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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a carjacking at Tompkins and School Rds. on Staten Island, a person was killed by a 5 train at Bowling Green station in Manhattan, and an armed robbery at 51st Ave. and Northern Blvd. in Queens.
- Bidding closed at $2,600 for the new owner of the Seinfeld ASSMAN license plate prop on eBay.
- Another Mister Softee driver was busted for selling drugs out of his ice cream truck, this This time it was across the street from a Flushing, Queens playground.
- From "Bright Lights, Big City" to fridge manufacture Sub-Zero's site, author Jay McInerney is guest-blogging about wine this week. He'll be accompanied by restaurateur Lora Zarubin.
- Illinois Sen. Barack Obama is making a claim to Hillary Clinton's and Rudy Giuliani's home turf. He's opened a campaign office on Fulton St. between Broadway and Nassau in downtown Manhattan.
- Newark, NJ is losing its "blemished, rat-infested drug-haven eyesore” of a hotel. Few will mourn the killing off of this Lincoln.
- It was up to a 27-year-old intern from China, who came to the US to learn about local governance, to spot a $280 million typo in Nassau County's budget.
- A Bronx man was arrested in the attack on a homeless man, who was set afire in an incident in East Harlem initially attributed to teenagers.
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Why are you telling us about the events in Newark? The place needs to be leveled and then sold off to the highest price bidder. Plus do it in the middle of the night and don't let the populace know you are doing it.
What next? Views of Camden as we see the next hot area ripe for development?
Something tells me that Italians need a bit of a cleanup if they want to have a parade again next year.
Halloween is a few weeks away. Perhaps the dude was doing a fine tuning of his costume.
omg that dude in the picture hangs around my school all the time.
I think that guy in the picture does nothing but attend big events. i guess what else do you do with a getup like that.