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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a gas main break on Dale Ave. and Amboy Rd. on Staten Island, an overturned garbage truck on Fountain Ave. and Linden Blvd. in Brooklyn, and a triple shooting on 82nd St. in Queens.
- When a boomtown real estate market goes bust, even the far-out reaches of NYC can assume a ghost town-like quality.
- Tavern on the Green is being sued for years of alleged racial and sexual harassment.
- Mayor Bloomberg has traveled to New Orleans, LA, in what the Associated Press is describing as a mandatory stop for Presidential candidates, even when they are not running for President.
- New York City's municipal television network is now offering its shows on-demand from its web site.
- A former NYPD deputy inspector, who was booted from the department after his conviction for robbing a drug dealer of $60K in 1996, won almost $1 million from a scratch-off game this August.
- The one-time Brendan Byrne Arena in the Meadowlands is looking for a corporate sponsor to affix a name to its facade.
- An online phone service will push ads at users based on the verbal content of their phone conversations.
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Half of Continental's $1.3 million annual fee for naming rights is paid with airline tickets? That's some good negotiating although you have to wonder if New Jersey would have settled for OnePass miles.
Why would anyone sponsor that arena? It's dying and should be dead. It's a pit.
It is disaster preparedness month. Katrina and Rita continue to be valuable case studies. That might be one reason a public official would go on site, although that doesn't make for a very sexy or scandalous news-flash.