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February 29, 2004
The Man
Fall victim may have been robbed "The man who was thrown from a third-story window in Brooklyn Friday may have been the victim of an attempted robbery, police said yesterday." The first few words made me think about this a...Posted by at 2:49 PM
2-for-1
2 Bodies Turn up in Town "Four men fishing in a Central Park pond stumbled on a gruesome discovery yesterday: the body of a man laying face down in ice that was breaking up in the warm weather." Then: "Meanwhile,...Posted by at 2:42 PM
Not Above the Law
New York Police Car Towed "They collared and handcuffed Sherika Brown without incident - but when they emerged from the famed cheesecake mecca, their unmarked car was gone." What happened to it? "Turns out they had parked in a No...Posted by at 2:35 PM
The New Gangs of New York
Bloody gangs of New York "Gang slayings shot up nearly 80% across the city last year, a startling statistic given the Police Department's success in pushing overall murders to historic lows." This story is actually a pretty good introduction to...Posted by at 2:31 PM
February 28, 2004
Man Arrested in NYCT Murders, Tries to Hang Himself
1010 WINS: SUSPECT TRIES SUICIDE "A former NYC Transit Authority worker was arrested early Saturday in the shooting deaths of two supervisors, police announced. "Darryl Dinkins, 39, of Brooklyn, was arrested at 7:15 a.m. after a day of questioning by...Posted by at 1:26 PM
February 27, 2004
Where's Doug Llewelyn When You Need Him?
Tenant, Owner Shoot Each Other "A Staten Island landlord was shot in the back by one of his tenants yesterday in an argument over a late rent payment - but was able to wrestle the gun away and fire back,...Posted by at 12:21 PM
Good News, Bad News
Subway-push victim reunited with hero Good News: "The Manhattan woman who was pushed off a subway platform was reunited last night with the humble hero who rescued her from almost certain death." Bad News: "Brown ran off to get help,...Posted by at 12:04 PM
NYC Transit Murder
Two transit workers found shot dead on the job "Two NYC Transit supervisors were found shot to death Friday in a trailer at a Coney Island rail yard, hours after they showed up for an overnight shift, police said." Police...Posted by at 11:56 AM
February 26, 2004
Not Him
Sex predator may still be out there "A warning to New Yorkers: The highly publicized arrest of a Queens man in a string of sexual assaults and robberies on the Upper East Side in late January apparently was a case...Posted by at 11:58 PM
Melissa Kennedy
Update: Melissa's uncle Gerard posted a comment below with a link to a site her family has set up. Please take a look. Another Update: She's been found. Please take a look. Family searches for missing co-ed "What was supposed...Posted by at 11:52 PM
Look for Good Samaritan, Ignore Pusher
I want my hero! "A Manhattan woman shoved onto subway tracks by a deranged homeless man is desperately searching for the anonymous hero who pulled her to safety seconds before a train roared into the station." This happened at the...Posted by at 1:21 PM
11 Years Ago
World Trade Center Bombing "On February 26, 1993, a car bomb was planted by the Islamist terrorists in the underground garage below Tower One. The bomb's fuses burnt at a rate of one inch per two and one half seconds....Posted by at 12:27 AM
Ramming Speed
Man charged with hitting police cars "A Queens man rammed his sport utility vehicle into the police car of an officer responding to a domestic call at the man's home then returned about 90 minutes later and crashed into two...Posted by at 12:00 AM
February 25, 2004
$35,000 in MetroCards
Man Charged With Stealing Over $35,000 in MetroCards "A worker who maintained ticket vending machines for the Long Island Rail Road was charged yesterday with stealing more than $35,000 worth of MetroCards from them, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation...Posted by at 10:16 AM
February 24, 2004
Live Wires
NewYorkish: Wet Streets, Live Electrical Wires NewYorkish reports on the continuing battle against live wires. Complete with picture of exposed wire poking out from the street. Super....Posted by at 3:30 PM
Good News -- Only 344 Killed
City traffic deaths driven way down "Traffic deaths are at the lowest level in nearly a century, with 344 people killed last year in a city of 8 million." That's less than one a day! "You have to go back...Posted by at 2:43 AM
Subway Violence
Weekend train attacks hurt 3 men, 2 seriously "A No. 4 train passenger was stabbed repeatedly yesterday morning, one of three attacks that occurred on the subways this weekend, police said." Police called the attack "unprovoked." Also... "Police are also...Posted by at 2:34 AM
Pistol Whip
Police suspend cop accused of hitting friend with his gun "A police officer was arrested and suspended yesterday after he got into a fight with a friend in Sunset Park, police said." Some friend....Posted by at 2:31 AM
It'll Be Like Woodstock
To Greet G.O.P., Protests of Varying Volume "Though the Police Department and many protest organizers have been reluctant to predict how many people will ultimately turn out for protests, estimates have ranged from 500,000 people to a million." Where are...Posted by at 2:27 AM
February 20, 2004
Maybe He Just Likes Books... A Lot
Trespasser In Library Accused, Charged "A man was charged with criminal trespassing Wednesday night in Butler Library, and further charges may be forthcoming." Ok, nothing out of the ordinary. Maybe he was just lost or something. "The man, Anthony Perri--who...Posted by at 11:12 PM
New York Press - ScaryNY Readers?
