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THE BLOTTER

ISSUE № 0043 — 01-13-26

BY: M.L. Nestel

Illustration by Rob Weiss

The Blotter.* A roundup of happenings in Gotham’s mean streets (and from time to time the tri-state region). Each item provides a staticky glimpse into the sleepless city’s peripheral misdemeanors, felonies, and misadventures.

⬛ MANHATTAN

Midtown: Teen Jumped And Knifed By 2 Attackers Grilling Him About Being A Gang Member

TWO YOUNG TOUGHS challenged a 15-year-old in Times Square.

They targeted the boy inside a subway station mezzanine level at the corner of West 42nd Street and 8th Avenue. 

It was around 6 p.m. on Dec. 20 when the duo, both 17, stepped to the kid. 

They allegedly asked him if he was a member of a gang.

He told them he wasn’t. 

That answer apparently was the wrong one because one of them pulled a knife and swung it to gash the innocent on his right arm. 

The bullies — clad in a brown jacket and black pants and the other wearing a black jacket, black pants, and carrying a skateboard.

Cops, responding to a radio broadcast of the perps’ description, tracked down the boy’s accosters ducking inside a McDonald’s on 34th Street. 

The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital where he was mending from the laceration.

⬛ THE BRONX

Highbridge: Maniac Ruined Phone, Bricked A Car, Knifed Woman  

TWO WOMEN WERE targeted by a human wrecking ball. 

The 26-year-old twice targeted women, one of them his baby mama, in front of their homes on Nelson Avenue off West 168th Street. 

He first erupted at around noon on Dec. 20, when he verbally joused with a woman and then wrested away her iPhone and when she protested for him to give it back — he allegedly refused. 

Then, when her mother attempted to return pleads for help — the suspect intentionally dropped the calls, according to the criminal complaint. 

He then allegedly took hold of the phone and “threw it to the ground, causing it to crack and break”, the papers say. 

Next, the phone tosser’s conniption had him aiming his fist at a not very punch-proof wall where he took a deranged shot, causing a massive cavity. 

Three hours later, authorities say the angry goon challenged another woman. 

But this time instead of his fist as a weapon, he was allegedly wielding a kitchen knife and witnessed chasing her out into the street. 

The spooked woman attempted to duck for safety in a car. But the suspect wasn’t to be denied.

He allegedly found a brick and tossed it, smashing through the rear window.  

The fit continued with him whacking both the passenger and driver’s side windows with the butt of the knife “multiple times” also shattering the glass. 

Authorities say he didn’t stop. He started knifing the car’s tire causing; one of them deflated, the papers say. He proceeded to destroy the sideview mirrors and door handles. 

The car now laid bare, the lout took the knife and slashed the woman on her right forearm causing her to suffer a cut and bleed. 

Responding cops took the car destroyer into custody and slapped him with assault with a weapon, criminal mischief, weapons possession, and harassment.

⬛ BROOKLYN

Boerum Hill: Teen Halloween Rager Host Says She’s Clueless How It Got ‘Out Of Control’

TEEN HELLIONS RAISED the roof at a house party on Halloween night where the booze was flowing. 

The clambake at a 49-year-old woman’s brownstone dotted on Pacific Street near 4th Avenue was especially popping off by around 9:30 p.m. and subsequently drew officers to her doorstep. 

Once they entered the home, they estimated there were about 30-plus underagers getting smashed (or already there) by imbibing heaping servings of both beer and vodka, according to the criminal complaint. 

The party police asked about the illegal hooch cradled by the teenage boozers (ages 15 to 17) and pressed the mom.

She waffled some when trying to explain who sourced the spirit handles and brewskies. 

“I don't know how it got out of control,” she allegedly told answered, adding, “I don't know where they got the alcohol.”

The party was abruptly shutdown and the woman facing an endangering the welfare of a child rap.

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⬛ QUEENS

Far Rockaway: ‘The Shot Almost Hit My Dog’

A MAN’S BEST friend was inches from the big sleep when predawn incoming in the from of a bullet purportedly blasted from upstairs — pierced his bedroom. 

When the shot was fired it when through the ceiling and right above my dog’s body,” the shaken victim, 30, told The Blotter. 

It was around 2 a.m. on Dec. 23 — two days before Christmans when the man and his two father-son pitbull terriers, Storm, 4, and his pop Smoke, 8, were crashed out by his bed. 

