- From the Gothamist Newsmap: a person struck by a train at Grand Central Station, a foot pursuit on 86th St in Brooklyn and a bank robbery on 14th St and 8th Ave in Manhattan.
- By a vote of 59-0, the Illinois State Senate has voted to remove Rod Blagojevich from the office of Governor and to bar him from ever holding public office again. Said Blago: "I'm sorry for pushing and prodding too much sometimes.
- Watch out, New York Twimes. The Daily News is catching up with you on the Twitter beat with a story about local "tweetups" and the twestival coming to town.
- Google Street View Van hits a deer in upstate New York. Warning: Don't drive up and rotate the view. Spoiler: Bambi doesn't make it.
- Adam Kuban at Serious Eats orders a hot dog and french fry slice at Brooklyn Heights's Pizzeria Reginella: "I feel funny right now after getting about halfway through just one slice."
- Brandon Jacobs wants Plaxico Burress back with the Giants next year, saying that Plax is "a different person" and that the team did not have enough time to reform their identity after losing him. Amani Toomer, meanwhile, thinks he was a bigger factor in the Giants' woes this year.
- Have you really seen PETA's too sexy for the Super Bowl ad until you've seen it reenacted on The View by Whoopi Goldberg?
- You know those part-duck, part-fox animals commonly known as Fucks? Well they live in New York, but don't worry, they're very silly.
- And in a TV news segment from 1981: "Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee, turning on your home computer to see the day's newspaper. Well, it's not as far-fetched as it may seem."
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Oh, I see the new Bushvilles are starting to set up already. The upper 'units' seem to be view properties too! How utterly delicious.
This whole home computer thing is a passing fad. It will never be more than a toy.
"I'm sorry for pushing and prodding too much sometimes."
Sometimes?
Hot dog and french fry pizza? That doesn't even sound good unlike say, ziti pizza.
That goddamn Google Streetview van nearly ran me over while I was trying to score some crack under the GW bridge.
"We're sorry the street view is currently unavailable due to high demand"
Guess everyone wants to see the dead deer.
>>>Watch out, New York Twimes. The Daily News is catching up with you on the Twitter beat with a story about local "tweetups" and the twestival coming to town.
I refuse to get involved with anything in which the vt. form is "tweet."
www.forgotten-ny.com
they removed the image of the dead deer.... man i was just getting hungry too
It's called Grand Central Terminal, because it is a terminus, not a station.
A terminus can also be a station, but a station does not necessarily need to be a terminus.
Nonetheless, its name is Grand Central Terminal.