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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a pedestrian struck in a hit and run at Knickerbocker and Gates Aves. in Brooklyn, a wall collapse at Cromwell Ave. in the Bronx, and an escaped prisoner at 107th Ave. and 131st St. in Queens.
Firefighters had to rescue a Queens cemetery worker who was buried up to his waist after a cave-in occurred in a 20-foot-deep pit where he was working. The cave-in broke the man's leg and dislocated his hip.
When yoga instructors with a lot of journalists and editors as clients defect to start their own studio, expect a lot of ink to be spilled over something that might seem completely insignificant to the average person.
The M train matched the J and Z lines in receiving an overall grade of C- from its riders. Dragging down the overall average was a grade of D for "reasonable wait times for trains."
The defense contractor who threw his daughter a $10 million bat mitzvah party two years ago at the Rainbow Room was indicted on 21 counts of tax evasion, insider trading, and securities fraud this week.
The Gowanus Lounge points towards a real nightmare when a tenant receives a ConEd bill for $65,000.
Curbed has video of someone zip-lining across the Gowanus Canal while hanging onto a six pack of Mountain Dew.
A collection of links concerned with scratch 'n sniff wallpaper.

sophia loves the train, by joe holmes at flickr

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[1] | dbc

The Mountain Dew zipliner has a harness attached to the line.

Reply | October 29, 2007 12:32 AM

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