The Hurricane Took Radar's Car. Life Took The Rest
The old Dodge was such a fixture in the neighborhood that one particularly awful person named his or her wireless network after it: “Retarded Guy’s Charger.”
Come Carspotting With Us On The Streets Of Brooklyn's Hipster Capital
If there’s one place in New York City where creaky, rusty, cool old cars come to congregate, it’s Brooklyn’s hipster capital of Williamsburg, soon to be shut off from the world when their subway gets nuked. Let’s go look at its cars!
Come Carspotting With Us On The Streets Of Brooklyn
Having already checked out some of the more interesting cars of Manhattan, let’s go see what cars we can find in one of Brooklyn’s leafier neighborhoods.
Pontiac Bursts Into Flames After Driver Dares To Try And Move It
PROTIP: Never try to move your car, anywhere, anytime, for any reason. Especially if there's ice around.
Derelict Lamborghini Countach Is Why Hipsters Can't Have Nice Things
I was on Twitter this morning reading about the latest inane developments in the lives of people I've never met before when I saw something. One of the saddest pictures I've ever seen: A ruined Lamborghini, possibly real, possibly a kit, hanging out in Brooklyn. UPDATED
This Is What It Looks Like When You Tear A Lamborghini In Half
Just because you can afford to buy a supercar, doesn't mean you know how to drive it, especially on public roads. It's a good thing then, that this Lamborghini Aventador managed to save the life of its driver when it crashed in the neighborhood of Mill Basin, in Brooklyn.
Who Steals A Taco Cart?
Ever have those nights when you're really hungry and wish there was a taco cart next to your house where you could buy delicious, delicious tacos to feast upon at 3 a.m.? Sure. we all do.
Death Metal Parenting 101: Leave A Skeleton In A Child Seat To Teach Neighbors About Safety
The death of children left locked inside cars is almost unbearably tragic. Leave a skeleton in a child seat in the back of your car so your neighborhood's hipster parents never forget about their kids' safety.
Hipsters Scatter As Massive Billboard Crashes Onto Brooklyn Expressway
A 200-by-300 foot billboard has fallen onto the Brooklyn Queens Expressway between Meeker and Metropolitan Avenues. It is suspected that high winds of up to 45 miles a hour brought the sign down.
Brooklyn UFO sighting caught on tape: 'Shiiiiit'
Updated. Bushwick resident and YouTube user TheFallGuy53 was minding his own business, sitting on his front stoop, when suddenly, an apparition of light. A UFO, lurking in the north Brooklyn sky!
Google Maps Street View car breaks down in Brooklyn
A Google Maps Street View car taking photos of roving artisanal grilled cheese-making wagons in Williamsburg made an unscheduled break in Crown Heights after their Subaru Impreza broke down on Kingston and East New York. Did you hear that — they're making grilled cheese. In the streets! Someone should do a story on…
U-S-A! Chant Fails on L Train
After Osama bin Laden's death, proud Americans poured into the streets. They cheered in Times Square! They waved flags on Ground Zero! They flashed their boobies in front of the White House! And, on the NYC subway line that runs through Williamsburg, they stared blankly and stifled yawns while some guy implored…
Brooklyn Borough President Mark Markowitz is our new hero
Attempts to ban cars from Brooklyn's Prospect Park met with resistance from Borough President Mark Markowitz, who said the "laudable" goal of a car-free park would hurt motorists who can only drive there four hours a day anyways.
NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly in Post-Blizzard Fender Bender
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was unhurt yesterday when his SUV was rear-ended on the Belt Parkway as his driver tried to avoid a van that had crashed into a snowbank. Mayor Mike is going to mean business now. [NYP]
Here's a Brooklyn Heroin Ring Caught on Google Street View
Today in Google Street View crime: Cops say this brazen drug ring dealt heroin openly on the streets of Williamsburg. Police busted it after their surveillance cameras caught members stuffing heroin packages into a lock-box hidden behind a store's sign.
$350K Brooklyn Lamborghini Fire Caused By DVD Player
It appears none of the speculation over the cause of last week's Brooklyn Lamborghini fire was correct. It wasn't thieves or an insurance scam. A source tells us the supercar was destroyed because of a bad aftermarket DVD player installation.
$350,000 Lamborghini Murcielago Explodes In Brooklyn
This Lamborghini Murcielago burned to the ground earlier today in Brooklyn, New York. There's speculation that two men stole the exotic car before fleeing, but there's no explaining for why they torched a car that starts at around $350,000.