When forced to choose between hunting cyclists or hunting black people, the NYPD likely picks black people every time. Not guilty verdicts in the Sean Bell shooting related trial of three police officers earlier in the day presumably had the NYPD fighting for our safety in other parts of the city, and so took they night off from harassing the Hezbollah of exercise: Critical Mass bike riders. The ride was a wild success lasting about 2 hours. Full report, plus video from Team Spider...

Officials said that 1,785 of 3,858 of the apartments planned for Harlem would be "income-targeted". But for most Harlem residents the so called affordable housing is out of reach. Only 200 units are for incomes of $30,750 dollars or less.

Charles Barron has been making the most of the City Council slush fund scandal and held a rally the other day to call for Speaker Quinn's resignation. Here is video of Quinn trying to duck into City Hall in the middle of the rally....

When she took office Speaker Quinn’s first action was to retain Chuck Meara as Chief Of Staff. Meara was Gifford Miller's Chief of Staff. It was under Gifford Miller's tenure that fake allocations in the budget exploded.

A federal judge rejected an attempt by the NYPD to introduce secret testimony from the head of the NYPD Intelligence Division. The NYPD sought to keep the testimony secret from the plaintiffs and their lawyers, which would have made it impossible for the other side to respond.

Decades before YouTube and Macaca there was Clayton Patterson. Since 1979 his religious documentation of the happenings on the lower east side, including repeated police invasions, most notably the Tompkins Square riot of 1988, ushered in the era of civilian video journalism. A movie about his work will be screened this month.

Seven city counci members have added their names as sponsors of a bill to repeal the NYPD Parade Permit Rules. Roll Call...

So everyone who hasn't been asleep for the last forty years must have seen this one coming: Sheldon Silver, Democrat of Manhattan, Speaker of the Assembly, refused to allow the State Assembly an up-or-down vote on congestion pricing.

According to the NYPost, "City Council Speaker Christine Quinn's office hid millions of taxpayer dollars by allocating grants to phantom organizations as a way of holding the funds to dole out political favors..."

The NYCLU is calling for limits on what the necessary cameras in the plan can capture, and how the data can be used. Of course there are no limits in the plan now. Read more for how you can easily contact Albany politicians about it.