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  • Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: multiple stabbing victims on 23rd St. and 6th Ave. in Manhattan, a truck-jacking on 14th St. in Brooklyn, and suspicious fires caught on tape at Winegar Lane and Campbell Ave. in Staten Island.
  • If you ever wondered about the process of creating a Bobble-Head doll, the Brooklyn Cyclones are ready to tell you about it.
  • A NJ man was charged with stalking and beating to death a trio of baby geese with his umbrella. The gosling killer reportedly walked out of the woods where he committed the crime smiling happily.
  • Aleksandr Ostrovskiy, who is a 6th grader at IS 234 in Brooklyn, was crowned national chess champion for his age group after beating out 2,200 competitors for the honor.
  • If you're looking for a great romantic date with a special someone, you may want to consider watching horseshoe crabs mating on the shores of Dead Horse Bay in Brooklyn.
  • The owner of a Windsor Terrace dry cleaning business was found dead in the bathroom of her store in Brooklyn this morning.
  • The bizarre courtroom antics of an accused murderer do not amuse the widow of his victim.
  • If you're a hot gay male checking out cute policemen on duty, at least one of them encourages you to strike up a conversation.
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By Dave Hogarty in on May 16, 2008 6:15 PM

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  • sonyactivision

    ^Kooky huh? Sometimes you hear a million sirens and see all kinds of police activity, then you look in the paper the next day to see what happened...and nothing. Creepy.

  • just saying

    "multiple stabbing victims on 23rd St. and 6th Ave. in Manhattan"



    What happened? I don't recall hearing anything about this on the news.

  • Snoopy

    Canadian geese are a pain in the butt. I have a weekend place in Pennsylvania with a pond in the back and at times there could be over two hundred geese pooping away on the lawn. I never found any of them aggressive to me. You walk towards them and clap your hands and away they go. They might move slower when they have the young ones around, but will not attack you. They lower their heads and hiss and that's about it, unless of course you are another goose. Then they get pissed.



    There is no shortage of geese in this country. If they were tasty I would be a rich man harvesting the visitors in my back yard.



    Perhaps we should invade Canada, the cause of all these geese. Yes, that way we can blame the invasion on the geese and then steal all their oil. What do you think?

  • nik13

    Canadian geese are a foul fowl. Destructive, aggressive, ubiquitous & inedible. I stopped braking for them.

  • Neil Epstein

    sadly it also seems like the cops don't have much of a clue. one site mentions white honda, another mentions blue. i do remember a honda parked in front of the store often, but other than it being light in color, I dont remember.



    they're also different in reports of who found her, employee or son:



    http://www.wnbc.com/news/16295508/detail.html?dl=headlineclick

  • Neil Epstein

    really really sorry to hear about the dry cleaner. she was a really nice lady, and I enjoyed taking my business there.

  • dooWOP

    So, Dave, are you into firemen too?

  • eyekantspel

    5'8" male between the ages of 20 to 25 year old. He was said to be wearing a baseball cap, white shirt, blue jeans and carrying a black knapsack.





    I think I saw that guy. Everywhere.

  • Peter

    Terrible news about that woman in Windsor Terrace! The description of the suspect is so useless without the race. Are we to assume that he's caucasian because the article doesn't mention it?



    Quite the opposite, I'd say.

  • Rocknrope

    Terrible news about that woman in Windsor Terrace! The description of the suspect is so useless without the race. Are we to assume that he's caucasian because the article doesn't mention it?

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