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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a pedestrian struck at Richmond Terrace and Federal Place on Staten Island, a water rescue at Chambers St. and River Terrace off Manhattan, and a homicide at Bruner and Barnes Aves. in the Bronx.
- A Connecticut doctor lost his family yesterday after two men broke into his home and held them hostage, while one family member was taken to a nearby bank to withdraw money. After killing the man's wife and two teenage daughters, the suspects set the house on fire before being apprehended at a police road block.The doctor survived a head wound and is in stable condition.
- The Weekly World News, the checkout line eye-catching tabloid that brought us Batboy, is folding in early August. There are rumors in the publishing world that Teen Vogue may follow suit.
- A stripped-down, one act version of the Broadway production Suessical will be playing at the Lucille Lortel Theater on Christopher St. this summer and all tickets are free.
- A puzzling brickwork sybmol built into a wall on Pearl St. in 1832. The building was destroyed, but the section of wall was preserved to keep the mystery alive.
- Curbed looks around the Domino Sugar plant on Brooklyn's waterfront.
- G-Unit member and rapper Tony Yayo rejected an offered plea deal that would have him serve nine months for slapping and punching a 14-year-old on 25th St. this March.
- 22-year-old Derick Phanord was arrested and charged with animal cruelty after police said he confessed to tying his dog to a tree, dousing it with clorox and then gasoline, and then setting the pitbull on fire. Phanord pleaded not guilty, but police say that in his confession, Phanord admitted he left his dog to die because it was "unfriendly."
- ConEd hasn't cornered the market on poor service. Blackouts are happening all over San Francisco today, and the servers for sites Craigslist, Live Journal, VOX are all temporarily offline.
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Derick Phanord sounds like a serial killer in the making.
Regarding the mysterious brickwork on the wall, it's perfectly obvious what it is: if you press them in a certain order, the wall opens up to a Wizardly Strip Mall.
Gothamist said:
"ConEd hasn't cornered the market on poor service. Blackouts are happening all over San Francisco today."
Pleez, those outages are called rolling blackouts and they last for a very short time. I'm sure the poor suckers in Astoria, Queens with absolutely no electricity for 10 straight days would have preferred these short power outages. And I haven't heard anything in SF about roving electrical current being conducted through metal plates covering the street and thereby electrocuting anyone or their dog in SF. Oh yeah, how about exploding stream pipes injuring and/or killing unwitting pedestrians and drivers.
ConEd may not have cornered the market on poor service, but they are #1 in this category.
correction: the power outage in Astoria lasted 7 days.
However, the outages affected 174,000 people, caused business losses of tens of millions of dollars caused airport and transit delays and cancellations, and created dangerous and unsanitary living conditions due to a concurrent heat wave.
Interesting how Seussical and Batboy were both products of the Clear Channel Broadway production machine.... Batboy was MUCH funnier!
I used to live not too far from where that Connecticut home invasion occurred. Cheshire is definitely not the sort of community where one would expect to see such a terrible crime. What's especially disturbing is that these victims, unlike most victims of home invasions, were not involved in the drug trade or other nefarious activities.
i am overtaken with horror and rage because of those pieces shit in connecticut...
RIP the Petit family. My thoughts are with you.
thats awful to hear about the conn family. my prayers are with them.
I'm just thankful the killers were white. can you imagine the lynching and lynch mob on gothamist and other sites if they were black?????????????????
thank goodness Yahoo got rid of their message boards.
RIP Petit family, may God be with you.
I mean all that's written above.
sometimes eye for an eye just sounds like a good idea: i think derick phanord is "unfriendly" and should be tied to a tree and doused in gasoline and set afire. little piece of shit.
petit family...really, just, i wish you the best and don't know what else to say...
The CT family story is horrible. My heart goes out to their family & friends. It's all I've been thinking about since I heard what happened. A few weeks ago I read there is expected to be a rise in home invasions because more & more stores, banks, etc have surveillance and it's getting riskier to rob those. So home invasions may go up because there's less chance of surveillance, meaning less chance of getting caught. And if the family happens to be home, they are in danger of being killed because desperate people do desperate things-- as in this sad case...
The person who set his dog on fire has no right to be called a "man" or even a "human being".
Last but not least the picture included in this log is beautiful, but that boy is SEVERELY overweight...