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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting on Beekman Ave. in the Bronx, a double shooting on Throop Ave. in Brooklyn, and a dead body in the water just south of the Bayonne Bridge off Staten Island.
There was a breaking news story on a cop being shot and killed this morning at or near a Hilton Hotel on 31st St. in Manhattan. Details were conflicting and confusing (not unusual in a breaking news event) and we expected clarification as the day went on. So far: total media silence on any such event.
Someone "splashed" the black Astor Pl. rotating cube with a variety of paints, but the culprit doesn't appear to be the "Splasher".
Claudia Cohen, former Page Six Editor at the NY Post, legendary gossip reporter, and ex-wife of billionaire Ron Perelman, succumbed to ovarian cancer yesterday. Former NY Sen. Alfonse D'Amato once famously called a press conference to announce that he was in love with Cohen.
The Gowanus Lounge reports on the phenomena of someone, or some people, taking poops on people's property on Brooklyn's Bergen St. We emphasize: not dog crap, human crap.
A Staten Island man has been indicted for his habit of poking young girls with a sharp object, allegedly for sexual gratification purposes.
Longtime Harlem mainstay The Record Shack on 125th St. is facing eviction by the store's landlord.
Chelsea neighbors object to the construction of an incongruous addition to their block.

The Guggenheim during the Museum Mile Festival, by amit gupta at flickr

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By Dave Hogarty in Miscellaneous on June 16, 2007 6:10 PM

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I can't even look at the picture of Colin and Pamela Rath and their smiling hideous faces. NYC is just chalk full of shitty and greedy people. my favorite part of the article was when the writer glossed over the fact that these assholes spent a million dollars in legal fees evicting longtime tenants. A black year on the Raths and the Corcoran group. I hope their "triplex" of glass collapses.

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There's a good reason the media had no reports about an incident at the "Hilton Hotel on 31st Street." There is NO Hilton Hotel on 31st Street. Having been a tour guide for more than ten years (and having a detailed list of Manhattan hotels), I say this with total assurance.