Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'harassment'
July 15, 2008
Would an anti-groping ad campaign provoke more frequent bad behavior in New York's pervy subway sleezes? Following last year's study by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, transit officials began working on a public awareness campaign to stop the offenders; the study found 63% of respondents have been sexually harassed and 10% reported having been sexually assaulted in the subway system. The NY Post reports on concerns that have stalled the campaign.Anti-groping campaigns have been launched......
Continue Reading "Could an Anti-Groping Campaign Increase Unseemly Underground Behavior? "July 10, 2008
A 24-year-old former library assistant at the fancy Riverdale Country School in the Bronx is suing the city and several police officers over a case of mistaken email identity that landed him in jail for 30 hours and left him publicly disgraced. The trouble started last year after William Hallowell sent a resignation email to Robin Bernsen, the head librarian at the school. She replied sympathetically, according to the Times, and Hallowell moved on with......
Continue Reading "Library Assistant Suing Over Mistaken Email Nightmare"July 2, 2008
Last month Tavern on the Green settled a discrimination lawsuit for $2.2 million dollars; today the Times has a detailed profile on the lead complainant, an East African immigrant who grew up in refugee camps before escaping to the U.S. as a teenager. She says that while working at Tavern as a hostess, “I was asked to perform sexual favors in great detail by this manager. And when I refused, I was told that I......
Continue Reading "Former Tavern on the Green Hostess Tells All About Harassment"June 12, 2008
Who knew radio could be so dangerous? The Daily News reports that deejay Wendy Williams' husband (the two are pictured together) had plotted to kill one of Hot97's deejays, a rival who allegedly trashed his wife on the air. According to the federal lawsuit charges filed yesterday, hubby Kevin Hunter sought out help from a WBLS studio employee in finding a hit man to "off" Hot97 personality Tarsha Jones. The allegations are part of a......
Continue Reading "Hit Men and Harassment at Hot97"June 7, 2008
Earlier this week, a judge decided that a man found guilty of stalking actress Uma Thurman did not deserve jail time. Instead, Jack Jordan was sentenced to psychiatric counseling and three years probation in Maryland. However, Jordan was spotted in Lower Manhattan yesterday. The Daily News and Post spotted Jordan sitting, per the News, "silently in a lower Manhattan park across the street from the courthouse where he was sentenced." Jordan isn't barred on NYC--he......
Continue Reading "What Probation? Uma Thurman's Stalker Seen in NYC"March 14, 2008
Yesterday Mayor Bloomberg signed off on the city’s first law enabling tenants to sue landlords in Housing Court for systemic harassment. Previously, tenants had to take landlords to court for each and every violation, such as failure to provide hot water or letting so much water leak that floors collapse. The so-called Tenant Protection Act is primarily aimed at landlords who are trying to force tenants out of rent-regulated apartments in order to bump the......
Continue Reading "City Landlords Can Now Be Sued for Harassment"November 9, 2007
The Boston priest arrested for stalking "Late Night" talk-show host Conan O'Brien has been found fit for trial. A Manhattan judge declared the Reverend David Ajemian mentally fit for trial after a court-appointed psychologist examined him. Ajemian was arrested after issuing a number of threats to the host of the NBC talk show host and attempts to get into an O'Brien taping. Ajemian was relatively more unhinged than your average show biz stalker. He was......
Continue Reading "Conan Stalker Found Fit for Trial"
