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THE BLOTTER
ISSUE № 0047 — 01-20-26
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: Urban Cowboy Caught Taking Target Practice In Times Square
THREE TEENS THOUGHT it would be a hoot to shoot guns in the middle of Manhattan’s biggest tourist trap.
The lead flew at around 9 p.m. on Dec. 1.
Cops were called after three teens shot two rounds around the subway transit hub.
Of the three suspects in question, the officers reeled in two — both 18 years of age.
The gun that they allegedly fired went MIA.
Cops searched and searched and no piece.
But one of the two was found in possession of a knife.
They each were hit with reckless endangerment, weapons possession, and fare evasion.
⬛ THE BRONX
▀ Castle Hill: Wanton Road Rager Stabs Cabbie 8 Times Despite Imploring ‘I Don’t Want To Fight You!’
A HACK WAS severely wounded when he crossed paths with a psycho driver in a Toyota SUV.
It was around 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 26 when the cabbie, 39, was calling it a night and not taking any fares.
He was driving along Randall Avenue and White Plains Road when the Toyota goon in front kept brake-checking him and then cut him off.
The hack drove around the road pest.
But when he was stopped at a red light — the same SUV driver was directly behind his yellow cab.
The 56-year-old shitstarter allegedly exited his car and stood by the taxi driver’s side window allegedly wielding a baseball bat.
He started banging the car and screaming at the cabbie. The cabbie was confused mistaking the tantrumed batter for being an extremely diabolical fare since it appeared he was trying to get inside the cab.
The victim explained he had clocked off. The aggressive punk then demanded the cabbie get out of the car.
“I don’t want to fight you,” the scared cabbie pleaded.
The victim did get out of the taxi and slipped.
Once on the ground, the suspect apparently used a sharp instrument to repeatedly stab the cabbie eight times in his gut and back.
The heartless goon then retreated to his four-wheeler, made a U-turn, and fled — leaving the victim to bleed out.
Medics found the stabbed man passed out in his taxi and rushed him to Jacobi Hospital and he was listed as critical.
He survived.
Detectives, poring over dashcam footage and tracked down the identity of the suspect and on Dec. 10, he surrendered.
Authorities brought him up on assault charges.
⬛ BROOKLYN
▀ Williamsburg: Gal’s Ex Flame Stabs Her, Slugs Kid, And Wrecks Fish Tank
EVERYONE INSIDE THE home on Bushwick Avenue survived.
But the fish may have met an untimely demise.
A 39-year-old palooka kicked in the apartment door of his 35-year-old former lover’s home. The man was barred from being in contact with the woman based on an active protection order.
The two engaged in a shouting match when the woman’s 15-year-old son darted out of his room and attempted to protect his mom from the intruder.
It was around 1 a.m. on Dec. 10, when the suspect suddenly taunting them with a sharp tool. He used it to gash the brave boy.
The mom then stepped in between their fisticuffs and found herself slashed on the right hand.
The boy retreated to his room where the suspect trailed him and inflicted a combination of punches to his face.
He also subsequently smashed a fish tank.
Cops arrived and took the perp into custody. He was booked on burglary, weapons possession, assault, harassment, and criminal contempt.
The mother received treatment for her cut right hand.
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⬛ QUEENS
▀ Flushing: Dejected Boyfriend Blasts 2 Shots At Galpal’s Apartment Door
HE THOUGHT HE could shoot his way out of the doghouse.
Love was definitely not in the air outside of a Farrington Street apartment at the ungodly hour on Dec. 22.
A couple, the 36-year-old boyfriend (with a hankering for crack rocks) and the woman of the same age — had it out. And then when she kicked him out, he came up with a very strange way to woo her back.
He allegedly took his gun and fired two shots at her apartment.
The shooter then peeled off in a white Infiniti sedan.
Luckily, the sorry sap wasn’t much of a marksman because the 9mm shots missed the woman and only struck a wall.
Cops nabbed the hothead and formally hit him with criminal possession of a loaded firearm, menacing, and criminal possession of a controlled substance (crack).
⬛ STATEN ISLAND
▀ Stapleton: Gunt-Toting Toughs Demand ‘White Motherfucker’ Hand Over Cash
TWO BILKERS SHOOK down a man for his dough.
It was around 5 a.m. on Jan. 7 when the 33-year-old and his crony crept up on a man walking along Cedar Street near Hudson Street.
They stopped the man and with the pistol symbolically doing most of the talking — the suspect hissed, “Give me the money!”
He also called the mark a “bitch” and a “white motherfucker”.
The outnumbered and unarmed victim complied and forfeited his wallet with his bank debit card in it.
He was able to give cops a good description of his larcenists.
And the next day they found one of the pair on Broad Street and nabbed him.
The lone caught suspect is facing robbery, (with a gun) menacing, grand larceny from a person, criminal possession (of a credit card), and harassment.
He apparently was back to pulling some of his old tricks, given he was paroled from serving a three-year bit in November of 2024 for drugs. Records show he’s no longer on parole.
⬛ NYCTALGIC
▀ West 57th Street & 6th Avenue (New York, NY) - 1979
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▀ Train Detail (New York, NY)
▀ Cristopher Street & 7th Avenue (New York, NY)
Credit: Harold Feinstein
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▀ Brigade On Squaky Clean Train (New York, NY)
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⬛ GOTHAM INKED
▀ Bombed Trains (New York, NY)
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▀ BJ Kay Slay ‘Dez’ and Due2 (Harlem, NY) - 1982
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⬛ ET. AL
▀ Rail Radical (New York, NY)
ANOTHER KAMAKAZI COUNTED their blessings lying down on the tracks as what appears to be a 7 train thunders by.
▀ Madman Stomps Elder (Bronx, NY)
A PEANUT GALLERY hooted and hollered as a hulking train rider wailed on a seated senior. There’s little context here but it doesn’t seem like the elderly rider was able to defend the outburst.
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▀ Snowball Train (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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