More proof of police quotas? A reader sent us this video of a traffic agent on 94th Street and 5th Avenue in Brooklyn, allegedly giving out tickets at 12:52 p.m. yesterday. The only problem is that alternate sides parking ends eight minutes later. It would have been helpful if the videographer thought to put a clock in the shot or something. [ MORE]  | The NYPD's Gang Unit was checking out the Bronx home of a suspect gangster and, according to reports, found 12 firearms ("including five assault weapons"), 2000 rounds of ammunition, night vision goggles, binoculars, a bullet proof vest, M-80 explosives, some cocaine, scales, a cocaine grinder, a vacuum seal presser, money counter and "a jar that appeared to be filled with large marijuana buds." The Post quipped, "The Bronx hasn't seen this much firepower since the '27 Yankees."... [ MORE ] |  | One day Lady Gaga will have no choice but to shock us by simply being regular, but today is not that day. She has a new perfume coming out with top notes of an expensive hooker. She says, “I wanted to extract the feeling and the scent of blood and semen from molecular structures. [Blood and semen] is in the perfume but it doesn’t smell like that—you just get the after feeling of sex from the semen and the blood is primal. The perfume smells like an expensive hooker.” Last year she noted that it would smell like New York City, but it sort of seems like she got more inspiration from the last season of Dexter.... [ MORE ] |  | The scientists over at the Slate laboratory have crunched the numbers on SEX, and come to some disturbing conclusions: despite being immature, unable to adapt to contemporary life, and generally less-educated, men are the bosses when it comes to premarital sexual relationships. Their main argument: women are losing the sexual economics game, because the main thing women want out of sex is commitment, and the "the market 'price' of sex is currently very low." ... [ MORE ] | ![_[Updated] Times Are Tough For Jeffrey's Meat Market](http://gothamist.com/assets_c/2011/02/201102_jeffrey-thumb-90x90-601472.jpg) | [Update Below] Jeffrey Ruhalter, the Lower East Side butcher is having a rough winter. Despite a glowing Times profile in December about how the Essex Street Market butcher had gotten his groove back by reinventing himself and his third-generation shop with restaurant clients, classes and an online store, a new round of rent increases and insurance premiums are threatening his groove all over again. ... [ MORE ] |  | NY1 is reporting delays of a half hour in both directions on the George Washington Bridge because the extreme winds reportedly blew debris from a Manhattan building onto a vehicle. Details are scant, but one report from Twitter user @VicManRodCar1 goes a little something like this: "A brick fell from George Washington bridge threw a Benz wagon destroying front windshield, what the fuck listen to the kid." WTF, indeed. ... [ MORE ] |  | An MTA HR staffer has been accused of taking cash bribes from people in exchange for jobs with the MTA. Ronica Ganesh, 28, is suspected of telling applicants she could get them entry-level subway mechanic positions for at least $1,000. Officials also believe she may have fudged applicants' test scores for an additional $500. She denied the allegations to the News, and implied a vaster conspiracy behind the accusations: "These are false allegations...There was somebody who was harassing me."... [ MORE ] | | |
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