I was walking home from work yesterday and spotted this ultra chic Mercedes S-Class sedan fully decked out in New York Police Department garb; check out the pics. I’ve seen the new Dodge Charger HEMI cop cruisers, but this is a little over the top, especially considering the MSRP on a new S-Class is over $100,000.
Pics taken with my MDA phonecam at East 3rd. st. and Avenue B. NYC
Just forwarding this along to my Monday hungover readers: That weekend bender isn’t over betches-
Paper Magazine Beautiful People Issue After-Party
with special guest DJ sets by Amanda Lepore and Cazwell
Hiro Ballroom – Tuesday March 27The question is, are YOU beautiful enough??? We think you are, which is why we are inviting you to join us and some other beautiful people to hang out, being beautiful and listen to Amanda Lepore DJing at the after-party for the Paper Magazine Beautiful People Issue Release.
For those of you who are wondering, Amanda has deejayed for us before, and she rocked it!.Complementary admission on the GBH guest list.
Email disko@gbh.tv with your name and number of guests you are bringing. Tell the doorperson you are on the GBH list when you arrive at the door.Hiro Ballroom: 371 W16th St. at 9th Ave. 21+ w/ID. Doors Open 10pm.
I think this will be a perfect addition to my new apartment. Come in? or Go Away? GO AWAY.
Unfortunately these aren’t yet for sale, but here’s the designers page anyway
Taking ‘convergence’ to new heights; I bring you the Smoker’s Phone!
from Mad4MobilePhones:
This is probably the most ridiculous product to come out of China in some time. The Smokers Phone looks like a cigarette packet but is in fact a real working mobile phone complete with a handy compartment inside to keep your cigarettes safe.With the official government warning stickers this handset looks exactly the same as a real cigarette packet and includes a microSD card slot, MP3 player, colour screen and VGA camera.
I think this is the first non-electronic song I’ve ever admitted listening to. Just kidding.. The band is Glös and they remind me a lot of the early Deftones.
This bit from Stereogum:
Since Virginia post-hardcore band Engine Down’s 2005 breakup, Keely Davis has been playing with Sparta, which is fine and well — but we miss Engine Down’s sharply melodic brand of emotional punk. So it was nice to hear that Keeley and ED drummer Cornbread Compton were involved in a new project, crafted by trading files via email, and calling along Davis’s sister Maura (formerly of Denali, presently of Ambulette) for the 11-song effort Harmonium. Here’s one of our favorites, with Keeley hiding behind a slight filter effect before the song blooms into a shadowy burner.
I’m still in shock. I just witnessed this guy get killed by the police!!!!! We were having dinner on the sidewalk at Bamboleo at Bleeker and Thompson in Manhattan
(update, Bamboleo’s actually Bleeker and Sullivan, sorry) and this guy
with a briefcase gets stopped by a cop, he punches him in the face and
takes off running. within seconds there was a torrent of gunfire, at
least 100 shots, some were definitely automatic weapons. The guy falls
dead on the ground right across the street in front of the deli.
Fucking crazy! Everyone in the restaurant ran to the kitchen and hid
until the firing stopped. My heart is still pounding, I’m writing this
from my Tmobile MDA in a cab home.
Update: Finally a major media outlet has picked up the story:
Tags: violence | shot | Shooting | NYC | cop | SULLIVAN | New York | nypd | Crime | bleeker
I’m still in shock. I just witnessed this guy get killed by the police!!!!! We were having dinner on the sidewalk at Bamboleo at Bleeker and Thompson in Manhattan
(update, Bamboleo’s actually Bleeker and Sullivan, sorry) and this guy
with a briefcase gets stopped by a cop, he punches him in the face and
takes off running. within seconds there was a torrent of gunfire, at
least 100 shots, some were definitely automatic weapons. The guy falls
dead on the ground right across the street in front of the deli.
Fucking crazy! Everyone in the restaurant ran to the kitchen and hid
until the firing stopped. My heart is still pounding, I’m writing this
from my Tmobile MDA in a cab home.
Update: Finally a major media outlet has picked up the story:
Tags: violence | shot | Shooting | NYC | cop | SULLIVAN | New York | nypd | Crime | bleeker
I’m still in shock. I just witnessed this guy get killed by the police!!!!! We were having dinner on the sidewalk at Bamboleo at Bleeker and Thompson in Manhattan (update, Bamboleo’s actually Bleeker and Sullivan, sorry) and this guy with a briefcase gets stopped by a cop, he punches him in the face and takes off running. within seconds there was a torrent of gunfire, at least 100 shots, some were definitely automatic weapons. The guy falls dead on the ground right across the street in front of the deli. Fucking crazy! Everyone in the restaurant ran to the kitchen and hid until the firing stopped. My heart is still pounding, I’m writing this from my Tmobile MDA in a cab home.
Updated with AP Photos:
Update: Finally a major media outlet has picked up the story:
A gunman executed a bartender and shot dead two unarmed auxiliary cops last night in the heart of Greenwich Village before he was killed in a blistering gunfight with plainclothes officers, police said.
