 07/09/06: The Week of July 9, 2006 ****HUD is the No. 1 worst landlord in the United States," says Michele Byrd, a man who resides in the decaying carcass of an SRO at 524 West 150th Street. His landlord is the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the federal agency mandated by law to improve the housing stock. ****In a crime that seemed to belong in a horror movie, not the Upper West Side of 2006, a 64-year-old Manhattan man was brutally attacked early yesterday morning by an ex-convict wielding two electric handsaws inside a subway station, police said. ****The ads - which encourage Jews to accept Jesus as the Messiah - went up in subway cars and at the Times Square station as part of the organization's $1.4 million campaign this month to proselytize around the city. Jews are fit to be tied. ****Two off-duty police officers and an off-duty correction officer were arrested yesterday in unrelated incidents, the police said. This is a growing pattern of the enforcers being the bad guys. Who is picking our cops? ****While the landlords brag that more and more luxury buildings are being built in harlem to attract downtown whities to move there, the city fathers also tell us that the rat population in that area is at an all time high. ****"All or nothing - or we put your husband back in the freezer," a funeral home official told Landano's grieving widow, ****New York terror plot is foiled, FBI says. Muslims were planning to blow up the Lincoln Tunnel. Plot was good for lots of overtime for law enforcement. No one except media paid attention to the story. ****Celebrity sighting of Keanu Reeves at W 76TH ST AT COLUMBUS AVE in Starbucks on 76th and Columbus. Ordered a mocha frappachino and a pastry and then went outside to his black suv to smoke a cigarette. Looked shaggy but good in jeans, t-shirt, and black blazer. ****joke du jour…. "Oh, really! What'd he say?" He said, "Where'd you get the crappy hairdo?”
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