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THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 00185 — 07-06-26
BY: M.L. Nestel
Graphic by Melissa Eiler
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.
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⬛ MANHATTAN
▀ Lower Manhattan: ‘Stay Away From Me!’ Says Shoving Subway Bigot Chiding Asian Woman After Boarding Train
A DEMEANING DEVIANT was busted after slurring at a woman.
A 36-year-old man was identified a month after racially slandering a woman attempting to step onto a 4 train.
It was around 9 p.m. on May 28 when the perp riding a northbound train rumbled into the Chambers Street station.
‘I don’t know if you have the Coronavirus.’
An Asian woman, also 36, claims the uncouth suspect targeted her, saying, “Stay away from me!”
He then shoved her as he continued, “I don’t know if you have the Coronavirus.”
Cops tracked down the perp using video surveillance from the station and on June 23, he was charged with aggravated harassment (based on race or religion).
⬛ THE BRONX
▀ Rikers Island: Woman Caught Smuggling Contraband In Diaper During Visit With Inmate
SOMETHING SHADY WAS found to be secreted in a diaper.
An inmate and his visitor were both charged with trying to sneak something illicit into the prison.
The 22-year-old woman was with an infant (unclear if she was the mom) and sitting with the 22-year-old inmate back on the late afternoon of June 21.
Guards spotted the inmate take possession of items removed from a diaper.
They moved to arrest both she and the prisoner.
Both the prisoner and the visitor were nailed for possession of prison contraband.
It’s unclear what the item she passed to the prisoner was. Also a mystery if the relationship of the two.
Why Gilded Age New York Private Clubs Are Trending
Manhattan’s private-club scene has experienced vertiginous growth. Mario Carbone launched a Hudson Yards joint, ZZ’s Club, in 2023; chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten descended upon the Meatpacking District to open a point-one-percent-filled catacomb, Chez Margaux; and Sunset Tower proprietor Jeff Klein descended upon the city last year to open one of his San Vicente clubs in the former Jane Hotel. As the new guard of hospitality impresarios dot the Big Apple with high-priced venues and piles of zucchini chips, blueblooded New York institutions such as the Union Club, the University Club, the Knickerbocker Club, and the Racquet & Tennis Club haven’t ceded their ground. A growing number of the city’s twenty- and thirty-something men are flocking to the old-world clubs, joining the older guard in the locker rooms.
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⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ East New York: Gunslinger Claims He Was Coerced Before Bloody BMW Jacking, Admitting ‘I Lied About Being Pistol-Whipped’
A FOUR-DEEP CREW ambushed a driver in his beamer and shot him in the back.
If they were hoping to ride off into the sunrise in the mark’s 2025 white BMW M3 they didn’t expect one of them having an extra quick trigger finger.
That gunman, 19, was caught up shortly after shaking down a man for his fancy BMW at around 3:45 a.m. on June 8.
The driver was standing at an industrial supply store parking lot on Montauk and Cozine Avenues.
‘I was pistol-whipped… I lied about being pistol-whipped.’
As the four approached, one of them fired a round and it struck the driver of the $75,000 car in the back.
By afternoon of that same day, cops hauled into custody the suspected gunman, and he initially claimed that he was muscled into the thievery.
"I was pistol-whipped," the perp allegedly told investigators.
‘I love his car. And [Suspect 2] wanted to kill him and made me set him up to take the car.’
But then he reversed course, caving “I lied about being pistol-whipped."
The real truth is the car was a prize and murder was on the menu.
"I love his car,” he explained. “And [Suspect 2] wanted to kill him and made me set him up to take the car."
The suspect was taken to the mill with a boatload of charges including attempted murder, assault, menacing, attempted robbery, and attempted grand larceny.
⬛ QUEENS
▀ Queens Village: Patient KO’d Officer At Mental Hospital
A NUTJOB WENT ballistic on a cop.
The 36-year-old stands accused of unleashing a hurt on a female police officer posted at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center.
The patient was allegedly in a crazed state while being quartered at the hospital back at around noon on June 9.
He was witnessed allegedly charging at the officer and landed several punches to her face.
The flurry caused the officer to suffer.
The suspect was formally taken down for multiple counts of assault of an on-duty police officer.
▀ Whitestone: Fireworks Summonses
COPS AND FIREFIGHTERS mitigated “fire hazards” at the Whitestone Plaza parking lot on America’s 250th birthday. Fireworks were seized and summonses issues.
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⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ Oakwood Heights: ‘Come Outside!’ Air Rifle Challenger Baited Outside Man’s Home
HE WAS A Rambo going to war with a pellet gun.
Cops busted a 46-year-old man decked out in a bandolier and stepped to a man’s Malden Place home where he was raring for a duel.
It was around 1 a.m. on June 3 when the semi-armed deviant was on the man’s property and belted, “Come outside!”
In his mitts was a black gas-propelled pellet gun that wasn’t likely gonna do much damage beyond some bruising.
The innocuous desperado was hit with menacing, harassment, and possession of imitation pistols.
⬛ EVIDENCE ART
▀ Spectaculars (Some Trump-Themed) Seized Ahead Of Independence Day (Queens, NY)
▀ Firepower Pulled During Fireworks (Brooklyn, NY)
⬛ NYCTALGIA
▀ Hollowed Out (Bronx, NY)
Credit: José Camilo Vergara
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▀ 5-Alarm Inferno (Brooklyn, NY) - 1962
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⬛ ET. AL
▀ Uncle What In Sam Hell! (Bronx, NY)
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▀ Canal Street Dance (New York, NY)
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▀ Virtuoso (Brooklyn, NY)
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▀ Fireworks Fail (New York, NY)
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▀ Stogie Spectacular (New York, NY)
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▀ Bmx Bandits Outrun (New York, NY)
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▀ Sea Plane Crashes Into East River (New York, NY)
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High Liners (New York, NY)
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▀ Stunted (New York, NY)
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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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