The city's seemingly futile crackdown on counterfeit designer merchandise could get some new teeth if City Councilwoman Margaret Chin has her way. Chin, whose district includes Chinatown, will introduce legislation this week that would make it illegal to buy knockoffs like bogus Louis Vuitton bags. Guilty buyers could face a year in jail or a $1000 fine if caught, and Chin says the heavy penalty is necessary if the city's going to staunch the flow of ripoff merchandise. But how are buyers supposed to know the purse they're buying from the street peddler is fake, and not just the deal of a lifetime?! [ MORE]  | As more information (and video) emerges from Sunday's sword fight inside the Baba Makhan Shah Lubana Sikh Center in Queens, the blame game from the temple's leadership has begun. Though it is clear in the video of the incident that a rival faction walked into the Center looking for a fight (the Post's narration of the video calls it "like a scene out of West Side Story,") the why of the fighting, and why they got past the police waiting outside, remains an issue.... [ MORE ] |  | As we noted earlier, a cyclist was killed yesterday in an accident with a car in Gravesend; as it happens, the scene of the accident isn't far from Bay Ridge Parkway, where a proposed bike lane was shot down by local politicians earlier this month. If the initial report about the accident is accurate—that the driver had a green light—there's little a bike lane could have done to save the victim. But the tragic collision serves as another sobering reminder of the dangers of cycling. And it comes as both the Daily News and the Post fan the flames of the cyclist backlash with even more anti-bike lane articles today. ... [ MORE ] |  | The government apparently has it out for drivers this holiday season. First the NYPD "ruined" Passover and now Staten Islanders are saying the Port Authority "soured" Easter when its poor planning led to a traffic jam that lasted for hours. For some reason the PA decided it would be a good idea to only have one cash lane open on the Outerbridge Crossing on Easter and that has Councilman James Oddo hopping mad. “Let’s fire them, reassign them somewhere far, far away from Staten Island,” he said. "This wasn’t an hour; it wasn’t a two hour pain. It wasn’t a rush hour. It was an all day event. This is filed under 'galactically stupid'.”... [ MORE ] |  | In light of all the awesome post-Easter candy sales going on at Duane Reades and bodegas across the city, just a quick PSA that yes, delicious Kinder Eggs are still illegal, and the feds have been raiding the stores that carry them. ... [ MORE ] |  | In 2007, Burlington, CT high school student Avery Doninger was a 16-year-old with a blog and big ambitions to serve as class secretary during her senior year. But when principal Karissa Niehoff canceled the school's popular battle-of-the-bands concert called "Jamfest," Doninger excoriated Niehoff on her blog, calling her a "douchebag" and urging students to bombard her with emails. And in one click of a mouse, her political aspirations were ruined—as payback, Niehoff refused to let Doninger serve as class secretary, a position Doninger won as a write-in candidate after Niehoff tossed her off the ballot. Now, over three years later, an appeals court has upheld the school's actions, to the delight of every d-bag administrator in America.... [ MORE ] |  | Defense lawyers in the "Rape Cop" case are still trying to prove that the accuser was not too drunk to consent because she could hold her liquor. "She could 'pound it,' so to speak, correct?" defense lawyer Joseph Tacopina asked the prosecution witness. The witness responded that "she could drink a lot and hold it together," and said that "once in a while" she would drink five Red Bull vodkas in an outing. ... [ MORE ] | | |
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