered by a ski mask and riding an unlicensed dirtbike hassled a traffic cop and got into an argument with him, then he splashed water on him and punched him in the face when the cop took his picture on his celly.

In the Upper West Side, three young men on unlicensed motor scooters (one of them riding on the saddle) rolled up on the sidewalk and snatched a cellphone off a man as he was using it. Then two of them rolled up to a woman and snatched her celly while she was sitting on a park bench.

Also in the Upper West Side, a man shot another man in the stomach after demanding that he take his mask off and a stray bullet hit an 81-year-old man in the foot while he was sitting outside in front of a barber shop.

In the Upper East Side, a man hit a 62-year-old woman with his bicycle while she was in the crosswalk and rode away after knocking her to the asphalt and yelling at her for walking too slow. Her attempt to filed a report at the nearest NYPD precinct proved futile, because the city wants people to stop driving cars.

Also in the Upper East Side, a man walked into an auto body shop and shot the manager to death with a blast to the head at point blank range, then he shot another worker in the back and collectedly walked out the door and onto the street.

Again in the Upper East Side, a mentally ill homeless man wanders around the vicinity knocking over every garbage can on every corner in sight, grabs trash from cans in the subway and spreads it everywhere, has been yelling curses and bigoted remarks at small business owners and random people and shoplifting food from stores for years with impunity. In terms of the budgetary costs of current Mayor de Blasio’s tax boondoggle wife’s phantom mental health program THRIVE correlating with the legacy of this man’s reign of street terror, about 0 dollars out of the 1.25 billion dollars went to help this lunatic.

Because of the embarrassing media attention, de Blasio’s DHS managed to get the man a room in order to hide him from society for awhile. Maybe he’ll get vaccinated and get the Key to NYC which will open up the city to resume his mayhem on the streets.

And again in the Upper East Side, three people crashed into each other while riding their bikes during the annual five boro bike tour. It’s not a race people.

In Inwood, two children and two women got plowed by a hit and run driver in a minivan while they were crossing the street.

Also in Inwood, a young man and a boy both shot 15-year-old boy by a bodega.

Again in Inwood, a man shot a 15-year-old boy to death execution style in a fusillade of bullets on a street corner, then ran to a black SUV that was waiting to pick him up after the gangbanger attack.

And again in Inwood, a man got shot to death after he tried to break up a fight between two men on the street and wound up with a blast to his chest. His killer shot his foe in the hand.

In Hell’s Kitchen, a man got caught by cops trying to rob a bank with a note demanding 50 large. After a judge released him without bail and under supervision, the crook held up another bank from the same branch and slipped a note demanding 50 large again but got away with a little over a grand. Then he went to another bank in Midtown and got nailed by the cops after the nimble teller set off an alarm. The next judge ironically set up a bail of 50 large during his arraignment.

Also in Hell’s Kitchen, a man attempted to set a police car on fire by sticking a gasoline soaked rag in the gas tank that was parked in front of a NYPD precinct. The firebug was caught by cops on patrol six blocks away and was found to have 60 priors in five states.

In Columbus Circle, a man yelled xenophobic demands at a woman on the C train.

In Penn Station at the 34th St. Station, a fat slob failing to jump the turnstiles got into an argument with an 80-year-old man who was trying to commute and then he punched him in the face and stole his umbrella.

Also in Penn Station, an argument between two men inside the station building escalated when one of them pulled out a gun and fired a shot as his adversary was walking onto the street and missed him as the stray bullet hit a commuter in his leg during the evening rush. The perp ditched his gun inside a trash can as he fled from the crime scene. Felonious crimes, drug abuse and homelessness all have seen spikes at the city landmark terminal.

And again in Penn Station at the 34th St. Station,  a man stuck up a jazz man at knife point on the A train and then he punched him in the face and stole his trombone.

And again in Penn Station at the 34th St. Station, a man trying to beat the fare while going through the emergency door got obstructed by an MTA worker, so he punched him in the face.

In Kips Bay, a man ran up to another man walking on the sidewalk and shot at his legs and the mark surrendered his gold chain and watch to the gunman.

In NoMad, two men rolling in a Benz cased two other men walking towards their fancy car and one of them ran up to them and held them up at gunpoint and robbed them of over $4,000,000 worth of baubles and a watch and also a $10,000 medallion. Then the high-end crooks cased out a man in Chelsea and both of them held their mark at gunpoint and robbed his jewels and watch that were worth around 100 large.

In Stuyvesant Town, a man punched a woman in the face in the middle of the crosswalk in front of her children and demanded they go back to their country.

In Fort George, a man got shot in the chest on the street from a drive-by.

At the George Washington Bridge, a man got caught by Port Authority Police in possession of arsenal of weapons consisting of nearly 10,000 rounds of bullets, guns, bullet magazines and silencers and bulletproof vests he purchased at a gun show in Pennsylvania and intended to bring back to his home in Richmond Hill and then sell them on streets.

A man rode his e-powered uniwheel on the FDR Drive. He was going about 35 mph. This toy really needs to be off the streets.

Every numbered subway line and the L Train were knocked out of service when a power outage occurred that was sourced from the Rail Control Tower in Hell’s Kitchen, which caused two subway trains in the Harlem River Tunnel to stall, leading to an evacuation of over 100 commuters who had to walk towards the next destinations. The transit faux pas was caused by a single on/off switch (or button) that was tripped by a MTA worker because there wasn’t a protective cap on it. Which means that worst transit system of the universe can be sabotaged and rendered inoperable by somebody accidentally hit a button with his/her ass. An issue that can easily solve by buying a bottle of tropical fantasy cola at a nearby bodega on 10th Ave for 50 cents.

Queens

In Jamaica, a man shot at another man after they exchanged stares and provocations at a bus stop and two stray bullets went through the windows of a city bus that just arrived and hit a 66-year-old man as he was about to depart and another man sitting inside.

Also in Jamaica, a man walked up to another man sitting in his car and got into an argument with him, then shot him twice and ran away.

Again in Jamaica, a transvestite got shot to death while he was being mugged on the street.

And again in Jamaica, a man got shot to death on the street near a street corner in the middle of the night. He was out on bail for two months following a gun possession charge.

And again in Jamaica at the Van Wyck/Jamaica Ave. Station, a man pushed a woman on the stairs and caused her to fall and land on her head, then he hopped a turnstile with a shit-eating grin on his face.

And again in Jamaica, two men held up an off-duty cop at knifepoint and then slashed him on his hands while stealing his wallet and cellphone.

And again in Jamaica, a drunk homeless woman got hit by a speeding car while she was laying down on the middle of the boulevard.

And again in Jamaica,  a man held up a gas station at gun point and then his accomplices grabbed him and they all ran out. Must have heard the po po nearby.

And again in Jamaica, a man shot another man in the shoulder during a dispute on a street corner.

In South Jamaica, a man shot a 17-year-old boy in the hallway of an apartment building of the Baisley Park Houses.

In South Ozone Park, a man got shot in the chest during an argument with his assailant on the street.

In Ozone Park, a broken down van used to distribute food to poor residents in the area got robbed.

Also in Ozone Park, a man got shot in the face after arguing with his assailant on the street over a traffic issue after midnight.

And again in Ozone Park, a man shot two other men at point blank range at a gas station in broad daylight. The assailant is still on the loose.

And again in Ozone Park, a 9-year-old boy died in a house fire inside his family’s basement apartment by a garage that was started by e-battery that exploded while it was being charged in the middle of the night. His parents and 10 other residents were left homeless by the blaze. This tragedy added to the 55 fires reported that were initiated by charging second hand and excessively powerful e-batteries inside homes.

In South Richmond Hill, a man got shot in his arm while he was fighting three men that were ganging up on him in front of a bodega.

Also in South Richmond Hill, an argument between two men after they crashed their cars into each other in an intersection came to an abrupt end one of them took out a gun and shot the other man to death. The killer abandoned his car and is still on the loose.

In Richmond Hill, a man underfed and physically abused 27 dogs that were exploited to compete in dog fighting matches.

In Jackson Heights, a man got beaten and brutally stabbed to death inside his a conference room in his office by a disgruntled client who threatened him multiple times in weeks over a home foreclosure he hired him for. The lawyer was also threatened by other clients extremely dissatisfied with the  cases he represented them for.

Also in Jackson Heights, the four gangbangers that shot and hit 11 people in front of a barber shop and a restaurant are still on the loose.

Again in Jackson Heights,  a man stalked a 13-year-old girl around a chain pharmacy store and then jerked off when he saw her with her mother while standing behind them.

And again in Jackson Heights, a man committed suicide by stabbing himself to death in

And again in Jackson Heights, two men jumped another man on the sidewalk and beat him up and stole his backpack

In Astoria, a man stabbed two other men and rode away on a moped which he ditched a few blocks away from the bloodshed.

