Showing posts with label drunk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drunk. Show all posts

Saturday, January 3, 2015

Watch privileged, mostly white, drunk morons act stupid and get arrested


"Two hours after 2015 became official in New York City, a dance party popped up on the Lower East Side. A bicycle rigged with a mobile sound system provided beats while two dozen or so revelers boogied and partied on Ludlow Street, literally, as the middle of the street was treated like a dance floor."

Enjoy the stupidity.

"don't take pictures, that's how people get arrested."



A woman was arrested for assaulting a police officer. She lives in Queens, but is originally from Vermont. Naturally, she was part of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Friday, December 12, 2014

Drunken vandals caught

From the Queens Chronicle:

The two men who trashed part of a World War II memorial in Woodhaven while in a supposed drunken haze have been caught, according to community leaders.

"WE GOT THEM," the Woodhaven Business Improvement District posted on its Facebook page. "We have been notified that the two perpetrators that stole our Wreath and American Flags from our World War II Monument on our Forest Parkway Plaza Area only to destroy our Wreath and desecrate our American Flags have been arrested."

The post states that the two men are "unfortunately" Woodhaven residents.


And in other positive war memorial news, the Captain Malcolm Rafferty monument featured in this post has been restored by NYC Parks and Newtown Historical Society.

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Queens hipsters continue to behave badly

Word has come in that a concert held on Veterans Day at the Knockdown Center resulted in a really long 8 hour line, no potties for the revelers, lots of public urination, trespassing and littering and the parking was a disaster. Here's footage of one of the attendees who got caught with her pants down:


Oh and remember "TransPecos" which was supposedly applying for a liquor license so they could pay for an A/C for mentally challenged students that they invite to play there during the day? They sailed past CB5 but then messed up big time and their liquor license was denied by SLA. Why? Word is that they stupidly posted a "BYOB" sign in their window and got raided by the NYPD and liquor was found. Whoopsie! Now they're calling electeds like mad in an attempt to try to fix their boo-boo.

Want proof? Above is a screenshot of SLA's map of current and pending liquor licenses. You'll notice the absence of a colored dot on Wyckoff between Hancock and Weirfield Streets. That means the application was 86'ed.

As a good friend stated when this was brought to her attention, "Welcome to the generation of geniuses who will be paying our social security kiddo. Be afraid. Be VERY afraid."

Indeed.

I also thought I would point once more out that Council Member Crowley supports both of these venues... and one of them isn't even in her district.

Sunday, June 29, 2014

Diversity Plaza is a little too vibrant

From DNA Info:

Two police officers have begun patrolling Diversity Plaza in response to complaints about vagrants, loud music and other safety issues, according to the precinct's commander — good news for those who say the plaza has become a scourge in the neighborhood.

One officer is stationed on Broadway and 37th Road and another on 74th Street and Roosevelt Avenue, with a focus on "proactively addressing any of the conditions [at Diversity Plaza] as well as making contacts with members of the community and partnerships w/the community," according to Deputy Inspector Michael Cody of the 115th Precinct.

He made the announcement at Community Board 3's June meeting, which was held outside at the plaza.

"Right here in Diversity Plaza, there's been a lot of complaints of vagrants, loud music, running the gamut," he said. "I know it's a very vibrant area and it's used for a lot of great purposes for the community."

Most of the complaints have been for drinking in public and sleeping on the ground among other things, he added.

The officers are on patrol from 2 p.m. until 6 a.m., Cody said.

Friday, June 6, 2014

Tabone says he was too drunk to be corrupt

From the NY Post:

A Queens Republican operative, accused of pocketing $25,000 as part of a failed scheme to help state Sen. Malcolm Smith rig last year’s mayoral race, was so boozed up when he took the cash that he thought he was being paid for legal consulting services, a lawyer claimed Thursday.

Leo Ahern, a lawyer for ex-Queens GOP Vice Chairman Vincent Tabone, accused the government of entrapment. He told a federal jury his client had one too many vodka tonics with a politically connected group at Sparks Steak House in Midtown on Valentine’s Day 2013. It was then, Ahern claimed, that an undercover FBI agent and a wire-wearing, crooked developer-turned-informant walked Tabone outside to a parked Audi and paid him the cash.

The Rockland County developer was Moses Stern, whom the feds say Smith — one of the state’s most powerful Democrats — turned to for money and help in a $200,000 bribery scheme to get the Republican ballot for mayor.

