Dubai—A friend and I once invented a game to keep us entertained at media events. We called it Dubai Bingo. Certain words and phrases crop up with such frequency in Dubai conversation that you could mark them off on a little card: Traffic, construction, heat, superficial, rent, Used to be just sand and This is Read More
Dubai—A friend and I once invented a game to keep us entertained at media events. We called it Dubai Bingo. Certain words and phrases crop up with such frequency in Dubai conversation that you could mark them off on a little card: Traffic, construction, heat, superficial, rent, Used to be just sand and This is Read More
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National Puerto Rican Day Parade may be over for the year, but the magic and mayhem still linger. While the police say the crowd was generally better behaved than in years past, that doesn’t mean anybody would mistake the event for the Steuben Day Parade.
On
June 12, at 3 p.m., the Read More
The National Puerto Rican Day Parade may be over for the year, but the magic and mayhem still linger. While the police say the crowd was generally better behaved than in years past, that doesn’t mean anybody would mistake the event for the Steuben Day Parade.
On June 12, at 3 p.m., the police ordered Read More
It was Marsha the Moose in mufti, it had to be. Even though she wasn’t wearing her antlers, her bright purple jumpsuit with puce piping was a dead giveaway, as was her smug grin as she climbed into a BMW 540. While she looked at me and my gaggle of kids, she undoubtedly saw birthday-party Read More
No Diplomatic Immunity
For UES Flower Picker
A word of advice to crooks: It’s best to commit your crimes on streets that aren’t home to foreign consulates, especially those important enough to warrant NYPD sentry boxes in front of them. That’s the lesson one plant-loving petty criminal learned on June 23, when he chose Read More
Finicky Fares Get Ride
They Hadn’t Bargained For
A calculation that all of us have to make at one time or another (with increasing frequency, it seems) has to do with strategies for dealing with a kamikaze cabdriver. If you should have the misfortune of landing one, should you confront him and risk offending Read More
Enraged Double-Parkers Take On Ticket-Writing D.O.T. Agents
Let’s face it: One of the most perilous uniformed jobs in New York isn’t that of a cop or even a correction officer on Rikers Island, but rather that of a traffic agent for the city’s Department of Transportation. At least that’s what two recent incidents on the Read More
The massive red, white and blue wreath of flowers from the Indian Consulate standing outside the 19th Precinct on a recent afternoon may have been meant not just to thank the NYPD for its hard work and heroism over the last few weeks, but also to remind them who their friends and supporters are in Read More
On a recent afternoon, 25-year-old tennis pro Nabile Taslimant stood next to a clay court at Town Tennis, an unmarked club on East 56th Street, gloomily observing one of the tragic pantomimes of his profession. On the adjacent court, a weary-looking pro was intentionally losing to an old man who had demanded a match.
After Read More
