October 3, 2007
Extra, Extra
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a confined space rescue at The Beverly Hotel on 50th St. in Manhattan, a pedestrian struck on West 145th St. and 7th Ave. in Manhattan, and a fall victim on West 24th St. in Manhattan.
- Former NY State chief judge Sol Wachtler got his law license back, 14 years after pleading guilty to being a stalker.
- Some Jewish leaders are angry that Mayor Bloomberg met with London mayor Ken Livingstone, who Councilman Dov Hikind calls an anti-Semite racist. If it's any comfort to critics, it looks like taking a public bus ride with a mayor nicknamed "Red Ken" was Bloomberg just being a gracious guest.
- Herbert Muschamp, the architecture critic for The New York Times between 1992 and 2004, passed away yesterday
- Two Brooklyn parents were killed in a car accident upstate when the driver overcorrected after losing control and he crossed into oncoming traffic on a highway near Goshen, NY. Their four-month-old child and two friends survived the crash.
- Fishing for sport or fishing for dinner? Some argue that eating reel-caught fish is fine, which worries some lawmakers.
- Brooklyn Heights Blog features a report (with pictures) of George Clooney shooting a film on Middagh St. today.
- The two cops injured in a shootout in the Bronx this morning had to go undergo alcohol testing––the first time it's happened since the department's new policy was implemented. A union official said that giving a "Breathalyzer" to shot cops was demoralizing and degrading.
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Former NY State chief judge Sol Wachtler got his law license back, 14 years after pleading guilty to being a stalker.
How does a convicted criminal who threatened a woman and her 14 year-old girl while he was a judge, until caught by the FBI, get to be an agent of the court again? And why does the press ever quote criminal's family as to what a good person this convicted slime is?
It's Herbert, please. Herbert Muschamp.
Their four-month-old child and two friends survived the crash.
The survivors weren't friends of the couple that died--they were the driver and passenger in the car that the Brooklyn couple struck. This accident occurred near my parents' house and I've read about it in their local paper; it is interesting to note that highway crews were in the process of installing a barrier between the east and westbound lanes to prevent accidents such as this (there have been many in the past few years), and this was the last 2 mile stretch of road remaining to be completed.
I hope they realize the whole chalk outline thing is an urban myth.
the accidents happen because some people don't want to pay the toll on the thruway.
the stencil is to raise awareness.
Those stencils are about as effective as the roadside memorials you see out there.
It says 'killed by automobile'. That's technically incorrect. She was killed by the person DRIVING the automobile.
People are so quick to demonize a perfectly useful machine.
#5, your comment makes no sense. This accident occurred several miles northwest of the Harriman tolls (on Rt 17, what locals refer to as "the Quickway").