“[Tabone] had six or seven vodka toxics without eating,” Ahern told the jury in White Plains federal court. “He was hoping to be retained [by Stern] as a real estate lawyer or a political consultant.”

Ahern said tapes of the exchange will show his client “could barely talk” when he took the cash. He also said Tabone sought contact information from the undercover agent he knew as “Raj,” so he could send “retainer” papers and make “everything up and up.” Ahern claimed Raj gave Tabone a business card — but later took it back.

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Rockaway beach cocktails nixed

From the Daily News:

Rockaway’s remaining food concessionaires returned to their beachfront stands for the Fourth of July, but their excitement about reopening was tempered by a newly instituted ban on hard liquor sales.
Beer and wine are still on the menu, but margaritas and mojitos are off limits.

The operators, who have been luring foodies to the beach since the city revamped the concessions in 2011, learned about the change in recent weeks, and they were unhappy about it.

They are already struggling to recover from losses inflicted by Superstorm Sandy, and they say this does nothing to help.

“We’d love to have it back,” said Lindsay Robinson, the co-owner of Low Bar near Beach 97th St., who served up margaritas and dark and stormies from the boardwalk site last summer. “We didn’t have any problems with it last year.”

The change came at the request of city lifeguards, who asked the Parks Department to nix the sale of cocktails for safety reasons, sources told the Daily News.

Lifeguards are on duty until 6 p.m. at city beaches. The time they call it a day was the same time the beachgoers were allowed to start buying cocktails.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

All it takes is one jerk...

Hi Craps,

This last Monday on Memorial Day at Francis Lewis Park dozens of families with their children were enjoying of a beautiful day.

While this was going on this fifty something year old guy was drinking Coronas (Beer) right in the playground where his children, my grandson and those of other people were playing around, not content with the boozing display he was also smoking right outside the very gate to the playground next to where he was seating like all the attendants couldn’t smell the disgusting second hand smog.

What a shameful example to give to his children (because if he wasn’t accompanying any children which by the way I didn’t see while I was there that would be another violation of park usage), teaching them to drink in a public place while having a smoke where it’s also considered inappropriate.




He was not only disrupting the enjoyment of that part of the day for many attendants to the playground but he also was breaking several laws. As usual there wasn’t any police or park employee presence in the park (or any other park in North Queens) to have him rightly fined for his imbecilic behavior.

Way to go boozer, what’s next? Drugs and public sex in the park where children play?

- Anonymous

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Woodside pissers ruin LIRR elevator

From DNA Info:

Public urination in the city's transit system isn't just making stations reek — it's actually damaging equipment, Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials revealed this week.

One unfortunate elevator at the Long Island Rail Road's Woodside station in Queens has been inundated with so much urine that its floor has rusted and warped, interfering with its door mechanics and frequently forcing it out of commission.

"The mechanics of the elevator are constantly being contaminated," said LIRR President Helena Williams during an LIRR committee meeting Monday, where she described the lift as having a "vertical urinal problem."

As a result, the elevator, which shuttles riders from the station's mezzanine-level to an LIRR platform, was only in commission 58 percent of the time in February — versus 97 percent for elevators across the LIRR system — making it the worst-performing lift in any LIRR station, an MTA spokesman said.

“The deterioration is significant," he said, adding that maintenance crews weren't sure exactly why the elevator was such a target, considering it was just one of five lifts at the station.

Adding to the mystery is that the station also offers rare public toilets on the mezzanine level.

But the elevators also aren't the only parts of the transit system that have needed to be overhauled because of frequent toilet stops.

Years ago, subway cars had vinyl floor tiles that were laid over plywood. But over time, the plywood floors began to rot and smell foul — which subway officials attributed to urine damage.


The reason there is so much pee at this particular station is the proximity of so many bars. Years ago, when I had a 4:30am commute through that station, I actually had to step over the Long Island drunks passed out on the LIRR platform who I assume were headed home after closing time in Woodside.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Welcome to our vibrant, diverse sanctuary city

From the NY Times:

WHEN the Metropolitan Transportation Authority decided to get rid of a colony of pigeons that roosted under the elevated subway that runs down the middle of Roosevelt Avenue in Queens several years ago, it installed anti-pigeon spikes and sound machines to drive the birds off. The birds decamped, but only to the trees next to the tracks, where they continued to befoul the street below, according to local residents. When the parks department pruned the trees, the birds headed back to the tracks to another spot. Now, the transit agency continues to power-wash the caked-on debris away.

