A gang of tween vandals were "tagging" their names in wet cement outside their school in Middlesex, New Jersey recently when the local constabulary happened upon them. Taking swift action, police collared the young hoodlums, took them downtown for questioning, and finally handed over them to their parents, who signed an agreement to punish the children and paid a $250 fine each—except the father of 11-year-old Kelly Zierdt, who is refusing to pay his daughter's debt to society. And now his little princess is being called before a judge to face justice. [ MORE]  | Upper West Side residents are up in arms over the forthcoming homeless invasion of Manhattan, and they're not just going to sit complacently and watch their change and their sidewalks disappear. Concerned residents packed into a meeting last night at Community Board 7 to protest a planned homeless facility on West 94th Street, which they believe could be the tipping point that turns the Upper West Side into San Francisco. "It feels like a recurring nightmare to many of us. You're trying to convert it back to the 1970s," said Amanda Larrick, according to DNAinfo. Get out your tiny violins, because we're gonna have us a hoedown!... [ MORE ] |  | Before the holidays, there was much debate about the appropriateness of giving elementary school kids poetry with references to crackheads performing oral sex. City Councilman Charles Barron argued that 'Huckleberry Finn' was more offensive, since it included over 200 uses of the N-word. While nobody may want Barron to be their Governor, it seems as though the publishing industry was listening: Publishers Weekly announced the release of a new edition of the Mark Twain classic, which will leave out the N-word entirely. And that hasn't gotten anybody riled up at all.... [ MORE ] |  | The push to ghettoize cigarette smokers has been taken to the next level in Great Neck (just two miles from the New York City border!) where the town elders have voted to ban smoking on sidewalks. It's only a matter of time before this latest attack on smokers—which will soon drive them out of NYC parks and beaches—happens here, inevitably culminating with a law requiring smokers to wear electronic collars that zap them if they light up outside designated subterranean nicotine bunkers. The smoking world needs a savior. Enter Audrey Silk, head of the NYC-based smoker's rights group Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment, has anything to say about it.... [ MORE ] |  | Nicholas Brooks, who is accused of killing his fashion designer girlfriend at the Soho House, had reportedly expressed concerns about going to jail, telling cops, "I'm Jewish and I'm worried about getting beat up by white supremacists. I watch the show 'Oz.' I've seen what happens in jail." Well, now a person who was visiting a relative at Rikers Island tells the Post that Brooks was "cry[ing] like a baby" and saying "how he wants to get out of here." ... [ MORE ] |  | We've likely seen the last of the blizzard deaths, but blame game is just beginning. Last night Chief John Peruggia, head of the Emergency Medical Services Command, was sacked by Fire Commissioner Salvatore Cassano. Peruggia, who will stay on with the FDNY in a "new role to be determined," is being replaced by 25-year FDNY veteran Abdo Nahmod.... [ MORE ] |  | Yesterday morning, a special needs Bronx teenager was left in critical condition after he was attacked outside his school and stabbed in the neck with scissors. The Daily News and NY Times interviewed some of 16-year-old Negro Rivera's classmates, who labeled him a "troublemaker," and a "bully." But a former teacher at P 12 Lewis and Clark School took umbrage to the media's handling of the story, and wrote us to add more context to the incident:... [ MORE ] | | |
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