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 … Continue reading Scenes Of Queens: Across 118th Street
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New Bad Days 87, The Summer Of Blaz Strike 1: Teen Gangbangers Die From Reciprocation Assassinations; More Gangbangers Assemble In Indiscriminatory Mass Shooting Of Rivals And Bystanders; Man Pursues Pedicab Driver And Crushes Him Under His SUV; Cop Saves Gunshot Victim With Bag Of Chips And A Lieutenant Takes A Bullet In The Leg To Detain A Perp; Queens Teens Beat Down An Off-Duty Fireman And Film The Violence; Man Kills Mother Of Son Who He Failed To Steal A Backpack From; Teenagers Blasts Citibike Riding Man Twice He Was Expecting To Meet At A Bodega; Sexual Assault Ambushes Returns To Parks; Motor Scooters, Mopeds And Citibikes Have Become An Accessory In Ride-By Shootings As Well As The Usual Incidents Of Gun Violence With Holdups And Escalations; Auto Theft Continues To Surge Along With Assaults Against The Elderly, Asians And Muslims, Stabbings And Slashings, Wanton Vandalism, Crime In The Subway, Home Invasions And Reckless Driving
The Summer of NYC got off to an auspicious start with generous funding boost from President Joe Biden, who sent $6,000,000,000 of federal stimulus to the city in the hopes that current mayor Bill de Blasio would use it to ramp up police enforcement to repress the surging elevation in serious crimes that have … Continue reading New Bad Days 87, The Summer Of Blaz Strike 1: Teen Gangbangers Die From Reciprocation Assassinations; More Gangbangers Assemble In Indiscriminatory Mass Shooting Of Rivals And Bystanders; Man Pursues Pedicab Driver And Crushes Him Under His SUV; Cop Saves Gunshot Victim With Bag Of Chips And A Lieutenant Takes A Bullet In The Leg To Detain A Perp; Queens Teens Beat Down An Off-Duty Fireman And Film The Violence; Man Kills Mother Of Son Who He Failed To Steal A Backpack From; Teenagers Blasts Citibike Riding Man Twice He Was Expecting To Meet At A Bodega; Sexual Assault Ambushes Returns To Parks; Motor Scooters, Mopeds And Citibikes Have Become An Accessory In Ride-By Shootings As Well As The Usual Incidents Of Gun Violence With Holdups And Escalations; Auto Theft Continues To Surge Along With Assaults Against The Elderly, Asians And Muslims, Stabbings And Slashings, Wanton Vandalism, Crime In The Subway, Home Invasions And Reckless Driving
New Bad Days 79: Former City Hall Aide Gets Mugged In The Subway And Is Shocked About It As Crime On Mass Transit Inclines And As Mentally Ill Men Push People On The Tracks In Consecutive Days; Two Dead Babies Left To Rot In An Alley;Two Women Get Struck By Stray Bullets From Gang Related Shootings; An Abusive Husband And A Fugitive Both Die Respectably In Shootouts With The NYPD And U.S. Marshals; Endangered Parking Spaces On Open Streets Are Devolving Into Street Fights; Gun Toting Thug Robs And Terrorizes Woman And Her Small Business And Child Twice; Gun Runners Get Caught In The Act After One Of Them Complains About A Baby Getting Killed; NYPD Continues Overdeployments Of Political Protests As A Bartender Declares His Bar An Autonomous Zone And Defends It By Running Over A NYC Sheriff’s Deputy Gets Kid Gloves Treatment As Gang Related And Individual Gun Violence Rises 101%
Manhattan In the West Village and Greenwich Village, cops arrested 57 people who were protesting on the street as the presidential election results were being tabulated. Fires were being set on the road and in garbage cans. One woman punched a cop in the face and another woman spit in another cops face and got … Continue reading New Bad Days 79: Former City Hall Aide Gets Mugged In The Subway And Is Shocked About It As Crime On Mass Transit Inclines And As Mentally Ill Men Push People On The Tracks In Consecutive Days; Two Dead Babies Left To Rot In An Alley;Two Women Get Struck By Stray Bullets From Gang Related Shootings; An Abusive Husband And A Fugitive Both Die Respectably In Shootouts With The NYPD And U.S. Marshals; Endangered Parking Spaces On Open Streets Are Devolving Into Street Fights; Gun Toting Thug Robs And Terrorizes Woman And Her Small Business And Child Twice; Gun Runners Get Caught In The Act After One Of Them Complains About A Baby Getting Killed; NYPD Continues Overdeployments Of Political Protests As A Bartender Declares His Bar An Autonomous Zone And Defends It By Running Over A NYC Sheriff’s Deputy Gets Kid Gloves Treatment As Gang Related And Individual Gun Violence Rises 101%
New Bad Days 75: Daily Shootings And Gang Violence Resurface In The Bronx, Manhattan And Brooklyn In A Rise In Violence Not Seen In 30 Years While Clashes Between BLM Protesters And Police Supporters Escalate, An Occupation Protest At City Hall Goes Awry And Barhoppers Persist To Party Hard In Defiance Of A Novel Virus On The Streets Of New York
Following the daily relentless George Floyd protests against systemic police brutality and the exposure of the NYPD equally relentless aggression against the people participating in them even when violent crimes were rising on the streets of the five boroughs particularly shootings in 10 precincts, Commissioner Shea and Mayor de Blasio decided to abolish the plain … Continue reading New Bad Days 75: Daily Shootings And Gang Violence Resurface In The Bronx, Manhattan And Brooklyn In A Rise In Violence Not Seen In 30 Years While Clashes Between BLM Protesters And Police Supporters Escalate, An Occupation Protest At City Hall Goes Awry And Barhoppers Persist To Party Hard In Defiance Of A Novel Virus On The Streets Of New York
Holes In The Ozone
Ozone Park, Queens, New York It was about a year ago that I wrote a post called Affixing A Hole, observing and photographing grotesque cracks and craters on the streets and storm drains and the innovation that gets implemented by the city's Department's of Transportation and Environmental Preservation to deter people away from the … Continue reading Holes In The Ozone