The wanton golf cart destruction that took place last spring at the Dyker Beach Golf Club in Brooklyn was one for the record books. More than 20 carts totaled in two separate incidents, and one guy who works at the pro shop tells the Post, the carts were found "upside down, crashed into trees, they were trying to tip them over—all over the golf course." One cart was set on fire, and others were piled up in a sand pit with broken axles, cracked roofs, and dented bodies. It sounds like a real rager, but yesterday two teens were hauled into court to pay for it. more ›

The city is working out a contract to inflate giant bubbles over Central Park's tennis courts, then rent them out in the winter for equally inflated prices. The cost of operating and maintaining the 26 Upper West Side courts would fall to the contractor, as would profits, reports the Post, so no, this isn't the city's latest money-making scheme. So far it's unknown what the hourly rate will be (other tennis bubbles charge $28-$56/hour and the city says winter rates could be ten times greater than in the current permit system) but already community members are worried the the pay-for-play model will push the already elite sport out of reach of the everyman. more ›

If all this talk of Pizzacones is creating a craving emergency in your belly, help is just a phone call away—at least for parts of Brooklyn. Bushwick resident William Meyer just sent us this dark yet humorous photo of an NYPD Parking Enforcement Vehicle retrofitted as a pizza delivery car. Meyer tells us he saw it "stopped in the middle of rush hour traffic on Bushwick Ave on Friday; its red emergency strobes were on and rotating, and the driver was standing at the back, taking a pizza out of the trunk for delivery." more ›

It may have looked like simple joyriding on a Friday afternoon, but the Parks Dept. employee careening around Battery Park near Whitehall St. yesterday afternoon was actually a man on a mission, i.e. to kill as many birds in the park as possible. Martin Hightower has been a Parks Dept. employee since 2005, but was arrested after 911 started receiving calls about a man driving recklessly on a golf cart at the southern tip of Manhattan. more ›