Ray Kelly

New Yorkers Think Ray Kelly Is a Great Guy, Like to Shame One Another Publicly: Poll

By Victoria Bekiempis Thu., Feb. 9 2012 at 10:54 AM
Categories: Politics, Polls, Ray Kelly, Sanitation Department, Victoria Bekiempis

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New Yorkers think that Ray Kelly is just swell and really like to embarrass one another, according to a new poll.

Indeed, the stats suggest that many city-dwellers are a strange bunch.

Even though Kelly appeared in an Islamophobic vid used for cop training, most New Yorkers don't think the NYPD is anti-Muslim, according to a Quinnipiac University Polling Institute Survey.

Sixty percent say that the police have acted "appropriately" in dealing with Muslims.

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Trash Talk

NYC Trash Can That Housed Improperly Discarded NYPD Docs Found in Trash

By Jen Doll Wed., Aug. 3 2011 at 4:55 PM
Categories: Jen Doll, NYPD, Sanitation Department, Trash Talk, We Love a Mystery

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Bucky Turco at Animal NY, who is either the most vigilant police precinct passerby (or, if you listen to NYPD spokesman Paul Browne, something of a dumpster diver) has noted on two separate occasions that the NYPD might not be discarding their police paperwork properly. In one case, the very public trash can outside of the NYPD's Manhattan South Task Force station on 42nd Street was found to include an NYPD counterterrorism plan marked "law enforcement sensitive." More recently, police documents on how to identify drunks (and how much cops can drink, themselves, on duty) were found in that very same trash. At that point, we wondered not only about the wisdom of discarding business docs in a public garbage bin as a matter of security...but also, isn't it illegal to do that? Didn't a granny just get busted, with a hundred buck fine? (She did.)

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Snow News Day

New Yorkers Find New Dumb Thing to Complain About: Noisy Snow Plows

By Sergio Hernandez Thu., Jan. 13 2011 at 12:02 PM
Categories: City Life, Dumb, Sanitation Department, Sergio Hernandez, Snow News Day, Weather

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​It's official: New Yorkers will complain about anything snow-related. Oh, the street didn't get plowed fast enough? Complain! Slush is gross? Salt stains are annoying? Train's a few minutes late? Flight's delayed? Complain! Complain! Complain! Now the city overcompensates for its prior fuck-up by plowing your street in the middle of the night so you have pristine roads and sidewalks in the morning? Yeah, that's right: Complain!

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Snow News Day

As Another Snowstorm Heads for NYC, City Council Flogs City Hall on Blizzard Response

By Sergio Hernandez Mon., Jan. 10 2011 at 4:44 PM
Categories: Sanitation Department, Sergio Hernandez, Snow News Day, Transportation, Weather
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​Another blizzard is expected to hit New York this week as the city continues to reel from the post-Christmas snowpocalypse. City council members and agency officials spent several hours in hearings this afternoon, while the mayor's office published its first preliminary report on the clean-up disaster. Details on this week's storm and the city council's snowy inquisition after the jump.More »
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Snow News Day

Day Four: Your Blizzard Post-Mortem Roundup

By Sergio Hernandez Thu., Dec. 30 2010 at 12:25 PM
Categories: City Life, MTA Fail, Michael Bloomberg, Sanitation Department, Sergio Hernandez, Snow News Day, Weather
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Daily News
​Mayor Bloomberg has promised to find out why the city's blizzard response was so crappy, but the tabloids may have beat him to the punch. The Daily News has a thorough look today at what happened, while a New York Post report accuses sanitation saboteurs of purposefully slowing down the clean-up effort. Meanwhile, the New York Times thinks the city missed its 7 a.m. deadline and is wondering, yet again: has your street been plowed yet? (Hint: If you live in Brooklyn, the answer is probably "no.") Highlights of what went wrong after the jump.

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