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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting at Quincy St. and Classon Ave. in Brooklyn, a homicide on 76th St. in Queens, and a missing child on East 174th St. in the Bronx.
Martin Scorsese sold his four-story, five-bedroom townhouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side for $6.15 million, after cutting $500K off the price.
Someone at Fox News is allegedly fooling around with Wikipedia entries to make itself look better and competitors worse.
The murdered daughter of two NYU professors, Boitumelo "Tumi" McCallum, was buried in her native South Africa today, 11 days after she was murdered by a possessive boyfriend.
Brooklyn-Born Jose Padilla was found guilty of conspiring to murder, kidnap and maim people overseas. He was held for three years without trial as an enemy combatant.
The Liberty Heights Tap Room in Red Hook (bus stop on Van Dyke St.) is now officially Rocky Sullivan's Tap Room.
Cops are searching for a man who allegedly struck and killed a woman with his car on purpose as she was standing at a bus stop with her children early this morning.
Con Ed leaves behind an ugly wake on one Brooklyn sidewalk
New York City canceled its 125-year-old Labor Day parade due to a lack of interest and a corruption scandal. A rally at Ground Zero is being planned instead.
And Max Roach, considered ~~the~~ a founder of modern jazz, died today at age 83.

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By Dave Hogarty in Miscellaneous on August 16, 2007 6:15 PM

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vermilion

Best of luck to Rocky Sullivan's! They were a great Irish dive in Manhattan, and it's a damn shame they got priced out of their old digs. I wish them all the best in Red Hook.

guest

Only one line about Max Roach? he's a master. tune into 89.9 WKCR for RoachRadio all day today (Friday)

Ben K

...considered the founder of modern jazz...

Check that, Dave. It's a founder not the founder. Bit of a difference there!