Also in Astoria, two men on mopeds rode beside a car and reached in the driver and passenger windows and stabbed two men multiple times. The driver crashed into an apartment building wall trying to escape and then he and his victim abandoned the car and ran away leaving a bloody trail from the vehicle and on the sidewalk. One of the victims claimed that the two assailants followed him and his friend after counting money in front of a bodega where he worked.

Again in Astoria, a woman intervened in a brawl between two kids and one of the brats punched her in the face and ran away.

And again in Astoria, a man walking on the sidewalk got confronted by two men who held him up at gunpoint and robbed his jewels and ran with them.

In Corona, two men fired shots down the block while standing on the sidewalk. This shooting occurred only 24 hours before 2 gangbangers accompanied by two men on motor scooters that were acting as getaway vehicles, shot at 11 people while trying to kill rival gangbangers.

Also in Corona, a man beat up his wife in the middle of the street with one punch that laid her flat on the asphalt and then a car ran her over, causing her to fall into a coma. The victim and her fugitive husband have six kids with no one to watch over them.

In Arverne, a man got shot to death at his girlfriends apartment after beating her down  in a drunken rage as her sons tried to stop him. Yet cops couldn’t determine who had the gun.

In Far Rockaway, a man got stabbed to death on the avenue a few hours before sundown.

Also in Far Rockaway, two men shot a man to death on the street after midnight.

In Edgemere, a man crashed a car into an apartment inside a three family house and ditched the vehicle which had no license plates.

In Hemmels, a man got shot to death execution style by the boardwalk. His assassin is still on the loose.

In Rockaway Park at the 116th Station, a man was found dead on the S train early in the evening.

Also in Rockaway Park, a mural commemorating the passed lives of the 4,000 people who died from the collapse of the twin towers got destroyed by vandals.

In Flushing, a woman was murdered inside her apartment from getting slashed in the neck. Her killer is still on the loose.

Also in Flushing, a man stalked two sisters age 12 and 3 into a department store bathroom and took his cellphone and clicked a picture of them while they were in a stall.

Again in Flushing, a man shot another man to death with a blast to his chest and shot his girlfriend in the leg at a karaoke bar in an attempt to rob a medallion the victim had custom made in memoriam to his friend that got shot to death on the street.

And again in Flushing, a taxi driver who picked up a passed out woman in Chinatown after four men dropped her in his car and told him to where to take her found out she was dead the whole time when he got to her home and there were chem burns on her face. Sounds like there’s a meth lab somewhere in Chinatown.

And again in Flushing, a man killed himself after doing a flip on the bleachers and crash landing on the balcony below him while tripping balls on acid at a concert at Citifield.

And again in Flushing, a man knocked over a statue of a saint in front of a church.

In Ridgewood,a man riding a bike on the sidewalk sneaked up behind a woman walking her dog with her friend and then snatched two gold chains off her neck on the street in broad daylight.

Also in Ridgewood, two men got into an argument with a gang of young men and women while walking from a bar and then the gang chased after them and clubbed them with baseball bats and chairs and tables and stabbed one of them while they beat their victims down on the pavement.

Again in Ridgewood, a man stabbed another man during a fight by a restaurant shanty tunnel.

In Maspeth, a man killed a 91-year-old woman when he hit her with his SUV while making a turn as she was crossing the street.

In Middle Village, a gang of tween and teenage bike riders harassed and provoked a woman into a shouting match and threatened to beat her up after she claimed they nearly hit her child.

More of these hellions were slaloming around and towards moving vehicles.

Also in Middle Village, a gang of three young thugs surrounded a 14-year-old boy on the sidewalk and stole his wallet, celly and ear sticks after they threatened him.

A total of 28 gangbangers from rival sects got arraigned at Queens Criminal Court for conspiracy to commit murder and myriad other felonious crimes.

In Long Island City, a man attacked two young men for being gay and pummeled one of them in the face on the E train, then the bigot punched a woman when she tried to intervene at the Queens Plaza station.

Also in Long Island City at the 21 St./Queensbridge Station, a man grabbed a woman’s ass on the staircase while she was commuting.

Again in Long Island City, a man shot a man to death in cold blood as he was sitting in his car in front of a luxury apartment building and then the killer hopped into a car and fled with his accomplices.

And again in Long Island City, a man got caught illegally storing over a hundred propane tanks in a parking lot by his food distributor business. The dude must be a big Hank Hill fan.

In Sunnyside, a four-alarm fire that began at a Japanese restaurant set ablaze and destroyed four other small businesses. Queens is still burning.

In Elmhurst, a house where a wedding was taking place went on fire, causing family and guests to jump out of a window of the attic because the front windows were blocked by gates. Queens is still burning.

Also in Elmhurst, a man committed suicide by jumping off an overpass of a railway line and died on the tracks.

Again in Elmhurst, a man got stabbed to death inside his apartment and then his assailant set it on fire, causing an explosion that blew up the roof of the building. Queens is still burning.

In East Elmhurst, a city bus driver got splattered with paintball pellets during a drive-by.

In Springfield Gardens, a woman got shot on a street corner in broad daylight and her assailant is not known.

In Lindenwood, a man killed himself when he crashed his car into a lamppost during a drag race on the boulevard.

In Rego Park, a woman randomly and repeatedly punched another woman in the head and spewed bigoted slurs at her at a bus stop.

In Woodside, two cops stalked and menaced a man who took pictures of them patrolling the subway with their masks off and then one of the cops scolded him and the U.S. Constitution.

In Hollis, a man started a fire on the steps of a church and got caught by a priest.

Also in Hollis, a man got shot to death inside an apartment building at the front door.

In St. Albans, a man was found dead and rotting inside an abandoned parked car.

In Fresh Meadows, two men on a moped stopped by a house that was displaying a gay pride flag and one of them ripped it down and threw a homophobic tantrum on it.

In Howard Beach, a woman drove her car into the water by the Addabo bridge.

In Rochdale, a man’s rotting dead body was found inside the trunk of an abandoned car parked in front of a barber shop. That’s what car storage is Transportation Taliban.

In Murray Hill, a man attempted to rob a bank with a note and the teller told him to get fucked and called the cops.

On Rikers Island, an inmate blindsided a C.O. who was emptying a trash can in his cell and beat him down to the floor. Then he stole his keys and accessed a cell and beat the shit out of another inmate he had a beef with.

Also on Rikers Island, an inmate overdosed on fentanyl inside his cell.

Again in Rikers Island, an inmate was found dead hanging from a makeshift noose in a jail cell days after he was severely beaten by other inmates. His mother was notified of his death through social media.

And again on Rikers Island, dozens of inmates ran loose in the corridors and drained fire extinguishers and ripped off the hoses off them and three inmates attacked and slashed another inmate in the face in a gang-related attack in areas where C.O. supervision is lacking as many of them are working triple and quadruple shifts because of dire understaffing issues.

And again on Rikers Island, an inmate committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell. The man was incarcerated for only 11 days.

And again on Rikers Island, a inmate brutally attacked a C.O. and busted his head open following an inspection of his cell and after the C.O. shined his flash light on him.

And again on Rikers Island, seven inmates beat down a C.O. to get to another inmate and then beat him down and pour scalding hot water on him in the day room.

And again in Rikers Island, C.O.s were not available for hours in two unit areas in one prison building, compelling the inmates to fend for themselves with social services.

In Forest Hills, NYPD and officials from the Department Of Transportation held a public press conference on Queens Blvd about enforcing traffic safety regulations, mostly placing the emphasis on reckless drivers in cars, and a man on an unlicensed e-battery powered motor scooter rolled right next to them going the wrong direction in the middle of an official’s speech and flipped the bird to an observant citizen, who went back to watch the farcical government public service announcement.

Bronx

In Belmont, a man driving a green screen colored car evaded the cops after being pulled over for heavily tinted windows and reeking of pot. Even as an unmarked car was obstructing the path on the street, the lunatic maneuvered around it going and sped down the avenue in the wrong direction and then onto the sidewalk while getting away and crashing into dozens of cars and causing injuries to 14 people. Cops arrested the lunatic a few days later.

Also in Belmont, a man creeping around inside an apartment building sneaked up behind a 70-year-old woman and held her up at gunpoint and raped her on the staircase.

Again in Belmont, a homeless man blindsided and EMT who was handling a patient and bit him on the neck and then held him and his fellow EMT at knifepoint and then stole their ambulance and took it for a joyride to East Harlem.

And again in Belmont, a man shot another man to death in the middle of the street during the evening rush. Cops on patrol caught the killer in his tracks.

And again in Belmont, a man walked into a barber shop and held up a barber at gunpoint while he was cutting a customer’s hair. The crook made off with $700, a watch, two cellies and a gold chain and ring.