Suddenly a projectile shattered the ceiling and alarmed him and the pets. 

Authorities rushed to the home located on Seagirt Avenue and Beach 30th Street soon after the shot. 

The family upstairs allegedly told officers the bullet was a terrible accident. 

They claimed their 12-year-old son was fiddling in his mother’s bedroom closet (again this is in the dead of night) where a 9mm Roebuck pistol, lacking a permit, was stowed. 

The supposed rascal insomniac of a tot (perhaps bored with his Tinkertoys or cookingware informercial programming on the TV) “knocked a firearm off of a shelf” in the closet and it “discharged when it hit the floor.” 

‘You don't want to, if a firearm goes off — you don't want to go charging at the someone who shot it.’ -30-year-old Queens man who survived a gunshot purportedly fired by his upstairs neighbors’ 12-year-old son

The man who survived the incoming isn’t so sure that rendition is how things really happened. 

“That’s what they’re saying, allegedly,” he said, adopting a consternating tone. 

And why is he skeptical of blaming the slippery-fingered kid accident story? Because the neighbor stated that he had been feuding with the parents before the round was shot. 

It’s weird because earlier that day him and his wife and I got into an incident and woke us up and there was a problem,” he said. “And then later that night a bullet comes through my bedroom!” 

He confirmed that he maintained restraint from the shellshock. 

That meant not storming upstairs in a tempest to confront the combatant neighbors, who along with the 12-year-old boy they also have an 8-year-old daughter, and 10-month son.

“Nah, it was kind of like a heated situation,” he explained. “So, like, you don't want to, if a firearm goes off — you don't want to go charging at the someone who shot it.”

According to his recollection of the aftermath, the bullet itself struck the ceiling sending drywall to rain down and then richocheted off the ground. 

The 30-year-old mother was pinched for the supposed misfire and hit with weapons possession, reckless endangerment, and endangering the welfare of a child.  

But neither he nor the cops casing his apartment for the discharged projectile could find it. 

He noted that it wasn’t until the following day while the man was cleaning up all the fallen debris that he lucked on the 9mm bullet resting by his mirror. 

Cops returned to collect it as evidence.

Meantime, ther’s a restraining order being secured that involves the landlord. 

And as for being able to catch Zs at his home with a literal hole in his ceiling wall — it has been tough. Especially for his rattled pets.

“They don't sleep like they did before,” the man said. “They move around all night now. They're sort of shook.”

⬛ STATEN ISLAND

Sunnyside: Rabble-Rouser Caught Kicking Stalled Bus Window

HE MUST REALLY despise public transportation.

A 45-year-old lost his cool at a stopped city bus’s, kicking a glass door into shambles.

The desperado was meandering around Clove Road and Victory Boulevard back on the morning of Nov. 19.

That’s when he encountered a bus that was stalled at a red light.

He allegedly started kicking the rear door in, causing glass to shatter all over the ground.

He then pirouetted off like some demonic ballerina.

It took weeks before cops caught up to suspect.

On Dec. 11, authorities brought him up on criminal mischief raps.

It’s unclear what provoked the bus hater to unleash such a fury at the bus door.

NYCSTALGIA

▀ Vintage Grub Hub (New York, NY) - 1950s

AUTOMAT ON A concourse along Fordham Road.

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▀ World’s Fair CONT. (Flushing, Queens)

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▀ Stickball Contest (New York, NY)

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▀ Gun Hill Road Station (Bronx, NY)

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▀ Gotham Ink

DEZ

POES

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⬛ ET. AL

Train Surfer Shows Off Bunny Hop (Bronx, NY)

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▀ Rimless (Bronx, NY)

ANOTHER MERCEDES (model S580) STRIPPED of its wheels.

BACKTALK:

Sonidos De Poesías: Forget that, imagine wake up in the morning to go to work just to find your car like this… Yep, this just happened to me 2 days ago

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*When perusing The Blotter, know that arrests do not constitute guilt, and all suspects are innocent until proven guilty. Moreover, the reported items are merely a snapshot of a criminal matter – what is known at the time of publishing. In most cases, the persons arrested for breaking the law haven’t been convicted (yet). It’s also possible that the charges brought against them may be reduced or even withdrawn.

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