Basically Pogan states that the cyclist, Christopher Long, was weaving his bike in and out of the lane and disrupting traffic. (He may or may not have been, as we can't see that part in the video.) But the next part is really good: the cop (listed below as the deponent) claims that the cyclist drove into him purposely, causing the cop to fall and suffer cuts and bruises.

ANYWAY:

There are five kids in this fam. You know, there are tons of agencies out there where you can find a nanny. Beware any family not smart enough (or too cheap to) hire someone through them! But:

Inside the box is a "Bodega Cookbook," all about how to "eat well from your corner store." There's a silkscreened reusable shopping bag, party invites, and "Corner store-style flags - aka, perfect party decoration." It's $25 and part of the proceeds go to the Food & Liquour Project, which is meant to encourage people to buy at small stores and also encourage those stores to carry more produce.

To answer the question of "Why?"

"Eating out every night can get expensive. If you are known to get hungry and are a slave to convenience, then it's the no-brainer since corner stores are usually right down the block and full of ... food. Most of us aren't able to anticipate every single grocery need during our weekly mega-shopping trips to the big grocery store/farmers market/etc. Plus, independent corner stores usually help recycle money back into the neighborhood by hiring locally and helping out local folks and groups with informal arrangements."

Cute, it's like they are teaching the kids how to be urban!

As far as the "help recycle money back into the neighborhood by hiring locally and helping out local folks" thing goes—it's true, any job is a good job when you're unemployed. But let's acknowledge the way the many undocumented workers at delis, bodegas, etc. are often treated. Twelve-hour, six-day-a-week shifts are the norm in NYC, and they're sometimes paid below minimum wage and taken advantage of in ways that documented workers wouldn't be. Also, they send a lot of money back to their home countries. All I'm trying to say is: the bodega ecosystem is incredibly complicated.

Anyway, NYC the Blog summed up their feeling on the Bodega Party Box with this:

"Don't forget to invite the bodega owners, I'm sure they would love to come to a party where you pretend that being a hardworking immigrant in a foreign country is cause for a hipster party, while you eschew your daily purchase of coffee with warm milk for $1.00 at the bodega, instead opting to buy a book and some flags from somewhere else."

Previously on Gawker: Ghetto Pass: the Corner Bodega
Ghetto Pass: The Ghetto Chinese Spot

Within senior Wasp circles, Schwarzman and the distinction he has received for his gift have set off a great deal of concealed outrage. Perhaps the best way I can describe it is to say that when I sat and talked with several Wasps about the diminishing influence of their clan, they often waited until the interview was winding down and I had folded up my notebook, and then they jumped back into conversation about Schwarzman and the library.

Old-guard Wasps appear to feel threatened by the newly rich and their growing influence around the city, and dismiss new money as "tasteless and gauche." When discussing vastly rich people who are Jewish, it is not uncommon for them to use anti-Semitic slurs.

"Come on, though, it's not Wasps giving Jews a bad name, it's Jews giving Jews a bad name," one said. Another told me, "The Astors knew to put their name on the inside. It's good taste, that's the difference between old and new." A third said Schwarzman, who is Jewish, "is cleaning himself up, that's what new money does. I suppose my family had to do the same thing hundreds of years ago, but look at us now, we're like deities."

Wasps Stung over Renaming of the N.Y.P.L. [VF Daily]

• $100,000 worth of cigarettes. Which, depending on the brand, would've bought you tens of thousands of packs. They would be a bit stale, but you could still clean up on a Harlem streetcorner.
• $100,000 worth of magazine subscriptions. You would be sad and probably poor. But maybe they will be worth something in another ten years, on the eBay, when we all read Conde Nast's Gawker Magazine on the Kindles because print is even deader.
• $100,000 worth of blog. You would be a zillionaire, just like Nick Denton and Jason Kottke.
• $100,000 worth of funny photos of cats. ZOMG SO RICH.
• $100,000 worth of access to the Clintons. Sorry, bro.

Relative Investment [NYM]

"To come to New York intending to make great gobs of money on Wall Street is one thing. To come to New York intending to eke out a quiet existence in some more moderately remunerative field (say, journalism) is quite another.

The former makes perfectly good sense. Getting rich is a proud area tradition dating back at least to the days of Peter Minuit. The latter, however, is a nakedly bizarre pursuit requiring something in the way of explanation. Being middle class in today's New York is like swimming the English Channel or climbing Everest without oxygen, or translating the Bible into LOLcats. Sure, it can be done, but is it really worth the effort? A city where the average apartment runs around $800,000 is not a place for those of modest means. In other words, shouldn't you just move to Austin already?"

ACORN and The Working Families Party and their coalition are calling for a protest at noon.

