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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an officer assaulted on Church Ave. and 53rd St. in Brooklyn, a car into a coffee shop in the area of Skillman and 50th in Queens, and two people shot on Park Ave. and 17th St. in Manhattan.
An insurance broker pleaded guilty to idiotic target practice that launched arrows from his compound bow on the Upper East Side.
Bono and Bloomberg's mutual admiration society.
Brooklyn state Assemblyman Dov Hikind wants to distribute 10,000 alcohol-based hand sanitizing pen devices to NYC schoolkids. Handing out alcohol-based anythings to teenagers? We foresee this project being hugely popular and widely disastrous.
A 60-year-old 84-foot tall spruce tree from Connecticut was chosen as this year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.
Don Imus is slated to return to the airwaves December 3rd of this year. He was fired from his former job for calling members of the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy headed hos."
A guard trying to break up some Halloween egg-throwing last night in Mt. Vernon was shot in the head and chest.
Brig. General Paul W. Tibbets Jr., the commander and pilot of the Enola Gay who dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, died this week at the age of 92.

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By Dave Hogarty in Miscellaneous on November 1, 2007 6:15 PM

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snappaloosa

I will never understand why someone would allow a perfectly healthy tree that has been quietly, happily thriving in their back yard to be cut down for the sake of a bunch of slack-jawed tourists. And what do they get in exchange? A free night at a hotel? That's just sad.