That’s what the fight against vice is like on Roosevelt Avenue, where efforts by the city to clean up a street that is home not only to pigeons, but also to a host of criminal activities, often play out like the carnival game Whac-A-Mole: go after one form of wrongdoing and it will re-emerge somewhere else in a slightly different form.

A common refrain about Roosevelt, which slices across Queens from Queens Boulevard to Northern Boulevard, is that the seediness pushed out of Times Square merely re-established itself there, finding a new home especially in the Corona and Jackson Heights neighborhoods, according to residents, advocates and law enforcement officials. Today, prostitution and counterfeiting industries are tucked alongside the Mexican restaurants, Dominican bakeries, Colombian boutiques and the nightclubs where men — many of them new immigrants working to feed families left behind in their homelands — can buy the company of a woman by paying $2 for a dance.

Late at night, the sight of drunken men slumped on the streets outside bars is so common that in September, a young man who was stabbed bled to death on the pavement a few blocks off Roosevelt, ignored by pedestrians who thought he had passed out after a late night.

For decades, extraordinary policing efforts have been applied to the problems on this avenue, including a citywide task force and, more recently, a designation as a New York Police Department Operation Impact Zone, which means the area is flooded with patrols. And yet, even as overall crime in the city and along Roosevelt Avenue has fallen, certain crimes have stubbornly resisted stifling.



Wednesday, January 4, 2012

What's going on in Astoria?

"I have been searching around online to find out what happened with these cases, and if these unconscious men laying around really had a medical condition or if my tax dollars were used for their unnecessary ER visits.I don't know and haven't found any news stories about this. What's the deal?

Within the past 6 months, during my daily routine or going to or from the Steinway St. subway station, I've come across a young man passed out on the street, around 34th Ave. and Steinway Street and most recently tonight, someone who apparently fell on the steps of the train station, at the exit closest to Broadway. Their body positions and seemingly how no one seemed to notice how they ended up there, seem very odd to me.

No joke, I'm just curious as to why guys are passing out in the middle of the street. Low sugar levels, drunkenness, are they high, are they looking for a hospital bed to sleep in?

All 3 men that I've walked by (and have called 911 for them, along with other by-standers) have probably been in their late 20's, early 30's. Fairly well-kept and dressed, nice sweater & jeans, and found unconscious.

1. A Friday night in July 2011, 7:30pm: 34th Ave. in front of Entenman's Outlet. Man laying unconscious between cars, he's on his stomach with feet over the curb into the street. Strange that he was positioned so close to two parked cars. A few people call 911. He seems to be drooling. A woman brings a bottle of water to try to make him drink it, he keeps mumbling that he has some kind of soup. As sirens get closer, I see him pick his head up quickly and put it back down. I don't stay because I have a train to catch.

2. A Monday afternoon in August 2011, 3:00pm: Southside of 34th Ave. Salvation Army. Walking back from the grocery store (passed by that point about 1/2 hour before), a man is unconscious, laying on his back, between two cars. His feet were hanging over the curb, like he had slipped or something. People were gathering around. I asked the Halal cart vendors if they knew what was going on. He didn't know and said that the ambulance is here all the time, just earlier that day a woman got hit at that intersection.

3. A Thursday evening in December 2011, 11:00pm: At the bottom of the Steinway Station steps, exiting towards Basureo restaurant, a young man is laying flat on his back at the bottom of the stairs. The placement of his feet are under the hand railing. The group of subway riders ahead of him are standing on the steps looking back at him and calling 911. Did his feet get caught under the hand rail? He looked like he only fell from 4 or 5 steps up- not so high. And possible to catch yourself with your hand or land on your butt unless there was a medical issue.

All these incidents happened during nice weather, no rain or snow to slip on. I'm glad by-standers will call 911, but if these are hoaxes it's very disconcerting. What's the deal?" - anonymous

Monday, September 5, 2011

Weird goings-on at Lou Lodati Park

From Sunnyside Post:

If you’re looking for a park to bring the family, then Lou Lodati Park is not for you.

The park, located on Skillman Ave. (between 42nd and 43rd), is the home to drunks, those who urinate under trees or expose themselves in front of people. Many residents have been complaining about these issues for years—from public defecation to gambling on soccer/volleyball games.

