My 15-year-old daughter got home from camp last night after scoring a 98 on her final exam. This wasn't your typical summer camp with canoes and campfires and color wars. She spent the last month at a marine-biology camp in the Bahamas getting her diving certification, dissecting a nurse shark and doing a dissertation on Read More
It's not too soon to pick your horse in the 2004 election derby-especially if you need a job. I made the mistake of waiting until the last minute to jump aboard the Ed Koch bandwagon back in 1977 and volunteer for his campaign. For my lack of faith, upon his victory-instead of being named deputy Read More
Man Busts Rhodesian Army Moves, Subdues Rollerblader Raider
Driving in New York City sometimes forces motorists to make not just directional, but existential choices. For example, when you're heading southbound on the F.D.R. Drive, do you risk exiting at 106th Street, which is probably faster (though perhaps less safe), or do you get off at Read MoreSassy Subway Punks Lift The Loot and Catch Action on Film
If you've committed a crime and nobody knows about it except your victim, did it actually occur? That's the existential question that three female teenage thugs may have been attempting to address on Feb. 8 when they assaulted a couple of 14-year-olds on the Read MoreBurglar Lends New Meaning To the Term 'Break-In'
Sometimes the burglars beat the boys-"the boys" being the intrepid detectives of the 19th Precinct's detective squad-even when the perp leaves behind a calling card, as one literally did on Feb. 7. The suspect, a 45-year-old Bronx man, had discovered a rather novel way of breaking into Read MorePurse-Snatcher Made Out While Victim Was Made Over
People routinely get their handbags stolen on the bus, the subway and while dining at restaurants. But perhaps there's no place in New York more hospitable to the pickpocket's craft than the main-floor cosmetics department of Bloomingdale's, where women in search of that perfect shade of eyeshadow Read MoreNew York's Finest Work Mayor Mike's Chichi Shindig
For what may have been the first-but certainly won't be the last-time, 79th Street between Fifth and Madison avenues (a.k.a. Mayor Bloomberg's front yard) was turned into a frozen zone on Feb. 6. The occasion was, of course, the Pataki political fund-raiser attended by, among others, George Read MoreNYPD's Team Lawrence Tackles Hammer-Wielding Protester
One of the World Economic Forum's most spectacular arrests, a Super Bowl XXXVI–style tackle, was made by none other than Howard Lawrence, the commanding officer of the 19th Precinct. On Sunday, Feb. 3, Deputy Inspector Lawrence was escorting a group of boisterous but well-behaved animal-rights protesters through the Upper Read MoreSnowball-Wielding Toughs Terrorize Upper East Side!
The season's first real snowfall produced too little snow on which to sled or ski in Central Park, but enough to produce two criminal complaints as the result of snowball fights that got out of hand. In the first incident, on Jan. 20, two teenagers-one 15, the other 16-were Read MoreNegligent Canine Owner Avoids Doghouse by a Hairbreadth
Mayor Bloomberg has made a lot of noise about keeping up the pressure on quality-of-life crimes. But one doubts he has it in him to send out mini–SWAT teams-like the one sent out on Dec. 28 under Mayor Giuliani's reign-to arrest citizens caught with their dogs off Read MorePost Photog Sustains Injury On Ammon Front Line
Afghanistan may be the most perilous assignment in journalism at the moment, but Manhattan ranks a close second, especially if your beat includes the lawless wilds between, say, Fifth and Madison avenues in the East 80's. Just ask Daniel Cronin, a New York Post photographer who was Read MoreHe Had the Phone in Hand When Nature Called
If you're going to rob someone, common sense suggests you don't stop to take a leak just after doing so, as one bandit discovered on Dec. 19. The crook walked up behind a young woman chatting on her cell phone on Lexington Avenue and 59th Street Read MoreWorld's Laziest Thugs, and the Nookie Bandit!
It certainly won't come as news that thieves can be lazy; if they weren't, they'd be working for a buck like the rest of us instead of holding up people at gunpoint. However, a couple of crooks who robbed a pedestrian on Dec. 14 showed even less willingness Read MoreThere's one member of our family who believes above all others that Santa exists. I'm not talking about our 13-year-old. By the age of 5, she was already telling us that she believed in the "spirit of Santa" rather than the flesh. Apparently a classmate with older siblings had tipped her off that the jolly Read More
Ever So Lightly, Thief Lifts Rare Tiffany's
Jay Pearsall, the owner of Ivy's Books at 2488 Broadway, wanted someone to take home the first edition of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's that he had featured in his store's front window on Nov. 30. He just wishes that the guy who did had paid for it Read More
