A man who concealed a video camera in a shopping bag to film women as they got onto an escalator at the Grand Central subway station was arested for unlawful surveillance. The NY Sun reports that 21-year-old Jamarl Chambers would follow women up an escalator from the Lexington Avenue line. "The officers noticed Mr. Chambers ride up and down the escalator twice behind the women, each time placing the bag between their legs, before police......

The Japanese ad agency being sued by one of its former employees for forcing him to go to brothels is countersuing, saying that Steve Biegel was fired for poor performance, not because he complained about sex shenanigans at work. Details of Biegel's lawsuit were released late last week and included info on ad shop CEO's peculiar affinity for crotch shots of women, including one he took of Maria Sharapova and passed around the office. That......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a "car in the water / DOA" in Queens, an unstable building in Fort Greene, and an "unusual crime" at Laguardia ("PLANE RETURNING TO LAGUARDIA AIRPORT-US AIR. PILOT WAS HANDED A THREATENING NOTE. --BNN.") The Times has a touching story about a cave-dwelling homeless man in the Bronx-- together with a nun, he delivers holiday food to needy families in the area. A man took an upskirt cameraphone picture......

Once in a while, there are Ethicist columns in the NY Times Magazine that are immediate classics. Like yesterday's column, in particular the second item about an item found on the subway:I found a video camera on the subway. I could not get to lost and found that day, and the manufacturer had no record of the owner. When my mother lost a camera, the finder located her by viewing the pictures. Trying to do......

-- A Brooklyn marine - who was a NY State trooper - was killed in a Baghdad firefight last week; a Queens-born soldier was mortally wounded in the same fight -- Gawker hates itself and wants to die. And they hate fruit! Those bastards. -- Newark Mayor Cory Booker didn't waste any time: His spokesman says that debit and credit card records for former Mayor Sharpe James have been subpoenaed. -- According to Forgotten-NY,......

- The City Council starts working on keeping carriages and horses in Central Park - Breaking and entering into an abandoned warehouse for dinner is the new new - Remember the guy who put a camera in his shopping bag to take upskirt videos? He was sentenced to six months - Stanley Crouch weighs in on the cellphone ban in schools - NY State smoking age could go up to 19; what a year......

- An off-duty cop fighting with a group of "thugs" was shot early yesterday morning by another police officer. - The inevitable spread of children throughout the West Village is affecting local businesses. - One of the East Villages "last bohemians" passes on. - The Onion moved to New York five years ago, remains funny. - The Daily News reports that "Donald Trump, the Rockefeller Group and Ford Models were among the tycoons and......

Is it surprising that the Department of Education employee busted for secretly taking pictures in faculty bathrooms and girls' locker rooms has more twisted stuff in his history? The Daily News reports that amongst the hundreds of tapes police found in Michael Conte's home, some were bestiality tapes. And the Post's addition to the story is that Conte also used cameras to take upskirt pictures of women at an outdoor market on Court Street in......

We were going through all the Santacon pictures on Flickr, looking for slutty Santas, when we found the sign shown above. In part, it reads: "every time Santa has a drink, evil elves kill a kitten." Genius! Did you go to Santacon? Do you have any slutty Santa upskirt photos? Share them in the comments. [Related: can someone please make an online MTA sign generator so everyone can make their own amusing signs? We......

Augh! Who knew that something that could be something worse than a bomb threat? A woman noticed a box with wires coming out of it under a grate at East 88th and Lexington. The police closed the street as they inspected the suspicious package... and it turned out to be a video camera set up to take upskirt pictures. The NYPD is trying to figure out what website had been receiving the pictures, as neighborhood......

- - The city considers a ferris wheel for lower Manhattan - Bloggers can too write! (And they like blogging!) - The grocery store wars - Upskirt photographs are illegal - Plans for the new Fulton Street Transit Center are unveiled - Another story about how there's a threat of terrorism, another reassurance that NYC is on high alert - Could the Super Bowl actually be held in NYC? - Trying to understand cryptic foodie......

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