Machete Battle; Rats Babysit Cats; Dog Killing Algae: Week In Review

New York City, NY – Yet another week when the subway system was appalling. Here are the stories from last week (July 17 through July 23) as pulled from Patch's 28 neighborhood news sites.

A Lower East Side Tenant Took Living As A Slob To A Whole New Level
Cleaners dressed in hazmat suits were faced with a mountain of trash, cockroaches galore and even a dead cat.

A 70-Year-Old Woman Was Found Tied Up And Killed In Her Brooklyn Home
Her daughter found her in the bedroom with an electrical cord tied around her legs, police said.

The MTA Blamed Passengers For The Disaster That The Subway's Become

Apparently the constant delays, fires, derailments and underground entrapments are caused because you can't put your litter in a trash can.

A Sunrise Machete Battle Broke Out On The Upper West Side
A pedestrian armed with a trash can took on a machete wielding car driver.

Rats Are Babysitting Kittens In Brooklyn. No, Really
You'd think they were mortal enemies, but they're really best buddies.

A Human Leg Was Found In The Hudson River
The body part was pulled out near the Boat Basin on the Upper West Side.

A Car Smashed Into A Madison Avenue Store, Injuring 3 Pedestrians
Two of the people were in critical condition.

7 Brooklyn N Train Platforms To Close For More Than A Year

Nearly $400M worth of renovations is going to disrupt N train riders through late 2018

Watch Texas Invade Bushwick In New Movie Trailer

The movie imagines a renegade Texas daring to take over Brooklyn.

Dog Killing Toxic Algae Still In Prospect Park Lake
Latest tests show it's still not save to go in the water.

A Subway Pervert Was Photographed Wagging His Tongue As He Molested A Woman

The man fled after rubbing himself against the woman on the L train in Gramercy

A Drunk Guy Impaled Himself Climbing A Midtown Fence
He was reportedly taking a short cut home.

Lead image courtesy of the Brooklyn Bridge Animals Welfare Coalition