
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: shots fired in Harlem, a suspicious package on 42nd and Madison, and a bunch of fires in Brooklyn.
- Brooklyn Papers gets the award for the strangest photo-montage of the week, to go with this story about wild raccoons.
- Kenny Kramer is having his busiest week since Seinfeld went off the air. Here's his media statement: "I know the public is smart enough to realize that Michael Richards' personal actions in no way reflect on the character he portrayed on television or me, Kenny Kramer, the real person that the character was based on."
- Sad news: Gerald Boyd, the first Black managing editor of The New York Times, died yesterday of lung cancer. He was only 56 years old.
- If you had $100 million to spend on philanthropy in Brooklyn, what would you do?/li>
- Of course, you don't need $100m to do something kind. Here's one suggestion: adopt a cat from BARC, our favorite animal shelter. [Via Gowanus Lounge.]
- The New Yorker has a beautiful slideshow of Jerry Shore shots from around New York City. Adam Gopnik compares his work to Eugene Atget's in turn of the century Paris.
Playstation 3, $2500, by Matt Law.





People are morons for paying that much money for a PS3 right now.
People whose identity and ego are this wrapped up in having the latest console system really should be removed from society.
Last I heard, it is still a free country---you can spend your money pretty much any way you want.
But jeezus!! Is it worth paying two to three times to have something now...versus later?
Classic economics supply and demand.
I say the Nintendo Wii is better anyway!
You'll notice that there was no line of people with cash in hand behind this guy. Actually, it was more than just the sign guy. The other two were with him. It was a three-man operation. Tools...
You'll notice that there was no line of people with cash in hand behind this guy. Actually, it was more than just the sign guy. The other two were with him. It was a three-man operation. Tools...
a million bucks says these tools know people from bestbuy
As a volunteer at BARC I can tell you that there are some wonderful, sweet, adorable cats there right now. I was there this morning and had a hard time tearing myself away. Please go there and give one of these loving cats a great home.