“He spent his life looking over his shoulder but he forgot to look both ways before crossing the street,” one police source said.

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“Pay up, or Tony’s gonna come visit”

Genovese mobster ‘Tony Cakes’ ID’d as NYC pedestrian, 86, decapitated by DOT truck

>>>Brooklyn federal prosecutors in 2005 accused Conigliaro — who toiled for years in the wholesale cake business, selling sweets across the New York City area and running an Italian ice and gelato stand in Little Italy, according to court documents — of being a soldier in the Genovese crime family.

Conigliaro worked as a loan shark for the Genovese, the feds said in a four-count indictment.

>>> Grisly footage from the crash showed Conigliaro’s head severed several yards from his crumbled body — and a DOT driver, who was behind the wheel of a city truck when the elderly man walked against a traffic light to cross the street, looking teary-eyed and devastated.

“Now we know why that DOT guy was crying… he’s probably asking for witness protection,” one source said.

No sympathy for Mafia loan sharks.

Gone and back again

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(Suggestive)

The 11-acre lot in Conyers Farm, 25 Upper Cross Road, reported a contract just this past May, but it’s back on the market today at the same asking price, $4.995 million.

Will no one rid us of this troublesome piece? There’s a long history for this building lot, all of it involving steadily decreasing value. Someone paid $5.575 for it in 2003; then, its tax card shows a $9 million purchase in 2007, although that might have included a to-be-built house: the record doesn’t say; a sale for an undisclosed sum in 2012; another in 2017 for $5.175, and, finally, that buyer resold it, complete with full architecture plans, to the current owner for $5.475 in June 2021.

But it took mere months for buyer’s remorse to set in, and the property was returned to the market in September ‘21 priced at $5.875. And there it has sat, going nowhere — except for its price, of course.

Pending in Riverside

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84 Meadow Road, currently priced at $4.3 million, but it’s been on the market for 111 days, so it’s probably selling for less than that.

Excellent location, with 1 acre in the R-20 zone, and deeded rights to Willowmere’s beach, this 1923 Tudor has been brought back at least part of the way to what its builder probably intended. And it need it. These owners paid just $3.025 for it in 2020 from sellers had bought it for $2.9 million in 2004 — it had deteriorated during their ownership, putting it nicely.

Sale prices reported

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21 Red coat

21 Red Coat Lane, $1.920 million selling price, $1.850 asked. 1965 construction, 8 days on market.

Dearfield Drive

68 Dearfield Drive, sold for $3.450 million on a 2022 asking price of $4 million. Built in 1925, it comprises 1.32 acres in the R-12 zone; the listing states that it can be divided into “at least 2 lots” and I’m sure it can, but I hope it isn’t, because this large a lot so close to town is rare, and it’d be nice if it were preserved.

The house is the former home, as of this afternoon, of Dr, Dustin and his wife.

12 Huntzinger Drive has also sold, but they’ve pulled the pictures, so I won’t bother with a link. Built in 1925, like 68 Dearfield and many other houses in town (I wonder how many of the people who built in Greenwich in the ‘20s survived the Depression?), 1.5 acres in the R-1 zone, it fetched its full asking price of $3.995 million.

Another truth hidden under the wave of global warming hysteria: coastlines erode, sandy coastlines erode faster

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“THis is the moment when the seas will stop rising and the planet begin to heal”

Nantucket beachfront homes still coveted by buyers despite high risk of being swallowed by the sea

America’s wealthiest appear to be playing the luck of the draw when it comes to purchasing and preserving beachfront homes on one of New England's most cherished islands.

On Nantucket, off the coast of Massachusetts, conservationists are cautioning locals that coastal erosion is strongly wearing down the island.

It's projected that by 2070, nearly 30 miles of roadway will be inundated by more than six inches of floodwater during regular high tides, according to the town’s Coastal Resilience Plan report released in 2021.

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"They are willing to take on this risk [of purchasing a home] that your average individual wouldn’t in exchange for being on the water," he told Fox News Digital.

Coastal erosion differs in all parts of the country — but the process by which local sea levels rise, strong wave action and coastal flooding wear down the coastline may result in carrying away rocks, sand, soil and even structures.

