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THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 0040 — 01-09-26
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
▀ Gramercy: Deli Worker Launches Knife At Beefing Customer Who Gashes Hand Trying To Catch It
IT WAS A hellscape at the Heavenly Market.
Two men squared off before lunchtime on Nov. 25, two days before Thanksgiving.
The 34-year-old grocer was inside The Heavenly Market located on Third Avenue and East 23rd Street.
He and a dissatisfied customer were volleying insults when things escalated.
The worker took a knife and allegedly threw it at the other man. The intended target (who apparently left at home his chain mail suit and knight’s saber) had the bold idea to attempt to save himself.
He raised his hands and tried catching the knife midair.
While it stopped from striking him in any critical body parts — the knife slashed his thumb.
Remarkably, the digit-hindered man refused medical attention.
Cops arrived and took the blade slinger into custody and booked him on assault with a weapon.
⬛ THE BRONX
▀ Marble Hill: SUV Speedster Hops Sidewalk Taking Cops On Wild Chase
SHE HAD CALIFORNIA plates and attempted to outrun the law.
It was dinnertime on Oct. 26, when a 25-year-old driver was behind the wheel of a dark blue dark blue 2021 Chevrolet Trailblazer with the Golden State license plates that blew a red light smack dab in front of a police cruiser.
The cops were sitting on Exterior and West 225th Street when the woman flouted the light and nearly caused a massive pileup.
They pursued and flicked ON their lights and sirens in an attempt to get the woman to pull over.
She allegedly pretended everything was a video game and dismissed the seriousness of the moment.
The driver instead flipped a U-turn and careened a sidewalk and floored the gas.
She also allegedly veered onto the shoulder and highway ramp again forcing other drivers to hit their brakes.
Finally, the woman acquiesced to the chase and quit the hijinx.
The officers ran the driver’s record and found her license had been suspended.
⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ Downtown Brooklyn: Inmate In Holding Cell Caught Buying Then Snorting Smack
The suspect, 35, was being held for criminal possession of stolen property and petit larceny when he tacked on promoting prison contraband and criminal possession of a controlled substance.
The suspect was being held inside cell number seven at Brooklyn’s Central Booking lockup on Schermerhorn Street back at around 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 17, according to the criminal complaint.
Neither he nor the dope seller were sneaky with the transaction.
A witness spotted one inmate, a 37-year-old man caught for a drug selling pinch, exchange cash from the accused and handed a glassine envelope filled with powder (that would later be lab tested as heroin).
The suspect took the heroin and was seen pouring it into the palm of his hand and then snort it.
Jailers entered the cell and seized the emptied envelope with only heroin residue left in it.
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⬛ QUEENS
▀ Far Rockaway: Woman Punches 14 Y.O. Pupil Outside School
A WOMAN WAS busted for uppercutting a child.
The 45-year-old woman was on the premises of P.S. 43 late Halloween afternoon when she took made a 14-year-old her personal punching bag.
The lady allegedly took a pop at the youth causing her to suffer “bruising, redness, and swelling”, according to the criminal complaint.
It’s unclear what provoked the grownup to become a gladiator and pick on a child.
The suspect was hauled away and nailed for assault (on school grounds), assault causing injury, harassment, and acting in a manner injurious to a child less than 17-years-old.
⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ New Brighton: ‘I’m Going To Kill You And Your Son, Bitch!’: Mad Woman Bit And Spit On Granny
AN EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED woman went primevil on a septuagenarian.
The 41-year-old crazed woman allegedly confronted the 73-year-old lady inside a residential building located on Jersey Street near Crescent Avenue back on the early afternoon of Nov. 30.
She first shrieked mortal threats, “I’m gonna kill you and your son, bitch!”
The younger predator then allegedly went to work on the innocent with her chompers.
Authorities say she bit the woman on the right side of the elderly woman’s chest. And she then scratched her, breaking the skin.
And then she spit in the woman's face.
Cops were called and they took the assailant away and charged her with aggravated assault and harassment.
⬛ SEPIA NYC
▀ East 14th Street and First Avenue - East Village, NY (1991)
Credit: Grégoire Alessandrini
“AMERICA’S BEST DRESSED sandwich!”
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▀ Parking Lot Attendant Booth - Lower Manhattan, NY (1985)
Credit: Tom Duncan
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▀ Hot Dog Stand - Coney Island, NY - (1980s)
Credit: Bennett Breen
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… MENU FROM BACK IN THE DAY…
“Garnished… at no extra cost!”
⬛ GOTHAM, INK
▀ Train Canvas
BACKTALK:
Ran Dee: That Moet tag though!! Poem and Moet had shit locked down in those days
Julio Moronta: I can't see anyone , I mean thyrs def a very few, maybe duster, nah a "heavy" wild style burner by POWM - but I can't see anyone close to DERO.. I even thght maybe PAZE , but I can't hit on it..CHAIN3 my man TMT crew , maybe but DERO is the answer...seriously...this dude is subconscious!!!
Rushism US: My man BLUE
Frank Rek Santiago: Dude had great style, another underrated Writer 😎✌🏽💪🏽 1d Reply
Eleuterio Olmeda: Never seen this one. Dope!!!
LinQuik Felton: BURNER!
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⬛ ET. AL
▀ NYC Homicides Down In ‘25
GOTHAM IS TALLYING less and less murders.
The NYPD did its annual CompStat back pat — showcasing the various percentages dipping down (Staten Island saw 65.5% less than the year prior!).
Intel here certainly appears to mirror national numbers where NYC (specifically the Bronx) sits 26 for cities reporting homicides per 100,000, based on stats compiled by Visual Capitalist.
SOURCE: Visual Capitalist
Also, robberies fell 9.8% from last year. Notably, rapes are up 16%.
▀ 1910 Hidden Subway Platform @ Union Square
AN URBAN EXPLORER penetrated a discontinued subway platform cloaked behind a supposedly forged partition.
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▀ Sunset On Tram (Roosevelt Island, NY)
PICTURESQUE SUNDOWN CLIP aboard tram leaving the big whale island and bound for Roosevelt Island.
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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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