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Photo of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King reflected in a Fort Greene storefront window, by Paul Fugelsang

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting on Stuyvesant Ave. and Hart St. in Brooklyn, a multiple stabbing on West 49th St. and Broadway in Manhattan, and a car in the water on Beach St. and Rockaway Pt. Blvd. in Queens.
After a 14% surge between 2005 and 2006, complaints about the NYPD from civilians dropped 1% last year.
The lawyer defending the man on trial for killing his 7-year-old stepdaughter has been receiving phoned-in death threats. The defense attorney says that he doesn't bother reporting the threats anymore because cops don't seem very interested in investigating them, but is determined to defend his client to the best of his ability.
The DOT promises Queens Crap to respond promptly to a missing sign problem, right around the time he pays his taxes in a few months.
Possible hate crimes in Brooklyn as young men beat Jewish teens.
The old saw about drivers being safer under the influence of marijuana than alcohol while driving really doesn't hold bong water when you have an infant in the back seat of your car, you're getting road-ragey, and running stop signs.
Is the Staten Island Ninja going wholesale? Cops are reporting that 31 newly constructed homes have been robbed of major appliances while vacant.
Vinyl gets scratched from the list of Manhattan retailers.

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[1] | Dave Hogarty

I love this picture. Special thanks to Paul Fugelsang for letting us use it on MLK Jr. Day.

Reply | January 21, 2008 10:11 PM

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