Rikers Island, pariah government center on scrumptious speculative real estate. From the elected denizens occupying City Hall, they have begun the dizzying ill conceived official program to shut down Rikers Island and transfer all convicts present and future to four jails in the boroughs of Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, and Manhattan. But not Staten Island, because … Continue reading New Bad Days 46: Like It And Learn To Love It, Rikers Island Shutdown Is Underway As It Was Announced 60 Hours After A Group Of Five Gangbangers Crippled A Correction Officer; A Class Size Group Of Kids Beat Down A Homeless Man On The A Train; A Dead Baby Abandoned In A Park; Two Women Beat Down A Pregnant Woman And Slam A Door On Her Feet; Rap Crew Films Shitty Video And Shows Off Their Stash While Imprisoned; Super Crazy Guy Jumps Roofs In Bed-Stuy And Multiple Random And Intentional Slashings And Deadly Domestic Disputes.
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Mission Virtually Accomplished: The Lefferts Blvd. Elevator Is Activated.
South Ozone Park, N.Y., U.S.A. In what I admit could be an abberation in the usual posts that get written here, here is an actual good news bulletin and sign of albeit late ass civic progress. As reported here since this digital publication's inception, it took almost 4 years, but the main entrance of the … Continue reading Mission Virtually Accomplished: The Lefferts Blvd. Elevator Is Activated.
New Bad Days 42: Fatal Shootings In Front Of Bodegas, Restaurants, In Driver’s Seats And The Streets Of N.Y.; A Punk Kid Goes For A Brutal Joy Ride In Prospect Park; Brazen Attacks On Cops For Their Service Guns And A Real Case Of Broken Windows, Just On Their Squad Cars.
I Peace New York. What? Piece of what? You can't mean P-E-A-C-E Cause I've seen people on the streets Shoot the next man and turn around and say peace Brooklyn In East New York, an 80-year-old manager of a bodega was shot 11 times and killed by a man who hours earlier got angry with a … Continue reading New Bad Days 42: Fatal Shootings In Front Of Bodegas, Restaurants, In Driver’s Seats And The Streets Of N.Y.; A Punk Kid Goes For A Brutal Joy Ride In Prospect Park; Brazen Attacks On Cops For Their Service Guns And A Real Case Of Broken Windows, Just On Their Squad Cars.
Thanksgiving Props To The New York Times For Excellent Report On MTA And Government Incompetence And Financing Malfeasance
The New York Times put together a massive and thorough report on the historic and current wretched operations and financing of the Metropolitan Transit Authority the other day and it's a motherfucker. It covers 20 plus years of bureaucratic bullshit, lousy management, circumventing state and city funding of the decrepit antiquated and as the paper … Continue reading Thanksgiving Props To The New York Times For Excellent Report On MTA And Government Incompetence And Financing Malfeasance
There Is A Delay At Lefferts Blvd. Station Renovation Ahead Because Of State And City Government Indifference And Negligence, Stupid Bickering From The Governor And Mayor, Tardy Contractors, Selective And Overdue Renovations At Other Stations, And Stupid Priorities Focusing On Optics And Social Interaction.
Lefferts Blvd. Station, November 2017. Ain't a damn thing changed. Richmond Hill, Queens, N.F'n.Y. The renovation and modernization of the Lefferts Blvd. Station remains incomplete and nearly 2 years behind schedule. This was supposed to be finished on September 2016. When I last wrote about this, it was with great relief that the staircase was … Continue reading There Is A Delay At Lefferts Blvd. Station Renovation Ahead Because Of State And City Government Indifference And Negligence, Stupid Bickering From The Governor And Mayor, Tardy Contractors, Selective And Overdue Renovations At Other Stations, And Stupid Priorities Focusing On Optics And Social Interaction.
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