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  • Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a carjacking on 130th St. and 15th Ave. in Queens, an overturned auto on Spring St. and West Broadway in Manhattan, and a stabbing on Caton Ave. in Brooklyn.
  • Remember when Paris Hilton forgot that she'd left her Tinkerbell with her grandma and papered her neighborhood with Lost Dog flyers? New Yorkers hire private detectives and publicists to get the job done right. A tiny dauchsund is missing.
  • New York Magazine re-examines the "conceptual-Marxist street-art supervillain" daubed "The Splasher."
  • We're no "law-talking guy", but find the Times' account of a police officer posing as a legitimate news outlet's reporter to lure a protester to an arrest fairly alarming.
  • Roller skaters continue to boogie down in Central Park just north of the Sheep Meadow every weekend, and have been doing so since 1977. If you have never seen this in person, you must.
  • A bolt out of the Jet Blue struck a plane flying into JFK yesterday and the passenger jet carrying 140 people made an emergency landing. There was no fire or injuries, but the passenger cabin was filled with the smell of ozone.
  • The Daily News continues its report on Building Boondoggles, setting its sight today on disasters in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
  • On Memorial Day, The New York Times examines the efforts of praiseworthy volunteers to identify and re-mark more than a thousand graves of New Yorkers who were killed during the Civil War and are now buried in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetary.
An untitled photo of a Bay Ridge Memorial Day parade in Brooklyn, by MrMet388 at flickr

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the site is great guys but i just wanted to make a comment about multiple grammatical errors i often read. i understand it must be busy but it annoys me sometimes

This is what commenter #1 really meant to say:

"Th[is] site is great, guys, but I just wanted to make a comment about [the] multiple grammatical errors I often read. I understand [you] must be busy, but it annoys me sometimes."

Dumb@$$... It's a f*in' private website. Get over it...

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The splasher article-

It seems like the "Zac" character has some obvious share in the splasher story. Its frustrating that Sam Anderson didn't look into him more.

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Jon -- Zach's "share in the splasher story" is that he is the splasher. And a creep to boot.

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