
Photograph of looming clouds over the Upper West Side by Jen Chung
- From the Gothamist Newsmap: A vehicle pursuit on Gun Hill Road in the Bronx, a home invasion robbery on E 92nd St & Kings Hwy in Brooklyn, and a train job at 16 St & 8 Ave in Manhattan.
- Downed trees caused problems on some subway lines last night.
- Circle Line hopes rising gas prices might mean more New Yorkers will opt to tour their own city over the summer.
- Governor Paterson underwent a surgery to relieve pressure from his eye--then went to his son's graduation where he was the commencement speaker!
- The New York Blood Center is running low on blood--please consider donating.
- An overachiever grows in Brooklyn: New Utrecht High School senior Lukasz Zbylut has gotten into all Ivy League schools and 11 other prestigious colleges. He's choosing to go to Harvard.
- From garbage dump to a Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course, the transformation of some land in the Bronx hasn't gone very well.
- Was Barack Obama's hiring of Hillary Clinton's former campaign manager a huge f--- you or a unifying move or stupid?
- And there will be free massages at Grand Central Taxi Stand (43rd and Vanderbilt Ave.) today between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m., courtesy Sam-E.




And there will be free massages at Grand Central Taxi Stand (43rd and Vanderbilt Ave.) today between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Are Happy Endings included?
I don't think the hiring of Solis Doyle is a fuck you, I think it's just stupid. She ran a bad campaign.
Why take one of the people responsible for taking Hillary from being the leading candidate, to being the also-ran, and add them to the Obama campaign?
It makes no sense to me.
The two men that died in the fire on SI were local fixtures to Voctory Blvd's latino community. Though from time 2 time they were a bit much, the community will not b the same...
Via con dios Angel......
$27 to cruise around Manhattan on the Circle Line? No, thanks. I wonder how much it costs to rent a kayak for a day. Pedal boats would be even better, since they use less effort.
If you read the article, Lukasz Zbylut was accepted at the seven Ivy League schools he applied to. He didn't apply to Brown.
Is that regulation still in place where gay people can't donate blood?
The one good thing about Obama's new hire: it all but guarantees Hillary will not be his running mate.
#1, you get that at the nearby oyster bar.