Dr. Jen Karberg, senior wetland ecologist and director of research and partnerships at the Nantucket Conservation Foundation, said homes falling into the ocean is nothing new, but it is being seen at an accelerated rate now. [b.s.]

"We have people that are moving here and buying houses for cash that they know are going to fall into the ocean," Karberg told Fox News Digital.

 Karberg researches coastal salt marshes, coastal dunes systems, methods on how to increase coastal resilience by using nature-based solutions and building up nature.

"Dune systems themselves are really protective to areas that are farther inland because they're what we call dynamic, because they're supposed to erode away and rebuild, and that sand is supposed to move." 

I have absolutely no problem with anyone who wants to live on a dune or sea cliff — it’s their money, and they should be free to spend it as they wish. But that same freedom should be accorded all people, especially, in this case, taxpayers living inland, who shouldn’t be forced to pay for temporary and ultimately futile, beach replenishment projects to save their reckless neighbors from their folly.

One little detail is missing from this self-congratulatory press release: The shooter himself was “a member of the LGBTQRSWTF community”

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Gays everywhere can rest easy and be at peace because the ATF, FBI and DOJ, all of whom are displaying their rainbow cloaks of wokeness here, have their back. “We will not rest”

… “Fueled by hate, the defendant targeted members of the LGBTQIA+ community at a place that represented belonging, safety, and acceptance – stealing five people from their loved ones, injuring 19 others, and striking fear across the country,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “Today’s sentencing makes clear that the Justice Department is committed to protecting the right of every person in this country to live free from the fear that they will be targeted by hate-fueled violence or discrimination based on who they are or who they love. I am grateful to every agent, prosecutor, and staff member across the Department – from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado, to the Civil Rights Division, the ATF, and FBI – for their work on this case. The Justice Department will never stop working to defend the safety and civil rights of all people in our country.”

“The 2022 mass shooting at Club Q is one of the most violent crimes against the LGBTQIA+ community in history,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray. “The FBI and our partners have worked tirelessly towards this sentencing, but the true heroes are the patrons of the Club who selflessly acted to subdue the defendant. This Pride Month and every month, the FBI stands with the survivors, victims, and families of homophobic violence and hate.”

“ATF will not rest until perpetrators like this defendant are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” said Director Steven Dettelbach of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). “I hope today’s life sentence brings at least some peace to the victims and survivors of this senseless, horrific tragedy. That this sentence should come during Pride month reinforces how far we have left to go before all communities, including all LGBTQIA+ communities, are safe here. It also shows how far ATF and all our partners will go to ensure hatred does not win.”

“The defendant’s mass shooting and heinous targeting of Club Q is one of the most devastating assaults on the LGBTQIA+ community in our nation’s history. This sentence cannot reclaim the lives lost or undo the harms inflicted. But we hope that it provides the survivors, the victims’ families, and their communities a small measure of justice,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “Our message today should be loud and clear. No one should have to fear for their life or their safety because of their gender identity or sexual orientation. The Justice Department will vigorously investigate and prosecute those who perpetrate hate-fueled, bias-driven attacks.”

So what’s the problem? The shooter “identifies” as non-binary/gay, as even NBC once admitted (and referred to him as “they/their” in its coverage) back in November 2022. That aspect, rarely mentioned in media coverage of the massacre at the time, has now long since been buried.

Buried, but exhumed by The Maine Wire yesterday:

LGBT Mass Shooter Pleads Guilty to Hate Crimes Against LGBT People

Anderson Aldrich, who identifies as “non-binary,” pled guilty on Tuesday to 74 additional charges related to hate crimes and firearms. Aldrich is already serving a life sentence of a thousand years without the possibility of parole for a mass shooting at a gay bar in Colorado.

“Fueled by hate, the defendant targeted members of the LGBTQIA+ community at a place that represented belonging, safety, and acceptance – stealing five people from their loved ones, injuring 19 others, and striking fear across the country,” said U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, following the new sentencing.

In 2022, Aldrich murdered five people, and attempted to murder numerous others, at the Club Q.

Following the incident, headlines and prosecutors suggested that the crime was motivated by hatred of LGBT people.

It was later revealed, however, that Aldrich himself is a member of the LGBT community, and identifies as non-binary.

That revelation did not stop AG Garland from charging him with additional hate crime charges, to which Aldrich pled guilty.