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In Fordham Manor, a man walked into a deli and shot another man down to death in cold blood while he was going there to buy something to drink. The killer blasted him 7 times. In discussing the tragedy with reporters, the victim’s mother warned him not to go outside and grieved that their aren’t enough cops in the vicinity.

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Also in Fordham Manor, a woman got killed and another woman got seriously injured as they were crossing the street when a hit-and-run driver plowed into them while speeding.

In Bedford Park, a dead man’s body was found in the basement of a boarded up house that’s been abandoned for 5 years.

In Pelham Gardens, a 91-year-old man was found dead and tied up inside the garage of his home that was robbed by a man dressed as a meter man. The killer was casing houses on the block looking for package deliveries to steal before he forced his way into the elderly man’s home and beat him to death.

In Mott Haven, a 15-year-old boy got shot in the leg following an argument with his assailant at a park.

Also in Mott Haven, heroin junkies continue to occupy Patterson Playground, leaving over 10,000 needles all over the green space in the last 2 years despite the presence of needle disposal receptacles.

Again in Mott Haven, a seven-year-old girl was beaten to death by her 17-year-old brother when he pummeled her for taking snacks. The child was sent back to live with him and her mother at their apt at the Mitchel Houses by de Blasio’s Child Services Dept., despite years of being abused by her mother and after her grandmother nurtured her for most of her childhood. Besides the victim, the mother had four other children taken away from her by foster services for child neglect and abuse.

And again in Mott Haven, a man shot another man to death following an argument nearby a park. His killer got nabbed and it was found he shot another man down on the street back in April following making bail for a shooting he committed last year.

And again in Mott Haven, a fight amongst men on a street corner led to a man getting shot in the leg near the midnight hour.

And again in Mott Haven, a man got shot to death execution style on the sidewalk when his killer followed him and blasted him three times when he turned around.

And again in Mott Haven, a man got into a domestic dispute with his girlfriend which escalated when she stabbed him in the back with a knife in the lobby of a supportive housing building. When cops arrived, they arrested the man and brought him to their precinct and locked him in a cell and died two hours later from a fentanyl overdose. Why didn’t the cops bring him to a hospital and process his arrest after his wound was treated? And how does someone still possess lethal drugs while being processed and locked up? Either nobody is watching the watchmen and somebody fucked up royally at the 40th or this is a similar cover up like the flower planter incident in Times Square?

And again in Mott Haven, two boys got into a tussle on the street and one of them took out his piece and blasted his foe in the legs on a street corner.

In Kingsbridge at the 231 St. Station, a man pushed another man off the platform and onto the elevated tracks in a random attack.

In Fordham Heights, a man got shot to death in front of an apartment building.

Also in Fordham Heights, a heated argument between two groups of men on a street corner escalated when a man pulled out a gun and started shooting in the air, which was witnessed by two plain clothes cops who were finishing their shift for the day and just left their station. The off-duty cops shot the man multiple times when he wouldn’t comply to drop the weapon. After dropping the gun, his father picked it up and shot at the off-duty cops and fled and then tried to ditch the gun to other people in the vicinity as they passed the gat around like a hot potato. The father wound up getting arrested and was discovered to be a career criminal with 60 prior arrests. His son later died from his wounds.

Again in Fordham Heights, a man got shot to death on the street around the corner from his home.

In Morris Heights, a man shot at a man to death by blasting him in the chest and shot another man in his torso on a street corner.

In Mount Hope, a man shot another man in the stomach during an argument on the street.

In Westchester Square, an 8-year-old girl died in the front yard of her house when a stone railing fell on her while she was playing around the shoddily built pillars that were holding it up.

In Soundview, two men riding together on an unlicensed motor scooter rode up the sidewalk and cornered a 13-year-old boy and one of them snatche

Also in Soundview, a security guard caught a skell trying to steal cases of beer from a chain pharmacy but got slashed in the arm twice after he stopped him.

Again in Soundview, a man walked up to two men sitting on a park bench on the grounds of the Monroe Houses and shot both of them in the head at point blank range, killing one of them in a gang-related attack. The cops tracked him down to his apartment and arrested the killer, who was currently on parole for attempted murder.

In Foxhurst, a man pushed a 70-year-old man off a city bus and broke his hip after he told him he didn’t belong on it. Sounds like a bouncer with PTSD.

In Norwood at the Morshulu Parkway Station, a man sexually molested a 16-year-old girl on the 4 train.

In Concourse Village, a man stalked a woman on the sidewalk, started rapping to her and then grabbed her and forced her into an apartment building where he tried to rape her. The woman scratched his face and then the deviant punched her twice and stole her cellphone.

In Claremont Village, a man ambushed another man from behind and stabbed him on the head on the sidewalk in broad daylight.

Also in Claremont Village, a man bashed his one-month-old son’s head on a handle inside his car and knocked the baby unconscious. Cops arrested him for reckless assault.

Again in Claremont Village, a man got shot to death in the middle of the street.

In Claremont, a man shot another man in the back after they had an argument on the street.

In Melrose, a woman set a statue of Mary on fire in front of a church.

Also in Melrose, a man got shot to death inside a deli as his assassin got into a getaway car and is still on the loose.

In Kingsbridge Heights, a man got killed when he crashed his motorcycle while trying to swerve around a car that ran him over while the driver was making a sharp turn.

In Morrisania, a 17-year-old boy got shot to death on the avenue during a gang-related shootout.

Also in Morrisania, three men broke into an apartment and barged into the bedroom a dragged a couple out at gunpoint. After they bound the woman in a blanket, they pistol-whipped the man multiple times and tortured him by heating a spoon and placing on arm to find out where the safe was in the apartment. After trashing the place, they found the safe and left with it along with 25 pairs of sneakers.

In Hunts Point, a young man got into an argument with a tow truck driver at an auto body shop over a $1,000 bill have his car washed and detailed and then he pulled out a gun and shot the driver multiple times. The tower also was armed and fired back but didn’t hit his assailant and wound up dying from his wounds.

In Highbridge, a man shot another man to death by Yankee Stadium following a street fight. The victim watched another his brother die on the street from a shooting and tried to avenge his death by shooting a man he thought was involved in his killing in this town 13 years ago.

Also in Highbridge, a man was strangled to death inside his apartment.

In Longwood, a man punched a bodega store manager multiple times after he was asked to shut the door behind him.

In Riverdale, a man stuck up a cellphone store at gunpoint and robbed $30,000 worth of cellies, tablets and “smart” watches.

In the South Bronx, a man shot two men in the middle of the street, killing one of them in broad daylight.

Also in the South Bronx at the 149th Ave. Station, a man passed out on the platform and fell onto the tracks and then a cop on patrol and a Samaritan jumped down to the trackbed and saved him right when the train was about to arrive.

Again in the South Bronx, a man tried to break into a woman’s car by using a spatula while she was trying to drive away and three men intervened and chased him away. But the lunatic persisted and went after the woman who stepped out of her vehicle which led to more Samaritans intervening and they managed to get him down and throw a few punches at him. The woman drove off and the man got exasperated and laid down on the asphalt.

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In Woodstock,  a Citibike rider got creamed in a car crash between two vehicles at an intersection.

Also in Woodstock, a man got confronted by two other men when he stepped out of a store and they tried to intimidate him by wielding a knife and a wrench. Then the man put up his dukes and then stepped and then got ambushed by another man who pummeled him from behind and dropped him to the pavement, then the other two joined him and proceeded to brutally beat their mark down. All this happened in broad daylight and all perps are still on the streets.

In Eastchester, a gang of four men cut the lock off a gate at an auto dealership and broke into the business by smashing a window. The thugs then broke into the manager’s office and pried open a cabinet with hundreds of keys inside and started pocketing as many as they could grab until a security guard caught them in the act, but couldn’t stop them from fleeing when one of the crooks whacked him with a crowbar.

In Woodlawn, a man got shot to death in front of a cemetery.

In Foxhurst, a man got shot in the leg on a street corner in broad daylight.

In Throggs Neck, a man raped a 9-year-old girl inside a public housing building and he’s been on the loose for 6 years.

In Unionport, three men broke into an apartment by prying the door open with a crowbar while a 14-year-old girl was still at home. Then they tied her up with USB cables and stole $7,500, jewelry and other property from the place.

In Crotona, a domestic dispute between two brothers that initiated when one of them was grilling bbq late at night escalated into a brawl inside their apartment as the man who was cooking strangled his brother and slashed his sister who tried to break it up, then his brother wrested the knife from his sibling and stabbed him to death.

In Crotona Park East, a man being stop and questioned by cops at a cellphone store broke free and ran around an ice cream truck and then started shooting at them as the Mr. Softee theme chimed. Cops nailed him and found a Tec 9mm on him.

In Grand Concourse, a man got shot in the back near a street corner.

In Mount Eden, a man got plowed by a hit-and-run driver while riding his bike.

