September 1, 2007
Extra, Extra
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: An unstable building on Jewlett Avenue in Staten Island, a jumper down in Brooklyn and a double bank robbery (Commerce and Bank of NY) at 80 Broadway in Manhattan.
- Four winning MegaMillions tickets were sold, but in NJ, Maryland, Texas and Virginia. The numbers were 8-18-22-40-44 (with MegaBall 11), and a lump sum payment would be about $48 million.
- The fugitive businessman who donated thousands to politicians, including Senator Clinton, Governor Spitzer, Attorney General Cuomo, Representative Weiner, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, City Councilman Liu, Comptroller Thompson, has finally turned himself in after 16 years
- Former NJ governor James McGreevery is headed to the General Theological Seminary on Tuesday as a student in a non-degree program.
- Also, if it's back-to-school for students, it's back-to-finding good fake ids for college students.
- onNYTurf is demanding that the MTA offer schedule data as a public feed. We'd be surprised if the MTA can wrangle that much data, but given that they're interested in collaborating with Google...
- Musician Patti Smith posted a poem for CBGB's founder Hilly Kristal on her website
- And in Minneapolis, 19 bicyclists were arrested during Critical Mass (see photographs here) - how was last night's ride?
Photograph by nschaden on Flickr
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From the link on fake ID's:
A girl I know had an ID that put her as a native of East Haven, CT (she is actually from L.A.). Unfortunately, for her, she was once at a bar at which the bouncer knew East Haven intimately. Suspecting that her's was a fake, he said, "So, do you know Morris Cove?", Morris Cove being one of the most high-profile neighborhoods in East Haven.
Actually, the bouncer simply could have asked her what town she was from. If she said "East Haven" it would have proven that her ID was fake. People who really are from East Haven always pronounce it "Staven."