Shouldn’ta Had that Burrito Does the New York Press read ScaryNY? In their crime blotter section, which I actually kind of like, they had this to say about the two people who died after carbon monoxide fumes filled their apartment....Posted by at 6:01 PM
Divine Secrets of the YaYa Wacko-hood
Mayor Bloomberg Shrugs Off Phone Threat "Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday shrugged off a threat against him made to the city's 311 telephone hot line by a Bronx man police found armed with a gun. "The caller, Awlia Yaya, 38,...Posted by at 5:39 PM
Missing Poster
Did Bogus Doc Kill Woman? "Police are investigating the possibility that Maria Cruz, the financial analyst missing since April, died in a Chelsea apartment during a laser removal procedure performed by a charlatan posing as a doctor." I'm happy they...Posted by at 2:05 AM
February 18, 2004
Most NYC Surfing Bad
Manhattan Man Found Dead on Rooftop "A Manhattan man was found dead on the roof of his building Monday afternoon, in what police believe was a case of rooftop surfing." I didn't know what rooftop surfing was. "Police said it...Posted by at 1:08 PM
35th
Empire Death Leap "A man jumped to his death from the 80th floor of the Empire State Building yesterday after walking into an office under the guise of applying for a job and climbing out a window, police said."...Posted by at 7:48 AM
All Walk Signs Converted
Completion of Installation of Energy Efficient and Pedestrian Friendly Traffic Lights "Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Iris Weinshall today ushered in a new era for New York City transportation by announcing the completion of the...Posted by at 1:02 AM
February 17, 2004
G.I. G.O.P
GOP fest may get G.I. patrol "Federal officials have discussed bringing in U.S. troops to boost security at this summer's Republican National Convention - but the NYPD doesn't think it needs them." What exactly would they be doing? Beyond just...Posted by at 5:27 PM
Wrong Way on a One-Way Track
Amtrak hits car driving on tracks "A badly confused 80-year-old woman heading from the Bronx to Manhattan drove onto the Spuyten Duyvil railroad bridge last night, where an Amtrak train rammed her car and plowed it 250 feet along the...Posted by at 5:10 PM
Falling Rock Kills Grandmother
Grandmother Dies in Freak Car Accident "A 77-year-old grandmother who was heading to a Brooklyn shopping mall Monday to take advantage of holiday sales was killed when a bowling ball sized rock crashed through the windshield of her car and...Posted by at 1:21 AM
Heard of Locks?
Prisoner Escapes in the Bronx "A handcuffed prisoner swung open the side door of a police van in the Bronx Monday afternoon and managed to escape, police said." Don't they lock those vans? Seriously. Those kid-proof doors should be enough....Posted by at 1:17 AM
February 16, 2004
Poor Headline
1010 WINS: Silent But Deadly "Two people died and two others were critically hurt after they breathed carbon monoxide fumes in a Manhattan apartment building, authorities said." Ok, I know the person who wrote this headline knows there's another use...Posted by at 11:19 AM
February 15, 2004
Any Word on the Small Stuff?
New York Police Training for Catastrophic Terrorism "The New York Police Department, working with city health officials, federal authorities and other agencies, has been preparing for a possible attack with nuclear, biological or chemical weapons, perhaps the most daunting threat...Posted by at 12:43 PM
Remember the movie Problem Child?
Suspended at 5 years old "First, the student went after a classmate with a pair of scissors. Later the same day he knocked the teacher into an easel, bruising her jaw. A few months later he hit another student and...Posted by at 12:13 PM
Deliveryman Killed
Deliveryman is found slain in Queens "The teenage son of a Chinese restaurant owner was clubbed and knifed to death by two 16-year-olds while delivering food to Rochdale Village in Queens, police said last night."...Posted by at 12:03 PM
February 12, 2004
So How'd You Meet?