Also in Mount Eden, a man murdered another man by choking him to death inside his apartment.

In Jerome Park, a mentally ill woman pushed a two-year-old girl onto the pavement and now her mother wants to move out of the neighborhood.

In Charlotte Gardens, a man got shot to death on the street during a drive-by and two young women got shot in a drive-by four hours later. Cops in the vicinity shot at the fleeing vehicle but missed.

In Wakefield, a man got shot in the head on a street corner.

In West Farms, a man attacked an EMT inside the ambulance and pulled out a knife on him while he was being taken to the hospital. The EMT driving the vehicle tried to assist his partner but the lunatic overpowered them and got into the drivers seat and hit the gas as the EMTs got him off the steering wheel while getting dragged alongside.

A 16-year-old boy got arrested and indicted for murder from shooting a 13-year-old rival gang member on the street.

Four gangbangers ran a crime ring where they would rip off app-hail livery drivers at gunpoint and use their cellphones to steal money from their bank accounts and transfer their plunder into their own accounts. Three of the thieves were also involved in a shooting at a used car dealership where a man got hit with a stray bullet while protecting his children inside a waiting room last year.

Brooklyn

In Prospect Heights, a woman shot another woman to death in the back of the head at point blanks in front of her friends while they were hanging out on a stoop in front of a building. Then she finished her off with two more shots as she bled out on the concrete and got in a cruiser and fled with her accomplices. Both women attended a funeral for a man earlier that day. The assassin was a close friend of the family of the victim. And her target.

Also in Prospect Heights at the Franklin Ave./Botanical Gardens Station, a man went up to a token booth and dug in his pants and jerked off in front of the clerk. When her shift ended, the deviant stalked her and then threatened to kill her while brandishing a knife, compelling her to go into a another token booth to protect herself. The lowlife is still on the loose.

Again in Prospect Heights at the Bergen St. Station, a  woman stabbed a man three times after they had a verbal spat on the train they exited.

In Crown Heights, a man shot a woman to death on a street corner.

Also in Crown Heights, a shootout between four men wen off in the middle of the street as stray bullets broke windows of two cars and at an apartment building.

And again in Crown Heights, a man shot another man to death for making a pass at his girlfriend by a bodega.

And again in Crown Heights, a man shot a 17-year-old boy to death on a street corner.

And again in Crown Heights, a man shot at another man on the sidewalk multiple times and hit him in the arm and stray bullets killed a woman who was walking home and steps away from her apartment building when she got hit in the stomach twice. The male victim wouldn’t rat on the killer to the cops.

And again in Crown Heights at the Utica Ave./Eastern Parkway Station, a man was prowling a woman on the platform and then spat on her multiple times. The man kept making advances towards her and tried to hit her, compelling the woman to pick up wet floor signs and smacking him over the head with them. The man then pushes the woman onto the train tracks. As MTA workers help her back up after watching her fight off the dirtbag by herself, she grabs one of their brooms and beats him over the head with it. The cops showed up right when he tried to flee on the train that just arrived.

The woman that got needlessly killed is a Hatian immigrant who left her country because of the violence and crime in that nation, only to come to America and be betrayed of her safety by  de Blasio’s and the City Council Cronies New York.

And again in Crown Heights, a man whipped his choad out in front of a 13-year-old girl on a city bus.

And again in Crown Heights, a young woman got killed by a reckless driver when he lost control of his car while drag racing on the street, jumped the curb and rammed into a bus stop where she and her boyfriend were standing.

In East New York at the Broadway Junction Station, a man got into an argument after he tried to pass a man and a woman on the escalator which escalated into a fight when they got off and he wound up getting stabbed in the stomach.

Also in East New York, a 73-year-old man got hit by a stray bullet while he was working inside a deli.

Again in East New York, a cop slugged a woman in the face during a search for a man who slashed another person on the street 3 months earlier.

And again in East New York, a man shot another man to death and a woman in her torso in front of an apartment building. Another man blasted rounds on a group of five men that were hanging out on the street blocks way.

And again in East New York, a man got livid and got into an argument with another man at an outdoor event space and then pulled out a gun and started blasting indiscriminately. Then the assailant approached a car parked nearby with three men inside and shot all of them, killing two men who he thought were rival gangbangers.

And again in East New York, a man got shot in the thigh as he was walking on the street right when the sun came up.

And again in East New York, a man got shot in the face at point blank range in front of a public housing building and died later on.

And again in East New York, two men pulled out guns and shot at two other men sitting inside a parked car.

And again in East New York, a homeless man killed a homeless woman when he stabbed her in the neck on a street corner by a sidewalk encampment.

And again in East New York at the Grant Ave. Station, a man punched a conductor in the face after he was told that it was the last stop and got pissed because he had to get off at Euclid.

In Bed-Stuy, two men ran towards a party being held on the grounds of the Roosevelt Houses that was attended by over two hundred people and shot a fusillade of bullets at the revelers and managed to hit 5 women and 3 men. Cops were patrolling the streets nearby and arrived and arrested one of the assailants.

Also in Bed-Stuy, a man shot another man in the leg to settle a dispute on the street.

Again in Bed-Stuy, a reckless driver crashed a fancy car into a restaurant shanty and abandoed it there.

And again in Bed-Stuy, a man got shot in the middle of the street in early daylight.

And again in Bed-Stuy, a man shot at four men in front of an apartment building at the Roosevelt Houses, wounding three of them. One of managed to flee from the fusillade and made it to a nearby hospital. Cops arrived and he refused to drop a dime on the assailant.

And again in Bed-Stuy, a man got killed by a hit-and-run driver while riding his brand new motorcycle.

And again in Bed-Stuy, two gangbangers on scooters shot a fusillade of bullets in front of buildings at the Tompkins Houses and a woman got shot on the hip from a stray bullet while walking on the sidewalk.

In Brownsville, five men rolling dice by a bodega got disrupted when an SUV rolled up and a man hopped out and shot at all of them, hitting one of them in the head.

Also in Brownsville, a man confronted another man on the sidewalk while he was conversing with a woman and then he stabbed him in the face three times in broad daylight as the woman and another man standing nearby backed away slowly and watched the ultraviolence.

Again in Brownsville, a man got shot in the gut on the street and didn’t know who his assailant was.

In Bushwick, a man grabbed a 64-year-old man as he was coming out of his van and punched him in the chest four times, then applied a chokehold while kneeing his back on the asphalt after the victim politely asked him to move his doubled parked fancy car so he can park his vehicle.

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Also in Bushwick, two men got shot in the leg on the street and their assailant and his two accomplices got nabbed while trying to get away by the cops that were patrolling the area who caught their car.

In Cypress Hills, a 16-year-old boy was shot in the head while he was sitting in a car with a young man and a young woman while parked in front of an abandoned warehouse building in a drive by attack. The teenager died a few weeks later.

Also in Cypress Hills, noise from music being blasted from raucous parties being held almost every night and santeria rituals has forced nuns monastery to move to Pennsylvania.

In East Flatbush, a woman got shot in the leg during an argument with her assailant on a street corner.

Also in East Flatbush, a man shot at a gang of men and a stray bullet hit a 65-year-old woman on the shoulder, then all the men ran and hid in a beauty shop.

In Williamsburg, a man sexually assaulted two women on the streets in ninety minutes.

Also in Williamsburg, a man shot another man on his foot after a dispute on the street.

In Sunset Park, a gang of six men chased a man down the street and one of them slashed his hands with a machete when they caught up to him.

Also in Sunset Park, A D train conductor brought his girlfriend into his booth and let her grab the controls and steer the trains for three stops just so he can film and photograph the stupid stunt on their social media accounts. At one point while her idiot boyfriend was training her were to slow down to stop at the station, she observed that the indicator markings weren’t that visible. So the MTA now has another fucking problem to deal with.

Again in Sunset Park at the 36th St. Station, a man stabbed three other men during a brawl on the platform.

In Midwood, a man got his car jacked after he left the motor running while getting money from an ATM machine, the man rushed back and grabbed the wheel right when the thief hit the gas. The thief loses control and smacks the car into a bus and into another car trying to get away. Then the idiot tries to steal the car again after the owner chased him around it and a Samaritan showed up to scare him off.

Also in Midwood, a DOT worker got shot in the back from a bb gun as he went to bend down.

Again in Midwood, a man who lives in a house next door to a school was sticking his weewee out in full view as parents walked their kids to school and while they played in the schoolyard. The school put up a thick green mesh to prevent the skeev from leering at them when he sits in his lawn chair facing the yard.

In Boerum Hill, two men barged into an apartment when an 87-year-old man answered their knock on the door and one of them punched him in the face. Then they tied him up and locked in him his bathroom with a woman and her child who was with him and then stole $8,000 and his cellphone.

In East Williamsburg, a man shot another man in the leg to settle a dispute on the grounds of the Cooper Houses.

