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NYC - Brooklyn - Williamsburg: Street Art, by wallyg at flickr
  • Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an industrial accident on Hylan Blvd. and Heinz Ave. on Staten Island, a pedestrian struck on Broadway and W103rd St. in Manhattan, and a shooting on 91st Ave. and Lefferts Blvd. in Queens.
  • More than a thousand rookie cops filled the Apollo Theater in Harlem to attend a four-day diversity lesson taught by some of the NYPD's most outspoken critics.
  • A bill before the State Assembly could require mega-stores like Costco and Sam's Club to host reverse vending machines, where customers could unload their recyclables.
  • A staffer for an NBC News contractor that published news of Tim Russert's death on Wikipedia before the network had a chance to notify his family was fired.
  • It's not a done deal yet, but an MTA official admitted that capital improvements would probably be delayed and fares would increase due to budget concerns.
  • "Hot enough to fry an egg" may soon be replaced with "Hot enough to enjoy a therapeutic massage" on the sidewalks of NYC.
  • No nice public art gestures go unmolested. The Greenpoint facsimile of a girlfriend exiled to Connecticut was grey-washed by a grinch who wants her to stay there.
  • There are the skinny jeans that hipsters wear; and there are the skinny jeans that make wearers appear more slim.

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No nice public art gestures go unmolested.

gee, who could have predicted that would happen?


1,000 rookie cops get four days of "diversity training" at the Apollo Theatre. Next up: 20 years of REAL diversity training to become veteran cops.

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It's not art, it's fucking vandalism. Jesus Christ. The fact that it looks like something doesn't make it not spray painted on a door.

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