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We have questions about the brouhaha over sex offenders living in public housing, near public schools, day-care centers, super markets; in fact anywhere within 100 yards of a child.
First: if you evict them from public housing (federal law prohibits level 2 and 3 sex offenders from living in Housing Authority apartments), where are they going to go? Is it safer for them to live in apartments not maintained by the city? Will children be safer if they are homeless? Obviously [...]
Posted in The City on February 12th, 2007 | 
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Guns! Guns! Guns! In the decade since 1995, the NYPD has seized 70,000 illegal handguns. During that time, handguns killed 5,400 New Yorkers. No wonder Mayor Bloomberg has filed federal lawsuits again four gun dealers in Virginia that, according to undercover buyers, made illegal sales. Incredibly, the dealers think this is laugh-out-loud funny, offering what they call a “Bloomberg Gun Giveaway”–a two-for-one price gun raffle.
Cops: the new Wallmart stockers. Having slaved at the Board of Education for a number of [...]
Posted in The City on January 25th, 2007 | No Comments »
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We love the feud between Rosie O’Donnell and Donald Trump, but we wonder why she hasn’t mentioned Trump’s full-page ad in the New York Times following the notorious Central Park Rape. For those who think the latest American Idol winner is old news, here’s a reminder: The Central Park Rape–or “wilding” as the unbiased NY press put it–took place on the night of April 19, 1989. A female investment banker, jogging through Central Park, was raped, beaten, and left to [...]
Posted in The City on January 10th, 2007 | No Comments »
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Public golf course owner in Brooklyn linked to Colombo soldier: So cool. The business association, mafia soldier, Craig Marino, has a chest tatoo that says “Fuck the police.” Because of our life-long aversion to the game (avid-golfer dad, teenage rebellion), we always suspected that golf course owners were freaky dudes with spaghetti-sauce-stained La Coste shirts.
New assault rap for Busta Rhymes. Another reason why “rap” is short for “crap.” According to cops, Rhymes beat up a driver who had the balls [...]
Posted in The City on January 5th, 2007 | No Comments »
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The good old days are back. Another fun controversy at City College—hotbed of radicalism, hothouse for neo-cons, and hot time for swingin’ singles. This time the beef is over a room that students named after convicted cop-killer, Assata Shakur and FALN bomber Guillermo Morales. After The Daily News made a stink, CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein ordered the sign taken down.
Shakur (originally Joanne Chesimard) was convicted of the crime in 1973, (some students, along with prominent hip-hoppers such as [...]
Posted in The City on December 29th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
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Atlantic Yards Project approved: A three-member state panel greenlights the Bruce Ratner’s $4.3 billion project that will not only include an arena for the Nets, but 16 office and residential towers that will strip that part of Brooklyn of anything resembling neighborhood. See what the Atlantic Yards Report says.
Bronx grandmother murdered by asphyxiation: we guarantee, this is the last you’ll hear of this story that merited a teensy box on page 16 of the Daily News. Thugs tied up 65-year-old [...]
Posted in The City on December 21st, 2006 | No Comments »
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Gerritsen Beach, the predominantly white, one-time fishing village located in South Brooklyn, a neighborhood, Congressman Anthony Weiner claimed “whose residents don’t put up with violence, and certainly do not tolerate hate,” has become hate crime central.
Let’s start with the four black teenagers who, this past June 26, lost in the neighborhood riding their bikes, were attacked by a mob shouting racial slurs. Three managed to escape, but the all-white mob, according to the DA’s indictment, beat the fourth and stole [...]
Posted in The City on December 12th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
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Not a suicide–murder: Actress and Queens native Adrienne Shelly did not, as originally thought, commit suicide. A 5-foot Ecuadorian worker has reportedly confessed to the murder. According to the worker, Diego Pillco, Shelly became enraged over the noise he was making, confronted him, then slapped him. Pillco then punched her. We’re not sure about the sequence of events, and we sure don’t condone violence, but we have to wonder (and, no, we are not blaming the victim), why did Shelly [...]
Posted in The City on November 7th, 2006 | No Comments »
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Developer Bruce Ratner, who has been using the promise of moving the NJ Nets to Brooklyn as a way to build public support for his mega-monster Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn (without the Nets, it would be just another cold-blooded eyesore like Metro Tech) now intimates he may move his Nets to Queens.
As part of his review of Ruthie’s, a soul food place in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Famous Fat Dave, ubiquitous food blogger, filmed a homeless guy trying to crash [...]
Posted in The City on October 20th, 2006 | No Comments »
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Some questions even Recharger, whose IQ is at least 74, cannot answer. For example, why does the apparent slaying of a 9-year-old girl and her mother appear on page 24 of today’s NY Post? According to the story, the decomposing bodies of Mariah Navarro, who attended fourth grade at a local school, and her mom, Maria Rivera were found bludgeoned and wrapped in blankets in their ninth-floor, West Harlem apartment. Googling the name “Mariah Navarro” brings up nothing on the [...]
Posted in The City on October 18th, 2006 | 3 Comments »
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