We can't believe it's been two years since we became acquainted with the Christmas home decoration stylings of Gramercy Park resident Joel Krupnik. Back in 2005, a Christmas display with a bloody knife-wielding Santa, severed doll head and more outside his East 18th townhouse caused much commotion after the Post dubbed Krupnik "Bad Santa" and put a photograph on its cover. Krupnik's 2007 display gets the Post up in a dander again, with the tab......

Oh, Catholic League - it isn't even Halloween and you're getting ready for Christmas already! The Sun reports that the Catholic League sent a letter to Schools Chancellor Joel Klein questioning why nativity scenes cannot be displayed in schools. Christmas trees are allowed, as are menorahs and symbols for Ramadan. But the Department of Education does not allow actual images of "religious figures or deities." The DOE e-mail to the Sun read, "Our holiday policy......

While the State Assembly may be the face of dysfunction, we have to say their passage of a bill allowing New York City to increase the "failure to scoop dog doo" fine is something we can get behind. The bill, which would open the gate for fines to be increased from $100 to $250, still needs the State Senate's and Governor Spitzer's approval, but Assemblyman Audrey Pheffer of Howard Beach tells amNewYork he's sure......

Finally, some closure to a story we had been closely following. Earlier this year, 57 year old Joel Krupnik, threw dog poop at a teenager who didn't scoop after her dog. Krupnik was already in the public eye as he put a wacky Christmas display, complete with a Santa figure wielding a knife and decapitated doll's head (to deplore the commercialization of Christmas, of course), outside his house. So when it turned out that some......

The NY Post follows up their coverage of the East 18th Street homeowner's dog-poop attack on the girl whose dog pooped in front of his house: Joel Krupnik's admitted he smeared poop on a 13 year old girl, saying, "I'm tired of these people not picking up after their dogs. I took the mess and I rubbed it in her back." The Post makes a point of noting that the 57 year-old Krupnik is 6'......

After the display of a Santa Claus holding a decapitated doll's head in front of his East 18th Street townhouse, it's not surprising to think of Joel Krupnik as a wacky and/or eccentric neighbor. However, chasing a 13 year-old girl and attacking her with dog poo that her Chihuahua left in front of his house is pretty much going into new territory in terms of bad neighbors. The Post reports that the 13 year-old's 4......

It only seems right that when the NY Post puts your home's unusual Christmas display on the front cover that the nuts come out. On East 18th Street, the Krupnik-Castellanos family had created a "anti-commercialization of Christmas" display, involving a knife-wiedling Santa holding a bloodied severed doll head, plus many naked Barbies and other doll heads on entwined in Christmas lights on the trees, much to the disgust and delight of neighbors and people walking......

Ooh - the owners of an East 18th Street Manhattan brownstone are under fire for their wacky Christmas display. The Post puts the Krupnik-Castellanos display - "a skinny, bloody-bearded Santa holds a knife in his left hand and the severed head of a doll - blood gushing from its eye sockets in the other" - on its cover. The owners, Joel Krupnik and Mildred Castellanos, explain its their protest against Christmas's commercialization. Well, it's not......