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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a scaffolding collapse on Vernon Blvd. and 51st Ave. in Queens, an unstable building on East 102nd St. in Manhattan, and a homicide on Tompkins Ave. in Brooklyn.
Probably one of the worst group of employees one should try to steal IDs from for bogus credit cards is cops. A civilian employee of the NYPD was arrested for doing just that at her second job as a clerk at an upstate Radio Shack.
Mayor Bloomberg will make a cameo in the film version of Sex and the City, with a sequence set in Bryant Park.
The folks at Brownstoner are putting together a giant flea market in Brooklyn for next April.
The MTA is looking for a firm that can provide email and text messaging informing passengers of service disruptions by next spring.
Is e-mail on the decline as a communications medium, in favor of social networking sites?
ConEd paid $18 million in penalties for the failure to reach performance targets regarding service interruptions frequency and duration.
A rivalry between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims maybe be affecting New York prison populations.

Untitled photo of retired Redbird in Kew Gardens, Queens, by gmpicket at flickr

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By Dave Hogarty in News on November 7, 2007 6:30 PM

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Dave Hogarty

Thanks surfin jesus; duly noted and corrected.

And I agree with Snoopy about what a shame it is that two Muslim sects can't get along; but if one regards the history of Catholic-Protestant violence over the last 500 years or so, or the schism between the Roman and Orthodox Christian churches that goes back even longer, I doubt we'll see any quick end to intra-relgion violence anytime soon.

surfin jesus

"....arrested for doing just at her...."

Hogarty, learn to proofread your goddamned "articles"!!!

Snoopy

It's really a shame that the two different Muslim sects can't work out their differences. How does the world think the Muslim world can work out their differences with the rest of the world's religions, as bullshit as religion is, if they can't sort out their own religious bullshit?

Probably the best thing to do is to let them kill off each other (especially in the prisons) as best they can and whoever is left, let the world's other religions kill them.