Extra, Extra

Subway edition of the Gothamist Newsmap: stabbing at Hoyt Street and a large fight at 42nd.
Tragedy in Brooklyn: "A 14-year-old Brooklyn girl who went to a hospital with stomach pains yesterday revealed that she had given birth hours earlier and tossed the baby from a third-floor window, a police source said."
The Post looks at the hierarchy at the Waverly Inn - and Mariah Carey rates much higher than Jimmy Fallon
The San Gennaro festival didn't give a single penny to charity this year, after their electricity installation expenses went up unexpectedly. Apparently their usual electrician was banned from the festival because of mob-ties, and the city charged nearly twice as much to do the same work with their workers.
Queens Borough President Helen Marshall is wary of a tall hotel on Northern Boulevard, saying, “This is not Manhattan. To see a whole stream of tall buildings along one of our avenues is just not acceptable.” But Queens Crap wonders: "Why is it not acceptable along Northern Boulevard but perfectly ok in Long Island City, Astoria, Flushing and along Queens Blvd?"
Two police vehicles collide, injuring five officers; it's unclear why, but we know those donut jokes are on deck
Martin Scorsese wins the Directors Guild Award for The Departed; if he wins the Oscar, we predict he'll talk about growing up on the Lower East Side and going to movies because he was asthmatic
Staten Island Tech High School is ready to compete with the city's other specialized high schools - the city's only Intel Science Talent competition finalist from a public school is from SITHS

Chimney, by Sixeight.

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By Jake Dobkin in Miscellaneous on February 4, 2007 5:41 PM

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ed_Extinct

10-75: NOTIFICATION OF A FIRE OR EMERGENCY

A notification signal transmitted when, in the judgment of the officer in command, conditions indicate a fire or emergency that requires a total response of the following units: 4 Engines, 2 Ladders, 2 Battalion Chiefs, 1 Rescue Company and Squad Company. Officers transmitting a 10-75 shall also state if it is for a fire or emergency and if a building is involved along with the type of building.

Ms. Buyanovsky

SI Tech oy-chen harra-sho!!!

Weegee

A "10-75" is the FDNY signal for "full first alarm assignment," or, more simply, an actual "working" fire. Since Gothamist newsmap lifts its info verbatim from BNN and MNS pagers, the originally intended audiences are already familiar with the jargon.

A lot of people remark at how many fire apparatus they see responding to alarms. The standard required "first alarm" response for, say, a telephone report of a building fire would be three engine companies, two ladder companies, and a battalion chief. If the first unit gets to the scene and observes an obvious sign of a fire, they might transmit the "10-75" signal. This sends out a fourth engine company, a third ladder company (that is assigned as a "Firefighter Aid and Search Team," to wait in front of the building ready to spring into action in case a firefighter calls a "Mayday"), an additional battalion chief, a deputy chief (higher rank, whose jurisdiction is a larger area), a Rescue company, a Squad company, and a RAC (Recuperation and Care) company.

If the fire can't be controlled with this assignment, the incident commander might call a "second alarm," and it goes from there...

Hope this helps.

mdowni

marty--ya gotta wish him the best, even though thank god he's never left nyc. he'll talk about les and spending all day at the movies, really? marty?

and pleeze know more: please learn how to use contractions. "it's time has come and gone" tells me "it is time has come and gone," which i have to ask for a meaning of.

somebody get those pigs some donuts, fast--they'll never make it otherwise! oh no!

um, yeah, what's a 10-75, gothamist newsmap?

blood bath

I went into a Scorsese movie and left a Tarantino flick.

Todd

Regarding the news map,

What's a 10-75?

Dicktracey

Those police units were responding to another officer's call for dire emergency after some low-life took a shot at him. You have some set, to dare make light of this as those officers are still in the hospital.

carpeicthus

The cops were probably playing Chicken. It happens a lot in local municipalities.

warren

The Waverly Inn article could've been written about any number of places over the years. Think of the Bowery Bar twelve years ago. Think of Pastis seven years ago. Think of Soho House two years ago. This place will end up like those: in a year, it will be filled with loser investment bankers dying to prove to themselves and their colleagues that they're not wastes of natural resources.

TLC

Does it look to anyone else like the Post author (Mandy Stadtmiller) has enough brown on her nose to finish that banquette mural at Waverly Inn? Seems like she's trying to up her status with Graydon Carter, but I'm doubtful that he even reads the Post.

Pleeze know more

Please, no more Marty and has gangster movies.

it's time has come and gone. unless you're whitebread, of course.

By whitebread, I mean the gated community audience who gets excited over glorified violence because it shows them a side they've never seen before.

but get a hard on for.

Hal2814

Marty traditionally gets beaten at the Oscars by actors-turned-directors. Robert "Ordinary People" Redford denied him an Oscar for Raging Bull, Kevin "Dances With Wolves" Costner cheated him out on another for Goodfellas and Clint "Letters From Iwo Jima" Eastwood will do it to him again for The Deaparted. Hollywood loves their own and Marty will always be a NYC guy. Their loss.