It’s been a while since the last UWS Schmuck Of The Week, but thankfully this guy came along. Talk about a wrong turn… MUW reader Kitty snapped this spectacular GPS FAIL in Riverside Park a few days ago.

Haven’t done an “UWS Schmuck Of The Week” for a while, but don’t be fooled — they’re still among us. Meet 35-year-old Christian Lopez, a tourist from Virginia who tried to scale Central Park’s Belvedere Castle yesterday. Unsurprisingly, his Spider-Man impression failed, causing him to fall “between 20 and 30 feet” and “mangle” his left [...]

Ever get angry at your parents when you were a kid and do something stupid to get back at them? Me too. Ever get angry at them when you were 30-years-old and drive their car into a lake as revenge? Me neither.

This week’s honor goes to the Upper West Side lawyer who discarded his computer bag on the floor of the American Airlines terminal at JFK earlier this week before boarding his flight. Someone alerted authorities to the suspicious looking package and a Port Authority bomb-sniffing dog was called in. Matters were complicated when the dog [...]

This week’s schmuck is a suspected drug-dealer who shot another suspected drug-dealer in an Upper West Side building at 175 West 90th. Rather than flee the scene, the alleged shooter stuffed himself down one of the building’s garbage chutes, where he was promptly discovered and arrested.