Crime

Capturing the Moment

Post beats News in this round.

I wonder who will win… by VivaAntarctica on Flickr. Governor Eliot Spitzer has apparently been recorded on a federal wiretap setting up a meeting with a high-priced prostitute at Washington D.C.’s Mayflower Hotel last month. The revelation came to light as part of an indictment of a high-class prostitution ring, in which it is learned [...]

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Kills Loitering Dead

Skeeter by Vidiot on Flickr. This past week it was reported that the Mosquito anti-antisocial behavior device has finally arrived in New York. It specifically targets young people and emits an annoying ultrasonic screech meant to drive potential ne’er-do-wells from the area. A building manager in Jamaica, Queens who has suffered constant trouble from loitering, [...]

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New Clues In Times Square Blast

It seems that mail sent in the past day to offices on Capitol Hill makes reference to the bomb blast at the Armed Forces recruiting station in Times Square this morning. Update: Investigators now believe that the letters received at Capitol Hill offices were only a strange coincidence and were not related to the bombing [...]

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Failures and Rising Costs

Deutsche Bank Building Smoking by ekonon on Flickr. The New York Times reported last week on two updates in the ongoing debacle that is the demolition of the former Deutsche Bank building near the World Trade Center site. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited and plans to fine both Bovis Lend Lease (the [...]

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Family of Fallen Firefighter Seeks Justice

The family of Firefighter Robert Beddia (pictured far left) will sue the whole gang of state agencies and private contracting companies that were involved in the deconstruction of the former Deutsche Bank building–site of last summer’s tragic fire that took the lives of firefighters Beddia and Joseph Graffagnino (pictured right). The suit, filed in Manhattan [...]

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The Waiting Game

This morning’s meeting of the City Council Lower Manhattan Redevelopment Committee began with a moment of silence for firefighters Robert Beddia and Joseph Graffagnino, who were killed in the fire at the former Deutsche Bank Building this past summer. On the committee’s agenda were efforts to protect workers and the public when demolition on the [...]

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