Extra, Extra
- 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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