Beat susp’s sick reason
vintage train trip, photographs the subway for his Instagram page.
“I like photographing the oldtime trains more, because they’re more rare, more beautiful to me,” he said.
David Bragdon, who runs the Transit Center research firm in New York, said the deep history and diversity in transportation makes for an active rail fan community.
He would know — he’s an admitted “foamer,” a rail fan who foams at the mouth at the sight of a train.
“Within the field of rail fanning, there’s a very broad range of interests,” he said. “There’s some people who are only interested in dining car china, there are other people who are only interested in steam locomotives and aren’t interested in anything that happened since 1957.”
David Giangrande, 40, of Queens, said helps make popular.
“There is a lot of camaraderie when you go up to places like the Shore Line Trolley Museum, or you go to the New York Transit Museum,” Giangrande said. “You see a lot of the same people.” the community nostalgia rides AN NYPD COP being sued for restraining 16-year-old Kimani Gray after police shot the teen seven times secured the dying youth’s hands behind his back with pink handcuffs, according to court papers.
It’s unclear why Officer John Hoder was carrying the unusual cuffs. But it was apparently a well-known fact among his fellow officers that the pink bracelets belonged to him when they were questioned as to how they knew who had Gray (photo).
“I don’t know if he used pink cuffs to demean (someone under arrest), or if it’s something allowed by the police for some other reason,” said lawyer Richard Cardinale, who represents Gray’s mother in a federal lawsuit alleging excessive force and illegal cuffing.
The NYPD said cops are required to carry “standard issue handcuffs” available for purchase from the department’s equipment section, but there is an exception. During Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, “the enforcement of this regulation is overlooked, providing the pink handcuffs meet or exceed” the department’s minimum standards, the NYPD said in a statement.
Gray was fatally shot Brooklyn in March 2013. Another source familiar with NYPD equipment said cops can use whatever color cuffs they want as long as they meet department specifications.
Sgt. Mourad Mourad and Officer Jovaniel Cordova shot Gray, a reputed gang member, after they say he pointed a gun at them in East Flatbush. restrained in A PAROLEE who sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl in the Bronx broke her teeth and jaw because she refused to touch him, a prosecutor said Sunday.
Shaun Lewis, 27, of Williamsbridge lured the girl into Bronx Park, near Bronx Blvd. and E. 213th St. on Oct. 24, and “exposed himself to her,” Assistant District Attorney Amory Minot said.
When she wouldn’t touch him, he beat and choked her into unconsciousness, Minot said at Lewis’ arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court.
Lewis is also accused of robbing and assaulting a 33-year-old woman at knifepoint on April 21. He was ordered held without bail.