October 22, 2007
Extra, Extra
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a stabbing on 168th St. and Hillside Ave. in Queens, a sexual assault at Stanton and Attorney Sts. in Manhattan, and a missing child on Himrod St. in Brooklyn.
- Artist Eve Mosher is outlining in chalk the high water lines that floods will reach every four years by 2080 if global warming continues unabated. The project can be seen at her site highwaterline.
- Six-year-old Natalie Shea is now a world famous and unapologetic chalkiti artist after getting a ticket for scribbling on her Brooklyn stoop. Unsurprisingly, her dad is a public relations expert.
- NYU removed the name of the Yalincak family from its lecture hall at 19 West 4th St. The money that Hakan Yalincak donated to help construct the hall was stolen.
- Riverside Drive residents wanted a traffic camera placed on their street to catch people making illegal left turns after exiting the West Side Highway. After cutting back trees, and installing a strobe light that flashes into residents' apartments, the DOT says that it doesn't have the statutory authority to issue tickets for wrong-turn violations caught with its $90,000 camera.
- Service on the 7 line was temporarily suspended early this morning after a man fell onto the elevated tracks at the Junction Blvd. station. As he attempted to hoist himself back onto the platform, he fell again, this time all the way down to Roosevelt Ave.
- Former NYC police commissioner William J. Bratton, who is now the chief of the LAPD, endorsed Gov. Spitzer's plan to issue licenses to illegal residents of New York State.
- Patricia Rizzuto would like to rename a ballpark in Richmond Hill, Queens to Phil "scooter" Rizzuto Park. She says the field used to be a sandlot where her father learned to play baseball as a kid.
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Installing that camera required the removal of trees. How many trees will have to be removed for the installation of the Congestion Pricing cameras? These are things an EIS would answer.
The chalk thing is so stupid; what happened, one person complained and they got a form letter? And now it's like a big deal. Meh. The mom thinks it's so ridiculous... well, having a whole story on the news about it is what's ridiculous.
Service on the 7 line was temporarily suspended early this morning after a man fell onto the elevated tracks at the Junction Blvd. station. As he attempted to hoist himself back onto the platform, he fell again, this time all the way down to Roosevelt Ave.
"Other than that, Mr. Smith, how was your day?"