These events occur even when the public toilets are open, which are about 100 meters from the trees.

Friday, August 5, 2011

The Guyanese Beavis and Butthead

From the Daily News:

Two hard-partying young men have been hit with attempted murder charges after they copped to setting a fire in a Queens building that nearly killed two elderly residents, officials said Tuesday.

Imran Ali, 23 and Devindra Ramnaryan, 21, both immigrants from Guyana, left a club on Liberty Ave. in South Ozone Park about 2:30 a.m. on July 23, officials said.

As they were leaving, they became enraged because they thought someone was throwing rocks at them from a nearby rooftop, law enforcement sources said.

After forcing their way inside the building where they thought the attack had originated, they lit a fire in a second-floor hallway - then took off.

Investigators believe they were drunk at the time.

Ali was arrested by Fire Marshals on July 27, officials said. When he was hauled into Queens Criminal Court prior to his arraignment, he quipped to investigators: "This is the first time I have ever been here when I wasn't drunk!" a law enforcement source said.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

LIC drinkers lose their beach

From the Daily News:

The city told Water Taxi Beach last month to make way for the development of Hunters Point South, a massive residential and retail complex.

The city rejected the company's proposal for an alternate location, said Tom Fox, owner of Water Taxi Beach.

Petitioners took to the Web to throw their support behind the scrapped beach.

"Greatest view ever. Favorite spot of many. Please reconsider," one petitioner, Amanda Nocito, wrote on the website.

Joe Conley, chairman of Community Board 2, said the club atmosphere is exactly what turned locals against the beach.

"It's still a great idea, but introducing the concept of sun, sand and alcohol didn't work out. We'd welcome the beach, but without alcohol," he said.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Bloomberg insults the Irish

From the Daily News:

A wisecrack Mayor Bloomberg made last night about "inebriated Irish hanging out the windows" has some saying Hizzoner should kiss something other than The Blarney Stone, according to a report on the website Irish Central.

"In bizarre remarks delivered at a St. Patrick's Parade book launch at the American Irish Historical Society in New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he lived nearby and was used to seeing 'inebriated Irish hanging out the windows' at the Society which is on Fifth Avenue," writes Niall O'Dowd.

"Bloomberg's remarks drew some boos from an astonished crowd who had gathered along with Grand Marshal Mary Higgins Clark to celebrate the launch of the book entitled "Celebrating 250 Years of the New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade" by Irish American historian John Ridge,which recounts the 250 years history of the parade."

"Bloomberg's comments were made at the very start of his speech and he continued on in strange vein asking when the parade was being held and commenting it was good it was always on the same day so he wouldn't confuse it with Columbus Day."

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Drunks without jobs take guy's eye out

From BushwickBK:

The unidentified victim, who witnesses say lives in the neighborhood, was stopped by Juan Quispe, 20, and Samuel Lopez, 25 on the corner of Wilson Avenue and Menahan Street last Sunday morning around 5am, according to NYPD press officers. The twenty-something duo asked the victim if he could buy them a beer but the man refused.

According to the NY Post, the man told the would-be winos that he had a job and they should get one too.

Outraged by the suggestion, the pair began to pummel the victim and allegedly stabbed him in the eye, but no weapon was recovered at the scene. A passerby saw the attack and ran the bumbling duo off; they were caught minutes later by police from the 83rd Precinct.

The victim was taken to a nearby hospital and was listed in stable condition but may lose sight in his left eye.

Juan Quispe, who isn’t even old enough to buy a beer and currently has an immigration warrant out for his arrest, was charged with 1st degree felony assault. His bail has been set to $50,000. Lopez was charged with 2nd degree felony assault. Both men remain in custody.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Drunken SJU students add to vibrant diversity


From the Queens Chronicle:

Residents of Jamaica Estates have had a big bone to pick with St. John’s University, the city and elected officials, and Monday they got their chance.

The Jamaica Estates Association held a meeting that night at the Hillcrest Jewish Center to discuss off-campus student housing — where illegal drinking, all-night partying and worse have some residents afraid and others angry.

In recent years, although St. John’s officials say that “the student population of the entire university has not increased,” the volume of complaints has grown concerning about as many as a dozen one-family houses occupied by students close to the Jamaica campus.

