These People Pay For Our City Services; Quit Cursing At Them!

If Bloomberg had any balls at all, he’d leave the Brooklyn Bridge to the tourists and picture takers because maybe there are places bicyclists shouldn’t have priority:

An all-out turf war has erupted between speeding cyclists and picture-snapping pedestrians over a narrow pathway that’s too close for anything but a collision.

. . .

“What the f- -k are you doing? There are bikes on the bridge!” yelled the BMX-riding cyclist before speeding off.

That is, unless you want to start ticketing tourists for not walking inside the white lines . . . then again, that would also raise money for the city.

Location Scout: Brooklyn Bridge.

Sure, The Vestigial Office Of The Borough President Might Soak Up Precious Municipal Resources . . .

. . . but it also serves as a creative outlet for five of the most enthusiastic boosters in the city . . . is a useful stepping stone for higher office . . . produces official maps? . . . oh, and of course the best thing about the vestigial office of the borough president is that it provides plenty of good copy for those always entertaining beep-in-your-bonnet pieces in the New York Post:

They get chauffeured to the office, hobnob at community barbecues, attend ribbon cuttings and concerts, and — in the case of Brooklyn Beep Marty Markowitz yesterday — attend canine weddings.

Markowitz was actually supposed to officiate the nuptials of Jack, a puggle mix, and Penny, a miniature poodle, at a benefit for the Brooklyn Animal Foster Network in Prospect Park. But when he sniffed the media was around and might mock yet another of his pointless public appearances, he fled like a frightened poodle.

They Can And They Did

Go big and stay home:

A fugitive fool who taunted cops on his Facebook page, “Catch me if you can, I’m in Brooklyn” — has been captured by U.S. marshals.

And guess where.

Victor Burgos was sitting at a computer with his Facebook page open when a task force of marshals and NYPD detectives tracked him down in an apartment on Jefferson St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Plan First, Ask Questions About How To Pay For It Later

I’m surprised they even got this far:

A build Williamsburg’s largest waterfront park has stalled — perhaps permanently — because the city doesn’t have the cash to buy the land.

City officials dropped a bombshell on community leaders last Thursday, revealing that they had no money and no timetable to buy several private properties off Kent Avenue and N. 11th Street surrounding the 28-acre Bushwick Inlet site.

Infuriated community leaders accused Mayor Bloomberg of revoking the city’s long-standing agreement to build parks at the edge of the East River in exchange for rezoning most of the waterfront for luxury high-rises in 2005.

Maybe they should have just called it a “pilot project”.

Location Scout: Bushwick Inlet Park, Citistorage Records Center.

One Family With A Two-Family Problem

I still don’t get the fascination with dogs, but I guess that says something about me:

[A man] and his wife [. . .] have sued [the man’s] younger sibling [. . .], seeking a court-ordered sale of their jointly-owned house because [the younger sibling’s] two pooches are allegedly defecating all around the property.