 [UPDATED BELOW] Recently a video was uploaded to YouTube showing a carriage horse drinking on a NYC street from a puddle of "the disgusting, contaminated, filthy water that he has no choice but to stand in. The water trough that is supposed to provide him with fresh drinking water is dry and filled with garbage." Back in the day, the ASPCA brought showers and drinking fountains to the thousands of working horses in the city... so where are they now? We contacted the organization for a comment; below, Patrick Kwan of the Humane Society of U.S. gave us his thoughts on the matter. [MORE]  | Wikileaks honcho Julian Assange is going back Sweden. A British court earlier today ordered Assange to return to the country where he faces accusations of sexual abuse. He has seven days to appeal the ruling (read it here), which his lawyers have made clear they intend to do.... [ MORE ] |  | The two teachers from James Madison High School who were accused of having a steamy lesbian tryst in the janitor's closet last year are sick and tired of your snickering, sexy jokes, and they are gonna make the city pay for it. Former teachers Alini Brito and Cindy Mauro are suing the city for $2 million, for "wrongful termination, libel and slander."... [ MORE ] |  | It's been a tough few years for cantankerous NY Post columnist Steve "He Who Yells At Cloud" Cuozzo. So many changes in this town! Particularly near his office, where the DOT turned several blocks of Broadway into pedestrian plazas that Cuozzo did NOT sign off on. Infernal bike lanes have popped up everywhere, cigarette smoking is criminalized, and now the DOT is still threatening big changes to 34th Street. In a new rant entitled "Debacle on 34th St.; DOT's plans to ruin grand blvd," Cuozzo draws a line in the sand:... [ MORE ] |  | The Parks Department is trying to bring more gourmet food vendors to NYC parks, in order to offer an alternative to pretzels and dirty water dogs—but the Manhattan community board that includes the Upper East Side WON'T STAND FOR IT. Last week the board voted to reject a proposal that would install specialty food carts at two locations in Central Park: at 72nd Street and Fifth Avenue, and 80th Street and Central Park West. The co-chair of the Parks Committee, Peggy Price, recently explained why; she doesn't hate the food, she hates the aesthetics.... [ MORE ] |  | The NYPD has been relentlessly cracking down on cyclists who pedal through red lights in Central Park, handing out numerous $270 tickets to violators. Despite an outcry from cyclists who say it's absurd to stop at a red light when the crosswalk is clear, one police source says they're going to enforce the letter of the law from now until "forever." But there's one thing the NYPD didn't count on: a petition. ... [ MORE ] |  | Sen. Chuck Schumer, a long-time advocate of "rational gun-control laws," is putting his legislative money where his mouth is when it comes to gun laws: he told reporters that he is drafting legislation to require all gun buyers to undergo a thorough background check. And he wants to increase penalties to any states that don't contribute names to the national background-check system. ... [ MORE ] |  | After months of enduring the cigar smoke wafting into his apartment from his elderly neighbor's unit, Upper East Side resident Russell Poses couldn't take it any more. He claims neighbor Harry Lyson had stubbornly refused to give up his cigars, leaving Poses and his wife—who live with their two children on East 79th Street—no choice but to file a $2 million lawsuit against him. But a nasty legal battle came to an end yesterday, and Lyson got off easy with a settlement that will cost him just $2,000 per cigar if the Poses family ever smells smoke.... [ MORE ] | | |
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