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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a baby locked in a car in Staten Island, a near drowning at a West 14th St. YMCA in Manhattan, and a shooting at Randall and Rosedale Aves. in the Bronx.
New York remains alive and well, as someone decided to throw a guerilla dinner party at the World's Fair site in Flushing Corona, Queens.
A Brooklyn swimmer, who shockingly admits that he has no idea what it would cost and admits that his motivation is selfish, wants a Prospect Park pool. In a city of know-everything advocacy, we can't wait to jump in this guy's pool for a bracing shock of anachronism.
State Assembly members passed a bill that would make the sale of a game to a child that included "rape, dismemberment, physical torture, mutilation, or evisceration of a human being". Watching the local news is apparently still ok, though.
Subway-themed condoms are being distributed at almost double the prior rate. Nearly ten million have been distributed in the three months since they were introduced.
Hmm, Scylla and Charybdis for many readers here: tweens vs. yuppies in Park Heights robberies, wherein follow-up investigations have the the cops use the term "odd" repeatedly. Also, possibly the greatest Wanted poster ever for people tired of random-looking black men.
The chemical explosion the other day, that had many disputed causes (firecrackers, a car running over a bottle), was caused by chemicals mixed by a pair of 13-year-olds.
Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council were set on revamping trash-hauling out of the city, but State Assembly leader Sheldon Silver's district is located in Chelsea, and the new trash site is located exactly smack-dab in Silver's district.
Wow, it doesn't apparently take rocket scientists to swindle fake brain surgeons.

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By Dave Hogarty in Miscellaneous on June 1, 2007 6:15 PM

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JoeBoy

I usually scoff at the grammar nazis that post on this site, but this post takes the case for poor grammar. Do you guys even read this stuff before you post?

hrm

man, that link to the guerilla party at the world's fair site was disappointing. beautiful pictures of the site though, but no details about how they got in... does anyone know? is that area just open to the public 24/7?

...oh, and do you have to be a 'beautiful person' to be a part of these things? :P

Chris

Um, "Park Heights"?! The article was about some incidents that have happened in PROSPECT Heights. There is no neighborhood called Park Heights, at least none that I know of. And both this post's characterization of the victims as "yuppies" and the article's characterization of them as "shoppers" come out of nowhere. The article didn't refer to them as yuppies and the victims themselves weren't shoppers, but neighborhood residents.