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From the Gothamist Newsmap: a church burglary on Seabreeze Ave in Brooklyn, a perp search at 29th St and Broadway in Manhattan and an armed robbery at Cooper Ave and 83rd St in Queens.
A man who crashed his speeding sports car into a utility pole Friday night in Staten Island died today at SI University Hospital.
Police are still investigating who was behind the shooting outside a Long Island high school basketball game Friday night. The 14-year-old victim was announced to be in stable condition.
Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes is angry that disgraced Assemblyman Charles Norman has managed to get himself transferred to a minimum security prison downstate with a view of Central Park.
Governor Paterson is apparently set to announce new taxes on gasoline, clothing and an "obesity tax" on non-diet sodas in his budget Tuesday. Before that arrives though, he is expected to issue a response to last night's send-up on SNL.
Could former MVP Steve Nash be a Knick come next season?
The Central Park bird count is on!
And Lost City has their annual Bring Out Your Dead list for 2008, mourning New York's loss of Astroland, Yankee Stadium and Le Figaro Cafe among other landmarks to close their doors this year.

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By Billy Parker in Miscellaneous on December 14, 2008 6:35 PM

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Rob T Firefly

You guys are talking like non-diet soda is some pinnacle of natural purity. It's all a chemistry experiment nowadays.

FrankMartin

What if I am thin and fit but prefer "real" coke. This is BS. Garbage revenue grab and social engineering. Pathetic.

Steven

Yep Toby. I would bet high fructose corn syrup is better for you then some of the chemicals they use in the diet soda and low fat or fat free food.

If Patterson whats to fix obesity he should make the soda companies use REAL sugar.

Toby von Meistersinger

If they "obesity tax" on non-diet sodas, then they should have a "chemical tax" on the diet sodas. I rather have real sugar (or high fructose corn syrup) than some chemical compounds that will kill you.