August 10, 2007
Extra, Extra
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a police-involved shooting at 149th St. and 3rd Ave. in the Bronx, an attempted sexual assault on 55th St. in Brooklyn, and a bank robbery on West 52nd St. between 7th and 8th Aves.
- Kenneth Eng, noted earlier this year for his controversial essay "Why I Hate Blacks", was arrested again by the Feds shortly after pleading guilty to harrassing his neighbors and threatening them with a hammer.
- The New York Post reports that rumors of white people fleeing the city in a "white flight" are an urban myth, and that the latest census data supports the opposite conclusion. This is the first we've heard of any "white flight" rumors, and we probably would have correctly guessed the opposite over the last ten years.
- NYU is expanding across the East River, with the announcement of its first dorm in Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Paper reports that the school is opening a dorm for students in Brooklyn Heights, previously used as a dorm for the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.
- Chris Noth signed on to the movie adapation of the HBO / NYC-centric series Sex and the City. He played the character Mr. Big, who flew to Paris to sweep protagonist Carrie off her feet in the series finale.
- Queens Crap has a round-up on what people are saying about the indictment of Queens Councilman Dennis Gallagher after he allegedly raped a 52-year-old woman in his Queens office.
- Martin Scorcese's Rolling Stones concert documentary has been pushed back seven months, to April, 2008. A Viacom spokesman said that the company needs more time to set up proper promotion for the movie.
- The Queens man who caught Barry Bonds' 756th homerun ball may just hang on to it, for sentimental reasons.
- A collection of spoof SubTalk transit posters.
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that bear is crazy! - brian fellows
those subtalk posters are hilarious
someone should really clean up that subway seat.. there's pooh all over it!
Umm, isn't that worthy of TWO tickets from one of our finest..?
I thought the data said the net flow of American residents was out of the city and that the population growth was from immigation. The data never made a conclusion about "white flight". In fact, in light of yesterday's post about "black flight" it backs up the idea that the flow of of US residents could be out going.
anybody need a nyc metrocard in vector format (illustrator ai file) here it is. for entertainment use only.
http://files-upload.com/files/427765/subway-metrocard-rgb.ai