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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an unstable building at 37th Ave. and 31st St. in Queens, a stabbing on State St. and 3rd Ave. in Brooklyn, and an organ transport on the Cross Island Parkway in Queens.
GrandOpening on the LES is following up its single-table storefront Ping Pong concept with another slice of Americana: the drive-in movie theater. $75 will secure all six passenger seats in a ragtop Ford Falcon. We recommend burning the two extra tickets for a less awkward double date.
In what to us makes NJ Gov. Jon Corzine seem like a candidate for a "Ripley's, Believe it or Not!" segment, the reformed seatbelt wearer had 10 pounds of excess bone growth removed from his femur during surgery today. Ten pounds!
The Times' Freakonomics blog notes that panhandlers may earn more than low-ranking NYPD cops.
Four tales of people who just had to leave the city.
The New York Post will soon start publishing a Page Six glossy magazine that will weigh in at almost 100 pages and come as an insert with the Sunday paper.
Friends and family gathered today for the official naming of the block at 53rd St. and 8th Ave. as Jerry Orbach Way.

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By Dave Hogarty in Miscellaneous on September 17, 2007 6:45 PM

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guest

I'm pretty sure the outflow numbers refer to New York vs the rest of the country. The deficit is made up with births and immigration.

guest

Speaking of well-earning panhandlers, you know that smelly whiney white little runty guy who's always getting on the 1 train, saying he's straight out of the hospital? You should see the giant wad of money he keeps in his sweatsuit pants. I wish I had a camera -- it was about four inches thick.

guest

it's called mexicans and puerto ricans having 5 babies a week. More blacks are leaving cause it's expensive but they hate the winters so they move to atlanta. Poor whites who accidentally had kids but are responsible to want to take care of them come to their senses and realize they can't afford to take care of them. which leaves us with superrich bankers and the people who live paycheck to paycheck dreaming one day they will be or marry a superrich banker.

guest

Yes, I think the PlaNYC projections are based on expected reproduction, especially by new immigrants. If we can change that, maybe we can limit development?

guest

The population of the earth is increasing... and nobody is moving here from other planets.