There are two baby dolls hanging from a traffic light pole on the corner of Kenmare and Bowery. WTF is this? Does anyone have any information that would make us less creeped out than we are? We have to work a block away from this. Could the Williamsburg Sneaker/Baby Doll Hanging prankster be coming to Manhattan? Even though it’s probably a prank, you have to admit it’s still kind of creepy…

Optimus Prime and the gang ain’t got nothing on these guys. The Transformerz, New York’s premier break dance team, are the real deal. At 5 p.m. yesterday, I strolled passed Columbus Circle only to see a man in a U.S.A. jersey swallow a cigarette in the middle of a break dance routine he was performing. I held myself back from yelling, “Hey, don’t do that,” as I was more than a little curious to see what happened when he did. He just continued dancing, rotating tricks with the other four members of the team present, and engaging the crowd with witty lines like, “Pay us, cause this keeps us out of two places: prison, and your homes.”

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