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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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By Dave Hogarty in Miscellaneous on April 28, 2008 6:15 PM

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Dave Hogarty

[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.

aydiosmio

No one else is confused as to what the "fifth wall" is?

I've heard of breaking the fourth wall...

Spiny

Thanks, Gothamist, that pigeon video was good for a quick laugh.

Birds are weird.

Spiny

Thanks, Gothamist, that pigeon video was good for a quick laugh.

Birds are weird.

CR

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"!?!

speed_racer

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.