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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a hostage situation on East 124th St. in Manhattan, a carjacking on Undercliff Ave. in the Bronx, and a home invasion robbery on East 18th St. in Brooklyn.
For a few thousand dollars a month, one can join the LL Yacht Club at Chelsea Piers and East Hampton and enjoy access to their selection of luxury yachts to head to and from the Hamptons.
Ball State University in Indiana will be naming its new communications building after alumnus David Letterman. The Late Show host's mother Dorothy expressed pride in her son, saying "He's a very special young man."
Five months after the City Council symbolically banned the "n-word" in New York, complete with a burial service for the slur, Brooklyn Councilwoman Darlene Mealy is introducing similar legislation to ban the words "b--ch" and "ho" from the city.
A collection of perspective-based artwork that only takes shape from a single vantage point.
A Florida woman adopted 11 children in New York between 1993 and 1996, then kept them as underfed, uncared for, and abused prisoners in her Port St. Lucie, FL home, as she collected as much as $180,000 a year from the state for their care.
Plans are underway for the construction of a 19-story luxury hotel in Harlem that will be on 5th Ave. between 125th St. and 126th. St.
The judge in the divorce case of former NJ governor and current gay-American Jim McGreevey and his estranged wife Dina lectured the pair that they did not have the financial means to undergo a protracted and contentious divorce case.

nightlight, by flooznyc at flickr

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By Dave Hogarty in Miscellaneous on July 31, 2007 6:15 PM

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qwerty

#4 wins

Gregoire

No word should ever be banned, even horrible ones.

mocanlagunas

The perspective artworks are great. I saw one some years ago in Venice...

Peter

While anencephaly is generally regarded as an invariably fatal birth defect, the City Council has proven that wrong.

guest

I would like to announce that I have introduced legislation to ban the word "relevant" from any discussion of the City Council.

slyseekr

Looks like Darlene Mealy is going to get a pile of reindeer shit on her roof.

guest

#1 - laughed my ass off

And did Dave Letterman have to cough up some of that CBS money to get a building named after him?

Nick S

if the word "bitch" is banned (OMG I TYPED IT!!!).. how is the Westminster dog show going to continue to take place in NYC?

isn't there anything better city council can be doing?