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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: "arsonists arrested" (!) in Bay Ridge, Pedestrian struck by car on Houston and Ave C, and a car vs. scaffolding in the West Village.
One of the young investment bankers implicated in last year's massive insider trading scandal has pled guilty-- and he's going up the river for 37 months.
"A large part of 145th Street in Harlem soon may be renamed in honor of the late James Brown."
The New York Times goes all Cold Case Squad, digging up a Carroll Gardens murder from 1927. .
Fear and loathing in the nursery school admissions process: one father's frightening tale.
The internet has claimed its first victim of 2007: a 22 year-old factory worker upstate was shot to death because of an online love triangle. Neither of the men involved had actually met the woman, a 47 year old living in West Virginia pretending to be an 18 year old girl.
The family of the 13 year-old graffiti artist who was killed by the LIRR train on Friday is considering suing the MTA, because they failed to maintain the fences around the tracks.

Swoon returns to Rivington, after her last piece there got wrecked. More at Streetsy.

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By Jake Dobkin in Miscellaneous on January 7, 2007 5:45 PM

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mikey!

If Ari Kraft's family can sue the MTA, can Brian Barrett's family sue the internet?

warren the great

that investment banker should've been given life without parole. those people don't deserve to walk the streets.

chris

wow, i love how people commenting on the vandalism thing won't even comment on the image up today.

because you know swoon is a bitch vandal too.

anon

I know that stretch of LIRR tracks, they try to keep it fenced but kids cut holes or knock them down as soon as they go up. Hope the suit gets thrown out.

another anon

yeah, the riders will be footing the bill for this kid's idiotic decision.. it reminded of the case where some stupid kid tried to outrun a 7 train but lost his leg in the process.. he ended up winning $1.4 million from the MTA!! go figure how this world works.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/402814p-341181c.html

anonymass

MTA riders should sue the family for lost time and emotional trauma as a result of train delays. Or should the family win, for the increase in fares which will partially be attributable to this frivolous lawsuit.

Futhermore, sue the law firm representing the family for jamming up our court system with complete and utter bullshit.

another hater

The family of the 13 year-old graffiti artist who was killed by the LIRR train on Friday is considering suing the MTA, because they failed to maintain the fences around the tracks.

Can the MTA countersue the family for failing to teach their son that graffiti is illegal?

jake

DR's right-- I should have said something like "first crazy internet murder story of the year".

Kojak

"... considering suing the MTA, because they failed to maintain the fences around the tracks."

Here we go again about personal responsibility for one’s actions. He may have been a little runt, but even little runts know full well that railroad tracks are dangerous. A fence wouldn’t have stopped him anyhow, and any lawsuit against the MTA would be without merit and frivolous. They’re just looking for someone to blame.

DR

The NYT article says the 22-year-old was killed in September. How's that 2007?

Fritz

37 months Typical

Why Don't they just tell the truth and let the headline read... Wall Street Slime gets handslap sentence of Three Years When he should have gotten Twenty.

evan

either way i hope that yuppie investment banker gets his rectum pummeled - you're not on wall street anymore pal

Fritz

When you click on the link to the investment banker going to jail the headline reads Sentenced to 37 years... when you read the article it says 37 months?