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- The drunk driver who killed a Staten Island teen tried to kill himself in the holding cell
- The Mayor chooses his seventh and final deputy mayor
- We've just wasted many precious minutes looking at Rate My Professors, thanks to the Village Voice article about it - and we are disturbed that a septungenarian prof of ours was deemed "hot" (but he is an awesome teacher)
- An awful murder of a seven year old seems to have taken place in Brooklyn
- Newyorkology looks at some beautiful art deco hotel designs
- Robert Altman is getting this year's honorary Oscar, aka the booby prize for awesome directors who are always nominated but never win
- And this awesome picture of a subway car being taken from the yard to the tracks (we assume) is from ursonate on Flickr

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Why would they take a car from the yard to the tracks? They're connected.

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I know that really heavy maintenance for the Staten Island Railroad involves trucking their R44 subway cars to the Coney Island shops.

Actually it was going from the Kawasaki factory in Yonkers to the Bronx somewhere.

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