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June 20, 2016 Weather: Sunny, with a high of 83 degrees.
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The start of Midsummer Night Swing, the Make Music festival and many more events are on our calendar.
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News:
The NYPD’s chief chaplain was attacked on Riverside Drive on Sunday. “Rabbi Alvin Kass was walking down Riverside Drive between West 83rd and West 84th streets when someone came up behind him and shoved him to the ground around 6:45 a.m. Kass, 80, suffered a cut to the right side of his head. He was taken to New York Presbyterian/Weill-Cornell Medical for treatment, sources said.” JP Updates has more: “There were no words exchanged between the rabbi and the suspect, and Rabbi Kass was not wearing a yarmulke at the time of the incident, police sources said. He was wearing his workout apparel, the sources said.”
Jason Jones, a comedian who worked on The Daily Show, attended a meeting about relocating PS 452 (we wrote about it here) and urged parents to band together and keep the deliberations quiet. “Jones has three children with former “Daily Show” correspondent Samantha Bee. He went on to complain about what he called ‘rhetoric’ from some parents that, he thought, suggested those opposing the move are ‘terrified’ of having their school relocate to a building near a housing project. He called that characterization, ‘dishonest at best and slanderous at worst…So I urge you A, to stop talking to the press,’ he continued. ‘This is a private matter, I think, from our community. This story doesn’t exist without your quotes.'” We beg to differ. Parents should be discussing this issue openly, and particularly with dedicated local outlet West Side Rag.
The Philharmonic paid tribute to Orlando victims at one of its Central Park concerts last week, playing the “saddest music ever,” the Adagio for Strings.
Learn some of the stories behind the 4,223 benches with inscriptions in Central Park. “If you can afford it, it’s simple enough. Pay $10,000 (it began at $5,000) and you get to put a plaque on a bench, saying almost whatever you want (within limits of decorum: no cursing, no advertising), up to a suggested maximum of four lines of 30 characters each. And then it’s there forever.”
An argument on the uptown A train led to a slashing on the subway platform at Columbus Circle at 1:30 a.m. Monday morning: “a 21-year-old man was slashed in his throat. He was taken to the hospital where he is expected to survive.”
Upper West Siders love culture, and the city’s ID NYC helps them get it. “According to data from the city, at the end of 2015, people living in the 10025 ZIP code (Upper West Side) redeemed 7,949 cultural memberships — the highest amount — even though only 7,849 ID cards were issued (ID holders can get memberships at multiple institutions).”
Regarding the attack on the NYPD’s chief chaplain: In a recent conversation over drinks with some of our Finest from the 24 Precinct, one cop confided that many crimes are coming from people who have no connection at all to our neighborhood, and no reason, other than crime. He had just told a guy smoking crack at the 96 Street bus shelter to get out of this neighborhood. The cops are protecting us, so let’s keep our eyes open.
Next time you’re having a chat with our finest, can you ask them to actually arrest someone smoking crack, rather that tell him to go to a different neighborhood? It’s illegal, you know.
“Protect and Serve the Money Interests” is not their motto. Good luck with that attitude; you know it’s dangerous out there without our Finest.
Huh? “Money interests”? What are you talking about? Are you denying that crack causes people become to dangerously violent?
Independent, yet again you insert yourself into a conversation to intentionally mischaracterize my Comment. Isn’t that an unproductive use of time? But, as a gesture at helping you get back onto the topic being discussed, I will explain:
I’d replied: “‘Protect and Serve the Money Interests” is not their motto.'” to UWSer’s Comment: “‘Next time you’re having a chat with our finest, can you ask them to actually arrest someone smoking crack, rather that tell him to go to a different neighborhood? It’s illegal, you know.'” [all just above]. My Reply was to explain that the cops are not taking orders from me or UWSer.
Your Comment has NO RELATIONSHIP to this short conversation [only 2 comments]. Can you stay with the conversation for once?
*to become dangerously violent
Yes, I should have proof-read more carefully. I hope ScooterStan will pardon me.
“many crimes are coming from people who have no connection at all to our neighborhood, and no reason, other than crime.”
