
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an officer was shot at 62nd St. and Bay Parkway in Brooklyn, an aircraft incident at JFK in Queens, and shots fired at police in the area of 136th St. and Broadway in Manhattan.
- Longtime E Street Band keyboard player Danny Federici died this week after a three-year battle with melanoma.
- A Staten Island drug dealer was arrested after police patted him down and found 51 packets of crack cocaine in his underpants.
- Protests outside the CBGBs-turned-John Varvatos store included chants of "Down with $800 pants!"
- Which one of these things is not like the other, Marine Park-style.
- A $7 million price cut on a Richard Meier-designed duplex sounds good--until you realize the asking price is now $33 million. (Yes, apartments are still expensive!)
- People seem happy the congestion pricing plan has been stopped.
- A Long Island man was arrested after he called police to report that he'd been robbed of several hundred dollars while attempting to purchase heroin.




Effective anti-drug PSA
Crackhead #1: "Ewww, this crack smells funny."
Crackhead #2: "Yep, that crack smells like ass. Can I have it?"
Crackhead #1: "No way! I paid good money for this crack."
Voiceover: "Did you ever think you'd be arguing over who gets to smoke your ass crack?"
hehe, love that photo, dave... and no, there was no prostrate examinations in that photo I posted... i think...;)
Great photo!