
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting on Elliot Ave. in Queens, a pedestrian struck on West 86th St. and Amsterdam Ave. in Manhattan, and a stabbing on Cozine Ave. in Brooklyn.
- The brother of murdered Councilman James Davis decried the threats of assassination against another councilman from Charles Barron's chief of staff.
- A man robbed a sunbathing woman in Central Park of her iPod and wallet, then also demanded a kiss before departing.
- The Times looks at a New York multi-millionaire who's shelling out a lot of cash for stimulating dinner conversation.
- After leaving office Mayor Bloomberg will 1) Attend his successor's inauguration 2) Go visit his Mom 3) Play a week's worth of golf.
- Council Speaker Christine Quinn wants to limit the amount of money individuals and organizations doing business with the city can give to politicians.
- Summer is officially upon us as New York experiences its first power outage of the season.
- New York magazine has a piece on where New York's top chefs shop for their food.





Another advocation of violence by yet another "black leader." What else is new?
Please, it's political assassination.
the only assassination in this country are those lynchings and draggings that for some reason is a form of amusement for a warm summer night.
Yep, see them swing and sway and take pictures and laugh. Oh, how they laughed.
anyone, remember the laughter?
Sure. And Othniel Askew only wanted to "politically assassinate" James Davis. Same thing with Talmadge Hayer and Malcolm X. Past lynchings? Let's talk about the self-lynching of blacks in America TODAY.
Let's talk about all the Whites who did the killing all throughout history. Let's confine it only to the united states.
You sure know a lot about Black History, are you a professor of one?
or, are you just a closet racist? hmmmmmm.......
so typical, so typical.
A black politician threatens to assassinate another black politician a few years after a black politician was assassinated by another black politician. Everyone involved is black and you're talking about whitey?
The politician was not killed by another politician. he wasn't even a politician, yet.
why can't I talk about whitey? how bout we talk about you, mr. typical?
He referenced the Post. How much I care about what he has to say has just decreased.
so true, The Post, a friend of the minority.
I tried to find a Times article that mentioned the city employee threatening to assassinate a councilman in City Hall but they're being resolute in their agenda to portray blacks solely as peaceful, basket-weaving people and chose to ignore this incident altogether.
that market-driven article from ny mag was originally published more than a year ago when Despana had just opened (03.06.06 to be exact)