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From the Gothamist Newsmap: A serious motor vehicle accident at Gerritsen Ave & Fillmore Ave in Brooklyn, a boat in distress in the Tri-boro Bridge area, and a suspicious death at the Days Inn motel on West 94th Street.
A seventh death has been attributed to the heat wave; an 88-year-old Brooklyn man died yesterday morning,
Republican Anthony Como won the special election for the City Council's 30th District in Queens.
A study shows that 1 in 8 people who were living downtown on September 11, 2001 still has post-traumatic stress disorder.
Copyranter has a hypothesis for the Mets' suckage of late.
The woman who branded an ex with the letter "R" back in 2006 was sentenced to 5 years in prison.
A website--promoting Ashanti's new single--that allowed people to "dream of bloody revenge" against people who wronged them was pulled after complaints.
And the FDA says the city has the right to demand restaurants post calorie information on menus.

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By Jen Chung in News on June 13, 2008 12:22 PM

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longacre

How many of those Como votes were from old people who thought it said "Cuomo?" I think I'll change my name to "Kemeddy" and run for Senate.

famdoc

Upon closer reading, the figure of "1 in 8," which translates to 12.5%, is not that disparate from prior studies that showed a prevalence of 11% one year later. This study looked at residents south of Canal St., those most geographically touched by the disaster. The prevalence, in this study, persisted "two or three years" after the attacks. Well, we're now nearly seven years out and I bet the prevalence is now in the low single digits. Thus, Gothamist is wrong to suggest that downtown residents "still" have such high rates of PTSD.

famdoc

Not to minimize the trauma of those who were touched personally by 9/11, large scientific studies have shown New Yorkers to be remarkably resilient, with PTSD rates going from 40% in the six months after the attacks to 11% one year later and in the low single digits more recently. Perhaps first-responders and others intimately involved in the recovery and clean-up have higher rates.