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Update: some late breaking news-- an LIRR train hit a pedestrian in Queens-- all service on the LIRR is shut down between Penn Station and Jamaica, but the subway is "cross-honoring" LIRR tickets.

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a small crane collapse in Williamsburg (pix here!), a DOA floater at the Staten Island Ferry terminal, and a police car MVA in Bay Ridge.
Gowanus Lounge scores renderings of the forthcoming Whole Foods-- 4th Avenue in Park Slope has never looked more bucolic!
"Roslyn Beck is the lady behind those handmade signs pointing confused tourists to the Brooklyn Bridge footpath."
Sign a petition to put Tom Tomorrow's This Modern World back in the Village Voice's print edition (read more here)
The Daily News runs down some famous food fights, including Manganaro vs. Manganaro, Patsy vs. Patsy vs. Patsy, the cupcake wars, and the Papaya King feud.
Well, that's disturbing.
Does putting GPS in taxicabs violate the driver's right to privacy? Discuss amongst yourselves.
Here's a set of beautiful bodega pictures. [Via Tozzer].
Don't forget: Mulchfest is tomorrow and Sunday, from 10am to 2pm.
Remember RoccerMom, the woman who killed one of her daughter's friends in a DUI after a night of clubbing? She's pleading guilty and faces two to six in the clink.
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By Jake Dobkin on January 5, 2007 6:00 PM

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Vinny

Ahhh, Dalton and Samantha have done the right thing. Rationlization.

What if there was a Wal-Mart opening? Oh God no, we can't have that in our quaint little neighborhood with cobblestone streets! But Whole Foods having a 64000 square foot store? BRING IT ON! WOOT! YAY!

They're always different kinds of businesses, Samantha. If Wal-Mart popped into your quaint little hood, something tells me you wouldn't be defending their existence by saying they were different than the crapholes already there.

Just sayin.

You guys are all the same. Perfectly fine with destroying a local business with a bigger one as long as the bigger one is one you like (ie: Whole Foods).

Samantha T

Dalton, so true about Carroll Gardens - one of the main reasons I didn't move there when the time came. I used to live on Fourth Avenue and, believe me, the "mom and pop" businesses were nothing to write home about. People aren't going to go to Whole Foods instead of some depressing bodega - they're two entirely different kinds of businesses.

dalton

Just so Vinny can sleep at night--here in Carroll Gardens, we don't have a grocery store within reasonable distance. So, no, I don't feel bad about hittin' up the Whole Foods once it opens.

Mulchy

Yea to MULCHFEST 2007!! You will look back on mulchfest 20 years from now and remember where you were.

tucker

YEAH! Hipsters are worse than Hitler!

annulla

Um, that should have read "looking for the bridge" not "look for the bridge." But you knew that already.

Vinny

Wow... I guess mom and pop businesses won't suffer for a 64,000 square foot business in their hood.

Either that, or all the hypocritical garbage about large stores hurting small local businesses from the typical Brooklyn hipsters that populate this site and others is all bull as long as the product being sold isn't Wal-Mart or a NASCAR pennant.

YAY HYPOCRISY!

annulla

Wow, I've always wondered who posted those signs near the Brooklyn Bridge! Thanks for the tip. Roslyn Beck is an unsung hero. Without her, millions of tourists look for the bridge would still be wandering through the streets of Brooklyn. Or, maybe by now, they'd have made it up to Williamsburg and walked across that bridge.