Also in East Williamsburg, a naked man went gonzo inside an apartment and threw furniture over the balcony onto the street, then he attempted suicide by jumping off it.

A man killed himself on the Williamsburg Bridge when he was speeding on his motorcycle and he crashed trying to slalom around a car beside him.

In Coney Island, a man crashed his motorcycle into a cab after he blew the red light while speeding on the streets.

Also in Coney Island, a woman shot a man in the leg to settle an argument.

Again in Coney Island, a man attacked three  at a hospital to get to a man they were interviewing.

And again in Coney Island, a woman got shot in the ass on the boardwalk.

In Sheepshead Bay, two men ganged up on a man and smacked him with a bat and beat him down on the concrete after they had a debate over a parking space.

In Flatbush, a man’s rottweiler mauled his 1-year-old son to death inside his house. The man was cognizant of how dangerous his dog was and still left him along with his three kids, the oldest one being 10 years old.

In Flatlands, a young man shot two other young men at a house party following an argument.

In Clinton Hill, a man got shot in the back on the street and another man got hit on the heel by a stray bullet.

In Gravesend, a man murdered another man in cold blood as he shot him to death as he unloaded 19 rounds at him on the grounds in front of an apartment building.

In Bensonhurst, a man shot at a woman and her boyfriend from his apartment window following an argument over a parking space.

In Bath Beach, two men held up an electronics store at gunpoint and robbed $7,000 worth of merchandise.

In Kensington at the Church Ave. Station, a man wearing a hilarious t-shirt randomly walloped a woman with a metal stick on three parts of her body on the platform.

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In Ocean Hill, a man walked up to a parked car and shot two men who were napping inside of it.

Also in Ocean Hill, a man shot another man on his ass on the street.

In Downtown Brooklyn, a man got killed  when a car hit him as the driver was turning into the street he was riding his scooter the wrong way on.

Also in Downtown Brooklyn at the Atlantic Ave/Barclays Station, a man randomly punched another man in the face and continued bashing it while he had him on the ground.

Again in Downtown Brooklyn, a man stuck up a 70-year-old man with a knife and then pushed him down to the floor and stole $100 from his wallet.

In Borough Park, a man punched a cable technician in the face following an argument over a parking space.

In Canarsie, a driver rear-ended a horse carriage trailer on the highway in a hit-and-run.

Also in Canarsie, a man got shot in the arm from a drive-by while he was sitting in his car.

In Dyker Heights, a six-year-old girl got killed when an SUV driver ran over her in the crosswalk while running a red light and speeding making the turn as the girl ran onto the street.

In Bay Ridge at the 77th St. Station, a man yelled at another man for smoking weed on the train and then he rushed over to him and stabbed him in the dome multiple times, compelling the pothead to whip out his own blade and slash his aggressor on the hand.

In Greenpoint, a man spray painting a giant nintendo game icon on a water tower got caught by the cops and then tried to hide inside of it during negotiations to come down. Upper class shitlibs were outraged at the police presence deployed to get him down.

In Brooklyn Heights, a man killed himself when he crashed his car into a chicken coop truck when he blew the red light.

In Clinton Hill, a 62-year-old woman got killed by a flatbed truck while she was crossing the street pushing a stroller. The baby survived.

A gang of nine men trafficked 87 guns from southern states and used them for rap videos and then sold them on the streets.

A man who got arrested for beating the living daylights out of man on the sidewalk in broad daylight was set free on bail for dealing crack a few days before the assault.

A man verbally abused and bullied a woman who asked him to wear a mask on the Q train.

Staten Island

In Manor Heights, a white cruiser went out of control and smashed into a window of a chain donut and coffee shop.

In Midland Beach, a man previously convicted for stalking and beating a woman, broke into a woman’s house while still under a restraining order and after he just got released from prison.

In Port Richmond, a man bashed a postal truck window with a rock and stole a bunch of packages but got caught by the cops while running with his booty.

In St. George, a man and two women got caught throwing bags of crack out of their bedroom window during a search warrant by the NYPD.

In Sunnyside, a man and a woman were caught in possession of a loaded gun and bags of crack when they were found by cops inside a wrecked vehicle that the driver crashed into a telephone pole.

In Graniteville, a man got pulled over by the cops for a having a fake license plate while driving high on meth and without a license.

In New Brighton, a man slashed another man on the leg on a city bus.

In West Brighton, cops responding to a domestic disturbance at an apartment building confronted a man wielding two knives at them, provoking the cops to shoot him with their tasers, leading to his arrest.

In Mariners Harbor, a man got pinched by cops on patrol who caught him possessing a gun while loitering on a street corner.

In Clifton, a man slashed another man with a machete during a fight inside an apartment building.

In Tottenville, a man tried to make good on his death threat to another man by stabbing him inside his apartment building.

In Tompkinsville, a man sucker punched another man and robbed $280 off him as he was about to fill up his car at a gas station.

Also in Tompkinsville, a woman got raped by a man who she thought was her app-hail driver after she got in his car expecting it was her fare ride home.

Again in Tompkinsville, two men stood in front of hair salon and shot it up, hitting a 17-year-old girl in the head and another woman in the arm.

Traffic fatalities went up 30% this year despite 8 years of street redesigns and other traffic calming measures initiated by the current mayor’s Vision Zero program. Yet another Bill de Fiasco.

Queens Is Burning And Submerging And Even More Housing Insecure

The gang’s all here

  Ozone Park, Woodside, Queens, New York, America

The last month of summer has begun with more tragedy, loss and displacement, mostly from the elements and the usual case of government insouciance and negligence. As it has been happening regularly in the forgotten “world’s borough” of Queens, fire again has senselessly took a life and disenfranchised families from their home. In the middle and working class town of Ozone Park, a family of three living in a basement converted apartment awoke in the middle of the night when an e-battery from a motor scooter that was being charged by their door exploded and were trapped by a wall of flame.

The converted apartment was inside the garage, the door was the only egress the family had to escape. The couple’s 9-year-old son died from his burns from the blaze. The family just moved into the house and were only living there for 12 hours. Fourteen other people living the house got injured and were forced to vacate, adding to the city’s continuing rise of homelessness.

The father works as a food delivery man, most of them don’t make enough to rent a market rate apartment or qualify for the city’s affordable housing program with buildings that cater over 70% of the apts to the upper class.

A year ago and most recently in May, current mayor de Blasio’s HPD department were in the process of legalizing basement apartments in order to address the perpetual housing crisis that was exacerbated by HPD’s housing program coinciding with the advancing speculation of the rental and housing market. The fire in Ozone Park suddenly brought up an argument against them, but the controversy suddenly exploded when Hurricane Ida came north to vomit a record amount of inches of water in hours.

10 inches of rain cause biblical floods on the streets, turning buses into arks on Queens Blvd and one subway station into a scene from The Shining. But the rain did it’s real and ultimately fatal damage to the city’s basement apartment tenants.

The first reported casualty was in Hollis Queens, a woman and her son perished as the storm crashed through the house’s foundation and instantly killing both.

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The street where they lived is on a steep incline, making the block a veritable bowl to catch water in a violent storm. Although the area was incidentally going through a street drainage and sewer infrastructure upgrade at the time.

They were two of eleven casualties reported who also perished in a basement residence, all of them in the borough of Queens. A family of three died in a house next to the BQE in Woodside when water burst through their apartment and couldn’t escape, despite intervention by the NYPD. One of the casualties was a two-year-old boy. A 67-year-old man and a 87-year-old woman both drowned in cellar dwellings in Ridgewood and Elmhurst respectively. Another family of three also perished in a basement dwelling in Flushing. All of these devastating tragedies were located in designated flood zones even though they are miles away from beaches and bridges.

Across the BQE in Woodside where the home above is, Chuck Schumer, the current NYC Mayor and the district representative in DC Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez showed up with a FEMA official to survey the flood damage to residents homes basements and residents basement apartments. The trio of establishment Democrats harped on about the extreme effects of climate change and the need to combat it while touting federal funding aid to these victims of Ida’s watery violence.

 

Current mayor The Blaz continued to whine and blame the rain for the devastation to the residents dwellings and their personal and cherished belongings in his continuing persistence to gaslight the press and his constituents about how no one saw this downpour coming despite constant cellphone alerts by the National Weather Service and frequent updates on every local news networks meteorologists (which he has now developed a tremendous grudge against since his self and music industry serving NYC homecoming concert in Central Park got kiboshed by Hurricane Henri only a week ago).

But as Rep. AOC briefly pointed out (while running protection for the Blaz), it wasn’t entirely climate change that caused all this damage and killed 11 residents but it was purely decades of city negligence by avoiding upgrading sewer infrastructure and doing basic surface maintenance by thoroughly cleaning and clearing catch basins and removing garbage and other detritus from the streets; which have piled up immensely in middle class towns like Woodside here, Jamaica and East Elmhurst, especially in the last few years after The Blaz cut funding to the Sanitation Dept. The only politician that’s actually acknowledged that it was the city’s negligence of the sewer infrastructure that destroyed these home’s foundations, killed eleven tenants and forced more residents into the growing homeless population was city council candidate Tiffany Caban.

