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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a police officer struck on 125th St. and St. Clair Pl. in Manhattan, a double stabbing on West 181st St. and Audubon Ave. in Manhattan, and a person under a train at Queens Blvd. and Broadway in Queens.
The six-year-old who started the blaze that killed a firefighter is sorry. His mother says he's been crying since that night and repeats "I didn't mean to do it. I didn't mean to do it."
Streetsblog describes yesterday's 3rd Annual Ghost Bikes Memorial Ride.
The number of stabbings and slashings were down almost 60% at city jails between 2006 (44) and 2007 (19). In 1995 there were more than 1,000 incidents of slashings and stabbings reported.
Wikipedia jargon as advertisement bomb.
Talmudic scholar Rabbi Shmuel Berenbaum died yesterday; he founded the Mir Yeshiva in Brooklyn, which Mayor Bloomberg called "one of the largest centers for Torah study in the world."
New Hampshire should have been a perfect fit for Candidate Giuliani--socially liberal, pro-war on terror--but a poor campaign strategy may spell doom for his Presidential prospects.
Just what the Bowery needed: A luxury condo hi-rise with a gated driveway.

sigh, by luzer at flickr

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By Dave Hogarty in Miscellaneous on January 7, 2008 6:15 PM

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coneyislandist

If you would read the curbed post more carefully, you'd see that building going up with the driveway is a condo. "GIANT HOTEL GOES HERE" refers to the already erected Cooper Square Hotel left out of the mockup of the view from the condo's roof deck.