January 29, 2008
Extra, Extra
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting on 173rd St. in Manhattan, a robbery/assault on 13th St. in Brooklyn, and an aircraft emergency at JFK airport in Queens.
- Barnard at Columbia has a new incoming president, snagged from Harvard Business School.
- Don't miss the Super Bowl sitting in your local precinct's drunk tank. Get your Super Brawling out of the way early the next time someone pipes up about the Patriots.
- It's not a cross-promotion with the Rambo revival, but those NJ deer drew first blood; they drew first blood. OK, they didn't, but snipers are still going to take them out.
- Foxy Brown's bid to get out of Rikers early to fix her cochlear implant fell on deaf ears. Foxy says that it was knocked out of whack by a fellow inmate who punched her in the head.
- Living in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn for only four bills. Whoops, did we say four bills? We meant $4 mills!
- Another huge casino fire: this one on the East Coast at Foxwoods Resort in CT.
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This photograph was staged by artist and photographer Lauren Silberman. It is based on a series of images made for her brother, Robert Silberman, who passed away last September after and 18 month battle with Ewing's Sarcoma. Bobby will forever be missed.
You can read more about his struggle here:
http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/bobbysilberman
You can see the original work that started this series for Bobby here:
http://www.laurendarling.com