The gang is supposedly an offshoot of the Bloods, colorfully dubbed the Pretty Boy Family. The weekend brought a mass gang arrest in Bushwick - 32 kids, the youngest 13 years old, collared on their way to attend a murdered friend’s wake.Jews, Roman Catholics, Buddhists, and others came dangerously close, in the words of a reveler, to “hijacking the parade.” What Sunday’s pride parade may have lacked in middle-aged, middle-class gays, it more than made up for in a newly prominent demographic: religious groups.Jerry Nadler will be the congressman first to grill ex–EPA head Christine Todd Whitman. for a congressional hearing about the Feds’ performance monitoring air quality at ground zero.
But while that plan got all the attention, Bloomberg got a slew of other projects passed: a child-care tax credit, a corporate tax slash, and more state funds for public housing.
