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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a slashing on East 156th St. and Union Ave. in the Bronx, a missing patient on East 135th St. and Lenox Ave. in Manhattan, and a person under a subway train at Lenox Ave. and Central Park North in Manhattan.
Being a Jew-hating Nazi in Brooklyn must be neverending work. One miserable person in Park Slope keeps slogging away though.
The New York Public Library is opening its first new branch since 1989 and it's in an old candy factory in NoLiTa. We expect Roald Dahl will be forever on reserve.
State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno is infatuated with the idea of Mayor Bloomberg assuming higher office. This week it's the Governor's office.
The Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem is celebrating its 200th birthday with a pilgrimage to Ethiopia to commemorate the African seamen who obviated early colonial discrimination by opening their own church.
This should make alternative-transportation advocates very happy: the city's new transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan commutes to work on a bike (at least for a photo-op this morning). We hope she's not killed in traffic before bike-friendly measures can be enacted.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This one's about watching a cop movie classic with the police commissioner.
Three Staten Island teens attacked a 125-pound cancer survivor as the 56-year-old was walking home from his bus stop Saturday evening. No robbery; just a senseless beating.
Jerry Falwell, who posited that New Yorkers and America in general brought the 9/11 attacks on themselves by being a bunch of godless sodomite heathens, was called home to Jesus today.

(Always Harlem, by Daniella Zalcman at flickr)

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By Dave Hogarty in Miscellaneous on May 15, 2007 6:15 PM

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Michael

I'd like to think Jerry Falwell's Dante-esque punishment in hell is...

having to pick up fluid-filled towels in an neverending series of Equinox Sports Club steamrooms.

DaveH

Thank you, Daniella! I think this is my favorite picture I've put up since I started here. The aesthetics, composition, context, and content are just fantastic.

robin.g

I don't know, Joel Osteen doesn't seem so bad. He never says anything hateful and he doesn't tell people they are going to hell all the time. As far as these preacher dudes go he seems kind of OK.

kcr211

Jew-hating Nazi is a bit redundant, dontcha think?

anonymass

This piece of shit couldn't die soon enough as far as I'm concerned.

Just wish he could have taken Ralph Reed, this Joel Osteen fucktard, and all other evangelical blowhards with him.

nuffsaid

So Hell's population increased by one today. Good luck with the real Devil, Jer.

daniella

thanks, guys!

Matty

Yes that was hateful and immoral of the guy who said the jew thing but, christ, NYC has the rudest drivers in the nation!

I can only imagine it's just another day in new york for any minority, sad as that may be.

At least the guy didn't get shot 50 times for being black or beat with a bat for being Chinese.

NYC is more racist than even the deepest south it seems.