David Davis, 20, of New Haven has been arrested for slashing another man in the back with a pair of scissors. Unfortunately, this happened to be while Davis himself was mid-haircut, and he didn't have time to get it finished before he was arrested and charged with first-degree assault. [ MORE]  | New Yorker columnist John Cassidy usually writes about economics, but he also drives a Jaguar around NYC, and the man is sick and tired of seeing bike lanes "poach on our territory." The phrase is telling, because it underscores Cassidy's unsustainable and ahistorical assumption that streets are for cars and cars alone (we remember when horses and bikes shared the roads). His smug, ill-informed essay applauds the anti-bike lane backlash, but not because Cassidy has anything against cyclists, mind you; he used to ride a bike himself, back when he was in college at Oxford and a dissolute East Villager in his 20s:... [ MORE ] |  | Crispus Attucks Park in Clinton Hill has earned the nickname "Prostitution Park" from locals, and they're not too happy about it. "Prostitution, drugs, crack vials all over the place at night, people defecating on the bushes," Henry Hernandez told WPIX. "My granddaughter loves to play here during the day. It's a shame." And some residents are blaming budget cuts to the Parks Department, saying it keeps them from locking the park gates at night. Is the city in such dire straights that it can't afford a padlock?... [ MORE ] |  | Yesterday, outgoing NPR executive Ron Schiller resigned after conservative gadfly James O'Keefe released one of his hidden camera exposes, this one documenting Schiller calling the "tea party people" not "just Islamophobic, but really xenophobic, I mean basically they are, they believe in sort of white, middle-America gun-toting. I mean, it's scary. They're seriously racist, racist people." Of course, you're not allowed to point out the obvious in certain situations, so NPR apologized and forced the guy out early. And now NPR's CEO, Vivian Schiller (no relation), has also resigned over the incident of candid truth-telling. ... [ MORE ] |  | Recently some footage from PETA's photoshoot with Waka Flocka Flame was released, and now his part of their anti-fur campaign has been fully unveiled (he's wearing his Fozzie Bear necklace! And not much else.) The rapper is allegedly the first rapper to pose for the organization's "Ink, Not Mink" campaign, and is urging the hip-hop community to "understand what you buy." He told PETA, "Understand where that fox fur came from before you spend $1,000…someone got their head beat in and electrocuted. Understand what you buy, instead of just going off fashion and what it looks like—that's what I'd tell my community." ... [ MORE ] |  | Yesterday passengers were lucky not to fall from the M train's elevated tracks in Brooklyn, as one of the subway's doors opened before the train had fully pulled into the Marcy Avenue station. NY1 reports that yesterday evening one train never fully pulled into the station, but the doors opened and some passengers attempted to get off. Witness Maryanne Lebron said, "They were rushing off and thank God the first passenger that was getting off was able to realize before falling down that there was no platform so he held on and the three people behind him pretty much stopped short, which kind of like saved their lives." Where have we seen this before?... [ MORE ] |  | The cab driver who refused to take customers to the Bronx and then got arrested after allegedly driving his cab into them was arraigned on assault charges yesterday. And it turns out that Mohammed Azam has a history of being a bad taxi driver— and he was just trying to avoid paying a $30 fee.... [ MORE ] | | |
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