Category Archives: Localized

A savage driving a cab tried to put a scare into the passengers he was driving, causing an accident that ended up killing one of them. A terrified coed scrambled to get out of a careening taxi yesterday – only … Continue reading →

WOW. Star, host of the #1 morning hip-hop show on 105.1, has been shitcanned for an unbelievably nasty and tasteless remark: Troi Torain, known as Star of the Star and Bucwild Morning Show, has been fired by Clear Channel the … Continue reading →

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I have so had it with the NYPD. Seriously. This city is safer than any other big city in the country, and for that we owe the NYPD a great amount of gratitude, but I am absolutely tired of them … Continue reading →

Peter Luger is known the country over as one of the best steaks you can get anywhere. I didn’t even know they surved burgers, but apparently they do and they must not get a lot of orders for them seeing … Continue reading →

Stephan Thomas is a thug. Transit workers may begin a targeted slowdown if they are forced to continue working without a contract, some union officials warned yesterday as labor leader Roger Toussaint spent his first full day behind bars. “We’re … Continue reading →

So let’s see… Toussaint is flanked by Randi Weingarten who makes even more than Roger Toussaint and probably drove to her posh member-sponsored office in her union member provided SUV, and Al Sharpton who perpetrated the biggest racist fraud in … Continue reading →

Holy crap, are you kidding me? A day without doormen might not paralyze this city of apartment and condo dwellers – but beware of New Yorkers who suddenly have to take out their own trash. Thousands of doormen, porters and … Continue reading →

Just because the Transit Workers Union approved the contract 4 months later doesn’t mean the MTA is prepared to call it over… Given a second chance, transit workers have overwhelmingly ratified the contract offer they had narrowly rejected before – … Continue reading →

In other courtroom news, TWU Local 100 which conducted an illegal strike the week before Christmas in 2005, was slammed by a Brooklyn judge for the illegal strike, and will suffer severe penalties. A judge fined Transport Workers Union Local … Continue reading →

David Blane is preparing to put a new stunt to the test in Lincoln Center, New York. He’ll be submerging himself in an aquarium for a week. This is gonna be a lot of fun and you can bet I’ll … Continue reading →

Smart kids need not apply It’s a sorry state of affairs when lawsuits are seen as the solution to all problems. But a legal demand may be the only way gifted children can shatter the obstacles confronting them at the … Continue reading →

Yet again we find ourselves with yet another judge telling the city to lay off Critical Mass riders. You have to wonder, however, if the message is even getting through. The mere fact that this is the third case reinforcing … Continue reading →

From the NY Daily News: Despite a February fare hike and a three-day transit strike, subway ridership last year hit 1.45 billion – the highest in more than 50 years. New subway cars and other upgrades have made tube travel … Continue reading →

Transit union OKs new talks BY PETE DONOHUE and BILL HUTCHINSON DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Transit union chiefs voted last night to go back to the negotiating table, saying it was the “best path” to settling a labor dispute that … Continue reading →

TWU dissident allegedly beat aide as ‘a message for Roger’ By PETE DONOHUE DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER A burly transit union dissident has been charged with beating a union staffer aligned with Transport Workers Union Local 100 President Roger Toussaint, … Continue reading →

The MTA is playing hardball with the TWU, which last week rejected ratification of the contract the MTA and TWU reached through the negotiations during the TWU’s illegal strikes. The MTA has taken its offer off the table, and instead … Continue reading →

While the TWU and the MTA are fighting back and forth about ratification of the contract, and while the Union is still plugging along with the typical, “they don’t respect us cause we’s black” 1950′s segregation shpeil, we find this … Continue reading →

Ever since the RNC, the NYPD has been harassing the hell out of Critical Mass cyclists. Month by month, the police systematically abuse cyclists, steal bikes that are legally chained on the street, and arrest everyone that dared to step … Continue reading →

The story is really tragic, but something caught my eye: Several weeks ago, Morales said a plumber came to the apartment and told her it had gotten so cold the pipes had frozen. She said the plumber took temperature readings … Continue reading →