Extra, Extra

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: double pedestrian strike on 40th and 1st, person struck by train in Brooklyn, and a level 1 mobilization for a big fire in Park Slope last night.
Jesus loves interpretive dance. No, seriously.
40% of the traffic in Park Slope is people driving around looking for spaces. That's bananas!
After getting punked by a blogger, the New York Times had to issue a correction on its "Dear Diary" column-- and the editors don't sound a tad amused.
Most bonkers Anna Nicole essay yet: "When she died the media seized her passing as if a great part of the media itself had passed, and it had. But beyond that, there was the generous content of the marvelous creature herself, a half-angel, half-demon who seared herself on my mind."
The editors at the Brooklyn Papers still want a Walmart downtown-- "If Wal-Mart does come to Brooklyn, the borough and the behemoth will both be changed for the better."
So cute: the Sartorialist did a photo essay about his kids.
The Director of MOMA makes more than $1.28 million per year-- but he's also been banking hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of secret payments from a trust set up by the museum. The feds are looking into it.
And finally, some late breaking sad news: WNBC's Ralph Penza died last night after a long illness. He was 74.

BB from DUMBO, by Mareen Fischinger.

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By Jake Dobkin in Miscellaneous on February 16, 2007 6:20 PM

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zincink

I grew up watching the news with Ralph Penza..I didn't know he was 74..

robin.g

#7 - The editor of the Metro section himself told us that the fans of the Diary are elderly and the Diary is "the only bright spot in a day of otherwise gloomy news." See you at the Early Bird Special! And the next time that Frisbee lands on my lawn, I'm keeping it.

huh

D@mnit Gothamist get your server (or whatever) fixed so that I don't double post when I get an error message after the first posting. It's really kinda frustrating.

Dave H.

WTF? "elderly fans of the Diary"? I'm a fan of the Diary and I'm not elderly! Look: it's after 4am and I'm commenting vituperatively about something no one really cares about. Oh crap. I'm elderly.

robin.g

I was wondering when Goth would pick up the WFMU/NY Times story. We didn't mean to "punk" the NY Times really, it was just an experiment to see if we could get something published using an exaggerated version of the formulaic anecdotes. It was a bit of sport, didn't mean to injure the elderly fans of the Diary.

Toby

Wal-Mart is only good for Wal-Mart and their evil Red Chinese partners, since the relationship between these two forces of evil provides billions for both parties who don't care about little things like human rights.

As for Ralph Penza, he will be missed and he looked and acted as if he was much younger. He was a reporter's reporter.