Extra, Extra Snow?

- Lawyers for Paramount and Columbia Pictures are suing a 63-year-old teacher's aide for allegedly downloading a copy of "The Longest Yard." Yes, the Adam Sandler movie.

- The man fired by Bloomie for playing Solitaire hasn't quite left the news yet. The Times looks at his impressive name while one radio host teased Mike about it.

- You hear the one about the X-rated fortune cookies?

- A company in the United Arab Emirates is set to take over operations at a port in New Jersey as part of $6.8 billion corporate sale.

- Thanks to the addition of Staten Island Tech to the ranks of schools using the science high school exam, 5,553 students were admitted to the city's "elite schools" this year. That's a 20 percent jump over the past two years.

- Speaking of SI, a bus workers union there overwhelmingly approved a contract with the MTA yesterday that is identical to the one the TWU 100 rejected.

- The police seized a cannon/sculpture near the Holland Tunnel yesterday.

- We couldn't tell you why, but Dick Roeper at the Chicago Sun-Times prefers Chicago to New York.

- Speaking of the Second City, a group there is suing Craigslist for posting discriminatory advertisements. Craig responds. [via Curbed]

- And finally, how about this weather?

Gull in snow from catmadogma's flickr stream.

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By Garth Johnston in Miscellaneous on February 11, 2006 5:55 PM

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Well, WNBC has reported that they've recorded 22.8" in central park, making this the 2nd biggest snowfall in NYC history.

Tonny

I realy love the stlye of you writing,concision and definitude.could you compose a article about what about younger gothamist doing during their leisure for a chinese younger who are very curiosu for it?

hmm

Which brings us to Edward IX, 39, of Ravena, N.Y., who is also a gifted bluegrass guitarist and singer, but that's not all. He is a trained operating-room technician, a certified airplane mechanic and a former Greyhound bus driver. He is a member of a single-malt Scotch society. He knows quite a bit about cheese.

So with all of this under his belt, why was he doing officemonkey work for $27k/year? There's a pretty huge hospital in Albany, a decent size airport, and I think GE used to have a engine plant not too far away... Sounds very fishy that the best he could do was this. And sole breadwinner at that? Does this make any sense to anyone? Bueller?