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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a bank robbery on Lexington Ave. in Manhattan, a missing corrections officer in the area of Canarsie Pier in Brooklyn, and a large brush fire on 165th Ave. and 83rd St. in Queens.
If you have friends on the west coast who you're having trouble getting on the phone tomorrow evening, we'll just say that, uh, they probably have their hands full, but will probably be coming around by Monday.
Never averse to sucking the fun out of entertainment like the marrow from the bones of life, academics gathered to over-analyze The Sopranos. Michel Foucault was mentioned three times before 10 a.m.
You know you're a NYC redneck when you get on your "quad" ATV while drunk and run down a pedestrian.
In a move to solidify its position as a "national" newspaper, The New York Times is dropping its suburban beat reporters and deciding that it can find out everything it needs to know from up on high in its new HQ in Manhattan.
Beware especially of teen-aged women scorned. One in NJ is accused of burning down her ex-boyfriend's house for taking another girl to their high school prom.
Sob story about out-of-work investment bankers.
Broadway producers are looking for an actor to portray "Sweetwater" Clifton, the first black contract player signed in the NBA.