Remember that time you were attacked and the NYPD dropped everything to find your attacker, even though you had literally no memory of the incident and probably couldn't identify the attackers anyway? If you don't remember that happening, then you probably don't have a very high Google rating. The NYPD have been trying to track down Gavin DeGraw's attackers since he was attacked at 4 a.m. in the East Village last Monday, but their trail is cold. So as we noted yesterday, they've been putting up fliers around the neighborhood, asking for help. more ›

Does the NYPD do this for the non-famous? Fliers have been spotted around the East Village, where the NYPD is asking the public's help in tracking down Gavin DeGraw's attackers. The singer was attacked in the neighborhood around 4 a.m. last Monday morning, and while DeGraw (who was later hit by a cab) doesn't recall what exactly happened, it's believed he didn't know his assailants. According to EV Grieve, some sources have mentioned two and three assailants being involved in the attack. more ›

When local elections come around, so do candidates' posters attached to anything and everything. However, since it's illegal to post fliers to city property (think light poles and traffic lights), the city has been cracking down—2009 mayoral candidate Bill Thompson was hit with a $619,000+ fine, Public Advocate Bill DeBlasio got a $300,000+ bill and City Comptroller managed to get out of nearly $550,000 in fines, thanks to a loophole. Well, ladies and gentleman, we have news for you: Mayor Bloomberg thinks that if you do the crime, you pay the fine. more ›

Today's tale of Kafkaesque bureaucratic absurdity comes to us courtesy of the NY Post, which finds a kindly old insurance salesman who faces $48,000 in fines for putting up fliers advertising a moving company. Not his moving company, of course, but a company that advertised its services with a phone number traced to him by the city's flier police. Levy Zelishovsky, 72, says, "All my life, I'm in the insurance business. I'm a senior citizen, and I can hardly move myself." Yet somehow the Department of Sanitation sent him 643 in summonses totaling more than $48,000 in fines. more ›

Last year Kecia Pitt sued the Nurturing Center, a Queens facility she’d entrusted with the care of her son. She claimed neglect, but now the daycare is fighting back accusing the disgruntled mom of defaming its good name by spreading flyers that satirically rename it "The Torturing Center." "Is your child often sick, have a lot of diaper rashes and cry out at night? Because they don't clean, change the babies or comfort them when they cry,” reads the copy. “The Nurturing Center is one of the WORST daycare centers I ever sent my son to." more ›

In recent years, the lefty activist group Time's Up has been widely associated with the monthly Critical Mass bicycle rides in Manhattan—a source of ongoing acrimony between police and cyclists. But the group, started by environmental activist Bill DiPaola back in 1987, has had a green finger in a wide array of progressive causes beyond cycling advocacy. Now Time's Up's wide-ranging agenda over the past two decades has been underscored by the recent acquisition of a trove of Time's Up documents by the Tamiment Library at NYU. more ›

Earlier this week an angry anonymous pamphleteer tossed thousands of anti-Obama fliers off of the Metrotech office complex in Downtown Brooklyn. It was said to be a profanity-filled poem of sorts (with an AA/BB rhyme scheme), and the Brooklyn Paper now has the full text; though reprinting it is only spreading the vitriol-filled message. Earlier this week the paper reported on the basics, saying it included the "F word" a whopping 29 times! One witness told them, “I think it’s ignorant—but this is America, so they have a right to free speech. But I don’t think they have a right to throw it in front of my store so I have to clean it up.” Another was less concerned with free speech, declaring: “That’s f—ed up. I wish I could smack the s— out of whoever did that.” So who is the culprit? Director of public safety for the Metrotech BID said, “I would say it’s a construction worker. That’s a secure building.” The developer of the building, the Clarett Group, claimed they had “not found any evidence that political fliers were dropped." See no evil, hear no evil. more ›