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Photo taken at Top of the Rock by the alan(ator) on flickr

  • From the Gothamist Newsmap: an EDP with a knife at 125th Street and Broadway, an armed robbery on W 42nd St and a sexual assault with a robbery on W 30th St all in Manhattan.
  • A lawsuit filed by the wife of a Bronx man who died of a blood clot claims that EMS workers made no effort to get to the man when they responded to his 911 call and then could not get into his building.
  • Ever heard the one about the Verrazano Bridge dropping its toll once it's fully paid for? Well there's a reason you only heard it from a friend.
  • A new study shows that New York is spending the most of any state on long-term health care but only getting average service.
  • An 11-year-old boy outside Pittsburgh is going to be tried as an adult after being arrested for fatally shooting the pregnant girlfriend of his father.
  • Reports are coming in that an arrest is imminent for the 2001 murder of Chandra Levy.
  • Was SNL's Keenan Thompson joking when he said that no matter how much scandal Chris Brown is involved in, the show would be happy to have him on "if he had another hit single"?
  • Miley Cyrus says that her relationship with her dad Billy Ray is not weird.
  • And with news of an upcoming Snuggie Pub Crawl, how far behind is a sleepover with this next level item found by Buzzfeed? Is the "Slumbie" next?

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  • NannyState

    WTF? Now we get Top Of The Rock pissing contests? Everybody took that picture, ok? Take one from the top of the Times Tower. They've even supplied a helpful ladder to aid your ascent...

  • The Edge

    Were you guys shooting handheld? I see motion blur in your friend's shot.

  • dantekgeek

    Not to toot my own horn too much, but my friend and I were up there last thursday night and managed to get some neat shots despite the freezing wind.



    Mine and his.

  • The Edge

    HDR has gotten boring.

  • aydiosmio

    This is the best photo from 850ft above NYC Gothamist readers have to offer?:(

  • longacre
  • Past Taliban

    "From the Gothamist Newsmap: an EDP with a knife at 125th Street and Broadway, an armed robbery on W 42nd St and a sexual assault with a robbery on W 30th St all in Manhattan."



    How about starting to report the areas where there is NO reported crime, so we can all seek refuge there?

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