Monday, April 07, 2008
Automobile and Bicycle Collide on Avenue A Betwwen St. Marks Place and 9th Street Saturday Night ...
ABOVE and BELOW : Injured bicycle riding Caracas restaurant deliveryman is attended to by FDNY personnel and ambulance crew on avenue A between St. Marks Place and 9th street . .
ABOVE :Fellow Caracas restaurant worker retreives bicycle and undelivered food .BELOW :Gray auto was leaving the bus stop entering an active traffic lane as the bicycle traveling in that traffic lane collided with it .
Around 10:pm Saturday night a bicycle deliveryman transporting food for Caracas restaurant on 6th street collided with a gray auto that pulled out into the bicylist's traffic lane .
Around 10:pm Saturday night a bicycle deliveryman transporting food for Caracas restaurant on 6th street collided with a gray auto that pulled out into the bicylist's traffic lane .
The nature and extent of the bicyclist's injuries is not known though he was seen wearing a neck brace and restrained lying on a board as he was placed in an ambulance .
Police were at the scene to investigate . The driver of the auto was allowed to leave in his auto .
Man Bites Man on Avenue B : A Finger is Bitten at Le Souk ? ...
Late Saturday night at closing time we picked up on a very unusual signal at zone 2 radio on our multi-band scanning receiver :"....man's ear was bitten by another man ...on avenue B between 3rd and 4th streets " .
The location being but a half block from where we were , we headed with haste towards the scene of this unusual Tyson-esque crime . As we listened further the call was changed from an ear to a finger that was bitten ....none-the-less we continued on .
As we rounded the corner in a hurry with a thumbs-up from the pizza guy we could see that the location of interest was the popular night-spot Le Souk at 47 avenue B ...the Le Souk that is not so popular with its avenue B neighbors . We arrived along with an RMP with red flashing lights but no siren .
Confronted with a beefy wall of security that was obscurring the suspected crime scene we were unable to photograph much of anything . Necessity being what it is and the evening having been mostly uneventful and picture-less we went for it . We made some fakes and some evasive lateral moves but to no end .It seemed for a while that we would not get even one shot . A considerable effort was made by security to prevent us from getting a picture but we perservered and after numerous attempts we finally got a couple of quick shots that revealed what seemed to be a man favoring his hand in a way so as to indicate that his finger was injured .
So perhaps the call was for real and a man was actually bitten . It certainly looks that way . We do not know how things evolved ; whether someone was arrested or whether someone went to hospital because we didn't stay long ...we really were not at all welcome .
Sunday, April 06, 2008
The Social Season Begins in Tompkins Square Park ...
Moms , dads , kids , babies , strollers and a pocket communicator .
The small dog-run with small dogs and their humans .
Observers at the small dog-run fence
ABOVE :Free speech on a milk crate. In TSP today not the event that it once was .
BELOW: Jewels ( center)with friends in TSP . Jewels is back in the park , off the sauce for two weeks now and we hope on his way to a productive summer .
The guy on the left has been "Beer-Elved" ; that is he drank too much beer and passed out inspiring some of the mischievous TSP beer elves to grab their felt-tip markers and give him one of their distinctive and relatively indelible facial treatments .
Until we mentioned the markings on his face the young man had not been aware that he had been "elved"... logical of course since he had been unconscious when the TSP elves worked their special magic . He was immediately concerned that they might have scribed phalluses on his face . We didn't have the heart to tell him about both his cheeks .
It's spring and the social season has begun in Tompkins Square Park . The "Crusties" are back to work their inimitable sort of daily magic in the park with beer and drugs . They are back to more-or-less live the summer in TSP . The more genteel elements of the neighborhood -- among their other quite civilized activities -- attend the dog-run , push babies in strollers and talk on cell-phones .
Lately it seems that the dog-run scene has become an attraction in itself . Many now gather on a sunny afternoon at the fence of the small dog-run to watch the small dog's antics ( notably above , ass-sniffing ) while their owners tend to their diminutive canines and socialize among themselves .
Some of the more traditional TSP activities such as freely speaking while standing on a milk-crate can still be seen but are not as big a production as in the past . There will be but 2 or 3 concerts of the traditional TSP sort this summer , probably without riots .
The remaining question yet to be answered though is : will the hand-full of hookers from last summer return to TSP to service the elderly gentlemen that gathered discreetly many an afternoon near the western most side of the dog-run ?
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Biker Bill Says : "If you Can't Ask , Don't Expect Nothin' ".
Friday, April 04, 2008
More Shots Fired in the East Village : A Young Man is Dead
ABOVE and BELOW : As children watch from a window , police search the scene of the shooting , the court yard of 635 east 13th st. and 205 avenue C , for evidence including the empty brass casing from the fatal round .
ABOVE and BELOW : NYPD aviation searches the rooftops in the immediate area of the buildings , Campos Plaza , at the corner of 13th st. and avenue C .
ABOVE : With police personnel filling the foyer of 635 east 13th st in the distance , a news photographer takes a break allowing some neighborhood kids to take pictures of each other with his camera .
ABOVE : 9th precinct commander , in beige suit , confers with other ranking officers representing NYPD units involved in the gathering of evidence and in conducting the search for the 4 young males that were involved in the shooting of David Bookin .
ABOVE and 2 BELOW : Some heavily processed images ,taken through a heavily dirt-fogged window , of NYPD Emergency Services ( ESU) personnel and their police dog waiting to conduct a vertical search of 635 east 13th st. .
BELOW : NYPD ESU personnel leaving 635 east 13th st. after conducting vertical search of building .
For at least the third time this week shots were fired in the East Village . This time one of those shots killed a man .
Shortly after 7:00 PM Thursday evening , in the court yard of the buildings at 635 east 13th st. and 205 avenue C , Campos Plaza , David Bookin , 33 , was reported shot in the back one time . According to witnesses , the four young men that were responsible for the murder fled the scene immediately after the one shot was fired . Mr. Bookin died a short time later either on the way to a hospital or in the emergency room at the hospital .
Reportedly several people , adults and children , were present in the court yard and witnessed the shooting . It is likely that among those present there are some who know who the young men were that are responsible for this murder .
In a brief , sad conversation with David Bookin's very distraught brother we learned that the shooter was someone that both he and his brother knew . According to Mr. Bookin the 4 responsible for the murder of his brother were of a younger generation than his brother . He noted that though his brother was well liked by most in the building and surrounding neighborhood , these younger males were not at ease with the older members of the community such as his brother .There was an altercation and then 1 shot . In short the "new jacks" comming up don't like the "old timers" being around ; not a new story over on avenues and C and D but certainly a sad and troubling story .
Having lived in the neighborhood all his life , this tragedy was a story that Mr. Bookin knew all too well . His last comment was " now he's with our mother" . After our conversation he stoically rode off on his bicycle to his night-time job .
In addition to David Bookin's brother an aunt , with whom he sometimes lived , and some cousins were also at the scene of the murder comforting each other along with some friends .
A conversation with one resident of 205 avenue C revealed that the buildings had been requesting cameras and security personnel for the court yard for some time . The resident noted that there had been 3 murders in this courtyard in the last 3 years .
At the most recent Community Board meeting last week the building again made their request for cameras and security personnel .
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Photo-Fragment Depicting an Interspecies Encounter on Avenue A at the Entrance to Tompkins Square Park
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Man with Camera and Singer Hick'ry Hawkins at Manitoba on Avenue B
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