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Buglisi Dance Theater, by dietrich at flickr

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: car into a bank (without a drive-thru) at 108th St. in Queens, a large sinkhole at Broadway and Union Ave. in Brooklyn, a high-angle rescue on Madison Ave. in Manhattan.
While Sex & the City screenings were a nightmare for some women, the Post found a passel of gay guys who were very excited. "Sam Pedraza, said he was there 'because I'm as snarky as Miranda and I want to have the gayest Friday ever.'"
A wife normally wouldn't hesitate to use her husband's stationery to send a note to friends; but when your husband is NY Gov. Paterson, the stationery has his seal and imprimatur on it, and you're using it to support a political friend--that is a terrible idea.
It's hard to keep one's beach security posse organized when dollars are being argued.
Very cool copter-captured photos of the Atlantic Yards development site.
The Yankees have a former FBI agent as the organizations new head of security. That's FBI, not Secret Service, so he won't be throwing himself in front of any bean balls to protect Jeter at the plate.
Two painters were killed and a third was seriously injured after the scaffolding at a Hudson County, NJ industrial site collapsed.
Frank Shattuck II, the last president of Schrafft's, died this week at the age of 89. If you're too young to remember Schrafft's, ask your parents or the oldest neighbor in your building, and they can tell you about a New York that no long exists.

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By Dave Hogarty in Miscellaneous on May 31, 2008 6:15 PM

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Dave Hogarty

My grandmother's first job in NYC after immigrating from Ireland was working as a waitress at a Schrafft's.

Mr Mel

In the late 1950s, a friend and I went to lunch at the afore mentioned 13th & 5th Ave Schraffts. It was a hot muggy summer's day, we were wearing dress shirts and neckties but no jackets. We were allowed in only after we agreed to wear jackets supplied by Schraffts .they were waiter's jackets.

Snoopy

Schrafft's. A place where women could go and dawdle. How many other places offer that experience? There was a Schrafft at 13th and 5th Avenue before it became the Lone Star Cafe. Oops? What happened to the Lone Star Cafe and the larger than life Iguana that slept upon its roof?