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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a pedestrian struck on 11th Ave. and West 43rd St. in Manhattan, a shooting on 21st St. in Queens, and a shooting on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn.
- Veteran political reporter Gabe Pressman weighs in on the wave of mortgage foreclosures sweeping New York and finds overwhelming evidence of racism.
- A privately funded program to encourage lower income and minority students to take Advanced Placement courses will pay cash for passing scores: $1,000 for a 5, $750 for a 4, and $500 for a 3.
- To guard against copycat incidents following the suicide of a student who jumped off the top of his dorm, NYU has placed Public Safety officers atop several of its buildings.
- Steven Molinaro, the grandson of Staten Island borough president James P. Molinaro, was sentenced to five years in prison after a conviction on charges of intimidating a 14-year-old paperboy he'd previously assaulted.
- Don Imus signed a multi-million dollar contract to return to the New York airwaves as the morning drive-time host at WABC AM/770.
- A recent poll showed that 72% of New Yorkers oppose Gov. Spitzer's plan to issue drivers licenses to undocumented residents.
- Sister site SFist is conducting round 4,937 of the Which-Is-Better-NYC-or-San Francisco? debate
- Meet the man who wrangles the giant inflatable rat that a union uses to publicly embarrass companies around NYC.
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great photo
she will always be jane jacobs in my heart.
“The wonder is always new that any sane woman can be a sailor.”
she will always be jane jacobs in my heart.
“The wonder is always new that any sane woman can be a sailor.”
or
"Not all who wander are lost."
The rat is intended to embarrass companies?
I laugh hysterically when I see the rat, unfailingly surrounded by a bunch of collectivist, lazy, bandwagon jumpers who'd rather stand around and bitch than work the day or find better employment.
It's nice to see that some organizations still refuse to kowtow to such losers.
The inflatable rat is the mark of quality, or at very least, an attempt to improve it.
# Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a pedestrian struck on 11th Ave. and West 43rd St. in Manhattan, a shooting on 21st St. in Queens, and a shooting on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn.
um, can you guys put these locations on your Newsmap in addition to the other list? I know crime on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn may not be as important as a cat up a tree on N. 7th in W'burg, but please? i like to know what's going on and WHERE in my hood.
I love that the rat's handlers get $30 an hour to watch it. I get about a third of that for a job that I needed a Master's Degree to get...
"...overwhelming evidence of racism."
Perhaps Gabe forgot that cum hoc ergo propter hoc is false, correlation is not causation.
Racism may be the cause, but economic factors could just as easily explain the disparity. Besides, no one forced these folks to take the loans, and who's fault is it if they didn't read the fine print?