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How Not To Escape The Cops

People learn nothing from other attempts at riding the exterior of a train on the ACE line in an unorthodox fashion:

A knife-wielding robbery suspect tried to flee police in a lower Manhattan subway station by leaping onto a moving train — but ended up falling under its wheels, officials said.

. . .

The cops halted one train pulling into the station, but the suspect then tried to hop onto a moving E train that was just leaving, police said.

Investigators believe [the suspect] slipped as he tried to leap into the space between cars — and fell under the train.

[The suspect] died at New York Downtown Hospital a short time later, officials said.

Posted: October 1st, 2010 | Filed under: Insert Muted Trumpet's Sad Wah-Wah Here, Just Horrible, Well, What Did You Expect?

One More Urban Nightmare Sears Itself In Your Fragile Psyche/Summer Can’t End Fast Enough

Stray voltage, subway pushers, exploding manhole covers, vindictive trees, greedy sidewalks and now unmoored air conditioner units:

A 45-pound air-conditioning unit Tuesday fell six stories from an East Village apartment, crashed through the awning of a wine bar and seriously injured a man . . .

Posted: September 30th, 2010 | Filed under: We're All Gonna Die!

Don’t Believe The Gripe/Why Tenure Is Awesome

It’s all part of the mayor’s plan to ease or even eliminate tenure rules:

A sex-worker-turned-teacher blabbed about her exploits on a popular website the same day she was granted tenure, officials said yesterday.

. . .

“I said, ‘Well, you know, call her, tell her that she is being removed from the classroom,’ ” [Mayor Bloomberg] said yesterday.

Posted: September 30th, 2010 | Filed under: You're Kidding, Right?

Our Brains Perceive Words In All Upper Case More Slowly You Know . . .

. . . which is why you should never write a speech in all caps, for example. But somewhere in Manhattan Adam Gopnik sheds another tear at what they want to do to his street signs:

The city will change the lettering on every single street sign — at an estimated cost of about $27.5 million — because the feds don’t like the font.

Street names will change from all capital letters to a combination of upper and lower case on roads across the country thanks to the pricey federal regulation, officials said Wednesday.

Posted: September 30th, 2010 | Filed under: Oh Well What Do You Do?

First In Crime And First In The American League

“Yankees caps seem to turn up on suspects and in police sketches more often than those from other teams”:

Gym-locker heists, bank robberies, daylight holdups — these New York City crimes have only one thing in common, and it is not the culprits.

It is the Yankees caps they wore.

Posted: September 16th, 2010 | Filed under: Follow The Money
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