Queens Pupils Get Flashed "So, how did you and Frank meet?" "Oh, it's a sweet story, really. Frank 'was seated at the wheel of his white two-door sedan outside PS 18 in Queens Village' when we 'were walking to school.'...Posted by at 9:00 PM
I'm Here to Learn
New York City - Police Arrest 4 Students In 3 Boroughs "A spate of crime ripped through city high schools yesterday with police arresting four students in three boroughs and confiscating two weapons - a loaded 9-mm handgun and a...Posted by at 8:44 PM
February 11, 2004
Read the Comments
Gothamist: Woman Killed By Subway "Yesterday afternoon, a 19 year-old woman was killed by an oncoming V train when she climbed down to pick up her cellphone on the subway tracks." [Gothamist does a really good job with this stuff,...Posted by at 12:36 PM
February 10, 2004
F Train Fire
Portrait of Near Disaster "Potentially lethal mistakes hampered the evacuation of subway riders during a fire last summer at Brooklyn's York Street station and exposed numerous vulnerabilities in the armor of the century-old transit system, according to a draft report...Posted by at 7:30 PM
Remembering Catherine "Kitty" Genovese: 40 years later
More details on the Catherine "Kitty" Genovese symposium forum I mentioned here. I plan on attending. --------------------- Dear Friend, Even 40 years after the Genovese tragedy, journalist Jim Rasenberger's sensitive and powerful report in the Feb 8 Sunday Times (City,...Posted by at 4:46 PM
Heads Up
Bronx Boy Smashed by Falling Bricks "A 10-year-old boy was seriously hurt after being bashed on the head by bricks that fell from the top of a building as he and pals walked home from school in The Bronx yesterday,...Posted by at 12:36 PM
February 9, 2004
Kitty, 40 Years Later
Kitty, 40 Years Later "Forty years ago, on March 13, 1964, the picturesque tranquillity of Kew Gardens was shattered by the murder of 28-year-old Catherine Genovese, known as Kitty. The murder was grisly, but it wasn't the particulars of the...Posted by at 7:55 PM
2 men fight, fall 3 floors but still live
2 men fight, fall 3 floors but still live "A slugfest between two men over bootleg music CDs ended when both crashed through closed elevator doors yesterday and plunged three stories onto the elevator car in a Manhattan building, police...Posted by at 7:55 PM
February 4, 2004
Death Traps
Death Traps "Dozens of electrified manhole and service-box covers that could zap you to death have been discovered throughout the city, Con Ed revealed yesterday." In case you didn't get that the first time, they can "zap you to death."...Posted by at 12:33 PM
'Taliban' taunt in sex attacks
'Taliban' taunt in sex attacks "Accused East Side sex attacker Kevin White threatened to 'go Taliban' on a male victim and allegedly violated him with a pair of scissors, court records revealed yesterday." Go Taliban? What exactly does that mean...Posted by at 12:32 PM
Powdery Envelopes Prompt Postal Scares
Powdery Envelopes Prompt Postal Scares "Three envelopes containing white powder that turned out to be harmless were discovered yesterday at three U.S. Postal facilities in New York -- one in Brooklyn and two in Manhattan -- authorities said." So this...Posted by at 12:32 PM
Gothamist: Death's Decline in New York City
Gothamist: Death's Decline in New York City Gothamist does a fine job of making death cheery....Posted by at 12:14 PM
February 2, 2004
Suspect Arrested in East Side Sex Assaults
Suspect Arrested in East Side Sex Assaults "Police announced the arrest on Sunday of a man believed to have sexually assaulted a woman and a man on separate days this week in their Manhattan apartment buildings." Well that's good news....Posted by at 5:31 PM
F.Y.I.: When MetroCard Fails
F.Y.I.: When MetroCard Fails "Q: Occasionally my unlimited MetroCard will fail, and there is inevitably a long line for the attendant - or no attendant at all. Am I breaking any laws if I save everyone's time and hop over...Posted by at 1:31 AM
Arrest Warrant Issued For 50 Cent
Arrest Warrant Issued For 50 Cent "Police issued an arrest warrant for multi-platinum rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, after he allegedly threatened gun play at a video shoot yesterday (January 31)." Woops. Read the story. It's not clear if he...Posted by at 1:31 AM
1010 WINS: TRAGIC MISTAKE
1010 WINS: TRAGIC MISTAKE "A Manhattan woman was electrocuted in a freak dog-walking accident because utility workers failed to properly wrap an exposed wire one year earlier, Consolidated Edison announced Thursday after an internal probe." Well negligence doesn't really make...Posted by at 1:30 AM
February 1, 2004
Shocking flaw by Con Ed
Shocking flaw by Con Ed "Four blocks from where a woman was shocked to death by a charged Con Ed grate cover, pedestrians were forced yesterday to sidestep a frayed electrical cable running across a sidewalk. "And despite calls from...Posted by at 12:32 PM