
Grooming = Love!, by La Mariposa at flickr
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an aircraft emergency at Laguardia in Queens, a fall victim at Dean and Carlton Streets in Brooklyn and a fire at White Street in Manhattan.
- Fred Bunicelli was 65, but his last living act was to push his wife to safety before being fatally struck by a van in a Staten Island parking lot.
- Eight cops are going to be disciplined in the shooting/killing of Sean Bell.
- When did Far Rockaway turn into the TerrorDome? Another teenager was shot in the killed on Mott Avenue yesterday afternoon.
- 100 ex-cons joined the ranks of lobbyists at the Albany statehouse, to make their re-entry into society as productive citizens easier. They may have been the most honest guys there.
- One moment Nintendo Wii is all about getting you fit, the next it's promoting its competitive eating game with an eat-off at the Nintendo World Store.
- A crazy Bed-Stuy flip the involves outsize mortgages and (of course) a tale-ending foreclosure.
- And the woman who located the first City Hall died last week. Regina Kellerman, who was 84, was also the founding executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation.




when did FAR ROCK turn into the terror-dome?
i'd say 1973
Dunno if it's true, but according to rumor the Housing Authority uses the Far Rockaway projects as a dumping ground for troublesome tenants from projects elsewhere in the city.
anyone know anything more about the fall victim at dean and carlton or the bicyclist struck on dekalb?
i like how the article keeps repeating that the guy who pushed his wife out of harm's way was an old man.