July 25, 2007
Extra, Extra
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an unusual sexual assault on Broadway in Brooklyn, an unstable building on Sutphin Blvd. in Queens, and a shooting on West 142nd St. and Amsterdam Ave. in Manhattan.
- Central Park's Sheep Meadow was the first park location to upgrade its wifi Internet connection to high speed. The new 15-megabits-per-second service is five times faster than the previous connection.
- Madame Tussauds wax museum in Times Square wasted no time in dressing its likeness of Lindsay Lohan in prison stripes, after the young star was arrested for drunk driving and drug posession shortly after leaving rehab.
- Former NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason is in talks to fill the morning time slot on WFAN left vacant by the abrupt departure of Don Imus.
- Williamsburg! The Musical will premiere August 11th as part of the 11th Annual Fringe Festival.
- Gridskipper has a guide to NYC record stores for vinyl enthusiasts.
- Turning Long Island City into a giant sundial, with the Citibank tower as the shadow-casting spire.
- The City Council is thinking of revising its cell phones-in-schools policy, to allow kids to bring them to school, but not use them there. Schools would be required to set up cell phone storage facilities to secure the devices during the day.
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Its 15 Megabits per second, as clearly stated in the article. Please correct this, there is a large (order of magnitude) difference between megabits and megabytes.
Williamsburg! The Musical?! Genius! Oh, those self-referential ironic hipsters never fail to amuse!
that is a sad list of record stores. only 5 for all of the new york area?
For being such a large city, NYC music stores SUCK ASS!!!! I am very happy with my old SF record store Aquarius Records (aquariusrecords.org). They have a mail-order service that is a better experience than shopping in person here in the rotten apple. Evereyone at the store is a music geek but their tastes have more variation than you find in NY's hipper-than-thou 1 genre at a time stores. Do you feel a need to pick up the darkest Norweigian death-metal, the thuggiest rap, and a couple of Louvin Bros. '78s from the 1920's all in the same trip? Aquarius has got ya covered (try finding all that in one store here in NY).
Earwax is a great store!
why can't we get wifi in other parks FIRST, before we go around upgrading those already in place?