"The Carlyle Group is the poster child for an industry that has made billions by fleecing taxpayers and loading up companies with unsustainable levels of debt," said Dan Cantor, Executive Director of the Working Families Party. The Carlyle Group is one of the five biggest buyout firms in the nation. Carlyle partner Bruce Rosenblum chairs the buyout industry's lobbying arm, the Private Equity Council—Washington, D.C.'s most outspoken defender of tax breaks enjoyed by buyout firms and their partners.

"David Rubenstein made $260 million last year, yet he paid taxes at a lower rate than the doorman at this hotel. Not only that, companies like Carlyle don't pay their fair share in corporate taxes." said Pat Boone, President of NY ACORN.

"What does this mean to your average New Yorker?" asked Boone. "Plenty. The takeover industry's tax dodges increase the tax burden on the rest of us while undercutting vital public services like schools, healthcare and affordable housing."

The coalition noted that regular New Yorkers have less to spend on taxes these days. Between 2002 and 2005, median rents increased almost 10 percent across the city, while the average household income actually dropped by more than 6 percent.

But at least the poors have cute posters!

Our daughter seems to have gotten head lice at camp this summer and we need help going through her hair. It's not pretty, but somebody's got to do it. Wee need someone to start tomorrow (Friday,, July 6) from 3:00-6:00, then come back for 5 days, 2 hours/day. We will need to know that you've done this before and will need references.

Nit Picker! [Craigslist]

"The thought if people having to rub elbows with such a gauche and uppity poor and worse her yokel trash family made me ill. Why do we have to be egalitarian?" said "AntiGunner." Maybe he was being sarcastic? Sure.

But then there's this, from "Square:" "I don't even know where to begin with this. It's entirely ridiculous. What a self-righteous brat. Maybe if she didn't waste her time at Yale "educating" others about what it's like to be poor, she'd have a useful education, an ability to earn money in the future, and could have borrowed another $10K or so in loans (STILL coming in damn cheaply) to jet off on spring break or go to dinner or wtfever with her rich "friends" (though clearly we can't call them friends, since this poor little thing was such a class-outsider). Also, what kind of poor pays for Amtrack [sic]?"

Eeek. And: "Her story is proof that elites lower the bar for poors. 5th in her class at a TTT high school, and a 1440 SAT should not be getting her into Yale," says "slick_nick."

Takeaway, besides "Some Yalies are overprivileged assholes?" We're going to have to start saying "poors." It has such a good ring to it.

Ann Lee and Fabian Caceres

Veronica Santie and Stephen Gut

Tricia Doughty and Nicolas Burniat

Albino wins! Albino wins. —Leon

The Lupita dress is sewn from "papery thin poplin in a corn-husk hue," and is currently available for $148. As for the lady: just ignore her. She is only crying like that because of the onions.

Žižek out at Abercrombie & Fitch, moving on to bigger and better things?

Via Mina Kimes at Elm Rock City.

Clandestine champagne in City Hall, python shoes matching gold drapes, consumated J-Date hookups, and a guy who, like an intemperate bar mitzvah boy, wouldn't get married unless the ceremony was football-themed. The magic realism never stops in this weekend's Post weddings.

Rekha Pillai and Anuj Puppala

Jeffrey William and Maria Chunikhia

Lana Passaro and Joe Bogert

Vatalina Llano and Simon De Gagn

Yuriy Teyf and Oksana Ginzburg

Winner: Even with an exponentially lame reception locale (no Palaces here), Lana Passaro and Joe Bogert run away with the field, thanks to wedding aesthetics of laser-like precision. If we had a rational numbers-only rule, Teyf and Ginzberg's audiovisual difficulties would have carried the day. —Liutrain

Featured Weddings [NYP]

This week, we meet a lot of foreigners, and among them discover one couple so confident in their longevity that they're planning a follow-up wedding in Japan that will take place a few years down the line. Click through for this week's scores, along with a bit of pee humor, some Chinese food, and one pair of jobbers who really shouldn't have come across to this side of the tracks.

Luis Teixeira and Esther Silva

Melissa Castillo and Peter Boneta

"The entire point of living in Connecticut or Westchester is to limit your exposure to people who are from Long Island and New Jersey," said one magazine editor who has been commuting from Westport, Conn., through Grand Central for over a decade. "That's why we live there, it's why we wear natural fabrics, and it's why we don't stucco our homes. Granted, there are a lot of people in Westport and Darien who grew up on the island and vowed to end all the ridicule by buying a first home here, but these are the people who wear Nicole Miller and practically strive out loud. As far as we're concerned, Long Island might as well be Barbados—fine for a vacation, but year-round is so not going to happen."

Beneath Their Stations [NYO]