Yesterday, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly promised more scrutiny and oversight for the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy , outlining several changes to the policy in memos to the NYPD and City Council. But as far as Mayor Bloomberg is concerned, everything is working just fine, and there’s nothing controversial about stop-and-frisk, and he can’t hear any complaints nah nah nah : “We’re going to keep doing this…We’re not going to walk away from tactics that work and we’re not going to walk away from bringing crime down,” he said on his radio show this morning. [ more › ]
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Bloomberg Continues Tone-Deaf Support Of Stop-And-Frisk Policy
DEA agents and Internal Affairs investigators swooped in and arrested an NYPD officer on his way to work this morning and charged him with improperly using law enforcement databases to do favors for a notorious heroin dealer. According to wiretap evidence collected by the feds, Officer Devon Daniels, 30, was at the beckon call of heroin dealer Guy Curtis, allegedly scoring him an NYPD parking placard and using a national law enforcement database to run searches for Curtis. [ more › ]
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NYPD Officer Arrested, Accused Of Being Heroin Kingpin’s Lackey
President Obama is such a snob. During a pop culture pop quiz, the ladies of The View asked him if he knew the name of the “controversial sex book that’s on millions of women’s bedside tables”? And he said no! Why does he not know about the amazing trilogy by E.L. James that is re-igniting couples’ sex lives (and helping sell out grey ties)—is he busy with other stuff or does he just read his own memoirs over and over again? [ more › ]
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The View Asks President Obama About Fifty Shades Of Grey
The New York Photo Festival 2012 edition opens with a photo star-studded event Wednesday May 16 6-9 pm, and continues through Sunday May 20. We’re giving away 2 pairs of VIP tickets, but you have to be a Gothamist Daily subscriber to win. [ more › ]
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Ticket Giveaway: New York Photo Festival
Making the rounds to promote his upcoming movie The Campaign , Will Ferrell was on Jimmy Fallon last night where he sang the utterly silly song “I Got My Tight Pants On.” It was up there with “Bitch Hunter” and the Old Milwaukee commercials as one of the best things Ferrell has done since the seminal Step Brothers . All the kids are talking about it this morning at the local five and dime! Watch it below, unless you want to risk waking the snake: [ more › ]
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Watch Will Ferrell’s Hilariously Silly "Tight Pants" Song On Fallon
This week is Winged Animal Week here on Gothamist, and what better way to celebrate than by eating some of those delicious, delicious wings. To that end we’ve put together a list of some of our favorite spots in town to go and do just that. [ more › ]
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Five NYC Chicken Wings Worth Flying To Try
And legal medical marijuana inches ever closer to the Empire State. Earlier this morning, after nearly 10 hours of debate, the Connecticut Senate voted 21 to 13 to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule 1 drug to a Schedule 2 drug. Once Governor Dannel Malloy signs the bill (which he is expected to do) the state will join 16 other states and (not to mention DC) in legalizing the drug for medical purposes. Time to try in Albany again? [ more › ]
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Medical Marijuana Approved By Connecticut State Senate
Emergency services in Manhattan responded to three different “jumper down” calls this morning—one at a very tony address. Police are now investigating all three cases. [ more › ]
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"Jumper Down" Reported At Exclusive Fifth Avenue Building
A 77-year-old Holocaust survivor is claiming in a federal lawsuit that an NYPD officer punched him in the face during a traffic stop on the Long Island Expressway. In the court documents obtained by the Post, Miklos Muller admits that in November he ran a red light on Woodhaven Boulevard and was pulled over moments later on the LIE. “They flashed their lights and I pulled over to the side . . . One cop started screaming at me, ‘You almost killed me,’ and punched me through the open window,” Muller says. [ more › ]
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Holocaust Survivor Claims Cop Punched Him In Face During Traffic Stop
When life gives you a billion-dollar boondoggle , use the settlement to make budget-saving lemonade! At least that appears to be Mayor Bloomberg’s logic. Hizzoner is set to announce his executive budget proposal this morning, but yesterday he gave a little early taste and it’s something of a surprise. In order to fill “an unexpected hole in the budget” the city is planning on using that half-billion CityTime settlement the city announced in March. See, there’s a silver lining in the city getting swindled! [ more › ]
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Even Steven: $500 Million Settlement From CityTime Scandal Saves City Budget!