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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: shots fired on Jamaica Ave. in Queens, another shooting on East 126th St. in Manhattan, and yet another shooting at Snyder and Rogers Aves. in Brooklyn.
Some Lower East Side residents want the currently vacant portion of the Essex St. Market used as a site for cheaper housing, not additional restaurants for wealthier newcomers.
A beautiful panorama shot from the Top of the Rock at Rockefeller Center.
The Daily News talks to Bobby Vigil, the first time visitor to NYC from Colorado who helped a flight crew restrain an airline passenger who wanted to get off a plane immediately, when it was still in the air over New York.
In a settlement with New York's Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, the Fraternal Order of Police will disburse $9 million to the families of 72 cops killed in the 9/11/01 attacks.
The Post reports that even as the number of cyclists in the city grows, the number of summonses issued for violations like riding without a helmet, riding on the sidewalk, or not having required reflectors declined 19%, to 21, 719 for the year ended June 30th.
New Yorkers look out for each other at a West Village jazz club.
When a woman leaned out her window yesterday and yelled "Help! Fire! The people next door are trapped!", 20-year-old William Kindred and an unidentified friend ran into a burning building on West 148th St. and kicked down the door to the super's apartment, rescuing the super, his daughter, and a third person.

Untitled photo of dog on sidewalk, by ecstatictyler at flickr

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By Dave Hogarty in Miscellaneous on August 26, 2007 6:15 PM

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don't people know that you CAN'T open a plane's door in flight? it's physically impossible! from salon.com's "ask the pilot":

During flight none of these [cabin] doors can be opened, for the simple reason that cabin pressure won't allow it. Think of an aircraft door as a drain plug, fixed in place by the interior pressure. With very few exceptions, aircraft doors open inward. Some retract upward into the ceiling; others swing outward or downward against the fuselage; but they all open inward first, and not even the most musclebound human will overcome the hundreds of pounds of pressure holding them shut. At a typical cruising altitude, as many as 8 pounds of pressure are pushing against every square inch of interior fuselage. That's 1,152 pounds of weight against each square foot of door. Flying at low altitudes, where cabin-pressure levels are lower, even a differential of 2 pounds per square inch is still more than anyone can displace -- even after six cups of coffee and the frustration that comes with sitting behind a shrieking infant for five hours.