Tag Archives: NYC

The Bronx DA has dropped the charges against three of the eleven gang members accused in the brutal anti-gay hate crime that took place in the Bronx earlier this month. A total of 11 people were charged in connection with the crime. Today, the Bronx District Attorney’s office dropped charges against three of those people. Their names are not immediately …

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg says that it’s time to go back to the old two-term limit. In 2008 Bloomberg backed changing the law which enabled his current third term. The New York Times blasts: It was the latest installment in the story of Mr. Bloomberg’s ever-evolving relationship with term limits. An outspoken supporter of two terms, he once called Council …

Photo by JMG reader Inga.

Yesterday was NYC’s Halloween Dog Parade in Tompkins Square Park. Hit the link for more hilarious/humiliating photos. (I’m guessing the Breakfast At Tiffany’s entry is owned by a gay man.)

Somehow Dan and I had never met in person until lunch today.

The bedbug scare gets the Taiwanese news animation treatment. (Via – Gothamist)

The CVS on my block has completely done away with humans and you must now use the miserable, annoying, never-works-right self check-out. Place your scanned item on the tray. Place your scanned item on the tray. My motherfucking scanned item IS on the motherfucking tray. I always scream at the attendant, who shrugs and wanders away. Seniors, of course, are …

“He is the candidate on that stage, who I think is in part responsible for everything that is happening, juxtaposed to the attorney general, who has been very strong in both condemning these attacks and condemning the comments of Mr. Paladino. You can’t say for 100%, but you have to look at the context of things. In New York, across …

Matthew Rettenmund reports at Boy Culture that the U.S. Army today accepted the re-enlistment of Lt. Dan Choi. It took Choi a few minutes of knocking to be admitted to the Times Square military recruitment center, which is on a traffic island between Broadway and Seventh Avenue. According to Rettenmund’s report, Choi merely has to supply some medical paperwork tomorrow …

Courtesy of the promoters, today’s Swag Tuesday booty is a ticket to this Sunday’s 30th anniversary reunion of the patrons and performers of NYC’s legendary Saint disco. Trippin’ On The Moon: Dancing Under The Dome begins at 4pm at Santos Party House in Soho. Facebook event page. Seven DJ’s, all who graced the turntables at one of the most spectacular …

Dan Choi is apparently going to test today’s directive from the Pentagon. Stand by… UPDATE: The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network urges caution. “During this interim period of uncertainty, service members must not come out and recruits should use caution if choosing to sign up,” SLDN Executive Director Aubrey Sarvis said in a statement Tuesday afternoon. “The ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ …

As I’ve blogged about several times, New York City has been holding a contest to replace its taxi fleet of about 12,000 Crown Victorias as Ford has discontinued the line. Today the Daily News reports that the top two finalists are an as-yet unseen Nissan “vanette” and the above model made by the little-known Karsan out of Turkey, which “features …

Famed/infamous JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater pleaded guilty today to one count of felony attempted criminal mischief and one count of misdemeanor criminal mischief. A one to three year sentence was suspended with the agreement that Slater enter a year-long mental health program. Slater also agreed to begin substance and alcohol abuse counseling and to pay his former employer $10,000 …

Debuting on iTunes tomorrow to benefit the Trevor Project.

For the second time this month, there’s been a hate crime at a West Village gay bar. Paul Schindler reports at Gay City News: According to the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr., Frederick Giunta has been arraigned on charges of assault in the third degree as a hate crime and attempted robbery in the third degree in …

Why do this weekend’s NYC Bacon-Palooza and NYC Pickle Day have to be so far apart? They’re both downtown, but logic demands they be on the same block. Bother.

Yesterday ten members of the Latin King Goonies gang pleaded not guilty to the brutal gay-bashings of three men in the Bronx. The 10 men appeared one by one before a judge in the Bronx as prosecutors said they were ready to present evidence to indict them on various charges including assault, sexual abuse and harassment, all as hate crimes. …

(Via – Towleroad)

Local NYC news was outside a Times Square theater last night where folks from a company called Seat Defenders were hawking plastic sacks intended to protect moviegoers from bedbugs. $17.95 for a package of 12 seat covers. One Times Square theater closed for two days over the summer to fumigate after patrons complained of being covered with bedbug bites.