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  1. It's busy today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a water main break on Bergen Street in Carroll Gardens, a "fall victim in a hole" in Queens, a carjacking in Bay Ridge (and another one in Staten Island!), and an armed robbery with possible stabbing in Chinatown.
  2. Now that the Democrats have recaptured Congress, Charles Rangel is setting his sights on a new goal: standup comedy.
  3. Everyone likes the holidays: even rapists!
  4. Youngna Park, our little bundle of unbridled enthusiasm, came home from Christmas vacation at her parents' place to find that her East Village apartment had been condemned! Apparently the landlord had been doing a little illegal renovation and accidently cut a bunch of load-bearing beams. Everyone in the building is out on the streets until thing get fixed.
  5. The New Yorker has an article about an unusual New York subculture: Meetup Fanatics.
  6. This NYC parrot knows more than 950 English words: "He uses words in context, with past, present and future tenses, and is often inventive."
  7. Helvetica-enthusiasts, rejoice! Toby found a "New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual" from 1970!

Baxter is the Cutest, by Pixietart. [Editor's note: the cutest dog, perhaps.]

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Baxter? Bark twice if you're in Milwaukee!

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Thanks for the mention about theNew York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual (1970) photos, but the font is actually called Standard Medium which is very much like Akzidenz Grotesk not Helvetica. They are in the same ballpark, though.

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Now that Democrat's have regained congress, the Republicans are putting on their entertainment rounds, to win back the American public.

Too bad, they betrayed our trust.. its like believing OJ, not anymore, you betrayed us buddy.

Try it on for size yourself...

"The cutest dog, perhaps"?????????? Ummm you're your link to an alternative appears to be a cat. An extremely girly cat with a haircit to make it look like a lion. While there probably are cuter dogs than baxter, please don't insult dogs everywhere by comparing them to a cat with a stupid haircut.

"The cutest dog, perhaps"?????????? Ummm you're your link to an alternative appears to be a cat. An extremely girly cat with a haircit to make it look like a lion. While there probably are cuter dogs than baxter, please don't insult dogs everywhere by comparing them to a cat with a stupid haircut.

"Everyone likes the holidays: even rapists!" Could you have written that any more light heartedly? Please keep the quips to your dog links.

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