May 2, 2006
Extra, Extra
- Falling debris has fallen from the under-construction new New York Times building at Eighth Avenue and 41st Street and hit a car. Early reports say the debris was some sort of pipe. And not only that, it went through the car's sunroof. NY1 says that two people were injured, including a small child. Oh, dear.
- An FBI agent was killed when his motorcycle crashed into a bus on the Upper East Side
- Ooh, will bird poop decals in advertising come to NYC? We can only hope!
- Universal Pictures is donating $1.15 million - 10% of the weekend gross of United 93 - to the Shanksville memorial fund
- Forgotten NY has some photographs of great old signs
- Tom Cruise is in town hyping Mission: Impossible 3 - have you seen him yet?
- The Village Voice on yesterday's immigrants' rally - a quote from an Ecuadoran, "We are the new black men of America"
- And we'll be updating our post on the Greenpoint Terminal Market fire
Photograph of the S Shuttle at Times Square/GrandCentral (looks lke Da Vinci Code advertising!) from Kara Canal on Flickr
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Okay. The immigrants just lost all credibility with that one statement. Smuggling yourself into a country hardly compares with being dragged here in chains. Somehow I doubt the first Africans who came saw it as much of a land of opportunity.
That's right up there with Roger Toussaint being compared with Rosa Parks.
yeah, uh...black men in america are still pretty much dealing with being black men in america. give it some time, buddy.
So Universal Pictures will pocket the 90% profit due to the exploitation of 9/11? EXCELLENT!
RE: the Tom Cruise thing, I saw a whole bunch of press people outside the 68th/Broadway theatre. Was that supposed to be one of his stops? I figured the crowd was for him since most of the regular Tribeca premiere/red carpet events are probably over...
Is it me or has NBC, a divison of NBC Universal, been over promoting that 9/11 exploitation movie?
i saw tom (with leather jacket and sunglasses) and his son yesterday outside of david letterman. i can't believe he exists.