Extra, Extra

- A 13-year-old boy drowned in Jamaica Bay yesterday on a day camp field trip.
- Lakeside apartments available in Hell's Kitchen! Act now!
- Oh, to be Young, Latino and Goth in the Bronx. Or to just be in the Bronx.
- A 1974 cold-case murder looks like it has a suspect. The step-dad, natch.
- An NYPD sergeant facing disciplinary action shot himself in Queens yesterday.
- A 19-year-old cover girl died in a car accident this week after her hired car broke down on the New Jersey Turnpike.
- Calm down gossips, Brooke Astor has gone home from the hospital.
- Seems that Vets from Iraq and Afghanistan are having a rough time being treated equally.
- Don't worry, Roebling the Brooklyn Bunny is OK.
- Did anyone else misread horde as whore in this Post hed "DEAD-RISKY WORLD OF 27TH ST. PARTY HORDE?" For a hot minute there we thought someone at the Post had just given up.
- From the The City section FYI, a verse for finding your way in Queens:

In Queens, to find locations best
Avenues, roads and drives run west;
But ways to north or south ’tis plain
Are street or place or even lane.

- And hey, one more anniversary this weekend. I've been your Gothamist Weekend Editor for one whole year now, huzzah! It wouldn't be nearly as much fun without all of your comments and tips (and corrections, I live for your corrections).

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By Garth Johnston in Miscellaneous on July 30, 2006 5:55 PM

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Angry Asian

Goth is dead (no pun intended). It amuses me that mexican and latino communities are taking it up. Posers.

Paul

I just found your blog and I like it !

dob watcher

I like his contributions, too.

except for some passive aggressive postings recently. but they weren't the one's a person would categorize as city politics.

QNS

I like Garth's posts. He has a real interest in City politics, and it shows in a cool, nerdy way. GO GARTH!

sah

Hey good job so far editor.

Corrections? We can post corrections?

Toby

Re: the Jersey Turnpike acciedent -

The vehicle involved was a Ford Crown Victoria, which was rear-ended. Many livery cars are old police units, and the P71 Police Interceptor model of the Crown Victoria has had a nasty tendancy to catch fire and go boom when rear ended at high speed - something that killed several police officers, including one upstate - due to a poor gas tank design.

If you own any Crown Victoria or Mercury Grand Marquis, you should see e-mail to Ford Dealers (PDF format) about the need for a gas tank upgrade.