The Mayor of Manhattan gets roundly (and rightly) booed in the Rockaways St. Patrick's parade

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who long ago gave up even pretending he represents the parts of the city not named Manhattan was roundly booed at the Rockaways St. Patrick's parade yesterday. Bloomberg tried to mitigate the cascade of boos aimed directly at him by hiding in and among the sanitation workers who were front and center trying to help the locals. That's just cowardly. THOSE guys were heroes to these folks Mayor Mike. You get right out front of the parade and every St. Patrick's parade hereafter, you get out front with your police detail and see what the people really think of your third term.

Know what was even more embarrassing for his highness? Mayor wannabe Countess Chocula (Christine Quinn) dropping back way away from Mayor Michael Bloomberg after the boos started. Of course she said that was the plan all along said spokesvampire Eric Northman.

The best part of this? The comments at the New York Daily News:

ITSALLINPERCEPTION6 hours ago
He's leaving office why does he even bother to leave the borders of Manhattan and show up in any of the other boroughs?

JENNYONTHEBLOCK4 hours ago

Our boos were for Quinn too!

ALFONSEC7 hours ago

michael will not be happy with this booing----he may unleash the police to crack some heads in rockaway to show who is boss

Plenty more, follow the link!

Late night open thread

Well we do get email here at the Jersey City Desk and tonight Johnny would like to take some time out and answer a question for a reader.

Dear Frustrated, Johnny thinks the formula you're looking for to calculate the N-th digit of Pi is: Pi = SUMk=0 to infinity 16-k [ 4/(8k+1) - 2/(8k+4) - 1/(8k+5) - 1/(8k+6) ].

Hope that helps.

Time for Jersey City, After Dark

Awesome play-by-play of all the arrests, assaults and mayhem in Hoboken is just a click away

Hoboken411 has one great running tab of all the mayhem going on at Leprecon, or as they refer to it at one point "Leprecon Sandy." All-night entertainment awaits. Click here.

Wanna be a prison guard? Rikers Island is having impromptu tryouts

We don't know Yonkers resident Matthew Matagrano but we're going to say he had some time on his hands. Devil makes work for idle hands and all. So rather than go commit a crime on the general public, the registered sex offender acquired a badge and an ID and broke back IN to Rikers and just "roamed the jail," like you do.

For a week.

That's a pretty well run joint eh?

Matagrano will be brought up on charges of impersonating a Department of Correction investigator. No word yet on a trial date for Matagrano who has been previously caught posing as a Board of Education worker to enter schools. If things work out at sentencing and with any luck he can play the Lon Chaney role in the Rikers Island Thespian Club's production of Man of a Thousand Faces.

Load up the station wagon, it's Leprecon in Hoboken today

Yes nothing beats a drunken orgy aka parade in FuHo like Leprecon, a chance to walk up and down the sidewalks from one overstuffed bar to another while police look for reasons to write big expensive tickets. We'll be monitoring this from the Listening Station of Doom and hopefully have those "Man Wets Pants Standing in Line, Gets $400 Ticket" stories you know and read anyway.

So get out to Hoboken today and tonight from wherever, if you're in eastern Pennsylvania and want a fun boozy day just point that station wagon east and follow the sound of hipsters barking at the ants.

Late night open thread

A race track is a place where windows clean people.
 -- Danny Thomas

Time for Jersey City, After Dark

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE ROMANTICS!

Let's get things moving tonight with Detroit's own Romantics. 4 guys who decided they's had enough of working the production line and bought all the red leather in Royal Oak and started making fantastic songs. The Romantics with 'She's Got Everything'

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE CHI-LITES!

"Oh no my brother, you got to buy your own." Wise words indeed. A loaned album is a gone album. The smooth romantic stylings of The Chi-Lites and the timeless 'Have You Seen Her?'

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with LUCINDA WILLIAMS!

Lucinda Williams closing up shop on another Music Series with 'Passionate Kisses', a song Lucinda wrote and Mary Chapin Carpenter made some Billboard bank with.

If you wanna know what's REALLY happening in NYC, who would you ask?

Well of course you'd ask a cab driver. These guys and gals have their fingers SO on the pulse of the city. Reddit interviewed a cab driver who told some pretty amazing stories of the big city. One story you won't want to miss is what kind of customer makes him intentionally TRY to hit potholes.

Click the link to Gothamist and read what is a very interesting interview.