February 25, 2008
Extra, Extra
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a bank robbery on Amboy Rd. in Staten Island, another bank robbery on 5th Ave. in Manhattan, and a scaffolding collapse on Grand Concourse and 149th St. in the Bronx.
- A building slated for destruction on Governors Island will become a lab for the FDNY to examine the dynamics of high-rise fires and how best to defeat them. Fire crews from cities around the country will be on hand to observe.
- Someone crunched the numbers and found that The New York Times Fashion Magazine is almost as white as the arctic in February, pre-global warming. The 55% of New Yorkers who aren't white are probably not the targeted demographic the Times Fashion Mag is looking for anyway.
- A New York Presbyterian Hospital official in charge of the Women, Infants, and Children program--which was designed to provide food for impoverished women and children--is accused of siphoning off a few hundred thousand dollars for vacations and comfortable living.
- City Councilman Eric Gioia is running a "carbon neutral" campaign for public advocate, that involves the use of more emails than flyers, the purchase of carbon offsets, and the use of hybrid vehicles.
- The International House of Pancakes downtown Brooklyn location is doing so well that plans are in the works for locations in Bed-Stuy, East New York, and Williamsburg.
- The family of a 25-year-old, who allegedly had his jaw broken by an EMT, is suing the city for $2 million. They accuse the EMT of punching the young man in the face after the patient accidentally drooled on him as he was giving him oxygen.
- Summertime probably seems far off today, but the organizers of the Movies With a View program are looking for submissions of short films to be shown before features in July and August amidst the moonlit shadows of the Brooklyn Bridge.
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Dear Gothamist,
I love you, but lately I've found you on the wrong side of the comma war:
"The 30-year-old man, who died while attempting to gain entrance to his UES apartment by climbing out a hallway window to reach a window of his apartment, wasn't completely locked out."
Or things like, "Famous cellist, Yo-yo Ma is a doofus."
Please help us fight for all that's good and true. No actually, please just fight against annoying extra commas.
Yes, I know I'm a big dork.
All carbon offsets are is a ponzi scam run by Al Gore. He isn't going to run for president since he doesn't want his shady dealings looked into.
The whole business of carbon offset seems like the revival of the Middle Age church practice of selling indulgences. It makes you feel good. And it is a big cop out to boot.
Sorry, but living, being alive means leaving a carbon footprint.
Here's an interesting one. Does a murderer effectively become carbon neutral for wasting someone? Or to be more precise, if he kills someone his own age?
Nice observation. It's the EXACT same thing as selling indulgences. Expiating one's "sins" through financial contributions to some temporal authority, be it a church or some quasi-public institution is the whole basis of carbon offsets.
History is not without redundancies. One can't be indulgent while preaching personal impoverishment without the ability to explain one's hypocrisy away. Fortunately, someone is always around to make it sound plausible and make a few bucks off it.
dear gothamist....i am desperately in love with the white girl who models your beige/white gothamist tee....please advise on how i can meet her....this is my version of the patrick moberg fiasco
fishfryin, if you are talking about this girl, take a number.