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  • Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a person struck by a train at 14th St. and 8th Ave. in Manhattan, a shooting on Flatbush Ave. in Brooklyn, and a shooting on Houston St. in Manhattan.
  • Yet another reason to celebrate: today is the 110th anniversary of Richmond County joining us as the 5th borough of NYC. The Staten Island Advance features a picture of a general store with a wooden Indian in front of it to remind readers what the county was like at the time.
  • Queens Crap hands out its annual overdevelopment award. Crappy New Year Councilman John Liu!
  • Officials at the Empire State Development Corporation claim that construction of the 85-acre Brooklyn Bridge State Park will commence sometime this year.
  • Excellent video of last night's New Year's Eve fireworks show over Prospect Park from The Gowanus Lounge.
  • State and private investigators are looking into what caused the escalator at Giants Stadium to injure seven people following the team's loss to the Patriots Saturday night.
  • Former Yankee Jim Leyritz has a long history of violations for dangerous driving, even before he allegedly ran a red light on his birthday and killed a woman in Florida.
  • Andrew Carlson from Minneapolis, MN won the New York Road Runners Club 4-mile midnight run in a course-record-breaking 18:12. Carmen Douma Hussar from Ardmore, PA set a new women's record for the course by finishing in 20:54. The women's race was literally down to the wire, with Aziza Aliyu of the Bronx recording the same time as Hussar. Congrats to all finishers and Happy New Year to all readers.
New Year's Eve Midnight Run winner Andrew Carlson on the home stretch in Central Park, by Nick Soward
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By Dave Hogarty in on January 1, 2008 6:15 PM

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  • Not James Frey

    Funny Snoopy - the last one is Bronx County.

  • Snoopy

    Let's see they are New York, Richmond, Kings, Queens and Joker. right?

  • Toby von Meistersinger

    What some called "The Great Mistake of '98" (mainly in Brooklyn) is better known as "consolidation" which created "The Greater New York" or what we now know as the five boroughs. Fun fact - all the boroughs are also counties.

  • Snoopy

    Biggest mistake Manhattan ever made.

  • Dave Hogarty

    Totally true; the charter didn't take effect until 1901, but consolidation was effected in 1898.

  • JoeSchumacher

    Isn't today also the 110th anniversary of the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens becoming NYC?

  • Dave Hogarty

    And I'll be writing 2007 on my checks 'til April.

  • Not James Frey

    Dave - it's the 110th anniversary of S.I. becoming part of NYC, not the 100th.

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