Freedom is Confusing For Artistic Foreigners

If you’ve ever visited a former Communist republic, you know that graffiti can be a problem. It’s as if, after all those years of stifled creative expression, it explodes all over the place from the nozzle of a spray-paint can.

And while free expression (if not vandalism) is to be encouraged, we’d prefer its practitioners Read More

Likeable Homeless Perps Get Expensive Sympathy Uptown

You know those pain-in-the-ass (literally) counter stools they have at places like Starbucks and your corner pizzeria? Their lack of comfort is the least of their liabilities, as a man discovered on Jan. 10 when he visited the Bagel Shoppe at 1421 Second Avenue.

The victim, a 43-year-old East 69th Street resident, was minding his Read More

Likeable Homeless Perps Get Expensive Sympathy Uptown

You know those pain-in-the-ass (literally) counter stools they have at places like Starbucks and your corner pizzeria? Their lack of comfort is the least of their liabilities, as a man discovered on Jan. 10 when he visited the Bagel Shoppe at 1421 Second Avenue.

The victim, a 43-year-old East 69th Street resident, was minding Read More

The Revolution Begins— On the Upper East Side!

Chalk one up for the evildoers: A man told the police that he was walking past 203 East 89th Street at 7:50 p.m. on Jan. 1 when he spotted a political protest in progress. A male, described as approximately 18 years old, 5-foot-8, 120 pounds and with short black hair, was scrawling “Bush sucks cock” Read More

The Revolution Begins- On the Upper East Side!

Chalk one up for the evildoers: A man told the police that he was walking past 203 East 89th Street at 7:50 p.m. on Jan. 1 when he spotted a political protest in progress. A male, described as approximately 18 years old, 5-foot-8, 120 pounds and with short black hair, was scrawling “Bush sucks cock” Read More

Toxic Substance at Sotheby’s! House HazMat Team Cleans Up

The high-end auction-house business is considered among the more genteel of professions. But apparently it has its perils—and not just for those who bid over their heads. On Dec. 5, the NYPD was summoned to Sotheby’s after three employees were exposed to a toxic substance.

The substance in question wasn’t formaldehyde that leaked from some Read More

Toxic Substance at Sotheby’s! House HazMat Team Cleans Up

The high-end auction-house business is considered among the more genteel of professions. But apparently it has its perils—and not just for those who bid over their heads. On Dec. 5, the NYPD was summoned to Sotheby’s after three employees were exposed to a toxic substance.

The substance in question wasn’t formaldehyde that leaked from some Read More

Toxic Substance at Sotheby’s! House HazMat Team Cleans Up

The high-end auction-house business is considered among the more genteel of professions. But apparently it has its perils—and not just for those who bid over their heads. On Dec. 5, the NYPD was summoned to Sotheby’s after three employees were exposed to a toxic substance.

The substance in question wasn’t formaldehyde that leaked from some Read More