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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a hate crime on Bedford Ave. in Brooklyn, a burn victim on 165th St. and University Blvd. in Manhattan, and a shooting on Chester St. and Livonia Ave. in Brooklyn.
The "no-snitching" ethic is alive and well in Hempstead, LI, where a 23-year-old party guest was shot in front of 50 people. No witnesses.
April 5, 6, and 7 are your days to shine, aka abjecting yourself to objectivity as a candidate for the latest round of Project Runway.
A pet publication named NYC as the most animal-friendly destination in the States. We brake for dogs; humans: you're on your own.
Citizens and officials denounced rezoning plans for Harlem's 125th Street outside City Hall; Councilman Charles Barron was there, proclaiming, "We are tired of this city using development as a new wave of Jim Crowism."
Strollers in bars remain Brooklyn's tiger by the tail. The Gowanus Lounge chronicles the latest rhetoric throwdown on the war between the mates and the mateless.
I-95 truckers displayed their displeasure with the current gas price hikes by forming a 20 mph-moving convey outside the city.
Soon-to-be a Law & Order opening: A human skull and bones were found underneath Tribeca's Tokyo Bar "while laborers were fixing sewage pipes in the building's basement."

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By Dave Hogarty in Miscellaneous on April 1, 2008 6:15 PM

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matukonyc

It's a little-known fact, but law enforcement does not have a legal obligation to protect citizens from possible harm. If you take your life in your hands and come forward as a witness against someone who is likely to retaliate in some way, it may be admirable, but not always wise.

Think2wice

"The "no-snitching" ethic is alive and well in Hempstead, LI."

Long Island, the new slum.

Steven

Do you know gas prices are over $3.30 a gallon?

President Bush: I didn't know that.

berniegoetz

Imagine a pro-Slavery Southerner from 1858 seeing 150 years into the future. Blacks calling each other "Nigger." Blacks shooting each other in public and refusing to help police apprehend the murderer. Damn.

grammar

That story about truckers protesting congestion pricing is actually about them protesting gas prices. All I had to do to find that out was read the headline. Couldn't you or your editors do the same before reporting it?

suepart

fashion designers should put a bag over horseface sarah jessica parker's head, that would make her look better.

zstone

Two objections: one, though Harlem may be majority black, the rezoning does not specifically target them. It's simply unfair to equate development with Jim Crowism, as there are other parts of the city where development is pushing out mostly white folks. Doesn't mean I'm for it, just that race hasn't much to do with it. Two, the story you linked to clearly says the truckers were protesting high gas prices, not congestion pricing. Oy.