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Photo of Jake Dobkin and Jen Chung celebrating Chinese New Year by Tien Mao

From the Gothamist Newsmap: a DOA floater at West St & Watts St in Manhattan, an unstable building at 45th St and Broadway in Manhattan and a home invasion robbery on O'Brien Pl in Brooklyn.
Second Avenue Sagas worries about the status of the Second Avenue train line as the economy continues to crumble.
With many people's jobs being scaled back if not eliminated altogether, it's always good to remember that part-timers have a right to collect unemployment as well.
That striking mural in Veselka will be removed when the restaurant expands; artist Arnie Charnick will now be selling it to the highest bidder.
Timothy Geithner was confirmed as Treasury secretary today by a vote of 60 to 34. But one reporter wondered that if Geithner could get through, why not Wesley Snipes?
In Japan, Canon is letting its employees take advantage of a new hump day program where they will allow early dismissal from 12-hour work days in order to help improve the national birth rate.
Conan O'Brien will stop Inside the Actor's Studio tonight. Maybe James Lipton will make Conan read K-Fed lyrics this time.
After being repeatedly shunned by local businesses during their time in Red Hook, The Real World is heading to friendlier territory and locating next season at the home of many an MTV Spring Break, Cancun.
And can you find Diddy in this zoomable panoramic shot of the Inauguration Day crowd?

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By Billy Parker in Miscellaneous on January 26, 2009 7:35 PM

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inoyourider

Jen Chung you're exactly as hot as I imagined...

but I still love my g/f more ;)

NannyState

Some website this is: we're here pouring our heart and soul out for the benefit of Mankind and you guys are in that office, dropping acid and dressing up like "pandacats".

matty

Jen is so cute I can't stand it. If only she would dump her well-educated, good looking boyfriend for me.

schadenfreudian mensch

Thought for a moment this was another Gothamist t-shirt Jake and Jen were hawking.

Neil Epstein

How about a photo credit for the rest of the staff that had to sit through this photo shoot?

Jen Chung

It's actually a shirt of a "good luck cat" (maneki neko) and then there are panda mittens and a hood with ears... so it's some sort of good luck cat-panda-creature.

freddynyc

Is it me or is the gaunt and down and out look very in these days, especially amongst the Billyburg set? Or is it just really rough times for those in the outer boroughs...