May 5, 2008
Extra, Extra
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: falling debris on a tennis court on East 19th St. in Brooklyn, a homicide on 109th St. and Park Ln. South in Queens, and an armed robbery on Coney Island Ave. in Brooklyn.
- Dirty tricks and voter disenfranchisement linked to the Clinton electoral campaign?
- Acclaimed violinist Philippe Quint will perform a 30-minute solo concert at Newark Liberty airport for cab drivers. Quint is performing in appreciation of cabbie Mohamed Khalil who found and returned his $4 million, 285-year-old Stradivarius violin that he left in Khalil's back seat. That's classy music.
- Former NJ Governor and current 'Gay American' Jim McGreevey is fully embracing claims that he couldn't have sex without his wife without the presence of his male driver in bed with them.
- A man beaten so badly during a 6 train subway robbery last week that he went home with broken ribs, a broken leg, and fractured vertebrae died from from his injuries Friday. Cops are now looking for murderers.
- Brooklyn's losing one of its native daughters and her husband--Jen Connelly and Paul Bettany--to the West Village.
- Getting fired has never been so remunerative. The approximately 10,000 Bear Stearns employees who are getting canned after the bank cratered into a sinkhole of bad debt will be receiving 9 months pay and 1/3 of last year's bonuses.
- Gossip Girl stars make even the blandest of parking lot crowds all gossipy.
- Donations to help the survivors of the cyclone that killed and injured thousands of people in Myanmar can be made here.
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Actually, that's Tennis Court, not a tennis court - but one of my favorite Brooklyn streets.
I think you meant "...he couldn't have sex with his wife without the presence of his male driver in bed with them."
Saucy.
Where's Bernie Goetz when we need him?
I just walked by Ave W and 16th street. There is a bar on 16th and Neck Road, right by the subway. There were cops everyone and both ABC and NBC news vans.
This is a pretty calm and quiet neighborhood, I wonder what happened.
There's a street called Tennis Court? That is very clever and I applaud whoever came up with that; they had me fooled. Especially in the abbreviated syntax of the newswire.