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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a push in robbery on Montrose Ave. in Brooklyn, shots fired into a vehicle on Foch Ave. in Queens, and a DOA floater found in the East River near the Williamsburg Bridge off Brooklyn.
A Fox News employee is suing the station, claiming that she has post-traumatic stress disorder following repeated encounters with the bedbugs that infest its offices.
The death of a night watchman at a Crown Heights construction site has been ruled a homicide. The victim died from blunt trauma to the back of his head.
An NYPD captain is accused of public lewdness after allegedly exposing himself to a 20-year-old man in a Queens subway bathroom. The two men reportedly had an ongoing relationship.
If you open a rooftop pool in a luxury condo in the East Village, you should expect extra debauchery.
A graffiti vandal who goes by the tag SIPS spray painted his moniker over the face of firefighter Peter Bielfeld, who was remembered as part of a 9/11 memorial mural.
Unsurprisingly, members of the Park Slope Food Co-Op voted to ban plastic bags at the checkout line yesterday.
And for those of you following the trials of the International Space Station's toilet, this is how a space toilet actually works.

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By Dave Hogarty in Miscellaneous on May 28, 2008 6:15 PM

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Spirit of 76

Tags are not street art, and in the context SIPS is certainly a vandal and utterly tactless.

That's not what Gothamist has to say in this post. In any context, damaging or defacing property that does not belong to you is vandalism, plain and simple.

mocanlagunas

And what has the space station got to do with NY?!? Is their shit falling on us?

zstone

Tags are not street art, and in the context SIPS is certainly a vandal and utterly tactless.

matukonyc

"Graffiti vandal?" What happened to Gothamist's favorite euphemism "street artist?"

bklynd

If SIPS used a fire extinguisher to paint his tag, Gothamist would be running that story as an ambiguous thought piece. "Hmmm, on the one hand, he painted over a 9/11 memorial, but on the other hand, his technique is so innovative! And he did have that corner before the memorial went up. What say you, readers?"