Yesterday, an accident involving two buses and a motorcyclist inside the Lincoln Tunnel snarled Manhattan-bound traffic for hours. Now there are more details about what happened inside: An NYPD source tells the Daily News that "The motorcyclist was riding between two of the buses... When the first bus stopped for traffic, the second bus slammed the motorcyclist from behind, pinning him against the first bus." [ MORE]  | Today a reader sent in this photo of an orphaned doberman, which she found tied to a fence in McCarren Park... abandoned during Rainpocalpyse '11. She tells us: ... [ MORE ] |  | Yes, New York City could use a few extra bucks—but are we so strapped we need to sell rights to our basic assets? In an attempt to "maximize the value" of what we've got, the Post reports that the city is seeking a financial advisory firm's assistance. Specifically, they are interested in leasing the rights to the city's 50,000 parking meters (which generate about $150 million a year) to a private company. Because that has worked out so well for Chicago!... [ MORE ] |  | Our mayor may be against guns, and New York may have some very strict anti-gun laws, but apparently our fellow New Yorkers at least have some common sense when it comes to enforcing them. A jury today acquitted 29-year-old Floridian Jonathan Ryan in a criminal weapons possession case involving a 9mm pistol he had in his truck's glove compartment when he drove up to New York last February to help his girlfriend move.... [ MORE ] |  | A pro-life group has, ahem, aborted plans to keep a controversial billboard in SoHo up for three weeks, and will remove it prematurely, according to Al Sharpton, who tells the Daily News, "The billboard was offensive, especially during Black History Month, and I had intended to hold a press conference Friday in front of the billboard to protest the message of racial profiling and against a woman"s right to choose." Representatives of the group sponsoring the billboard, Life Always, have not yet confirmed this, but if true, local residents who were offended by the billboard are sure to be pleased. Also pleased: the mother of the girl in the ad.... [ MORE ] |  | Just days after it was officially unveiled, a controversial anti-abortion billboard in SoHo was removed by the company that owns the billboard—but not because of its message, mind you! Representatives for Lamar Advertising say it was taken down because they were worried about the waiters and waitresses in the building's restaurant.... [ MORE ] |  | Next Saturday night there was supposed to be a raging "Party to End Apartheid!" for Israeli Apartheid Week at the NYC LGBT Center, where the group Siege Busters Working Group meets regularly. (Emily Henochowicz, the Cooper Union student who lost an eye while protesting in Israel last summer, is a member.) There was going to be "DJ sets, guest performances, and great company" from 8 p.m. to midnight. But then along came gay porn producer Michael Lucas, an Israeli-American whom you may recall from such hits as Shameless Hole and Piss Gods, to pour hot oil all over the plan.... [ MORE ] |  | Billionaire investor Jeffrey Epstein was recently released from prison after serving 13 months in jail for soliciting a minor for prostitution, and he's back in his natural habitat on the Upper East Side. But don't let that fool you into thinking he's learned any humility from his legal troubles: he made it clear to the Post yesterday that a rich perv by any other name is still a rich perv. "I'm not a sexual predator, I'm an 'offender.' It's the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel," Epstein posited.... [ MORE ] | | |
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