Extra, Extra

Today is "perp search" day on the Gothamist Newsmap-- with skels fleeing the fuzz in the East Village, JFK airport, Harlem, and the Bronx. Also, there was a DOA floater in the East River near 96th Street.
Score one for Borat: a NYC judge "told lawyers who filed a $30 million lawsuit accusing the makers of the hit movie "Borat'' of misleading residents of a remote Romanian village that they must make specific allegations in their lawsuit if they want it to have a chance at success." Apparently, in Romania, that's not required!
Jackie Mason got an apology from Jews For Jesus, who used his image in one of their proselytizing pamphlets over the summer. But Jackie still isn't cool with them: "You're either a Jew or a gentile. The truth is, there's no such thing as a Jew for Jesus."
Insanity: if the city doesn't buy Coney Island's Astrotower, the owners are going to pack it up and ship it to an amusement park down south.
Rich people in Brownstone Brooklyn aren't paying their fair share of property taxes. That isn't right!
Looks like the Astor feud is over. Her son agreed to pay back $11m, and put up $10m more to cover any future claims by the estate. As part of the deal, he was cleared of charges of elder abuse. Bonus fact: the short court fight cost $3m+ in legal fees!

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By Jake Dobkin in Miscellaneous on December 5, 2006 6:17 PM

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Peter

Skell (usually spelled with two l's) does not mean a criminal. It means instead the sort of disheveled person who sleeps on the E train and can be smelled from a long distance off.

Jeremy Sapienza

"Rich people" in Brownstone Brooklyn aren't paying their "fair share"? Should someone who bought their house for 25K decades back be forced to pay a mortgage's worth of monthly property tax? As it is it's damn near impossible to own a home anywhere half decent in this city. The solution should be to just drop taxes on apartment buildings, if you just want to be "fair," not raise them on homeowners. Why should this city have higher taxes than other cities? I know it leaves less to embezzle or blow on idiotic vote-farming projects around town, but that's the price the politicians should have to pay, but of course never will, because they have the sheep bleating for even higher taxes. Unreal.