Of course The Blaz conveniently found a new scapegoat to blame for his insouciance and ineptitude after a year of blaming the pandemic as the perfect storm that made everything from crime going up to services being denied while he spent most of this year planning concerts and opening streets for cultural and dining for his shitlib upper class base, now he has an actual storm to deflect to for the remainder of his heinous mayoralty.

But what’s been overlooked here is that these people who died where they lived and who are now homeless because of antiquated sewer infrastructure and absent maintenance is the fact that basements were the only residences that were available to them because de Blasios Department of Housing and the developers they contracted did not build sufficient actual affordable housing for them but mostly for an upper class demographic in the city Housing New York program while making the incremental amount of the lower AMI apartments difficult and even still to pricey to qualify for.

These are just a few examples of luxury public housing in Queens nearby Woodside and Jamaica.

Elmhurst, Queens Blvd

Woodside, Queens Blvd

Woodside, Queens Blvd

Jamaica, Guy R. Brewer Blvd

Jamaica, Archer Ave., Sutphin Blvd.

These towers illustrate how the Gentrification Industrial Complex of real estate and government were dreadfully wrong that building higher and integrating luxury with equity would trickle down and provide more access for the working poor and even middle class residents of New York City, leading to reliance on illegal cellar apartments and S.R.O.’s.

Another thing Ida exposed was the desperation of homeowners trying to keep up with the costs of paying property taxes by renting out their basements as they pay three times the rate the fucking Blaz pays for his two houses in Park Slope, which gives him the luxury not to rent his own basements out. Ida not only wrought structural damages to these basements but will ensure the inevitable displacement of homeowners as well who will sell their homes at a loss, provided that the feds give them the monetary aide they need. But lets not overlook the slumlords and faceless LLC’s role in the basement apt. market, because they will be able to easily take advantage of Joe Biden’s emergency funding grants, usurping them from struggling homeowners who don’t have the free time or the financial resources and the lawyers to keep their house literally afloat unlike the portfolio of illegally converted homes they continue to get away with.

There is a easy fix to this solution for the refugee and current basement tenants of NYC, move them to all the vacant and prospective apartments in all those luxury public housing towers that got built during de Blasio’s wretched mayoralty. And then abolish the segregation driven Housing New York “affordable housing” plan and put a cap on future development unless these tall and dense building are 100% under the ludicrously high AMI set by HUD. And also the end to fucking “air rights” for these predatory developers, air rights belong to the fucking birds.

No one should have to pay rent and worry about a short in a socket, a pounding hard rain or some government agent coming to their door and wound up disenfranchised from their home. It should take climate change to fix the housing crisis when the environment on and under the ground has been shot to shit for too long. The time to build back better was decades ago. Time to rebuild and reset housing back to the people that really need it and fucking shut up with the platitudes and anecdotes, Mr. President, who doesn’t even know who the congressperson representing the town he’s having his press-oppressing photo op in. (Hey Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, how long are you going to take this shit from your fucking political party?)

Compounding all this trauma and disorder is that this city is now in the crux of a resurgent pandemic, with tenants and landlords still wondering when financial aid is going to come in. And hurricane season is not over for another month (the last hurricane Sandy slaughtered NYC in late October). As thousands of working poor and middle class people that were suddenly made homeless and are now even in more debt will grow even more despondent and dependent on the government that continues to fail them. While the all the establishment Democrat hacks will continue to sell them short with broke ass services, more hollow promises and platitudes and then blame everything on the rain.

Breaking New Bad Days: The Times Square Shooting That Wasn’t There

Shots verified, bonafide

Times Square, Manhattan, New York

The tourist capital of the world had another broad daylight horror show strike when gunfire went off by the legendary Tkts plaza between Broadway and 7th Avenue, which made it the second time in only 3 days that bullets flew at that spot and the fifth time since May. 

At least two twitter accounts were quick to report this latest travesty that has befallen the summer of NYC.

NYPD flooded the zone to catch the assassin but to no avail. An hour after the shooting, a reporter from NBC New York was at the crime scene and found a man surrounded and being questioned by patrol cops and high brass.

Then an hour later, the NYPD gave her the scoop and with emphasis, Ms. Hemphill was informed by cops that the shooting was in actuality a planter that fell during a scuffle between the victim and allegedly two other people he was battling on a street corner on the east side of 46th St.

Or was it a barricade that fell? But Ms. Hemphill doesn’t question why would they cite two different objects that varied from the general assumption and reaction by the plaza crowd and decides to tweet report  that way despite the obvious massive discrepancy. Two men causing a barricade to fall during a street fight at least makes sense, but a planter? Unless these two men were the Hulk and Thor, no way are they going to knock down planters since they are 100 pounds of concrete and soil. Here’s a fun fact, they act more as security cudgels against terrorists to obstruct them from weaponizing cars to kill people than as pretty smelling oxygen producers.

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Another fun fact, when barricades and in this situation, planters hit the ground, they don’t sound like gunshots. The only thing that sounds approximate to shots are fireworks, read every story of a shooting, and there a have been over 3,000 of them in the last 3 years and every other one has a  witness to a shooting incident presuming that someone was setting off fire crackers or mortars. Besides these obvious discrepancies, the NYPD apparently felt they had to collar somebody, so they busted a man on marijuana possession (even though 8 oz of pot is legal to carry, which makes starting to sound like a drug deal gone bad).

Reading this tweet report in real time and being an active twitter denizen, I responded to Ms. Hemphill very curtly tweeting my skepticism with a simple retort; I don’t believe this. What happened 90 minutes later was the moment where my skepticism and also my cynicism about the NYPD’s investigation suddenly became validated with one word.

 

It was astonishing that my tweet got acknowledged, that it seemed ambiguous. Then it suddenly got unambiguous.

Then when the story broke on the evening news on PIX11 after the weather,correspondent Michelle Ross’s coverage of the Times Square incident interviewed a witness who heard the shots and ran off with everyone else as a crowd would do when shots get fired. But despite James The Nerd’s eyewitness account on his twitter account, which was truncated to a 10 second blurb, the NYPD relayed the same investigation results to Ross and she repeated it more like a stenographer than a journalist. The incident also got upgraded by the NYPD that included a pedicab that hit the victim. How this all correlates utterly makes no sense.

Then it gets stranger. Turns out James the Nerd on twitter who was at Times Square during the shooting/planter falling and in the middle of the stampede fleeing for safety, is James Chesney who was interviewed about the incident on PIX News.

It’s nothing short of amazing how conflicting PIX’s post on this incident that put out wo different headlines for their post and video. But this is expected when it seems the NYPD is exerting influence on this story to make it sound less extreme than it was.  Despite James’s eyewitness account of a man writing in pain on the ground from a bullet wound, who the cops wound up collaring on a pot charge and dragged him from the plaza in pain.

Mr. Chesney also describes how Michelle and her co-writer and producer of the story manipulated the interview and redacted practically all of what he witnessed; which apparently, or in this case allegedly a lot of nefarious activity was going on trying to cover up the shooting/planter collapse. What I and maybe James was witnessing was the operation of manufacturing consent in real time via the integration of government authority and the fourth estate.

And if you looked at the way it was covered on the PIX report, there are so many cops surrounding the victim, it’s virtually impossible to get a closeup on him and where he was wounded. Just like that, what was pretty much a cut and dry social media documented and eyewitness shooting incident got intercepted by the NYPD and suddenly morphed into just a huge misunderstanding. Despite no footage of a fallen planter or any video footage of pedicab in the vicinity.

Looking for better investigative reporting about the Times Square Planter Incident, the Daily News actually did quote Mr. Chesney’s account he gave to me on twitter, describing how the victim was yelling that he got shot which PIX extricated from their report and detailed the actual time of the shooting and the cops interrogation of the victim, but still wholly emphasized the NYPD’s bizarre coverup. ABC Eyewitness News only showed a brief video of the incident on their website that promised more details and never updated it even after a week. The NYPD abrupt revision of their investigation also made international news as well.

Even though there was a witness who claimed he was interviewed by multiple local corporate news stations, it’s a wonder why all of them joined in solidarity to report what is clearly a flawed investigation by the biggest police force in the world but it’s not wondrous at all of the NYPD’s desperate spin and memory holing of this incident, which was done with amazingly diligent execution; it all stems on current mayor Bill de Blasio’s and the Economic Development Corporation’s massively desperate and expensive effort to restore tourism in Times Square again after they spent 30 million dollars on national ads and who knows what on other city services to bring them back. An effort which has been marred by shootings and also rampant homelessness, random and targeted violence, open air drug dealing and petty crime hustling. And it’s even worse from the NYPD’s side after multiple orders to deploy more cops to the 7 block international mecca in order to protect tourists and local visitors.

