
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: loose horses in the Bronx, fall victim in Midtown, and a fire in Brooklyn Heights.
- Only at Streetsblog could a birth announcement be combined with a post on abuse of parking permits by city workers. Congrats!
- The MTA has revealed its secret plan for screwing G train riders.
- Wooster has pix from Leon Reid's newest art installation, "The Pursuit of Knowledge"-- he executed it with the help of students at Inwood's I.S. 52.
- A one year old baby survived for five days alone in an apartment with his mother's corpse, after she overdosed on drugs.
- Here's a beautiful high dynamic range shot of the Manhattan skyline at dawn.
- Worst baby-daddy ever: fleeing from the scene of a DUI, this perp left his injured toddler in the car.
- Looks like the much maligned Albee Square Mall in downtown Brooklyn is headed for the scrap-pile of history-- plans are to replace it with a "much larger" mixed-use development.
- Apartments in Williamsburg are now coming with the ultimate luxury accessory: your own oil well!
Path of Terror, by SmoothDude.





Oil? So that's where those crazy 70's, pre-Williamsburg hipsters were hiding it.
>>>>The MTA has revealed its secret plan for screwing G train riders.
Try this one....the MTA is cancelling 7 trains between 74th-Bway and Times Sq on weekends.
www.forgotten-ny.com