More than 50 shots were fired during the bloodbath that erupted at 9:26 p.m. when the gunman walked into De Marco’s Pizzeria and Restaurant on W.Houston St. at MacDougal St., police said.
Wearing a fake beard and a gray sweat suit, the gunman shot the bartender 15 times in the back after the bartender gave him a menu and turned away, witnesses told cops.
“He just came in and opened fire,” said a 26-year-old waiter from another restaurant. “People here are saying it was some kind of vengeance thing.”
Without a word, the gunman then ripped off the fake beard and ran out of the restaurant onto MacDougal St. and over to Bleecker St., which was crowded with tourists and pedestrians near New York University.
“That’s when all the O.K. Corral stuff happened,” the waiter said.
Police said the gunman fled to Sullivan St. where he cut down the two auxiliary cops – Nicholas Pekearo, 28, and Eugene Marshalik, a 19-year-old NYU student who graduated recently from Manhattan’s elite Stuyvesant High School.
“He literally crossed the street with his gun out to kill them in cold blood,” Mayor Bloomberg said early today.
“Tonight was a horrible night for the New York Police Department and for our city.”
Flight attendant Alan McDonald, 39, of Queens, said he and several friends were only feet away when the madman confronted Pekearo and Marshalik, who had been following him from the pizzeria.
“We thought it was a street fight at first,” McDonald said.
The two auxiliary officers wrestled with the gunman, David Garvin, 31, over a black shoulder bag that police sources said was packed with about 100 rounds of ammunition and a .380-caliber Russian handgun.
Both auxiliary cops continued after Garvin even after he started firing, McDonald said.
“They tried to use cars as cover … but there were rapid shots. I was paralyzed,” he said. “It was like something you see on TV.”
As Garvin began to run again, about six plainclothes cops intercepted him between Sullivan and MacDougal Sts. and told him to drop his 9-mm. handgun, police said.
The gunman refused and opened fire as terrified pedestrians ran into restaurants, shops and doorways for cover. When it was over Garvin lay dead in the street.
“He was on the ground, facedown. … He was full of bullet holes and blood was coming out,” said witness Jess Sears, 48.
“It must have been a whole magazine, 15 or 20 shots. Within two minutes there were hundreds of cops.”
The last time an auxiliary cop was killed in the line of duty was 14 years ago, when Milton Clarke, a 47-year-old father of five, was shot dead in the Bronx. Only seven auxiliary cops have been killed in the history of the NYPD, officials said early today.
At the 6th Precinct stationhouse, where Pekearo and Marshalik were assigned, one cop said, “You would see them and they would cheer you up. Both were very helpful. The community loved them and they loved the community.
“It’s a great loss for the department. It’s probably the worst day for the precinct since 9/11.”
Auxiliary police are unpaid civilian volunteers who aim to deter crime by acting as the “eyes and ears” of the NYPD and providing a uniformed presence.
About 4,600 of them patrol on foot and in marked cars and wear virtually the same uniform as regular officers. Auxiliary cops are equipped with radios, flashlights, handcuffs and nightsticks – but are not allowed to carry guns.
Yesterday’s bloodshed marked the fourth time in less than a week that city cops have been forced to fire their guns on duty. It also came just a day after a plainclothes cop was shot in Harlem and a uniformed officer was stabbed in Brooklyn.
Construction worker Meir Roth, 27, was still at the Greenwich Village crime scene a couple of hours after the shootings, trying to get his car, which he had abandoned with the motor running.
“I was at a red light at Bleecker and MacDougal when I heard it,” he said. “It started and stopped like three times. I saw people running all over the place. For a couple of seconds I didn’t know whether to duck down or run like hell.”
Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly rushed to St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan, where witnesses recounted seeing paramedics bring in four wounded men. Police said officers from the sixth precinct were also brought to the hospital with minor injuries and are listed in stable condition.
“There was a person on the floor dressed in blue and they were working on him, [pounding] on his chest trying to revive him,” said Joe Giaimo, 59, who lives in the area.
“Another cop was pounding on the [patrol] car, going crazy. He really felt helpless and mad. I don’t know why he was going nuts. Maybe that was a friend or his partner.”
De Marco’s pizzeria was opened in 2004 by Margaret Miles, the daughter of Dominic De Marco, the owner of the famed Di Fara Pizza restaurant in Brooklyn.
Witnesses said the slain bartender, Romero Morales, 26, a Mexican immigrant living in Queens with his wife, appeared to recognize Garvin, who cops said lived in the Bronx but hung out in the Village with his girlfriend. Morales’ hands began to shake when the gunman walked inside, witnesses said.
Don’t forget to pop by your local/omnipresent Starbucks tomorrow (Thursday, March 15) between 10am and noon for some free caffeine! People are saying the lines are going to be ridiculous, and judging by how loyal/addicted people are over Starbucks I would tend to agree. But luckily there are, get this, 133 Starbucks stores within 2 miles of my office. That’s right: 133. What’s your Starbucks Density?
Ever since my pal Antoinette tipped me off to this song last week I haven’t been able to put it down. It’s quite the catchy number, and now it will be stuck in your head too! Thanks Toni!
Download Chromeo – Fancy Footwork leaked mp3
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