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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting on St. John's Pl. and Nostrand Ave. in Brooklyn, a bank robbery on Allerton Ave. in the Bronx, and an aircraft emergency at JFK Airport in Queens.
- A decade after his 2-day imprisonment made him a time lapse celebrity of the Interet, elevator captive Nicholas White speaks to WCBS.
- Pity the rest of the country for the recession it's suffering, but remember that those economic downturns tend to last twice as long, cut much deeper, and arrive as a lagging indicator in New York. In short, we're screwed.
- Al Sharpton will be closing down NYC next Wednesday, May 7th, in protest of the Sean Bell murder verdicts.
- Methadone is a prescription drug meant for heroin addicts to kick, but a 15-year-old girl overdosed on it after a classmate sold her some pills from his father's nightstand drawer.
- A film production assistant was briefly hospitalized after being struck by a plank of plywood that flew off a Manhattan construction site. Walter Wilkerson was irked at being plunked by plunging debris: 'I'm still mad about my coffee," which was spilled during the incident.
- Documentary filmmakers traveled to Japan to scrutinize the post-Mets life and career of Bobby Valentine.
- Oh, good - Barack Obama is going to cancel all his appearances on May 30 so he can see the Sex and the City movie!
- And Long Island City isn't developed enough for NYU to develop there, so residents can probably breathe easy for a year.
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Where and when can I sign up for the Al Sharpton "Shut down the city" event? Is there a registration fee for this event or is it free? Do I have to show that my great great great great aunt who was raped by a slave owner was actually the mistress of Robert E. Lee?
Why don't the reverends Al and Jesse get their fucking act together and go into their colored, black, or what ever you want to call them communities and stop these animals from assaulting each other and the populace in general?