So, maybe you've noticed that we're big NY1 fans over here? The all-New York City news network makes this city feel like a small town, and loving it and watching NY1 is the kind of weird thing New Yorkers (and only New Yorkers) can get weirdly passionate about.
Well, last night—to put it bluntly—occured some of the craziest shit we've ever seen on NY1.
On NY1's nightly 10PM show, The Call, host John Schiumo takes listener calls and emails about whatever's happening in New York City at any given moment. And—you might've heard about it—but there's a mayorial election heating up here. It has plenty of crazy characters. And last night, we met a new one: Joan from the Upper West Side.
The theme of last night's show was about Democratic mayorial candidate (and newly-minted front-runner) Bill De Blasio. And Joan, who had apparently met Mr. De Blasio, had some words for him, as well as a bunch of shocked New Yorkers along with Schiumo, who were listening with their jaws dropped:
JOAN: No, I was at first because of this stop-and-frisk—which I'm totally against—but when I saw him on the street with his entourage, I had gone up to him and introduced myself and told him how active I was in liberal politics, and I said to him, 'You're not going to end stop-and-frisk in Manhattan, right? Just in Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Queens (and I'm still up in the air about The Bronx). And he said 'Why should I not have it in Manhattan?' And I said, 'Ugh, you can't expect us to live by the same rules we dictate to other people for heaven's sake! Just because people like me are against stop-and-frisk in places like Brooklyn and Queens and Staten Island doesn't mean we don't want it to continue in Manhattan! I mean: Manhattan is special. We are New York! Brooklyn and Queens and Staten Island, I....I don't even like talking about those kinds of places!
JOHN SCHIUMO: I'm assuming you were sarcastic an—
JOAN: No! No! I'm being sincere!
JOHN SCHIUMO: Oh, you—[laughs in disbelief] you were being sincere?
JOAN: I don't know why that's funny!
