Where to start?
So I came across a couple different things I wanted to write about. Let’s start with NYC. Has anyone else noticed that the city has been going back to its roots?
Breaking from the tourist-friendly location we have been developing into over the last 10 years in 2007 we have seen: Muggers punching grandmothers with walkers in the face; 13 year-olds killing other 13 year-olds on the playgorund; Cops shooting over 50 bullets into cars; Marijuana smokers shooting cops; 16 year-olds stabbed in Union Square (following December’s Union Square killing in an all-out brawl); Rats infesting restaurants. This year has, so far, been a local newscaster’s wet dream. All we need is a “Not Guilty” verdict from the Bell Trial and we could have rioting in the streets.
I am going to make some predictions here, let’s say there will be an increase in “news worthy” crimes for 2007, a slight drop in tourism and a call to arms to revitalize the police force in time for the next NYC elections.
13. June 2007 at :
[...] It is believed that the second killing was a retaliation for the first shooting. Could we go back to the days of the 80s with Mafia families fighting for control of the city? Could this all have just been a big publicity stunt for the finale of The Sopranos? Or with the ending of the series, maybe these “made-men” felt it was time to have the spotlight turned back on them now that we will no longer have TV’s #1 crime-family. To me this all just seems like a return to New York’s grittier roots. [...]