Pandemic Adds Roach Infestations To Its List of Living Nightmares
arrow Last week, Luke Pyenson of Crown Heights found a cockroach using his face mask as a hammock. Courtesy of Luke Pyenson
Most people have a place where they keep their masks handy. A nightstand. A glove compartment in a car. For Luke Pyenson, it s a plastic hook stuck on the wall by his front door. But last week, as he went to grab his mask to accept a delivery, he spotted a big cockroach snuggling right where his mouth and nose would have gone.
“I was going to say I gasped, but my girlfriend wanted it to be on record that I did scream,” said Pyenson who lives in Crown Heights.
PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS, Brooklyn (WABC) One man is under arrest in connection with a disturbing video that shows a bicyclist being beaten with a bat on a Brooklyn sidewalk in what authorities believe is yet another random and unprovoked attack in New York City.
Police say the 54-year-old victim was riding his bike in the vicinity of Flatbush and Parkside avenues in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens section when he was attacked.
The video, which may be too graphic for many to watch, shows the suspect striking the man in the head with the bat multiple times, before a bystander finally intervenes.
NYPD Reformer s City Council Candidacy Finds Financial Support From Fellow Officers
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When NYPD Lieutenant Edwin Raymond blew the whistle on alleged arrest quotas pushed by the department, he became a target of scorn and derision from his superiors who wrote poor job evaluations, which hobbled his career. His revelation that a numbers-obsessed NYPD was purposefully arresting Black and brown New Yorkers as a means of being proactive which he opposed despite confidants advising he keep quiet earned him national prominence and exhortations from supporters to run for office.
Five years after secretly recording superiors pressing him to meet arrest quotas, which resulted in an ongoing federal class action lawsuit filed by 12 officers (Raymond included) against the city, he took his supporters advice by running in this year’s Democratic primary for Brooklyn s 40th Council District. The winner of the pri
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