
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a possible grenade is noticed and reported on 33rd Ave. in Queens, an armed robbery on East 61st St. in Manhattan, and a carjacking on 133rd St. and Neptune Ave. in Brooklyn.
- City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is employing the celebrity skills of Matt Dillon to help save St. Brigid's Church in the East Village.
- Eastbay is marketing Converse All-Star high tops that appear pre-worn and fairly dingy as the "Ramones All-Star Hi". We would've gone with "Ramones Rock 'n' Roll Hi Tops," but that's just us.
- Perhaps realizing that publicity trumps dignity any day in her line of work, Angelina Jolie has rescinded demands that interviewers sign a contract restricting them from asking about her personal life. She even offered a paparazzo a lift in her car when the bike-riding photographer popped a flat!
- Students at private high-priced elite NYC high schools are dropping the club drug "Foxy" and paying to be driven around in a school bus and treated like babies in the phenomena known as "Sindergarten".
- Not even the actors in the cast of "The Sopranos" know what the seemingly anti-climactic ending of the HBO series was supposed to signify.
- Drug users are still shooting up in Tompkins Square Park, and a local organization is providing users with the anti-opioid Narcan to save the lives of people who OD.
- A 45-year-old homeless man was injured when a falling light pole struck him in the head outside the main branch of the New York Public Library at 42nd St. and 5th Ave. in Manhattan.





Sindergarten was an April Fool's joke. Look in the comments of the article you linked to! Or better yet, look at the drawing of the pony. The first letter of each word spells it out.