Miscellaneous: July 2009 Archives

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: A large fight at W 184th St & St Nicolas Ave in Manhattan, a bank robbery at Jackson Ave & Pearson St in Queens and an MVA at River Pkwy & E233 St in the Bronx.
• The Albany stalemate means NYPD recruits don't get to start. A 22-year-old Air Force veteran who was looking forward to being a cop said, "I was told because of what's going on in Albany, how they're being irresponsible, the class can't start."
• The NYPD admitted it should have made the DWI arrest of a sergeant public sooner; the sergeant hit a pedestrian. Spokesman Paul Browne said, "There was a short period when there was additional investigation underway that required a short delay in making it public. Normally, I make such information public in a timely fashion. I should have done it sooner. I didn't."

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting on 93rd St in Brooklyn, pedestrians struck at 86th St and Amsterdam Ave in Manhattan and a suspicious package at Wave St and Bay St on Staten Island.
• The 5 train will begin extending its service into Brooklyn during the hours in between morning and evening rush hours.
• A former Monmouth County, NJ police chief has been indicted on charges of sexually assaulting a girl between the ages of 12 and 14.

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: an unusual rescue on Decatur St in Queens, a manhole fire on Bushwick Pl in Brooklyn and an overturned school bus on Skillman Ave in Queens.
• A Queens man was found bound and strangled in his home. The 84-year-old veteran's hands were bound with a coat hanger; police believe the assailant got in through a basement window.
• The Westchester DA says the promotions manager at the Yonkers Raceway rigged contests for friends and family to win.

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: A jumper up at Graham Ave & Montrose in Brooklyn, a large fight at Grand Concourse & Field Pl in the Bronx, and a hazmat at E 86th St & 3rd Ave in Manhattan.
• A triple shooting in Bedford-Stuyvesant has left one person dead; WABC 7 says, it's possible "a high-powered automatic weapon was involved in the shooting."
• The trial over whether Anthony Marshall stole his mother Brooke Astor's fortune was postponed again because of Marshall's medical issues.

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: a perp on a fire escape at Halsey St and Bedford Ave, a missing child of Targee St on Staten Island and an unusual rescue on Broadway in The Bronx.
• A 10-year-old girl in Irvington, NJ was shot in the stomach when a gunman got out of his car and opened fire with 10 or 20 shots at her house, where she was sitting on the porch.
• A 30-year-old Long Island man was brutally beaten by a pack of up to 15 teenagers on a Valley Stream street just after midnight Saturday.

Visitors to Prospect Park this past Sunday may have noticed how their fellow park-goers chose to celebrate American independence—by trashing a few acres of park grounds. Raphael Brion was one of those visitors, and he snapped a few photos of the post-Fourth carnage to share with us on Flickr.

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: A car into building on Ann Street on Staten Island, a bank robbery at 2nd Ave & 48th St and a scaffolding incident on 20th Dr in Brooklyn.
• Robert McNamara, secretary of defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, died at age 93. The NY Times writes, he was "perhaps the most influential defense secretary of the 20th century, who helped lead the nation into the maelstrom of Vietnam and spent the rest of his life wrestling with the war’s moral consequences." McNamara was also the subject of a documentary by Errol Morris, The Fog of War.
• Mayor Bloomberg uses off-duty cops (who volunteered!) in his new TV ads—the cops are from the 27th Precinct, which doesn't really exist, except on Law and Order. Chung-chung!

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: a homicide on E 33rd St in Manhattan, a water rescue at the parking lot of the North Channel Bridge in Queens and a car in the water at Bayfield Ave and Beach St, also in Queens.
• Rescuers are looking for the second of two teenagers who were fishing at the North Channel Bridge and got pulled into the water. The first teen was airlifted to a nearby hospital where he's in stable condition.
• The Little People of America are telling reporters talking to them at their annual conference taking place at the Brooklyn Marriott that they would like to see the FCC ban the word "midget" from the airwaves.

• Chicagoist checked out the annual Pride Parade, which celebrated its 40th anniversary.
• Seattlest owned up to its darkest, most claustrophobic fear--getting trapped in a badly maintained hellevator.
• SFist wondered why some Bay Area residents feared the high speed rail system, which would whisk people from downtown San Francisco to downtown Los Angeles in two hours.
• Phillyist was disappointed but unsurprised when the makers of Trojan condoms named Philly amongst the least-sexed cities in the States.

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting at 111th St and Lexington Ave in Manhattan, an armed robbery at a Citgo station on Rockaway Blvd in Queens and a possible explosive device on 164th St and Jerome Ave in The Bronx.
• A Nassau County man was arrested for selling fireworks to kids out of his aunt's house. Not only were fireworks confiscated from the suspect, the cops took the fireworks from the children.
• The DEA busted a drug cartel in The Bronx who had run over $30 million in heroin hidden inside brown teddy bears.

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: A barricaded situation at W 52nd St & 7th Ave in Manhattan, an attempted bank robbery at 163rd Ave & Cross Bay Blvd in Queens, and an MVA at 140 St & Grand Concourse in the Bronx.
• Just after graduating from the Police Academy and becoming a full-fledged cop, rookie police officer Dariel Firpo helped nab a man robbing an elderly man in Midtown.
• Regarding Thursday's Staten Island Ferry crash, one of the boat's transformers broke down and the other three malfunctioned.

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: A bicyclist struck at 1st Ave & E 96th St in Manhattan, an EDP in the water at FDR & 92nd St in Manhattan, and an overturned auto on the westbound Grand Central Parkway at Union Turnpike in Queens.
• A 41-year-old man was killed in a hit-and-run in Queens. Witnesses say the vehicle (which appears to be a van or SUV, based on the tires) may have been trying to make a U-turn.
• A federal agency evaluated Woodhull Hospital using records that Woodhull's medical chief altered after the patients left. The medical chief resigned and an investigation is continuing.

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: A DOA floater at East River and Grand St in Manhattan, an armed robbery at E225 St & White Plains Rd in the Bronx, and a pedestrian struck at 48 St & 14 Ave in Brooklyn.
• After a rumor was going around that Di Fara's was closing, the famous Midwood pizzeria let us know that Dom is well and they are in fact open. It turned out to just be some oral surgery that was a little more unpleasant than expected.
• The Staten Island woman found guilty of killing her fire marshal husband was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: Perp search & home invasion at 32nd Ave & Union St in Queens, falling debris at Rockaway Pkwy and Ave L in Brooklyn and a pedestrian struck along with a barricaded perp at 48th St and 14th Ave, also in Brooklyn.
• A suspect is critical and an officer stable but hospitalized after a wild police chase with gunfire in Newark last night. It began with officers trying to arrest two men trying to break into cars in a Burger King parking lot.
• Even though she said that "it's important for women to support women who stand for the majority issues of women," Gloria Steinem is endorsing Cy Vance for Manhattan DA as the candidate with the strongest record on women's rights.

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: a fatal jumper down at W 14th St in Manhattan, a jet ski rescue near Beach Channel HS in Jamaica Bay in Queens and an unusual assault on Surf Ave in Brooklyn.
• A federal judge on Tuesday indefinitely banned publication in the United States of a new book by a Swedish author that contains a 76-year-old version of Holden Caulfield, the protagonist of “The Catcher in the Rye.”
• Signs have begun emerging for the G train extension to Church Ave, going into effect this Sunday.

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