The new charges will carry with them an additional 55 life sentences, although the additional conviction is merely symbolic, since Aldrich is already serving a lengthy sentence, which he has no chance of outliving.

Well, of course he did

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Manhattan DA drops charges against Columbia University students arrested at anti-Israel protests

The office of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg claimed insufficient evidence of damage to property or injury to individuals as pretext for dropping charges

A trip down memory lane:

Violent pro-terror rioters shouting ‘Intifada!’ smash their way into Columbia University academic building in latest campus chaos

Biden's invitees are doing Trump's ads for free

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Illegal immigrant suspects in Texas girl’s murder were recently caught by Border Patrol, released into US

Johan Jose Rangel Martinez, Franklin Jose Pena Ramos charged with capital murder in death of Jocelyn Nungaray

The two men charged in the killing of a 12-year-old Houston girl who was found strangled to death in a creek this week are Venezuelan migrants who entered the United States illegally.

Johan Jose Rangel Martinez, 21, and Franklin Jose Pena Ramos, 26, were linked to the death of Jocelyn Nungaray and face capital murder charges, the Houston Police Department said Thursday. 

Pena Ramos illegally crossed into El Paso, Texas, in May, sources with the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Fox News. He was caught by Border Patrol agents and was released into the U.S. with a Notice to Appear in court. 

Rangel Martinez also crossed illegally into El Paso in March and was caught by Border Patrol. He was released into the U.S. on an unknown basis. 

So while Trump’s got Biden’s boys out canvassing for votes; what are Joe’s handlers up to?

According to a report from Axios, the Biden campaign is launching an ad campaign in all the swing states, seeking to make Donald Trump's recent criminal conviction a central theme of the 2024 election.

The ad buy is part of a $50 million investment in June alone and will target key demographic groups, such as black, Hispanic, and Asian American voters, whom Biden is struggling to keep in his column this year.

Even professional Trump haters aren’t impressed

Joe Biden is in a position similar to that of other failed presidents. And that means he will try desperately to make his opponent the issue. Donald Trump is certainly a target-rich environment, but voters aren't concerned about Trump's foibles. They want to know what Biden will do to get us out of this mess.

But Biden decided to double down and go after Trump anyway. Matt Margolis reported that the Biden campaign was going to spend $50 million on ads solemnly informing the American voter that Donald Trump was convicted of a felony. 

It would be one thing if they were good ads. But the universal reaction to Biden's $50 million ad campaign tagging Trump as a convicted felon ranges from "Is this the best they can do?" to "You've got to be kidding."

 "It’s soulless," political strategist Steve Schmidt, a fierce Trump critic, recently said on his "The Warning" podcast. "It’s flat." 

"It’s like it was written by a committee of chat GPTS."

Eeesh.

"The ad sucks," Schmidt added. "It’s terrible. It doesn’t raise anybody’s pulse. It won’t do anything except burn money."

Follow the science

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You must remember this … the fundamental things apply, as time goes by

Matt Margolis, PJ Media:

“The fight over protecting women's sports will continue on, because too many Democrats don't seem to understand that there are differences between biological males and biological females. Well, Sen. John Kennedy explained things is simple terms that perhaps, even Democrats can understand.

"The differences between biological males and biological females explode during puberty," he began. "Girls, during puberty, develop 14% smaller hearts. Their lungs are 12% smaller... You cannot debate that. It's just a biological fact. That helps boys take in oxygen and pump blood more efficiently than girls can. That gives boys a clear edge in endurance sports like swimming, for example, cycling, rowing..."

“Kennedy still wasn't done explaining the differences between boys and girls.”

Girls develop a wider pelvis. That decreases the amount of force their legs exert when they're lifting, when they're kicking, when they're pedaling. That's another relative disadvantage, vis-à-vis boys or men, when you compare female athletes to their male counterparts. Now boys, in contrast, develop broader shoulders—a biological fact, folks—that allows them to make space for more upper body muscle mass and gives them a decided advantage when competing against a girl. It's hard to think—I can't think of a sport in which a higher muscle-to-fat ratio isn't helpful. The average boy will grow five inches taller than the average girl. It's just a fact. Even when men and women are the same height men have higher levels of bone density, which helps them move more forcefully and to escape more injuries.