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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an amputation at Lee Ave. and Wilson St. in Brooklyn, another amputation on Beach Channel Dr. in Queens, and an armed robbery with shooting at Lenox Ave. and West 134th St. in Manhattan.
The New York Times looks at the effect of city term limits and finds a near-permanent state of campaigning by NYC politicians.
A 44-year-old Queens grandmother and her two-year-old grandaughter have been missing from their home for two days. Police are asking for help in finding them.
Only four states have residents with smaller carbon footprints than those of New Yorkers.
The NYPD only managed to recruit one-third of its goal in its most recent Academy class and Bloomberg's administration and the police union are bickering over a new contract.
A driver who didn't heed flashing signs or police speaking through a loudspeaker drove his tractor trailer all the way through the Lincoln Tunnel without realizing his vehicle was six inches taller than the ceiling.
Plans for the future of Governors Island are now open for public comment and 110Livingston.net has the details.
Graffiti Bars are chocolate bars with wrappers designed by ten famous NYC graffiti artists.

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By Dave Hogarty in Miscellaneous on June 3, 2007 6:00 PM

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steveo

I think we agree, stupid. It doesn't really matter what state the carbon is generated in -- what matters is which state's residents are using it, since without the demand, it wouldn't be generated at all.

(And, yes, living densely requires less energy per capita, so if we're talking about superior efficiency, New Yorkers have good reason to feel smug.)

Brightliner

No big deal, Dave. A simple "Oops. I goofed," would have sufficed. We're all human and Gothamist is often about just ragging on each other.

or perhaps

Body Guards: perhaps they should look at raising the salary of fresh recruits. I make more money answering phones than new cops do.

DaveH

[2] Indeed we did. I accept all blame for the repeat, given that I was monitoring all the stories Friday. When I added that to Extra, Extra, Sunday, I though to myself "I could've sworn we've posted on this already," and I paged backwards until I found the Holland Tunnel bus post that we wrote yesterday.

Occasionally, in the fog of blog with a good number of emails every day, all with links, and good story ideas, things get mixed up. Also, both stories we checked to make sure that story was fresher were dated 6/3, so we figured our recollections were mistaken. This is certainly a lame rationalization against a repeated link, but all I can do is apologize.

poor reporting

The Post got the greenhouse emission story almost completely wrong. Looking at individual states is almost completely meaningless because power generation and power consumption don't always happen in the same place. Wyoming produces lots of greenhouse gas emissions from coal fired power plants but it exports most of the electricity. Vermont has more people than Wyoming but produces far less gas - because they don't produce their own energy. Much of it is transmitted from Canada. And when Vermont's nuclear power plants are decommissioned, they are screwed. And as for New York, we have little power generation locally and we produce almost nothing that we consume from steel and cars to food and clothes. It's easy to consume little power if all you do is sit in a room trading securities.