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  • From the Gothamist Newsmap: A pedestrian struck at Bleecker St & 6th Ave in Manhattan, a student arrested at Forest Hills High School in Queens, and a perp search at Prospect Park in Brooklyn.
  • The Feds are giving $12 million to NY for low income heating aid.
  • Hello, "GPS-outfitted radiation detectors": The NYPD is getting $29.5 million in homeland security money for nuclear attack prevention.
  • You've got until Monday to enter the competition for the world's record for movie watching in Times Square next month.
  • The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued the Grand Central Partnership for discrimination--workers allege the GCP "scolded [them] failing to keep uniform caps covering their dreadlocks."
  • The Observer talks to David Foster Wallace's first editor (of The Broom of the System), who says, "You could smell Pynchon and Coover and Elkin all over it."
  • There's a retirement party for the Post's "Prince of Darkness" Steve Dunleavy next week.
  • And the man who championed New York winemaking, Mark Miller, died last week. The Times writes he "was widely regarded as the father of the winemaking renaissance in the Hudson Valley, which had been home to winemakers since the 1600s but had long since fallen into disrepute."
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By Jen Chung in on September 17, 2008 7:00 PM

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  • longacre

    The NYPD hired Microsoft to develop an improved Virtual Earth mapping system to help track each radiation detector from the operations center.

    No wonder it's $29.5 million. It would be $.5 million if they used Google Maps.

    They already have at least one special truck that is almost certainly built for this purpose (let's just say it looks very unique) and they set it up at checkpoints in Midtown from time to time. Last time I saw it, I saw two cops looking carefully at the laptop mounted to the dashboard. I thought, "cool, I wonder if they detected something, and I wonder what the screen looks like when they do!"

    When I got closer, I discovered they were playing Windows Solitaire.

  • TK

    Cant the city use the $29.5 million for more Waterfalls instead? More Waterfalls for everyone!

  • palestine

    That $29.5 million is going to the NYPD to keep enforcing that TV crews cant use tripods to shoot stuff without a permit... like terrorists are really going to use sticks to scout stuff out to blow up.

    Fucking bullshit.

  • MrCow

    "nuclear attack prevention".... are you shitting me? can't we put that money to better use, like our education system?

  • Snoopy

    "The NYPD is getting $29.5 million in homeland security money for nuclear attack prevention." And what might they come up with for $29.5 mil? NADA!

  • Snoopy

    "The Feds are giving $12 million to NY for low income heating aid." Is that per individual or per household?

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