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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a church shooting on Schenectady Ave. in Brooklyn, a pedestrian struck on West 17th St. and Union Square West in Manhattan, and a water rescue in Raitian Bay between Staten Island and Sandy Hook, NJ.
City Councilman Charles Barron's chief of staff, Viola Plummer, was suspended for six weeks from the City Council and by Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who she's also heckled, with a promise of reinstatment if she promises to behave herself. Plummer is in her 70s, but threatened another Councilman with assassination on a contentious vote.
A grand jury in a federal court case voted to indict four alleged plotters that wanted to blow up JFK airport, kill thousands, and cripple the U.S. economy with a harebrained scheme to take out a pipeline that runs towards the airport.
"...the red, white and blue leader of the Avengers was felled by an assassin's bullet on the steps of a New York federal courthouse." Captain America got capped, by Marvel Comics no less.
A 21-year-old White Plains worker at the Rye Playland Amusement Park was killed when thrown from a gyrating ride. Gabriela Garin had changed shifts with another ride operator and then got on the ride to make sure visitors were properly secured, when her replacement started the ride.
The new rules against noise and trans-fats go into effect tomorrow. Somehow we feel that NYers will remain louder, skinnier, and better looking than the rest of the country, regardless of what laws are passed.
The City has a list of all the designated grilling areas around the five boroughs. The Parks Dept. says "Designated Barbecuing Areas," but frankly, we don't want to get into all that right now.
We've pretty much given up on listening to radio, but this blog may point us to something it's possible we'll want to hear. Thank you New York Radio Guide.
The Staten Island Advance points out that Mayor Bloomberg's ambitious plan to make all yellow cabs hybrid in a few years overlooks the livery cabs that service the outer boroughs. Car service owners and drivers would prefer to keep it that way.

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

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guest

# 10,11

YEAH, I TOTALLY AGREE.

WE CAN ALL READ FAST ENOUGH AT A GLANCE TO DISCERN IF WE WANT TO READ A COMMENT OR NOT. WHATS THE POINT OF ALL THIS HANDLE VS. ANONYMITY? I MEAN, DO WE REALLY KNOW WHO ARTIMUSGONE, ARISTOCRAT, OR SPRINTO76 IS ANYWAY? JUST LET IT ROLL...

Spirit of 76

Once again, Jen or Jake, if you want to turn off guest comments, just do it! I'm this close to hiding them myself. Not because they're necessarily offensive or banal, but because I refuse to strain my eyes to read them the way you've made them nearly illegible. Either let me make that informed choice by letting me read them or just turn them off.

guest

Why are the guest comments showing up in tiny print and in gray? You guys are dangerously close to violating the American's With Disabilities Act. Not to mention it isn't in the spirit of an open forum.

ArtimusGone

Thoth is one of the great New York City characters, and a truly talented performer. It speaks volumes about the way the city has changed that he's been pushed aside in the city's consciousness by the tame and lame Naked Singing Cowboy.