Trying to walk in certain city neighborhoods is fast becoming an extreme sport. Between the new, bigger newsstands and bus shelters, the perpetually metastasizing newspaper boxes on every corner, the increasing popularity of alfresco dining, the delivery guys on their bikes and – let’s not forget – tourists, wending your way down the sidewalk without reaching for your Taser demands a degree of patience not often found in your average New Yorker. A month after... more ›

rear-ended a double-parked fire truck on Columbus and West 71st Street last night - and there had been two firefighters standing behind the truck. One of the men was thrown on the sidewalk while the other was pinned between the cab and the truck. Firefighters from midtown's Rescue 1 were getting dinner from area establishments - Big Nick's Too and Harry's Burritos - when the accident occured. The victims, John Walters and Mike Schunk, are expected to survive, but Schunk has a crushed leg while Walters is in critical condition. One witness tells the Post the cab "didn't even step on the brakes" while a police source told the Daily News, "He [the cabbie] may have been driving behind a larger vehicle and changed lanes to get around and ran smack into the parked vehicle." Clearly, standing on the street, even in front of a FDNY truck, is not safe. And we see FDNY trucks double parked on the Upper West Side all the time (they shop at Fairway!), so it's not unusual that they are there, but we suppose at 10:30PM, when traffic is lighter and cars go faster, anything can happen. more ›

The hate crime trial of Nicholas Minucci, aka Big Nick, began yesterday at the State Supreme Court in Queens. The Queens DA's opening statment argued that Minucci and his friends wanted to intimidate and injure Glenn Moore because he was black, while Minucci's defense lawyer Albert Gaudelli said their dispute was "minor dustup between six young men," especially since Moore and a friend were in the neighborhood to steal. Gaudelli also called the 19 count hate crime trial a politically motivated attempt to bolster black support for Mayor Bloomberg right before reelection. There's a lot of media attention on this case, so much so that the judge had to tell the courtroom "it's not Yankee Stadium, or the movies." more ›

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