The room was filled to capacity during the nearly three-hour meeting, at which scores of homeowners all but finished each other’s sentences, relating stories of loud parties and obnoxious behavior by St. Johns students and their friends.

City codes allow for only “two unrelated persons” to join another in renting a residential unit — so it’s illegal for four or more college kids to live in a one-family house.

Longtime residents insist that unscrupulous realtors are illegally packing college kids into houses on quiet residential streets, and their blocks aren’t quiet anymore. They complained of one such “animal house” on Aberdeen Road that was the recent scene of a drunken bash of some 300 St. John’s students and their pals.

Neighbors recounted public urination and vomiting; a passed out youth on a front lawn, window-climbing, sexual escapades, tipped over mailboxes, and in one case a woman being threatened by a student, who was placed under arrest.

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Time to limit legal gun ownership!

From the Daily News:

It could soon be a crime to get drunk while packing heat - unless you're a cop.

A bill aired at a City Council hearing Wednesday would subject licensed gun owners to a possible year in jail and $10,000 fine if they're over the limit and armed.

Public Safety Committee Chairman Peter Vallone Jr. said state law prevents the city from including on-duty or off-duty cops in the measure.

The bill has the support of the NYPD and Mayor Bloomberg, who failed to get a similar law passed in Albany that also exempted cops.

Arkady Gerney, a mayoral criminal justice aide, testified that police officers are covered by departmental penalties for carrying their firearms and drinking even when off-duty.


Yes, and we all know that cops crack down on other cops whenever possible...

Friday, September 10, 2010

That's one lucky drunk!

From the Daily News:

A down-on-his-luck construction worker survived a 625-volt zap to the head after getting pushed onto an electrified third rail during a drunken brawl in Brooklyn.

Witnesses said his body shook and smoke came from his noggin, as he lay helplessly on the subway tracks in East New York on Monday night.

"Yes, I feel lucky. I could have died," Andy Morris, 44, told the Daily News Wednesday from the burn unit at Staten Island University Hospital.

Morris doesn't remember a thing. He just remembers waking up in a hospital the next day.

Police are reviewing video surveillance of the crime at the Broadway Junction station about 7:30 p.m. No one has been arrested.

A rolling argument began on the Queens-bound A train near the Jay St.-Borough Hall station. It spilled onto the platform about 10 stops later. Witnesses told cops that Morris was boozed up and belligerent and took a swing or two at a couple of other men.

The ruckus attracted a ring of onlookers, including one who stepped forward and shoved Morris without warning. A police source said the person who pushed Morris was not one of the two younger men he was arguing with.

"I want them to catch them," Morris said of the of the culprit who shoved him. "It was malicious."

The near-death toss was the just the latest bout of misfortune for Morris, who lives at Samaritan Village, a homeless shelter in East New York. He lost his construction job when the economy tanked and now fears he may never be able to work again.

"My fingers are fried," Morris said.

Friday, August 27, 2010

Sounds like he was pissed off...

From Eyewitness News:

An apparently drunk man was arrested for shouting anti-Muslim slurs as he urinated outside a mosque in the Astoria section of Queens.

Omar Rivera was charged with criminal trespass after worshippers at the Al-Iman Mosque on Steinway Street subdued him Wednesday night.

Holding a beer bottle, Rivera burst in during evening prayers. He allegedly shouted anti-Muslim slurs, calling the worshipers "terrorists," then flashed his middle finger and urniated outside the mosque.

Two worshipers subdued him and called 911.

Rivera was charged and taken to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation.

The mosque said earlier news reports that the suspect urinated on prayer rugs was not inaccurate.


UPDATE: So apparently this may never have happened...

ASTORIA, N.Y. (WPIX) - An intoxicated man is accused of urinating outside a Queens mosque Wednesday night during a prayer session, according to New York City police.

The disturbing incident unraveled at the Iman Mosque on Steinway Street in Astoria when witnesses say Omar Rivera "came in with a beer bottle in his hands" and was "clearly very intoxicated."

The mosque released a statement Thursday refuting claims Rivera shouted anti-Muslim slurs.

They said they believe the incident was an unintentional act of intoxication and wasn't directed against the mosque or Muslim community. In addition, they claimed Rivera was not charged with criminal trespass and was instead charged with pubic urination.

Two men in the prayer group were able to subdue the man and brought him into a back room before calling authorities.

Police took Rivera to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation. Officials at the mosque said they are offering Rivera any help he may need.