Extra, Extra

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a bank robbery on Hillside Ave. in Queens, commercial robbery on 16th St. in Brooklyn, and a bomb threat on 70th St. and 2nd Ave. in Manhattan.
We hope some Brooklynites' leases are ironclad, because getting tatooed with an image of your building is the new fashion.
Mayor Bloomberg conjures the ghost of Teddy Roosevelt and the Bull Moose Party by suggesting the likeliehood of a third party candidacy for President.
Students are sick after partaking in free samples of a milk-beverage product.
Toll Brothers wants the Jehovah's Witnesses' Brooklyn waterfront property and we can only pray that the buildings will have ludicrous Splendido-ish names
7 line trains are set to run on a near-constant basis while the Yankees visit Shea Stadium..
The federal government is paying a large sum of money every month to house homeless people and criminals in a building once owned by Vincent Astor on 45th St.
Wild accusations and recriminations are flying not in the pages of the New York Post, but about it, and The New York Times observes; plus, many more pages of fun at The Smoking Gun
Brooklyn is now officially the new suburbs as dangerous art is removed from a show in an effort to be "careful" and not offend sponsors.

(NYC - West Village - Please No Pee-Pee, by wallyg at flickr)

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so the secret to getting extra subway service to shea was... have the yankees play there. unbelievable.

Reply | May 19, 2007 12:19 PM

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