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NY justice let thugs walk

Lenient judges and bungling prosecutors let the vicious thugs busted in last week's shooting of an innocent teenager freely walk Bronx streets despite ample opportunities to put them behind bars, The Post has learned. Before baby-faced gunman Carvett ...

From JANON FISHER AND JAMES FANELLI, New York Post,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Carvett Gentles,  Vada Vasquez,  Zelita Mighty

Weird but true

A group of bumbling German thieves stole a circus van -- not realizing a lion was sleeping in the back. Police in Wuppertal said the car snatchers later turned into scaredy cats, abandoning the vehicle after crashing into a road sign. A circus ...

From JAMES FANELLI, New York Post,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Weight Watchers

Pug of war: SI exes fight for dog custody

It's the struggle for the puggle. The breakup of a Staten Island couple has unleashed a legal dogfight over the ownership of an adorable 1-year-old pug-beagle mix named Benjamin. Audrey Hesselberg (left, with Benjamin) wrongfully took the beloved pet, ...

From JAMES FANELLI, New York Post,  15 Nov 2009

SI Dem in the 'no' on party's bill

Staten Island Rep. Michael McMahon defiedhis Democratic colleagues last night, voting against President Obama's health-care reform bill. Before the vote, McMahon, citing the cost to taxpayers, announced that he intended to give the thumbs down to ...

From JAMES FANELLI, New York Post,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Michael McMahon,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party

One New Yorker's tax burden

While tax-paying New Yorkers are leaving the state in droves for cheaper pastures, Big Apple public-school teacher Katie Strauss (pictured ) is sticking it out for now — even though she’s being nickel and dimed by the government. Since graduating ...

From JAMES FANELLI, New York Post,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Manhattan Institute

One New York small businesses' tax burden

Experts say the city’s rising levies and property taxes have taken their biggest toll on its nearly 200,000 small-business owners. “The city extracts a very high cost on small businesses,” said Manhattan Institute senior fellow Steve Malanga. “The ...

From JAMES FANELLI, New York Post,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Manhattan Institute

Costly 'trips' on High Line

Money had better grow on trees in the High Line Park, because the city's newest greenway is also its latest liability. Less than five months old, the elevated promenade has become a major stumbling block. Pedestrians are tripping over raised concrete ...

From JAMES FANELLI AND RICH CALDER, New York Post,  1 Nov 2009

Crime spike's no walk in the park

Crime is up in 20 of the city's biggest parks over the last year, including three in Queens, according to NYPD data. The number of major crimes counted in the 20 big parks rose by 8 percent, to 197, from July 2008 to June 2009, the records show. Grand ...

From JAMES FANELLI, New York Post,  25 Oct 2009

A beastly voodoo to-do

An emaciated goat wandering Pelham Bay Park. A pig's head placed on a desolate street near the Green-Wood Cemetery. A dead rooster lying near a tree in Forest Park in Queens. These bizarre discoveries have popped up with shocking frequency this year, ...

From JAMES FANELLI, New York Post,  25 Oct 2009

Related Topics: American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,  NFL

Hot-plate hell

It'll be hot plates for the holidays at one Brooklyn housing project, thanks to the turkeys at the Housing Authority. At an emergency meeting two weeks ago, residents of an 18-story building at the Seth Low Houses in Brownsville were told by NYCHA ...

From JANON FISHER AND JAMES FANELLI, New York Post,  18 Oct 2009

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