Meanwhile, we keep forgetting it hasn’t been legalized. From Gothamist: 400 pounds of beautiful-looking marijuana was seized by the NYPD in a big Greenpoint drug bust this week. First 300 pounds of the mouth-watering weed was discovered in a container that two men allegedly picked up at ABF Freight on the banks of Newtown Creek […]
Greenpoint pharmacy busted for running $15M oxy ring — largest in New York history
Looks like Greenpointers will need to find a new place to buy their vitamins, greeting cards, and homeopathic elixirs: Marcin Jakacki, 35, and his wife Lilian, 49, owners of Chopin Chemist in Brooklyn, doled out pills to “customers” who often used prescriptions from stolen pads written to obviously fake names like “Chanel” and “Coach.”
Williamsburg resident suspected as king pin in Brooklyn-Suffolk County heroin ring
Miguel Vicente of Williamsburg is one of 14 people arrested in connection to a heroin ring spanning from Brooklyn to Long Island. 32-year-old Vincente is thought to be the king pin and accused of supplying the heroin- around 10,000 pounds of it. The ring supposedly sold over 360,000 bags over the past year, worth about […]
There's a Kokie's yoga mat
In case you weren’t around for Kokie’s, Vice published an nasal oral history a few years ago. From Hyperallergic: Designed by New York–based artist Jon Kessler, the object is part of a series of yoga mats by Grey Area, which includes versions created by Daniel Arsham, Wim Delvoye, and others. The sales blurb for Grey […]
The Department of Homeland Security raided an East Williamsburg apartment building this weekend
Early Sunday morning, agents of the NYPD and the Department of Homeland Security conducted a raid on the apartment building located at 221 Devoe Street in East Williamsburg, Gothamist reports. The DHS arrived in a heavily-armored MRAP (“mine-resistant/ambush-protected“) vehicle emblazoned with “HSI SPECIAL RESPONSE TEAM.” HSI stands for Homeland Security Investigations, which is a subdivision […]
Ratatat – Drugs
We wanted to post this last week, but it freaked us so much we didn’t get around to doing it until now. We like this almost as much as that one they did with the parrot. [Said parrot video after the jump.]
Request For Information: Fart Bags
What’s with all the fart bags littered throughout McCarren Park? I first came across one of these mysterious little suckers last week and figured, well, that there’s a fart bag, there’s not much else there than just a bag for producing fart stink. But let’s irresponsibly theorize that there’s a more sinister usage for these […]
It's a Mark Mothersbaugh Kind of Day…
Devo’s frontman, who is responsible for the Rugrats vs. Brooklyn music scene epiphany I had earlier today, apparently smoked drugs with other famous people. Are we surprised? [Via Boing Boing, h/t Pitchfork] The only time in my life I smoked angel dust was by accident and it was on a double date with Andy Warhol […]
White Fang, Time Bomb and Monster Power: Heroin Packets on Display
“There are names like White Fang, Time Bomb and Monster Power, which is decorated with an image of the grim reaper with a scythe. There are allusions to religion (Deadly Sin and the Last Temptation), crime (Notorious and Outlaw) and publishing (Life, in white capitals against a red background, and Daily News, along with the […]