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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: shots fired on Soundview Ave. in the Bronx, a gas leak on Snyder Ave. and East 34th St. in Brooklyn, and a bank robbery on West 4th and 6th Ave. in Manhattan.
- High school girls (including a pair from Long Island) swept the top prizes in both team and individual categories for the first time in the history of the Siemens Competition in Math, Science, and Technology.
- Houston St. now sports south-side sidewalks that have doubled in width and feature trees planted in the middle, after a renovation of the street between Broadway and West 6th.
- Silicon Alley Insider names the 100 most influential people in the New York world of digital business. Mayor Bloomberg captured the top spot.
- A New Jersey task force recommended that Drug Free School Zones are too large and the mandatory harsher penalties against non-violent drug offenders crowd actual violent criminals out of prison and back onto the street.
- Gov. Spitzer raised $1.5 million at a fund-raising dinner last night in an effort to refill a diminished campaign war chest. Voters are indicating they've got buyers' remorse after electing the once-popular Spitzer.
- Police recruits studying for their pre-graduation (Dec. 27) exams will receive an early Christmas present in the form of iPods loaded with study material. They will have to return the devices after graduation.
- And a judge has cleared the way for Washington Square Park's renovations. City Councilman Alan Gerson who previously opposed the renovations but is fine with concessions the city has made: "We have secured unprecedented protections against the commercialization of the park."
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You mean "West 6th" Avenue?
The article says Sixth Ave. and W. Broadway, not West 6th and Broadway. That threw me too.
eh, proofreading is soooo 2006.
That 16 yo science contest winner looks kind of hot...
I guess Larry Summers had it wrong...
I think online porn may be having a detrimental effect on our adolescent male population...
I mean c'mon - bone growth in zebra fish...?
I can't believe that WSP is going to be "renovated". Sure the city is in a constant state of flux, but this small section of it was at least mostly the same. This is sad making.
Aren't more women attending college now than men too? I feel like I read that somewhere.
Three-quarters of the finalists have a parent who is a scientist.
"That 16 yo science contest winner looks kind of hot..."
freddyhere, Chris Hansen would like you to take a seat over there.
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/08/district_1_coun.php
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