Art
March 20, 2013In praise of a knucklehead
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March 6, 2013Voice Choices
March 6, 2013Blogs
December 7, 2012A former NYPD detective -- whose BAC was more than three times the legal limit when he plowed into a Bronx grandmother with a cop car -- was convicted of manslaughter yesterday.Former Detective Kevin Spellman, however, beat the rap on the most serious charges against him (aggravated vehicular homici ... More >>
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November 21, 2012A Vogue star tells her story
Blogs
September 19, 2012No, not for trying to play Liz Taylor.
For a NYC driving incident where she allegedly clipped a pedestrian's knee, then left the scene of the accident (though one of her passengers did nicely check the car for damages, if not the pedestrian).
Blogs
September 19, 2012The proverbial train wreck that is Lindsay Lohan is in trouble again, this time for an alleged hit-and-run that happened early this morning near a downtown hotel.At about 12:30 a.m. today, Lohan, who is on probation for stealing jewelry, was parking her Porsche Cayenne near an alley by the Maritime ... More >>
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July 19, 2012I've been to a gym all of three times in my entire life--all in the previous century--unless you count various parties that have been held there, in which case I've been to a gym 10 times.
And as such an incredibly avid workout creature, I happen to know the rules of how to cruise at the gym and ge ... More >>
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June 20, 2012A film festival devoted to your wheels
Blogs
May 29, 2012In January, 12-year-old Dashane Santana was struck and killed by a car as she crossed Delancey, at Clinton Street.
Santana was not the first pedestrian to perish on the busy road: Other walkers and many cyclists have died on Delancey. At the intersection of Delancey and Essex, for example, Transpo ... More >>
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May 2, 2012Andrew Bird is in the house tonight
(at Beacon Theatre)
Blogs
March 6, 2012Turns out, there's a lot of cash in pretending to get hit by a car in New York City. Unfortunately, it's also illegal -- just ask the 16 Brooklyn residents arrested today for their alleged involvement in an insurance scam that consisted staging car wrecks and, in some cases, pretending to get hit ... More >>
News
January 11, 2012The NYPD hands out plenty of traffic tickets
Blogs
December 29, 2011This week has brought a wave of PR-department-approved good news to New York City residents. We have less crime! We are healthier! We might just live...forever! And...we're better at driving and/or walking, apparently. Mayor Bloomberg along with Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and Department of ... More >>
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November 30, 2011Blogs
November 11, 2011 On Journal Square's main drag in Jersey City, the prominent legal offices of Anise & Anise.
After a voluminous meal of dosas, iddlies, and other South Indian brunch items in Jersey City, and groggy from so much food, a friend an I stumbled on the law offices of Anise & Anise. Pretty funny ... More >>
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October 19, 2011According to police, a 30-year-old man was struck and killed by a truck on Meserole Street and Morgan Avenue last night around midnight. Cops have determined that the man was biking alongside a flatbed truck that made a right turn; as the truck turned, it hit the biker. His identity hasn't be ... More >>
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September 7, 2011Blogs
August 1, 2011viaHere's a warning sounded by the Daily News today: The intersection of Essex and Delancey street is pretty much the worst place in the city to walk or drive a car or get in a taxi or do anything. Just, like, try not to go there, okay? It's scary. It's where Satan would be like, "Hey, this i ... More >>
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June 29, 2011FacebookRay Deter, the owner of East Village and Williamsburg bars d.b.a., was hit by a car on Canal Street yesterday evening. Deter, who was not wearing a helmet, was turning onto West Broadway at the time of the accident and is now in critical condition. His wife told the Daily News that do ... More >>
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June 15, 2011Films about your favorite recreational activity. No, the other one.
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May 20, 2011Iconic wrestler and Slim Jim spokesman "Macho Man" Randy Savage died this morning in a car accident after suffering a heart attack, TMZ is reporting via Savage's brother. May he rest in peace. (Don't panic.)
Blogs
April 11, 2011Julie Shapiro/DNAInfoWell, this certainly puts last Friday's food truck scuffles into perspective: earlier this afternoon a propane tank on the Frites n Meats truck exploded after the truck collided with another vehicle. Two people on the truck were burned; fortunately, their injuries do not ... More >>
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March 14, 2011A 15th person has died from injuries sustained during this weekend's horrifying bus crash in the Bronx, in which the bus was cut in half by a pole it skidded into. Ophadell Williams, the bus driver, had told officers that the bus had been clipped by a tractor trailer, causing the skid, but ac ... More >>
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November 27, 2010
This time last year, Tiger Woods was on his way down. On November 27, 2009, the once-golden golf star was injured in a car accident outside of his home in Orlando, Florida. According to preliminary local reports and the initial statement Woods posted to his website, "the car crash that sent him to ... More >>
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November 22, 2010The Health Department and the Department of Transportation have released some new research to remind you to pay attention to what you're doing whether you're walking or driving, even if you have the light. Because you still don't want to kill someone, or be killed. Do you? The good news: New ... More >>
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May 18, 2010Via New York Times City Room writer J. David Goodman's Twitter feed comes a .gif video of a Chinese cyclist almost getting pulverized by a car crash.
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April 28, 2010And remorse over her deadly car accident when she was 17!
In her new memoir, ex First Lady Laura Bush reveals that she urged Dubya not to make gay marriage a significant issue because, like, they know some gays!
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March 24, 2010Blogs
February 21, 2010ABC NewsPolice in Brooklyn are looking for the driver in a hit-and-run accident which injured two young women crossing Flatbush Avenue in Prospect Heights at 4:30 this morning.
Investigators say the green Acura, its windshield caved in and side mirror missing, was later found abandoned two ... More >>
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November 30, 2009"Tiger Woods was in a minor car accident" said the official statement on the golfer's website the other day.
But as speculation, gossip, and innuendo grew like wildfire once word of this mishap got out, the accident became less and less minor and more and more image threatening.
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November 1, 2009Prosecutors released a timeline of events following the arrest of detective Kevin C. Spellman after he allegedly struck and killed Drana Nikac with his Chevrolet Malibu in Kingsbridge Heights on Friday. He wasn't, it turns out, tested for alcohol for over five hours.
The criminal complaint a ... More >>
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October 27, 2009Voice Choices
October 20, 2009Blogs
October 12, 2009About 1 a.m. Sunday morning, Carmen Huertas was driving seven girls to a slumber party at her home when she lost control of the car at West 96th Street, crashed into a guardrail and a tree, and flipped the vehicle. Everyone was hurt -- some of the passangers have broken bones, for which they ... More >>
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August 11, 2009
I'm tired of listening to wingnuts, but I never get tired of hearing a nut named Wing, the bizarre cult sensation from New Zealand via Hong Kong with the reedy voice, weird rhythms, and life-threateningly kitsch taste. (Then again I never grow weary of watching car pileups either.)
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August 4, 2009Voice Choices
June 3, 2009Blogs
February 16, 2009Livery car driver Mohamed Elnahal was driving his wife, Mervat Saad Ibrahim, and a friend, Nabila Ahmed, early Saturday morning on Staten Island when a Mercedes ran a red light at the corner of Cebra Avenue and Victory Boulevard and hit them broadside. Elnahal and Ibrahim were killed; Ahmed is in s ... More >>
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January 28, 2009Andy Warhol is still our mirror
Blogs
April 16, 2008Voice Choices
March 4, 2008Explore the seedy underbelly
NYC Life
January 8, 2008News
November 6, 2007In the crosswalk, New Yorkers find themselves in the cross hairs
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October 11, 2006Blogs
January 25, 2006Film
September 6, 2005Film
September 28, 2004NYC Life
January 28, 2003Film
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