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  • From the Gothamist Newsmap: a severed finger on Adam Clayton Powell Blvd in Manhattan, a person on the tracks in the Bryant Park subway station and a barricaded perp on 95th St and Riverside Drive.

  • Connecticut is one of 40 states that have reached a deal with Craigslist to crack down on prostitution and human trafficking on the site.

  • The CNN producer who died in her Manhattan apartment with her 2-year-old clutching onto her was determined to have overdosed on cocaine.

  • Is Russian president Dmitry Medvedev clearing the way for Vladimir Putin to be president again? It's unclear whether President-elect Obama would resurrect Bush's nickname for Putin--Pootie Poot.

  • A much-hyped auction at Christie's led to a night with a lot of lingering silence when pieces just plain wouldn't sell.

  • 150 parishioners of the scandalized "Father Elvis" gathered together for a prayer service for the priest last night.

  • A clip has surfaced of an upcoming episode of "The Best Damn Sports Show" that features Lawrence Taylor violently slapping himself to make a point as others in the roundtable look on uneasily.

  • With Michelle Obama now the First Lady to be, an open letter suggests that the time for SNL to hire a black woman for its cast was "yesterday."

  • And if you ever get into a bar fight in Greenpoint, you might just want to keep your hands in your pockets.

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By Billy Parker in on November 6, 2008 6:15 PM

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  • Bottomless Chips
    "And if you ever get into a bar fight in Greenpoint, you might just want to keep your hands in your pockets."


    Red Star is across the street from Paloma. A bad couple of days for those two establishments.

  • Perhaps SNL can give Condi Rice a job come January.

  • HUGO_MEGO

    Putin is 500 years old. He is a vampire.

  • MusicMuse

    Umm, for SNL: Maya Rudolph was on the show and she's definitely at least half-black.

  • rachmata

    poor kid, how can you be overdosing with your kid next to you!!!!



    isn't putin like 200 years old

  • nik13

    Shouldn't that be "ex-CNN producer"? She left them 10 years ago.

  • moocowtoo

    >The CNN producer who died in her Manhattan apartment with her 2-year-old clutching onto her was determined to have overdosed on cocaine.



    You guys posted this one at least three times already in summaries.

  • HUGO_MEGO

    SNL will never mock Michelle Obama because #1, she is the cult leader's wife, #2 she is black, #3, she is black.

  • jaycjay

    "And if you ever get into a bar fight in Greenpoint, you might just want to keep your hands in your pockets."



    Come on. A blog post saying "It is RUMORED that a certain bar in our fair burgh had a brawl which culminated in a person biting off another person’s finger."



    I didn't even have to add the caps to emphasize why this isn't news. They were already there in the initial post.



    But hey, if you want to post updates on bar fights in Greenpoint, I hear about -- or see myself -- one almost every week. Let me know, I'll send you all the rumors.

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