I wonder, how many of these individuals are even citizens or legal residents of this country? Immigration into a sovereign nation is a privilege, not a right.
Can anyone stay on topic on this thread?
How did you manage to turn this into an anti-immigration thing? You have zero reason to believe these are illegal immigrants. What a bizarre comment.
“He had just told a guy smoking crack at the 96 Street bus shelter to get out of this neighborhood.”
Uh…huh.
So he was a cop, who apparently found someone engaging in illegal behavior, and then didn’t arrest him. This sounds like a complete fabrication. Second, ‘dannyboy’, shouldn’t you be blaming this on De Blasio?
You can choose not to believe the cop, or not to believe me, or both. OK with me either way.
Also, you are confused again. The Mayor was not involved in this incident.
Can anyone stay on topic on this thread?
What do your brothers in blue have to say about Adrien Schoolcraft and Eric Garner? Daniel Pantaleo? Inquiring minds want to know. They don’t protect us, they protect themselves and a few white, cis, heterosexual men.
What’s with this “cis” stuff? Is that the new in code?
Cisgender. Meaning you identify with the gender you were assigned at birth. As opposed to Transgender, where you don’t identify with he gender assigned at birth. Trans members of society are at greater risk for abuse and discrimination, especially if they are people of color.
Here’s some “advice to UWS [and all] parents” that is far more critical than that from any trendy comedian: Before you allow your child to be irreversibly altered or otherwise offered at the altar of the latest radical social experiment, at least consider what is written at the following URLs:
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/02/fight-over-trans-kids-got-a-researcher-fired.html
https://4thwavenow.com/about/
http://www.acpeds.org/the-college-speaks/position-statements/gender-ideology-harms-children
@ “Francis Farmer”: you’d better hurry and get up-to-date with the latest approved lexicon or you might find yourself charged with a
“microaggression”.
I don’t discuss sexual preferences with other men over a beer. Evidently we have very different social conversations.
Re: “they protect themselves and a few white, cis, heterosexual men….”
In other words, according to your hateful anti-cop slur, the average uniformed police officer therefore does NOT protect: females, people of color, gay people (wonder how they would determine that), and transgender people (again, wonder how they would determine that).
There are NO WORDS, at least none suitable for a family-friendly website, that can describe your level of idiocy!
You are an obsessive HATER, too wrapped-up in your own craziness to even begin to see reality. How disgusting!
P.S.: I am not now nor was I ever a “cop”, I am not related to any cops, and I do not even know any cops personally!!!; so that will not “explain” my opinion
I’m more pro police than you because I don’t excuse abusive behavior or condone the blue wall of silence. Giuliani time is over, the police have to behave themselves.
But you wrote this:
“They don’t protect us, they protect themselves and a few white, cis, heterosexual men.”
Does make us question your follow-up Comment of: “I’m more pro police than you”
Which is the real Edie G. and who is the imposter?
Huge Sam Bee and Jason Jones fan here, but come on. “Do not talk to the press,” advises comedian/media critic who depends on press for material.
Well, for one, I’m all for bringing back broken windows policing. Obviously there are criminals who need it to be kept in check.
That said, racist cops need to be taken out.
Terrible reporting on the attack on the rabbi! Was he robbed? Did the mugger have a weapon? Did he get a description of the mugger? What side of Riverside Drive was he walking on, e.g. the park side or the east side of the Drive? Rather have these answers than knowing at the time of the attack he wasn’t wearing a Yarmulke! That’s not really important unless the crime was deemed to be a hate crime.
I think Jason Jones realizes he’s nothing without writers to spin it all in a fun way. It’s not a fun situation, tempers are high, parents have been misquoted (in the Gothamist, not here) … Everyone is afraid of being seen as classist or racist, so … everybody shhhh … It’s fraught.
“‘This is a private matter, I think, from our community. This story doesn’t exist without your quotes.’”” – Jason Jones
This Is a PUBLIC School! It is a PUBLIC matter. Discussions are to be open and PUBLIC. I have been opposing this during the entire rezoning scheme. Who stole our PUBLIC schools?