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From the Gothamist Newsmap: A hostage situation on City Blvd on Staten Island, large theft from school (PS 75 on Faile Street) in the Bronx, and a person fell on tracks at West 110 & Lenox in Manhattan.
Oh, no: At a NY State GOP event in St. Paul, former Governor George Pataki said yesterday, "I'm back! I'm getting involved!"
Drama at Fort Ticonderoga: Its executive director is in the middle of a spat with major benefactors (of the Mars candy fortune) and now it's financial future is uncertain!
An Illinois town is trying to figure out if they can place a 130 foot tall foam replica of the Statue of Liberty on an island.
Christopher Hitchens mourns the end of the Village and says the designs for the new St. Vincent's hospital "look like a plan made by Donald Trump's people on an especially uninspired day."
According to Midtown Lunch, Eighth Avenue is the "fried chicken corridor of NYC."
And if you watch only one Sarah Palin video today, make it this one.

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on September 4, 2008 6:43 PM

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jack9

"According to Midtown Lunch, Eight Avenue is the "fried chicken corridor of NYC."

"Eight Avenue"??

Future Taliban

Where's the corresponding caption for the posted pic?. Lemme guess; "Laundry Piles Up in East Village Backyard"

NannyState

Christopher Hitchens "mourns the end of the Village"? What? Did another bar close there?