And The Dubliners are pouring...
Friday, March 16, 2012
How about a hot jig and reel to wash down those Lucky Charms?
Amazing fiddle player here, a masterful job over a guitar track he had previously laid down.
Lucky the Lucky Charms leprechaun has a right fine song for your morning coffee
And who is to know just what is being put into your coffee? Hey we don't judge, go crazy, it's Friday.
Something morning smooth to kick off the St. Patrick's Day celebration this year, Alison Krauss and the Chieftains with the old Irish lament, Molly Ban.
Something morning smooth to kick off the St. Patrick's Day celebration this year, Alison Krauss and the Chieftains with the old Irish lament, Molly Ban.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Late night open thread
A little leprechaun told Johnny tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day here at the Jersey City Desk. By far one of his favorite theme days around these parts.
Time for Jersey City, After Dark
Time for Jersey City, After Dark
Finnish ice dancers are ruining Jersey City
This is why we can't have nice fencing around the Powerhouse. Former Finnish ice dancer Juha Valkama was captured going at a high rate of speed down Second St., and tried to take the turn at Washington waaaay to fast and wound up wiping out some fencing at the Powerhouse. Luckily Port Authority police were following Valkama, and after the wreck cuffed the Goldman Sachs employee after he blew more than twice the .08 limit to be considered legally intoxicated.
Hat tip to the videographer, well done. We'd also like to point out if Valkama really wanted to go fast through Jersey City there was a perfectly good Chevy Camaro sitting right on the street in the video.
You may now feel free to make as many Fin and skating puns in comments as you can stand...
Hat tip to the videographer, well done. We'd also like to point out if Valkama really wanted to go fast through Jersey City there was a perfectly good Chevy Camaro sitting right on the street in the video.
You may now feel free to make as many Fin and skating puns in comments as you can stand...
Sounds to us this detective didn't do too much detecting
A detective in Mayor Bloomberg's "private army" is under scrutiny for closing a case as well as his very detective work when he declared Brooklyn resident Mathieu Lefevre "at fault" for his death in a biking accident in 2011.
First a good idea would be to go here and watch the video for yourself and come back here...
Let's see what we know and what the detective said in his report. NYPD Accident Investigation Squad, Detective Gerard Sheehan said Lefevre was at fault because "the bicyclist is subjected to the vehicle traffic law when there is no marked bicycle lane and should not have been passing on the right while on the one lane roadway." BUT NYC law says this: Section 1123 expressly allows passing on the right when there is enough unobstructed room in the roadway for two lanes of traffic. So Detective Sheehan, strike one. Strike two would be NOT noting that the truck that was turning right has NO turn signal, something you failed to note. That clearly would have an impact in this case. Also apparently not detected by Sheehan was this: Moreover, the truck driver violated the law not only in failing to signal his turn, but in failing to make the turn as close as practicable to the right-hand curb, as he was required to do under VTL Section 1160(a).
There's more coming but right now the mold of sloppy "get this off my desk" is being set it sure sounds like.
Lefevre's family sued the NYPD to get ALL the documentation from the case, something the NYPD said they did, until they didn't. And what of all these videos that are now contradicting Sheehan's account? Well in New York City there is an answer for that too friends:
According to Vaccaro's filing, the NYPD is still withholding photos of the crash scene. First the family was told the AIS camera was broken, so no photos were obtained, but it turned out that photos of the crash scene were just "misplaced" by Detective Sheehan for months. They were finally provided to the Lefevre family because of the FOIL request, but Vaccaro says there are sequential gaps in the photos' file numbers, which indicates there are additional photos that have been withheld or destroyed.
The NYPD is also withholding the officers' memo books that were used during the investigation. "There were 14 officers involved in the investigation that was conducted," Vaccaro tells us. "And police officers of the rank of sergeant or below are required to keep memo books. We asked for them in November, and they still have not released them."
It's an important read kids, so follow that link above and educate yourself and then start asking YOUR city council and local PD what their thinking on sharing the road with bikers is. Don't be an unfortunate biker like Mathieu Lefevre nor a victim to this ongoing chicanery like his family is going through trying simply to find out if an actual investigation went on or a predetermined decision was conveniently placed in a file.
First a good idea would be to go here and watch the video for yourself and come back here...
Let's see what we know and what the detective said in his report. NYPD Accident Investigation Squad, Detective Gerard Sheehan said Lefevre was at fault because "the bicyclist is subjected to the vehicle traffic law when there is no marked bicycle lane and should not have been passing on the right while on the one lane roadway." BUT NYC law says this: Section 1123 expressly allows passing on the right when there is enough unobstructed room in the roadway for two lanes of traffic. So Detective Sheehan, strike one. Strike two would be NOT noting that the truck that was turning right has NO turn signal, something you failed to note. That clearly would have an impact in this case. Also apparently not detected by Sheehan was this: Moreover, the truck driver violated the law not only in failing to signal his turn, but in failing to make the turn as close as practicable to the right-hand curb, as he was required to do under VTL Section 1160(a).
There's more coming but right now the mold of sloppy "get this off my desk" is being set it sure sounds like.
Lefevre's family sued the NYPD to get ALL the documentation from the case, something the NYPD said they did, until they didn't. And what of all these videos that are now contradicting Sheehan's account? Well in New York City there is an answer for that too friends:
According to Vaccaro's filing, the NYPD is still withholding photos of the crash scene. First the family was told the AIS camera was broken, so no photos were obtained, but it turned out that photos of the crash scene were just "misplaced" by Detective Sheehan for months. They were finally provided to the Lefevre family because of the FOIL request, but Vaccaro says there are sequential gaps in the photos' file numbers, which indicates there are additional photos that have been withheld or destroyed.
The NYPD is also withholding the officers' memo books that were used during the investigation. "There were 14 officers involved in the investigation that was conducted," Vaccaro tells us. "And police officers of the rank of sergeant or below are required to keep memo books. We asked for them in November, and they still have not released them."
It's an important read kids, so follow that link above and educate yourself and then start asking YOUR city council and local PD what their thinking on sharing the road with bikers is. Don't be an unfortunate biker like Mathieu Lefevre nor a victim to this ongoing chicanery like his family is going through trying simply to find out if an actual investigation went on or a predetermined decision was conveniently placed in a file.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Would you like a New York City penthouse with a view for only $300K?
Johnny can make that happen, provided you can pack all your stuff into a truck and get it back to 1929. Not 1929 Broadway, no, the year 1929 when penthouses were all the rage and for their time, still expensive. Johnny, who reads Modern Mechanix because he's a car guy and loves the retro ads and articles, ran across this old time gem a couple days ago and wanted to share.
So go find Marty McFly and Doc Brown, get the flux capacitor fired up and off you go...
So go find Marty McFly and Doc Brown, get the flux capacitor fired up and off you go...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
You won't mistake this story for serious journalism
On such a beautiful early spring mid-70's kind of day who could be expected to handle a serious vetting of local fare? Instead check out this video shot by Bronx resident "Joey Boots" about a raccoon who has become Mayor of a bus stop there.
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