The timing of the recent shooting that wasn’t there couldn’t have been more shitty for the city since it coincided with the arrival of a ferris wheel that got plopped down a block away from the incident and also an early morning shooting where a stray bullet pierced a window under the TKTS a few days earlier. Buffered by concrete bollards, barricades and two NYPD cruisers bookending the city’s latest and lamest attempt to attract tourists and their money back. 

 

Picture taken two days earlier from the “Planter Incident”

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Ironically, what the city thought would be a new attraction to Times Square would actually wind up being useful to the NYPD to catch the shooter, because it’s clear that the footage from the tweet above showing the scattering crowd was taken from a carriage on the ferris wheel while it was paused.

When the current mayor showed up to the ride a few days later with his son and district council crony Keith Powers, the same vantage point can be seen as The Blaz blissfully describes the experience while in motion on the ride. The distinction being a markedly scarce crowd on the street below.

 

Surely The Blaz was in a jovial mood to make this video, thanks to the NYPD’s memory holing of the shooting, he didn’t have to hold a presser explaining himself and promoting a stupid boondoggle gimmick like a carny ride in Times Square would have been utterly tone deaf. But what all the parties involved here-the news media, the NYPD and the fiddling monster running NYC above-don’t and refuse to get is all their effort to revive the economy in the biggest tourist attraction in the world by redacting a crime immediately after it occurred and enabling it will not make Times Square and even the rest of the city any safer by hoodwinking and gaslighting the citizenry and tourists. And the real shooter is still out there running around on the streets and since it’s been determined that a planter fell and the culprit was an errant pedicab driver for the victim’s wound, there will be no report of this incident and possibly any surveillance footage from the dozens of cameras affixed to the lampposts and on commercial buildings in the area were memory holed as well. And lets not forget the NYC EDC’s role as well in this, because the city’s and notably Times Square’s recovery is being supervised by a notorious rogue retired police chief getting paid a salary and pension at the same time.

This collective negligent insouciance will eventually lead to someone getting actually killed next time. And with the way shootings are trending, it’s going to be sooner than we think. Then what alchemy de Blasio’s NYPD is going to conjure to undermine a victim bleeding out to death in the Square as they juke the gun violence stats in real time?

As the gun shot victim of the Planter Incident shows, anyone will just be collateral damage to ensure the optics of vibrancy in Times Square doesn’t get disrupted.

Scenes Of Queens: Fuck Yo Pizzeria Asshole

This scene is located in Rockaway Beach

Excuse me, what did you fucking say to me?

That’s what I thought you fucking said. Like I would throw any self-respect or dignity I have to wait and get a table at your fucking pretentious, fucking expensive, fucking overrated restaurant.

And besides, I don’t think I would ever patronage a junkyard looking faux dive like this with two zombie houses 20 feet away across the street, covered in filth, weeds and graffiti. Not even tasteful graffiti, but I’m sure it fits in with the pizzeria’s vicarious ghetto/hardcore/outlaw motif.

Maybe the dear proprietor was addressing this poor man here, who is enjoying a libation behind a zombie piano.

Behind the idiotic drive-in billboard there seems to be an elaborate stage set up, so this restaurant is also a concert venue as well.

And there’s also this thing, which is a recording studio/hostel and it looks more menacing than those abandoned houses. Looks like this faux dive pizzeria and this are connected in some way. Sounds like a good way to conjure a music scene out of thin air that would not have a chance in any semblance of a society or in hell.

Anyway, this pizzeria is owned by this chef who made himself at home on the peninsula by being a boorish cock, cursing out customers, stealing an oven when his place shut down at a hotel down the block, and got kicked out of the lame Riis Park Beach Bazaar for blasting obscene music. Yet he’s still managed to find success in Rockaway and now has this huge corner commercial space. Only in this new version of New York City can a person this obnoxious can make a name for himself here, where recidivist criminal behavior not only by common skells but mostly by the ruling class is permitted and rewarded. But that is what that is and it’s not gonna change. He’s probably a good chef but he sucks as shit at fomenting this faux outlaw punk rock vibe for his establishment.

Anyway, this place gives me the creeps, good riddance.

 

 

The Blowback Blight And Anarchy From NYC’s Open Restaurants Law

New York City, New York

COVID-19’s impact on New York City has no doubt fundamentally changed the environment, landscape and cuture of this city. It’s why this nation of ours had to suddenly print trillions of dollars to keep it resembling an imitation of normal to get money in people’s pockets and keep most businesses solvent where before we used to print it to pay for regime change wars and to assure the biggest banks remain too big to fail. It was basically a big class action settlement for government malpractice of our leaders response to the virus (and clearly the manufacturing of it thanks to Dr. Anthony Fauci).  And when the stimulus cash arrived to NYC, one of the first things that got fed socialist moneyed resuscitation was to the restaurant industry.

Since eating indoors was still a major risk of contagion for months on end last year, City Council and Mayor de Blasio addressed the existential threat the virus had on the dining and drinking industry and started the Open Restaurants initiative which lifted restrictions and eased regulations for restaurants to build sheds on the street curbs so patrons can come back and dine again outside of their establishments. Despite usurping parking spaces from residents, these businesses were able to recoup some losses and were able to make money again. The city also integrated this program with the Open Streets initiative to “re-imagine” public streets initially centered on cycling and pedestrian commuting by evolving them to plazas with the intent to foster community activity and keeping vehicular traffic out (both initiatives annoyingly prodded by bike zealot/car abolitionist lobby Transportation Alternatives). With the sheds on the asphalt, restaurants were able to extend their businesses by placing tables on the street, enabling to serve more customers. At the time it was logical and necessary.

Even though this was enacted for emergency purposes to keep businesses thriving in a still near dead city (with more prodding from agent of the city TransAlt weaponizing this program to banish cars)  the City Council Cronies and The Blaz decided to make restaurant outdoor sheds permanent, which was buoyed by a bill written by the State Senate and signed by Mario’s Son Governor Cuomo. Now even though restaurants are under the regulatory purview of the Department of Health, the Blaz left the responsibility of monitoring the street sheds under the Department Of Buildings. If this isn’t bizarre enough, the Department of Transportation seems are wholly left out of this even though the streets are officially under their purview. And as expected with the Blaz and the Council Cronies, they conjure these laws without considering the ramifications of them as some restaurants and even non-food related establishments opportunistically took advantage of the bureaucratic fugazi of  NYC’s Open Restaurants and Streets policy.

This egregiousness came to prominence when a member of community group L.E.S. dwellers encountered a curbside shed going through a re-imagining development in process in the East Village, catching the restaurant adding a second level to their shed  parallel with first floor apartment windows above the establishment and close enough to touch the branches on the tree above.

What the actual fuck indeed, what’s even more insane is that this restaurant just recently put up their normal ground floor shed, or to be more apt shanty, even though indoor dining was permitted after the city officially opened up at the beginning of July.

Surprisingly this shanty got an immediate stop work order a day after it went viral, even warranting a faux outrage tweet by Council Crony Margaret Chin, even though her vote enabled these owners to build their leisure duplex. But this being NYC, there are others that are able to get away with flouting the rules with impunity, even though because of the emergency edict placed on open restaurants that gives them a pandemic loophole to build bigger and denser on public streets there practically aren’t any rules anymore.

Popular youtube personality computer repair guru and small business owner Louis Grossman found some more shanties while just strolling around town where he works and one of them had doors like in a saloon, as he pointed out the distinctions between a shed that was safe for pandemic dining and ones that were basically houses on the street with no proper circulation, which defeats the purpose of stopping the spread of COVID. Then he encountered probably the biggest freak violator of all, an open restaurant with an air conditioner.

If there is anything positive to say about this is that it looks more like a bungalow than a shanty with all the windows installed. But it still looks like a cabin because they didn’t even bother painting it and it’s sure as fuck not definitely not safe from the delta variant if people are dining there on a hot muggy afternoon or balmy evening since the contagion is trapped as people are sharing microbes while eating, drinking and talking in close proximity.

Watching that video would give the impression that it’s probably the tipping point or nadir of the open restaurant phenomenon and that the D.O.B. will stop by and tell the proprietor to take it down but you’d be wrong.  Because these AC equipped cabins have set off an open restaurant land grab wave.

Documented by the lifestyle news website Eater, many high end dining establishments in high destination areas in Manhattan seized the opportunity given to them and set up AC’s for their own shanties,as well as other fixtures and locking doors that resemble modern day cabins or even Fedders apartment buildings. But absolutely nothing can compare to what two restaurants did on the same block in the small enclave known as Korea Town in Midtown nestled between Madison Ave and Herald Square, for these open restaurant structures are not mere shanties, they are practically street curb condominiums. Here’s a place called Osamil…

Really don’t get why the windows are so small, but they apparently slide open, those doors look like they belong in a horse’s stable. But one things for sure, they made that solar powered parking meter absolutely useless.

