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Billard Room, by lily_bart at flickr
  • Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a suspicious death at 853 Driggs Ave. in Brooklyn, a DOA floater in the Harlem River south of the Cross Bronx Expressway, and a suspicious package in Central Park in Manhattan.
  • New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning will be getting married to his fiancée Abby McGrew today in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
  • Corporate sponsors of this weekend's Go Green! Greenpoint Earth Day festivities in McCarren Park include ExxonMobil (responsible for the largest oil spill in history in Greenpoint), BP America, Waste Management, and Forest City Ratner Company.
  • Seven students at a Park Slope middle school are being accused of staying after school by hiding in the building's basement, and then setting fire to the teacher's lounge.
  • Police are conducting an internal investigation of whether cops operated properly when knocking down the front door to a Hasidic family's home after an officer's son was injured in a racially charged assault.
  • A Brooklyn establishment is putting the fun in funeral homes.
  • DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan explained plans to make the city more bike and pedestrian friendly in the wake of congestion pricing's defeat.
  • NJ lawmakers are trying to come up with a new state slogan to replace the more than 25-year-old "New Jersey and You, Perfect Together." Any suggestions?
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By Dave Hogarty in on April 19, 2008 6:15 PM

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  • Fritzdecat

    damn nice billiard room

  • TimSPC

    "New Jersey: OOOOOOOWWWW!"



    (picture that "OOOOOOOWWWW" like when Paulie Walnuts is reacting to something he didn't want to hear)

  • Cord

    "New Jersey, Nothing is congested here"

    "New Jersey, Each Governor is a scandal on to himself"

    "New Jersey, A special place for special people."



    You know it's bad in New Jersey when they need a new slogan.



    http://satiricalmilk.blogspot.com/

  • TN

    "New Jersey, What's that smell ?"



    "New Jersey, We have greats views of the place you really want to be, New York"



    "New Jersey, Where real New Yorkers now live"

  • Snoopy

    "I luv NJ"

  • Dave Hogarty

    "New Jersey, Just Pay the Toll and Get Out Already."

  • Snoopy

    "New Jersey! It's more than a turnpike."

  • Snoopy

    "New Jersey! It's not for just old fat people anymore."

  • Snoopy

    "We've put back the New in New Jersey."

  • Sommelier

    "New Jersey. You got a problem wit' dat?"

  • nivek

    Thanks for making me want to play 9-ball now.

  • Snoopy

    How about "Jersey sucks!" or "Oops sorry can't afford to live in NYC, settle here." or "Jersey, it ain't a laughing matter." or "Join the Jerkoffs in Jersey."

  • Spleenhg

    How about the title from the Joe Cosgriff song that made John Pizzarelli (a famous New Jersey-ist)famous "I Like Jersey Best"?

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