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From the Gothamist Newsmap: A school bus MVA at 225 St & 143 Av in Queens, a robbery at 106 St & The Drive in Central Park in Manhattan, and a child pinned under a bus at Rockaway Ave & Liberty in Brooklyn.
A financial historian worries to New York magazine that the financial crisis might transform New York from a "financial center" to a "tourist center," like Venice.
Maybe investing in residential housing wasn't the greatest move for private equity firms, given that "The apartments are just not generating revenues anywhere close to market rents. Yet, they were underwritten as if they were.”
Tonight VH1 airs the Hip-Hop Honors, and Newsday thinks De La Soul's inclusion is long overdue.
Fire officials are investigating this morning's fire on Third Avenue between 46th and 47th Streets in Manhattan--four firefighters were injured while they battled the blaze.
Zaha Hadid's Chanel-sponsored orb is getting built in Central Park.
The latest O.J. Simpson jury had a press conference to say they aren't racist--and that the evidence (like recordings) and laws pointed them to convict him.
And after suspending publication for a few weeks, Brooklyn blog Gowanus Lounge is back.

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on October 6, 2008 6:12 PM

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MrCow

the jury had to say they're not racist? the man is guilty beyond a doubt!!

NannyState

I've also been thinking that NYC will end up like San Francisco: a vaguely commercial but overpriced little La La Land for rich old people who like opera. The factories are gone, the studios are leaving, and now Wall Street is in retreat. All that's left are semi-precious hipster celeb-wannabes and the idiotic media types that circulate their pictures.

Splicer

Must be time to bail out the private equity firms. Can't have rich morons losing their shirts when the taxpayers can foot the bill for their stupidity.

Tell you what - I'd back more money for these clowns only if they all have the word "Asswipe" tattooed on their foreheads (and are legally prevented from covering it up).

fakenewyorker

perfect timing for the hadid structure. record foreclosures, bankruptcies, and a market downturn and chanel is putting up a folly in central park.