It Could Be “Assholes,” It Could Be “Chumps” . . . You Never Know

A bar featuring some very expensive bottles of wine is bucking conventional wisdom and offering those wines by the glass:

A posh Italian bar where patrons can pop a cork and purchase $4,000 bottles of wine by the glass is on its way to TriBeCa.

But the question remains what the square-bracketed word that the proprietor used was:

“We want to give [everyone] the experience.”

At Some Point We Need To Ask Ourselves, “Why Do They Hate Us?”

Either that or someone is sure upset about bike share:

[A man], 27, of Newark, a gang member with 12 arrests in the Garden State, showed up at the security entrance of the government building while the mayor held an outdoor press conference on the city’s new bike share program on Monday.

“I want to take on the mayor in a fight. Man vs. man, and knock him out,” he told cops at the Broadway and Murray St. entrance around 11:30 and to attend the event.

And Then I Stank Up The Joint

Don’t ever say that Brooklyn’s elected representatives aren’t responsive to their constituents:

“I am still listening to all the stakeholders, including the brunching community, the religious community, and the religious brunching community.”

A Third Term Fizzles Into Petulance

To say he’s off-message implies that there’s some message to begin with. But I like the idea that 10-plus years after Sept. 11 someone would freely admit not even bothering to read a 911 report:

Mayor Michael Bloomberg admitted on Tuesday he didn’t read a report chronicling problems in New York City’s 911 emergency dispatch system, a document he commissioned in the wake of his administration’s poor response to the December 2010 blizzard.

In a flash of exasperation when a reporter pressed him about the report, he said, “I didn’t even bother to read it.”

Groping At Straws

Is it really that easy to get tagged not only as a serial groper but a dapper one at that on such flimsy evidence? In Bloomberg and Kelly’s New York, yes:

His nightmare started on April 12, when two detectives showed up at his Park Slope apartment asking him questions about groping attacks on women in fancy Manhattan neighborhoods.

Someone who knew [the suspect] called the NYPD’s anonymous Crimestoppers tip line and told them that a surveillance video image of the attacker looked like him.

Of course shitty police work can be fixed but first impressions are forever. This guy seems remarkably cheerful for someone who was accused of being this close to being a rapist.