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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a large tree down at Hope and Havermeyer Sts. in Brooklyn, a plane fire at Laguardia Airport in Queens, and a disorderly passenger on a plane at JFK Airport in Queens.
Regular L Train service between Brooklyn and Manhattan is suspended on the weekends for the rest of the month. Shuttle buses are the next hip thing.
The Feast of Giglio is an amazing sight, with a five ton, 80 foot tall tower carried by men around Williamsburg for hours.
Anil Dash offers helpful tips to outsiders on how to visit NYC.
Find a cooling center near you at nyc.gov. If you have an elderly or less tech-savvy neighbor, help them out and let them know where the nearest cooling center is in your neighborhood.
A park advocacy group is seizing on yesterday's copter crash in the Hudson to urge the closing of the west side heliport.
A Queens-bound train struck and killed a man at the Times Square station this afternoon.
Officer Russell Timoshenko, the police officer who was shot twice at close range during a traffic stop early this morning, ~~died sometime this afternoon~~ is still in critical condition (we apologize for incorrectly saying that he had died; some reports said he had passed away).

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By Dave Hogarty in Miscellaneous on July 9, 2007 6:15 PM

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guest

Most of us realize that mistakes can happen and that incorrect information can slip through--that is forgivable; however, it is a general rule of thumb in journalism to use multiple sources when reporting on something that is controversial or "breaking". In this case, the fact that only the AP was carrying the so-called death should have been a red flag that additional sourcing was necessary--the Post only spread the misinformation by feeding off of the AP's incorrect reporting.

Sadly, I must concur with #4 with respect to sloppy reporting (and editing). A little extra TLC would result in a more trustworthy and reliable source.

Jen Chung

WNBC and the Post both posted the same incorrect AP story saying that Timoshenko had died. It's true - Gothamist uses a lot of mainstream news sources for our content (as do many other blogs), and some times, those sources will be incorrect. And I also hope David said some comes true, too -if we have more resources, we can devote ourselves to more reporting.

We apologize again. Additionally, the Post removed the incorrect story from its site, but it still appears in searches.

guest

Hey it's Tuesday morning and the Post still has the offending story on its website. Idiots.

Steven

all the "guest" do is complain about this site. If you don't like the errors then started up your own news blog and don't come here.

guest

I never understood gothamist. Why don't people just read the post and the daily news for their news. Gothamist just steals from them.

guest

I saw the post and clicked on the link before the NY Post corrected it. they corrected it, what more do you want? Did you e-mail the NY Post, too?

The love the NYPD in that paper, ask them for some humanity and journalism.

Not James Frey

Still, for something involving the death of a police officer, it is VERY, nay EXTREMELY easy to fact check a story. One phone call to the NYPD's public information office would have done the trick. I'm sure many Gothamist readers took what they saw at around 7:30pm as fact - I'm going to guess that the site's editors will merely "apologize" and act like it's no big deal. Journalism and Humanity 101, folks.

David McCaffredy

Gothamist is a news and lifestyle blog. Their job is to inform you of local news and give recommendations of things to do. I'm sure once they have the same income as the Post and the Daily News, they will be able to have "boots on the ground." For now, they will occasionally get bad information.

guest

From the Post, clowns:

* For a brief period of time earlier today, nypost.com incorrectly posted a story saying shot New York City police officer Russell Timoshenko had died. Once the mistake was identified, the story was immediately removed from the site. The Post deeply regrets the error and apologizes for any grief it caused.

guest

Apparently the Post is wrong about the police officer. He's still alive. Please correct.

guest

L Train service between Brooklyn and Manhattan is suspended on the weekends for the rest of the month. Shuttle buses are the next hip thing.

Incorrect, shuttle buses replace trains beyond Lorimer St in Brooklyn. The L still runs between Brooklyn and Manhattan, albeit only two stops in Brooklyn.