Mosey on down the block and we probably have the city’s most egregious and heinous public street space monopolizer restaurant indoor shanty claimed by Take 31, which takes the city’s re-imagining shock doctrine open restaurants policy to another level.

Look at these doors and windows, how can you possibly breath let alone spread the delta variant…

In case there is any wonder how these 4 A.C.’s are being powered, get a load of the electrical hookup. Remember, the Department Of Buildings is in charge of regulating these things, doubtful if you can get away with this if you hooked up something similar from your house to your garage.

Apparently when they were building this aesthetics wasn’t even on the agenda or even architecture or carpentry, but making this shitpost into a veritable ice box was. They equipped this with FOUR HVAC units. Apparently this was made for two establishments judging by the outhouse that’s built in front of a small restaurant next door.

If the sign demanding proof of vaccination wasn’t ludicrous enough considering there isn’t one pasted on the elongated outhouse on the street, what’s even more deranged is that the shanty is just under 10 feet across a building under development with scaffolding and bollards on the street, making it very treacherous for driving and cycling commuting.

Since the current mayor de Blasio and the City Council cronies joined in solidarity to legitimize these shanties under the rubric of safety because of COVID and the delta variant and by extracting the authority of the Department of Transportation from regulating these , it had to come at the expense of the safety of vehicular, cycling and walking commuters and a brazen example of the second expense lies on Bleecker St. in Noho.

Despite the presence of a bike lane, the proprietors of this open restaurant shanty blocked half of it, which if a regular citizen driver or the NYPD did this it would get photographed and pilloried by bike zealot social media accounts and would get a $200 citation by a traffic constable in real life.

Although the barricades set up makes it city designated open street designed to ban cars, it doesn’t prevent drivers from accessing the open restaurant area turning from Mulberry St., making riding pass this shitpost set up a perilous risk.

And the thing that’s remarkable about bike propagandists like StreetsBlog NYC praising open restaurants to the skies is that even when they are not violating traffic laws, the roads still don’t have sufficient space to ride a bike by them and makes driving more perilous despite the precautions taken by restaurant owners to make their structures more visible (like a house on the street wouldn’t already do that)

Of course can’t leave out the frustrations of the pedestrian, with insufficient walking space as these shanties make commuting by them a human gauntlet with people milling around and waiters and busboys going back and forth serving people. Ultimately forcing pedestrians with no choice to walk in the streets in the driving and bike lanes.

Surely pedestrian gridlock is a daily issue by this restaurant/bar/nite club in South Richmond Hill that actually built a tunnel by their establishment.

And since they already have an LED display sign, they can probably scan EZ passes to go through it. Although prospective burglars sure will appreciate the easy lift provided by the roof inches away from the apartment in the mixed use building.

While this outdoor dining set up one a mile west is more sad than egregious, but still a brazen hazard that has the potential to cause a blazing one.

It can’t be stressed hard enough what damage this shanty is going to do if one of this restaurants neighbors houses goes on fire, or even their own business (unless that hole was put there for that reason) considering an incident where a mixed-use building got torched on Bleecker St. because the FDNY couldn’t get around a shanty in front of the restaurant where the fire started on the ground floor. And never mind how flammable this and every other wooden shanty in NYC is vulnerable to any random kindling or arson attempt.

But what makes this restaurant more sad about it’s flaunting of fire codes is that it doesn’t have much of a choice with Bill de Blasio’s utterly fascist and unscientific vaccine mandate about to be unleashed on city establishments and venues, where the only way to keep non-vaccinated residents as customers is to keep them outside.

And if there is a shanty that’s a tinderbox waiting to explode, it’s got to be the one belonging to celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck’s five star Michelen steakhouse restaurant in Murray Hill. A set up so ostentatious it’s the Hamptons Mansion of open restaurant shanties in NYC.

To be fair, maybe Wolfie’s shanty resembles more like a Super 8 motel going by all these doors and key locks.

Looks like somebody tried to pick this one. Gotta admit that this shanty looks more safer and pleasing than the city’s homeless shelters.

What makes this the most special of open restaurant shanties is that it’s built on a steep incline with traffic going south. which means there are probably steps inside there. While it doesn’t have energy sucking HVAC’s it does appear to have what looks like an air purifier releasing whatever delta variant strains the customers are dispensing inside and releasing the contagion into the ether and onto the public. Which makes a mockery of the vaccine mandate rules by conveying this as a safe outdoor venue for microbe aerosol dispensing dining and nightlife leisure activities.

Besides the obvious haste to put these curbside bungalows up in order to opportunistically take advantage of the City Council and current Mayor’s Open Restaurant law, judging by the the exposed wood paneled wall entirely flushed against the 33rd St. Station stairwell, what’s curious is how to patrons get served inside that shanty?

Which means waitstaff and bussers have to maneuver through passerby with orders for the clientele and to clean up after them, causing more pedestrian gridlock on the sidewalk and from commuters exiting and entering the stairwell at the downtown staircase of the 33rd St. Station.

And get a load of this cable going into the restaurant. It’s only about 7 1/2 feet off the ground. It really doesn’t matter whether its a five star joint, these shanties are cheap and ugly and still vulnerable to cause contagion spread because of the indoor environment in addition to being a blatant electrical fire hazard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The ironic thing about these shanties which purport to bring people and vibrancy back to city streets and also add a touch of European savoir faire while keeping more cars off the street in order to improve the environment, it’s ultimately done the exact opposite and has brought down the quality of life and environment in neighborhoods. Besides the horrendous site of mountains of garbage piled up against the structures and inside them and providing convenient shelter for a new generation of rats to feed and breed in them, these filthy shanties have brought forward a disturbing new trend of high end blight of rampant graffiti wholly comparable but more artless than the aerosol paint bombings of subway trains in the Bad Old Days in the 70’s-80’s. Which perfectly falls in line with the New Bad Days era of the last 5 years.

It’s really a wonder why anyone would even eat and drink in these shacks, but it’s ok because of emergency pandemic exemptions, the NYC Department Of Health doesn’t bother checking them out either. Which makes those restaurant grade posters on the windows moot since the DOH is not responsible to regulate the shanties because it’s the Department of Buildings role.

Some of these are also zombie shanties from restaurants that went out of business.

Although there are absolutely no rules about the open restaurants, some establishments that took advantage of the idiotic law don’t actually seem to serve food at all. Like the Basquiat gallery here, where there are clearly no restaurants in sight.

And this other artful shanty which is in front of a hookah lounge.

This one has valet parking…

But some of these non-restaurant establishments probably serve liquor, making them able to take advantage of the city’s generous loopholes, like this greenhouse in front of this nite club. Complete with HVAC and door and lock. Also defeating the purpose of preventing virus contagion.

And to think Transportation Alternatives declares that sights like this should be normal as their agitprop allies Streetsblog NYC whinnies about how these are better for the environment than the existence of cars and traffic. This shanty recently developed by a legendary lunchonette in the West Village instantly disproves their theories, which basically turns a tree into a periscope. With some very apt commentary graffiti pointing out the restaurants man made climate violation.

What Transportation Taliban and Bike Blog and their urbanist hives on social media make clear is how unconscious they are about open restaurants/streets and how neoliberal their agenda is because the shanties and barricades act as violent architecture against cars in the hopes to “induce demand” in personal vehicle commuting by frustrating drivers to forsake their cars. All in the hopes for the total banishment of the vehicle.

One thing’s overwhelmingly conclusive about the open streets/open restaurants is that because of the overzealous attention and prioritization to approve the open streets/open restaurants law for permanency, the NYC Council Cronies and de Blasio did this with absolutely no consideration for the residents at all and waited over a month to even announce any regulations for them, which according to the mayor’s office you tube channel have broken every rule that is still waiting to be written on the books. Despite all excuses of trying to govern and keep the city’s economy solvent during a pandemic, these unsightly space hogging and citizen obstructing shanties are the result of city planning designed by a kakistrocacy consisting of people disconnected from their constituents and real life.

And they will be literally disconnected in a few months because the idiot mayor and most of the idiot council cronies are term limited and won’t be around to see this open restaurants fugazi exacerbate. Thanks to the leniency and the steady presence of the more infectious delta variant, these restaurants, especially the high end expensive restaurants, will only build bigger and bigger.

Which will lead to perilous conditions for all commuters on wheels and foot, more eyesore blight, filth, garbage and rats on the streets. As long as the pandemic continues and continues to get exploited by the ruling class and the hospitality industry, the blowback and anarchy, like the shanties, will build bigger and badder and stinkier and fuglier.