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  • Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: A hostage situation at Rockaway Boulevard and 147th Street in Queens, a train job at East 180 St in the Bronx and a pedestrian was struck at West 66th and Amsterdam in Manhattan
  • The disgruntled former employee who shot and killed a former supervisors and injured two others at Co-op City is claiming self-defense.
  • The Politicker finds out that Lieutenant Governor David Paterson supports non-citizen voting (but Paterson is quick to point out he didn't speak to the Spitzer administration about his views)
  • The city sold less Snapple, the official drink of the city, than projected because of too much vandalism at vending machines, which perhaps proves it really is a NYC drink.
  • The driver of a Volvo died during an accident on the Staten Island Expressway this morning; a drunk driver who was driving on the wrong side of the road hit the Volvo and a Cadillac Escalade.
  • The Bouwerie Lane Theatre will house a residence, a retailer on the bottom floor and perhaps a hotel, according to Lost City.
  • How one Hollywood couple with child likes to personalize their hotel room whenever they vist NYC (last item).
  • In addition to Oprah's Book Club, Jonathan Franzen also hates the Broadway adaptation of Spring Awakening.
Photograph of Central Park-goers by regina_emanuelle on Flickr
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By Jen Chung in on September 3, 2007 6:05 PM

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  • JMH

    Non-citizen voting? What?

  • zodak

    right on #3, those sodas were great.

    Reality Czech: it's to protect fragile grass from people taking short cuts & soccer players.

  • Reality Czech

    Why do they have fences encirleling the lawns at Central Park? Seems as though there must be a reason? Looking at that photo, I can't seem to fathom a reason. Anyone?

  • guest

    Does anyone on this blog NOT complain?

    Go out and enjoy life dudesters!

  • guest

    Yeah, I don't know why Bloomberg has essentially made corn syrup and water the official drink of NYC.

    How about tap water? That would fit in more with his PlaNYC. Why truck in millions of gallons of sugar water when real water is fed to us by gravity?

  • guest

    Try Inko's White Tea Drinks instead - with less than half the calories and sugar content.

  • guest

    Snapple used to be good when they had their clear sodas like tru root beer or their cherry lime rickeys. now it's like any other sugary drink.

    now they're just overpriced Lipton.

  • guest

    I am so over Snapple! Who made it New York's official drink? Like, maybe, the Snapple company?

  • Peter

    Sorta hard to claim self-defense when you head off to your former employer, with whom you've had a bitter dispute, carrying a gun.

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