- From the Gothamist Newsmap: a person struck by the train on E 149th St and the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, an MVA/entrapment at Bushwick Ave and Hancock St in Brooklyn and a bicyclist struck at Broadway and Weirfield Rd in Brooklyn.
- Connecticut's attorney general says that AIG paid $218 million (53 million more than thought) in bonuses.
- A Connecticut biologist warned state officials nearly five months ago that a 200-pound chimpanzee who mauled a woman last month could seriously hurt someone if he felt threatened.
- A woman was dragged by her hair in an attack during a carjacking at Walt Whitman Mall on Long Island.
- A lawsuit filed by a former student at the famous boarding school Miss Porter's claims she was driven to a nervous breakdown by constant harassment from a secret society of girls who call themselves the Oprichniki, taking their nickname from a 16th-century Russian torture squad.
- The Congressional Budget Office calculated that the White House’s tax and spending plans would create deficits totaling $2.3 trillion more than the president’s budget projected for the next decade.
- Mets starter John Maine continues to struggle mightily in spring training.
- And did one of Jim Cramer's CNBC partners-in-crime make one pretty accurate market prediction on Citigroup by accident in 2007?
hipster graffiti
how droll
sometimes Nico!
I still miss pre-ironic, pre-hipster New York.
And sometimes bare walls.
the 1940's?
1890's?
Does anyone else find it strange that Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson are married? WTF?
au contraire!
The bride wore cigarettes.