Gothamist: Extra, Extra

February 22, 2008

Extra, Extra

Untitled, by Pabo76 at flickr

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a power outage on Cranford St. and Amboy Rd. on Staten Island, a bank robbery on East Gun Hill Rd. in the Bronx, and a carjacking on the Horace Harding Expressway and 108th St. in Queens.
Update on the 14-year-old girl who was killed and stuffed into a boiler by her father: The ME's office found that she was pregnant - and they are testing the DNA to see if her father impregnated her.
For those who read Maxim for the articles and believe in the lad mag's editorial integrity, it apparently published an album review of the new Black Crowes' release without listening to it. Maxim later explained it was an "educated guess preview."
Subway delays are up by 31% from a year ago and are at 154% the level of delays in 2005. Capital improvements are being singled out as the cause of the dramatic increases.
West Village speakeasy Chumley's may not be lost to the ages after all. Construction begins Monday and the owner hopes to reopen in May.
A corner townhouse that has 100 feet of Park Avenue frontage may be undesirable because of its design. Or its $30-35 million price tag.
Gossipmonger Baird Jones was discovered dead in his East 8th St. apartment yesterday evening. The 53-year-old purveyor of celebrity tidbits to multiple gossip columns reportedly died from natural causes.
A Dallas police officer in Sen. Hillary Clinton's motorcade was killed in a crash today.
Yesterday marked the 43rd anniversary of Malcolm X's assassination at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan.
And get your Cosmopolitans ready: There's a new Sex & the City trailer that drops some big bombshells and a good joke about feminine grooming.