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From the Gothamist Newsmap: a jumper up at 28th St and 1st Ave, a fall victim at 77th St and 2nd Ave, both in Manhattan and hospital news at 164th St in Queens.
Police are looking for a man who has mugged a number of young women on the Upper East Side. The Post reports the victims were knocked to the ground and robbed of their bags.
A lawyer who represented a woman whose daughter was killed after falling into the LIRR gap in 2007 spoke to WCBS 2 about his client's suicide. He said Susan Perry, who killed herself, was upset by the NTSB report blaming her daughter, "Do I put 100 percent of the onus on the NTSB? No. But was it a strong contributing factor in Susan's decision? Yes."
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer is the latest potential candidate to "do what's best for Democrats" and withdraw any potential challenge to Kirsten Gillibrand for Senate next year.
The White House is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act, according to a federal appeals court. A watchdog grouped had sued to see Bush administration emails between 2001 and 2005.
Some say you're not eating unless you're tweeting (about it). Here's a list of Twitter feeds of some local favorite food carts.
Allan Houston will take the Knicks' 2.8% chance of winning the #1 pick to tonight's draft lottery.
The trailer of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes is out, but the real mystery might be where all the shots in Williamsburg went.
And while you were doing whatever it is you do, this blogger compiled a list of every Tracy Jordan utterance from Season 3 of 30 Rock.

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By Billy Parker in Miscellaneous on May 19, 2009 7:02 PM

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Trilby16

NTSB is the National Transportation Safety Board. Am I the only person who had to look that up?

Well, if that report wasn't enough, the mother could have read the many nasty posts on Gothamist a few weeks ago, by people who I guess never got drunk when they were 17 and never did anything stupid or dangerous in hindsight. But she was already dead.

pudeljung

yeah that's totally weird man, Gothamist just reported on this the other day.

don't they read their own news?

Steven

I don't get why WCBS posted the story about the mother killing herself today, when it was known months ago. The rest of the story didn't provide any new information also.

jaycjay

"The mother of a late teenager girl who died in an accident at an LIRR station two years ago was discovered to have committed suicide."

Yeah, I read about that somewhere...

http://gothamist.com/2009/05/08/mother_of_teen_who_died_in_lirr_gap.php