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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: high-rise fire in Midtown and a bank robbery in Brooklyn Heights.
Jon Brownstoner comes out to the New York Observer: he's 37, lightly-bearded, and lives in Clinton Hill.
There's a protest against that huge Meatpacking District billboard tonight-- 8:30PM in front of the Hotel Gansevoort.
The Army frequents Harlem high schools to recruit; a student says, "It's harassment because you can't walk through the hallway without them saying things to you."
Two options for the Survivors' Staircase at Ground Zero: Preserve all of it and remove it at a cost of $2.5 million and 3 months or disassemble it and preserve some of it at a cost of $500,000 and just one month
The Brooklyn school janitor accused of raping an 8-year old girl has been released from custody: "Yesterday bail was set at $150,000 for Francis Evelyn, but today, law enforcement sources say bail was dropped because of inconsistencies in the girl’s story."
Jerry Orbach Street Corner, The Retrial: Widow Elaine Orbach and sons will go to Community Board 4 to see if they will name 53rd Street and 8th after the great Jerry

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By Jake Dobkin in Miscellaneous on March 21, 2007 6:30 PM

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Anya

Yeah, the pic is more than a little creepy. I can't decipher the comments on it (to see them click the word "Untitled" in the photo credit line).

kende

I'm all in favor of student rights, but the idea that military recruiting is harassment is absurd. How are students going to stand up for their rights if they don't even understand the first thing about them?

BK

The military recruited all the time at my suburban middle-class Long Island high school too. They were there all the time, and one of our full-time security guards was formerly in the Navy and would constantly try and talk us into joining. This was pre-Iraq too.

nick

...and to preempt any shit i might get, i realize queens is part of new york city.

nick

its a big billboard! SO THE FUCK WHAT! you live in new york. get over it or move to queens.

BODY GUARDS

You fish where the fish are," said Rep. Charles Rangel, D-NY,, who received several questions and concerns about military recruiters in high schools from parents and Harlem residents at a recent town hall meeting at a 155th Street church. In the case of recruitment, the fish are students in rural and inner-city areas-places with high unemployment rates "where young people don't have much of an opportunity," he said.

Lionelle Hamanaka, a member of Military Families Speak Out, an anti-Iraq War organization, was present at the town hall, and agreed. "I grew up in Harlem, and people in the ghettos say it's jail or the army-that's the cliche."