October 28, 2007
Extra, Extra
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an injured police officer on Queens Blvd. and Ascan Ave. in Queens, a stabbing on Nostrand and Willoughby Aves. in Brooklyn, and a large fight at Targee St. and Sobel Ct. on Staten Island.
- Neighbors, customers, and small investors get involved to save a local bookstore in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
- In order to pay off sex harassment lawsuits and under-performing athletes, the Dolans are jacking up cable rates for Cablevision customers by almost 5% beginning December and January.
- A 34-year-old dentist was shot twice in the chest and killed on a Queens playground this morning.
- More surveillance tape of Carol Gotbaum before her death has been released by Arizona law enforcement.
- The curious case of the "bird man" and the kidnapped pigeons.
- West Village residents and customers of an 80-year-old newsstand operated by two immigrant brothers are protesting the city's closing of the sidewalk landmark.
- This has nothing to do with NYC whatsoever, but the Div. III Trinity University Tigers defeated the Millsaps College Majors 28-24 by executing 15 lateral passes in a single play with two seconds remaining in a game yesterday. Sports Illustrated has the YouTube clip.
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