October 11, 2007
Extra, Extra
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: An armored robbery in Queens, a boat in distress east of the Steeplechase Pier in Brooklyn and a school bus accident in Staten Island.
- The bids are in for the West Side Yards, and the companies that submitted them are Extell Development Company, Brookfield Properties Developer LLC, The Related Companies, TS West Side Holding, LLC (A Joint Venture of Tishman Speyer and Morgan Stanley), and Hudson Center East LLC and Hudson Center West LLC (A Joint Venture of Vornado Realty Trust and The Durst Organization, Inc.). Now it's up to the MTA to review them!
- A Brooklyn jury found Allan Cameron guilty of fatally shooting police officer Dillon Stewart during a traffic stop.
- Another jury found Anthony Fortunato guilty of manslaughter as a hate crime in the death of Michael Sandy.
- A vertical farm and solar-panels on the roof are some of the ideas one person presented about the next phase of the Domino Sugar Factory's life.
- The Queens Museum of Art will double its size. If you haven't been there yet, you're missing out - the Panorama of New York City is there.
- Allan Houston is coming back to the Knicks - and he gets his old number 20 jersey (Jared Jeffries will take 1).
- The Empire State Building is green tonight for the Muslim holiday of Eid-al-Fitr.
- An Upper East Side condo won't sell to murderer - and real estate scion - Robert Durst, who killed a neighbor and may have been involved with the disappearance of his wife.
- James Oddo talks about the circumstances of how he agreed to be interviewed by Norwegian comedians.
Photo of 25th Street flea market by vinnie716 on flickr
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that pic is oddly similar to cover of the pixies trompe le monde album
Geez, Robert Durst should be behind bars - merely on looks alone...
QMA is such a trek.
I still can't believe that crackhead jim dolan brought back the tumor allan houston!!
david stern better force them to sell, and soon!
uh too bad the esb is white right now, not green
Tip for getting to the QMA:
On weekends the LIRR to Flushing Main Street is just $3 each way, then it is one stop on the 7.
True you have to hike there from the subway.
FYI: If you are a member of channel thirteen, you get in free.
The irony is beside me;
eid-al-fitr sounds a lot like Adolf Hitler
armored robbery?
#7 not if you say it correctly.