Early Addition

From the Gothamist Newsmap: Car vs pole at Hill Rd & Travis Ave on Staten Island, a hazmat at 135 St & Amsterdam Ave in Manhattan, and a homicide at Seagirt Boulevard in Queens.
The Nature Conservancy is buying 14,600 acres of the Adirondacks for $16 million. The area includes where Ralph Waldo Emerson led a "philosopher's camp."
The drag queen spectacular at Lucky Cheng's will leave the East Village and take their fabulousity straight to the tourists with a new location in Times Square.
Teen drivers in NJ won't be getting plea bargains anymore!
An ex-NYPD cop convicted of killing a man in 1997 was released from prison; a judge overturned the conviction, faulting the Westchester DA's office's handling of eyewitnesses.
If DUMBO is too expensive, Sunset Park has some "creative workspaces" for rent at about $16/square foot (that's $12/square foot less than DUMBO)
Here's a cool video showing a Google Earth flyover of NYC.
Katie Holmes's Broadway debut had visitors like Dustin Hoffman and her husband Tom Cruise, as well as Scientology protestors.
And Brooklyn blog Gowanus Lounge announced it has stopped publishing for an indefinite amount of time.

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on September 19, 2008 11:53 AM

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bigandtall

famdoc, yeah, I'm sure that something else will expand to fill the niche. I guess I don't have the right to pry, but I do feel intimate with the blog after reading it for so long and would love to know. I know, none of my beezewax, but I'm curious.

famdoc

Jen: you trumped me (comment #1, above) by adding the word "her" between "and" and "husband"

famdoc

bigandtall: GL has posted two semi-cryptic messages about why he/she has ceased publication. The bottom line is that he/she has "lost a very big supporter and source of inspiration and intellectual kinship." Whether that means a death, a break-up, a loss of financial support or that it's none of our business (it's funny how blogging seems to provide some people with an excuse to presume intimacy with total strangers), we may never know. GL is fine local blog. If publication is ceased, I'm sure others will expand to fill the niche.

IvoryJive

Wait so in Sunset Park, as an artist, I could rent a little 15'x15' work studio for $2250/month and that's supposed to be cheap? Should I share this closet with three other artists or find some way to live in it?

Why wouldn't I just rent a giant loft in Bushwick or a brownstone in Crown Heights for $2/sq. ft.? Is that location down by the docks on Second Avenue near the Army Terminal really gonna make it worth my while?

Mr Mel

Years ago I was walking my dog on either E 21st or 22nd Streets and I spotted a guy and a good looking girl in an evening gown sort of pacing back and forth in front of an apt house near 3rd Ave. I decided to get a better look so I walked toward them and saw that they were both guys and one of them was trying to teach the other how to walk in high heels.