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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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Dave,

Why not tell the WHOLE story about the Wikipedia edits. The NY Times has smeared the Journal, the DNC smears everyone and - hell yeah Fox News is playing this game too-changing the "Fake-ipedia".

Tell the WHOLE story.

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

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

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Hey kids, not only Fox News but folks at the NY Times are hijacking Wikipedia entries.
I guess they report and you decide, huh?
These daily wrap-ups are some of the weakest work at Gothamist, eh?

Beat me to it, Ben. I hope Dave has at least heard of Bird and Diz.

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quit nitpicking anal music snobs.

r.i.p. max.

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

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.

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Step #1. The NY Times and Fox News screw around with Wikipedia.

Step #2. Gothamist.com reports ONLY the Fox News side of the story.

Step #3. Gothamist.com loses credibility with its readers.

There's a lesson to be learned there. Is Gothamist.com smart enough to see it?

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