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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an unusual rescue on Beverly Rd. in Brooklyn, a car vs. building incident at Myrtle Ave. and 74th St. in Queens, and a shooting at 125th St. and 1st Ave. in Manhattan.
- Matthew Goldstein, a CUNY alumnus and present chancellor of that
schoolsystem, won the Carnegie Corp.'s Academic Leadership Award and will receive $500,000. - Queens state assemblyman Rory Lancman wants an appointed member of NYC's Human Rights Commission removed for his involvement in a lawsuit against airline passengers who reported behavior they found suspicious. Bloomberg is backing his appointee.
- A temporary compromise is reached on big-dog and little-dog areas in Upper East Side dog run.
- The FCC wants in on the Don Imus fiasco and is reportedly investigating the controversial radio host.
- The detectives charged in the Sean Bell shooting appeared in a Queens courtroom today as lawyers and the judge worked on scheduling issues. Outside of court, advocates, supporters, and detractors for and against the defendants argued over who was conducting the worst public smear campaign.
- The city breaks ground on the 2nd Ave. Subway tomorrow; for the final time we hope.
- A 73-year-old woman fell partway into a gap between the station platform and an LIRR train this morning in Syosset.
- Get your hands on a printed subway schedule. It should give you something to read when your train is running late.
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CUNY is not really a school, it's a "system," like SUNY. Don't confuse it with CCNY.
heralding printed subway schedules as great discovery is one of the most bizarre things i can imagine. you've all lived hear for years, and you never realized they were available? wtf?
Dave:
Where on the internet do you find the incidents?
Thanks.
lol, i love the printed schedules. they get pretty accurate in the dead of night along certain lines like the A when it turns local.
but not the G. surprised? i didn't think so.
[3], That is a good question. The items that appear at the top of "Extra, Extra" every day probably seem under-reported by other outlets and recondite in their lack of detail or elaboration. I can tell you that every one of those items comes from the Gothamist Newsmap. The Newsmap is a fusion of a news feed called Breaking News Network (BNN) and a Google Maps mashup designed by Faneuil Media in Boston. BNN is a type of open-source emergency incident reporting network, that relies on pre-screened and pre-approved reporters that either directly observe or monitor reliable emergency radio bands, and then contribute accounts.
This subscription feed then filters through our mashup design. The end result is the Gothamist Newsmap that not only lists emergency incidents for readers, but maps them as well.
A couple of years ago I was working a job that required me to get to Coney Island by 8:15AM. The Q train would pull into Union Square daily at 7:16 almost religiously, as posted in the schedule ( I looked for it). On occasion it would be there at 7:17. At that time (ie just before rush hour and the door holders hit the system) the schedule actually worked.