When the barricades surrounding Zuccotti Park were removed Tuesday night, Occupy Wall Street protesters flocked to the iconic space that they call Liberty Square. The library was reopened, free pizza distributed, a General Assembly held, and three people were arrested for the crime of lying down. The NYPD and private security guards militantly policed the park throughout the night to enforce new rules that Brookfield Properties hand-crafted to make the occupation all but impossible to revive. First and foremost among these is a prohibition against lying down, which intrepid cameraman Joey Boots defied with his usual panache: more ›

Union Square is host to a bevy of unique bizarros, to the point that the square has its own anthropologist, Normal Bob. And among Bob's many subjects is Roman, who has gained some notoriety because of a campaign earlier this summer to "stop ageism" by lowering the age of consent. Now, Roman has taken up a new cause: butt sniffing. Watch him explain his new "fart smeller movement" in a video taken by Joey Boots below, as well as convince two young women to let him try out his art: more ›

While the guy who called 911 to find out if growing marijuana is illegal might still be the dumbest person we've ever encountered, the guy in the video below caught fleeing the scene of an accident he caused in the Bronx is pretty up there in the Hall Of Dumbassery. He almost got away with it...except not at all. Watch the video, taken by NYC videographer-about-town Joey Boots, below: more ›

Yesterday, we saw a video taken by a local NY photo/videographer who claimed he was "harassed and ticketed" by MTA police for taking photos of armed soldiers and cops inside Penn Station on Wednesday. We talked to Joey Boots this morning, and he told us a bit more about the incident, and why photographers need to know their rights: "Some of these cops really think you can't take photographs of them. It's BS. Most people will just comply, because they're intimidated by the badge...I'm a law-abiding citizen, a veteran, not out to harass anybody, but I am out to exercise my first amendment rights." more ›

Yesterday, a local NY photo/videographer claims he was "harassed and ticketed" by MTA police for taking photos of armed soldiers and cops inside Penn Station. Joey Boots, a Howard Stern regular who posts lots of provocative videos on his YouTube channel, posted a (mostly obscured) video of the incident late yesterday; you can watch/listen to it below (the excitement starts at 1:42): more ›