- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a person under a train at Whitney Ave. and 43rd St. in Queens, shots fired at Jefferson Ave. and Broadway in Brooklyn, and an overturned vehicle on the southbound Bruckner Expressway in the Bronx.
- Wearing your Red Sox gear outside of Yankee Stadium on a gameday is a hazardous proposition. Wielding a video camera to elicit Yankees fans' responses is a whole new ballgame (see video clip to the right on the linked page).
- Figuring that most of his friends aren't New York magazine subscribers, the panhandler who was paid $100,000 as part of a legal settlement in February lets the periodical in on a secret: he hasn't actually blown the whole sum on crack. He just says that to acquaintances, who are always looking for a handout.
- The creep of gentrification reaches all the way to Newark, NJ. Almost.
- Taking extravagant wedding proposals to new heights, an Upper East Side banker floated a diamond ring to his now-fiancée as they hovered weightless on a zero-G flight out of Laguardia.
- The Jehovah's Witnesses are downsizing in Brooklyn and selling off many of their buildings, exciting many people with visions of a more condo-fied waterfront.
- The ten-year-old son of a Ground Zero construction worker was hospitalized overnight after his dad had him climb the ladder to the elevated cab of a giant crane. The child fell while climbing down from the cab and hit his head on a steel beam.
- That was not a giant Critical Mass protest disrupting motorized traffic today. It was the 5-Boro Bike Tour.
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plantsportation, by staceyjoy at flickr)
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The following website summarizes 300 U.S. court cases and lawsuits affecting children of Jehovah's Witness Parents, including dozens of cases where the JWParents refused to consent to life-saving blood transfusions:
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As someone who was raised as a JW myself, I'm happy to see them selling off parts of "Bethel." But it's a real estate story here, not a story about their anti-social & anti-humanist belief system. I'm sure they are laughing all the way to the tax-exempt bank.