In the last four years keeping this blog afloat and building a modest social media following while having been the proud owner of about 5 or 6 cellphones, I've amassed a sizeable collection of photos of places, people and things that caught my eye and captured an indelible moment worthy of immortality and a massive … Continue reading OBVIOUSLY KNOWN And SCENES FROM QUEENS: Two New Photo Series On People, Places And Things In New York City
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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%
It Was 40 Years Ago Tonight: The Assassination Of A Beatle
New York City, New York John Lennon. Brilliant singer-songwriter for the Beatles and solo artist for a decade and New York City citizen for just as long, died from the gun of a zealous maniacal fan who shot him four times in front of the building where he lived with his wife Yoko as they … Continue reading It Was 40 Years Ago Tonight: The Assassination Of A Beatle
New Bad Days 78: Shootings Continue To Escalate At NYCHA Buildings; Protests Are Getting More Aggressive By Demonstrators, Boosters And The NYPD With Clashes In Bed-Stuy And In Times Square, A Squad Of Black Bloc Bikers Tag The Entire Front Of A Townhouse, And Collusion By The NYPD And Trump Supporters To Entrap Protesters And Reporters; A Man Dumps His Dead Pregnant Girlfriend On The Highway And A Woman Throws Her New Born Baby Out The Window; Staten Island Eateries Get Hit In A Stream Of Burglaries; EBike Robberies Rise; Random Assaults, Drive-By Shootings And Stray Bullets Continue To Inflict Pain And Kill Without Warning
As the NYPD are busy trying to monitor protests that are getting more chaotic with polarizing assemblies of people from the left and the right, shootings continue to escalate on the streets of New York in an increase of 96% compared to last year with a 37% increase of casualties. The stats are more pronounced … Continue reading New Bad Days 78: Shootings Continue To Escalate At NYCHA Buildings; Protests Are Getting More Aggressive By Demonstrators, Boosters And The NYPD With Clashes In Bed-Stuy And In Times Square, A Squad Of Black Bloc Bikers Tag The Entire Front Of A Townhouse, And Collusion By The NYPD And Trump Supporters To Entrap Protesters And Reporters; A Man Dumps His Dead Pregnant Girlfriend On The Highway And A Woman Throws Her New Born Baby Out The Window; Staten Island Eateries Get Hit In A Stream Of Burglaries; EBike Robberies Rise; Random Assaults, Drive-By Shootings And Stray Bullets Continue To Inflict Pain And Kill Without Warning
New Bad Days 77: NYPD Continues Attacking Protesters While Enabling Vehicular Violence Against Them In Manhattan And Lynch Mobs And Anarchy In Brooklyn; The High Frequency Of Random Assaults Claims Rick Moranis As A Victim While Brazen Gunpoint Muggings Occur In Broad Daylight By Talyor Swift’s Townhouses; A Man Shreds An A Train By Throwing Shit On The Tracks; Stray Bullets Hit A Boy During J’Ouvert Parade That Was Supposed To Be Cancelled, Hit A Man While Protecting His Children At An Auto Dealership And And Killed A Woman When She Looked Outside Her Window;The Fast And The Furious Movies Are Being Recreated In A Home Depot Parking Lot; BLM Cosplayers Steal American Flags After They Went To The Wrong House To Yell At And Shootings Meant For Their Targets Continue To Escalate Along With Muggings And Burglaries
On Labor Day weekend, the NYPD made a grand announcement to, well, fight crime. Commissioner Shea and his fellow high brass fellow Blue Bloods assembled and deployed cops to the streets to ramp up arrests and tamp down on gun violence, primarily in Brooklyn where shooting have led to triple digit percentage increases from last … Continue reading New Bad Days 77: NYPD Continues Attacking Protesters While Enabling Vehicular Violence Against Them In Manhattan And Lynch Mobs And Anarchy In Brooklyn; The High Frequency Of Random Assaults Claims Rick Moranis As A Victim While Brazen Gunpoint Muggings Occur In Broad Daylight By Talyor Swift’s Townhouses; A Man Shreds An A Train By Throwing Shit On The Tracks; Stray Bullets Hit A Boy During J’Ouvert Parade That Was Supposed To Be Cancelled, Hit A Man While Protecting His Children At An Auto Dealership And And Killed A Woman When She Looked Outside Her Window;The Fast And The Furious Movies Are Being Recreated In A Home Depot Parking Lot; BLM Cosplayers Steal American Flags After They Went To The Wrong House To Yell At And Shootings Meant For Their Targets Continue To Escalate Along With Muggings And Burglaries
Impunity City 