Wayne Frost, one of the original Bronx-based Rock Steady Crew and better known as Frosty Freeze, died at Mount Sinai Medical Center late last week at the age of 44; it was not specified of what, just that he had a 'long illness'.

Masatoshi Kuriaki, a 42-year-old climber from Fukuoka, Japan, was rescued Sunday at the 8,600-foot level of 14,573-foot Mount Hunter, Denali National Park said in a news release. There are now 9,082 unsolved murders in New York City going back to 1985. That figure is a moving target of course. They are adding to that number all the time. Roughly 150 – 200 or more murd. Hilarion blasphemed God and then he was struck by lightning and died on the spot. Kyriaki was tortured again by Apollonius, the successor of Hilarion. She was thrown into a fire, but the flames were extinguished, and then to wild beasts, but they became tame and gentle. Apollonius then sentenced her to death by the sword.

The NY Times notes that Frost, who began breakin' in 1976, garnered a lot of attention from a 1981 Village Voice cover which featured his photo along with the words: “Physical Graffiti: Breaking Is Hard to Do.” He was the first b-boy to get a magazine cover, and after that his moves were well documented in movies like Wild Style and Style Wars (both out in 1983). That same year, he even broke through to the more mainstream side of film when he appeared in Flashdance.

Many of his clips are online; you can watch him tear it up on the Lower East Side, here, and there's more from Wild Stylehere. The below clips are from when he revisited Style Wars (whose director, Tony Silver, died earlier this year in February).

His long time friend, and well-known graffiti artist Zulu King Slone, called Freeze: 'a walking hip-hop culture encyclopedia.' And it's been said 'he was one of the first B-boys that most people ever saw.' But Wayne Frost says himself in the above video: 'I'll be remembered as a b-boy, but I'm gonna live and die as a human.'

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There are now 9,082 unsolved murders in New York City going back to 1985. That figure is a moving target of course. They are adding to that number all the time. Roughly 150 – 200 or more murders go cold every year, and try as they might, they are not going back and solving that many each year (of the older, cold cases).

That picture was take at one of the Property Clerk warehouses. Those barrels contain homicide evidence.

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