Extra, Extra

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a woman struck by a train at 23rd St. and 45th Rd. in Queens, a manhole explosion with vehicle fire on Walton Ave. in the Bronx, and a water search in the Hudson River at the George Washington Bridge.
A Harlem building superintendent and two other men were arrested in connection with the death of a man they came upon urinating in a building's hallway. Upon discovery, an argument erupted, the urinator wound up tied up, then dead; and medical examiners are trying to determine the exact cause of his passing.
When a student asked his teacher if he could have a bite of the pizza she was eating at a Bronx city school, the teacher responded by biting him on the shoulder.
Four Bronx high school students are going to Berlin as one half of a foreign-study program created after video footage was released showing a German military officer egging his men on to fire their weapons by suggesting that they were shooting at black people in the Bronx.
Al Sharpton is calling for the conviction of the three cops charged in the shooting death of Sean Bell.
It's never too early for the MTA to start missing deadlines on major development projects.
The lab for livestock infectious disease research on Plum Island in the Long Island Sound is going to be relocated, probably somewhere on the U.S. mainland near large concentrations of livestock.
In Greenpoint, Brooklyn, time doesn't exactly stand still; but it does take extended pauses.

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By Dave Hogarty in Miscellaneous on April 12, 2008 6:15 PM

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nivek

#11 As in politically correct.

#9 Thanks. I'll think about that the next time I go to work, at a job that requires skill, cognition, experience and an engineering degree.

Spear_Chucker

I always wonder, what kind of people take Al Sharpton seriously? Are there any blacks who wish Sharpton would just disappear?

desmotic

Nivek: Maybe you haven't realized that being racist is destroying this country? Being an idiot doesn't help either.

nivek

ThisCharmingMan: Maybe you haven't realized that being PC is destroying this country. The Internet is a means of expressing what you really think with a bit of anonymity.

ThisCharmingMan

you freaks and your insane comments are really stinking up the joint. Go burn some crosses you haters.

Snoopy

Sharpton finally takes a position on the Sean Bell case.

Is he anti-Asian?

sikantis

I don't quite understand what the common reason for these "extras" is.