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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting on Flatbush Ave. in Brooklyn, a high-angle rescue on West 18th St., in Manhattan, and a multi-vehicle accident on Farmers Blvd. and the South Conduit in Queens.
- Hoboken mayor David Roberts was apparently prescient to ask how many stops his SWAT team made on the trip back north--fearing more embarrassing photos of his police force as they returned from relief efforts after hurricane Katrina. Additional pictures of misbehavior have surfaced, this time featuring the town's police chief cavorting in Louisiana.
- Brooklyn native and former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson was sentenced in an Arizona court to 24 hours in jail and three years probation for drug possession and DUI.
- The 2nd Ave. subway got a boost from $1.7 billion in federal funding earmarked for the project over the next seven years.
- New Yorkers aren't just cooler and better looking than the rest of the country, they make a lot more money. The average Manhattanite made more than $2,800 a week in the first quarter of this year.
- Former mayor Rudy Giuliani recommended securing the U.S.-Mexico border via a "virtual" system that would alert authorities of crossings.
- The Washington Post has a guide on how to get to NYC that includes more than "practice, practice, practice." It could be valuable for people wanting to get back to NYC.
- A very helpful guide to long- and short-distance runs in Brooklyn from the Brooklyn Road Runners Club.
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Wow! The Second Ave. subway got 1.7 billion over the next seven years. That works out to 240 mil a year or about seven blocks of subway tunnel over the period of the contract.
Mike Tyson arrested again, how can it be? It has to be racial profiling. Where's Al Sharpton?
Hoboken? Like really, isn't there enough going on in Brooklyn so not to be concerned about the other outer boro?
That $2800 a week...that before or after taxes?
$2,800/wk AVERAGE is meaningless. the real statistic to look at is MEDIAN. that tells you a lot more about what's going on among the population.
but, hey, this is manhattan, not the other important boroughs, so who is surprised and cares?!
I sadly don't even make that in a month.
Then factor in the cost of living.
Actually, the $2800/week income is meaningless not because it's not the median. It's because it doesn't mention the expense of living in Manhattan. It doesn't matter if you make five times as much as a Brooklynite if your rent and expenses are also five times as much.
The Feds could come up with A Rod's contract times 1000. The 2nd Avenue Subway will never be built. The next recession, it goes back on the deferred list.
www.forgotten-ny.com
Giulilani would be worse than Bush. Much worse.
"Securing" the border. "Virtual" system. What a pandering dumb-ass waste of breath he is every time he opens his mouth.
hey everybody, Notice the new blatantly racist busted tees advertisement with "WHERE MY DOGS AT?" and a chinese food container? that's from Busted Tees a subsidiary of IAC and IAC owns VIMEO where sellout patrick Moberg works and they advertise on GOTHAMiST and Jen Chung is chinese. FUNNY HUH?
^^^ Coincidental perhaps. Funny no, not at all.
Some of you obviously have never tried dog stew, or even mouse embryos dipped in soy sauce.....
Wow that NJ SWAT guy screwed up posing with topless women at Mardi Gras.
Good thing he never hired his gay boyfriend to run the state's anti-terrorism dept...
Oh wait a minute, that was former Dem NJ Gov McGreevey, the NJ Turnpike rest-stop hero! Best friend to families and children everywhere.
Freddyhere-
Human embryos taste better.
"It's because it doesn't mention the expense of living in Manhattan. It doesn't matter if you make five times as much as a Brooklynite if your rent and expenses are also five times as much."
Right, poor Manhattanites! If only there were something they could do about that. (High Manhattan rents are a luxury expense. What you gain from living in the a Tribeca loft is a kind of income.)