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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an amputation on Bay Parkway in Brooklyn, a female pinned beneath a tractor trailor on Hester and Bowery in Manhattan, and a bank robbery on Liberty Ave. in Brooklyn.
- How much can change in 26 years? A slideshow look at the South St. Seaport from 1982.
- The easiest way to bike the streets--on batteries!
- The passing of a New Yorker whose life mission was to prevent passage.
- When the recession hits, it's going to hit NYC hard (with graphs!).
- Customs officials at Newark International Airport busted a Colombian national for attempting to smuggle $1 million of heroin in liquor bottles.
- Slice breaks the fifth wall and opines about good eats and cartography on NPR.
- Uma Thurman's stalker is in court this week and believes his scary psycho behavior "is romantic".
- And The Brooklyn Paper looks at bird on bird behavior...that is, bird eat bird behavior.
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>>>How much can change in 26 years? A slideshow look at the South St. Seaport from 1982.
A long-ago fairytale land when there were jobs other than those in finance or tourism...
www.forgotten-ny.com
Good luck with that electric bicycle. After the law transferring jurisdiction over electric bikes from the federal DOT to the CPSC took effect a few years ago, states began harmonizing their laws with the federal law to make electric bikes legal on public roads. Last I heard, all states had finished the process except one. That's right, good old NYS DMV still considers electric bikes illegal because they can't be insured or registered and don't have safety equipment like lights and turn signals. With NYPD officers being the bike-hating pricks they are, you'd better hope your expensive ride doesn't get confiscated.
did the bill pass in the Senate for E-bikes?
there's no status update on S6898
A189 was passed by the Assembly. Bill would make it legal to operate an "electric assisted bicycle" on city streets.
Write your Senators.
Ugh... the fact that someone exhibiting classic stalker behavior might actually believe that it's "romantic" is as good a reason as any to protect one's anonymity zealously.
Debra
The Barmaid Blog
I'm sure Gersh Kuntzman from Brooklyn Paper is proud of the fact that his name is "Gersh Kuntzman" but good G-d, does he know his name is "Gersh Kuntzman"!?!
Thanks, Gothamist, that pigeon video was good for a quick laugh.
Birds are weird.
Thanks, Gothamist, that pigeon video was good for a quick laugh.
Birds are weird.
No one else is confused as to what the "fifth wall" is?
I've heard of breaking the fourth wall...
[8] Good question, because I kind of just made that up. I was trying to convey the meta- nature of a blog which reviews things being interviewed itself by a mainstream media outlet. It was an off-the-cuff phrase so criticisms will be accepted readily. I can't believe no one asked about me using "hideoufication" in the concrete lawn post.