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From the Gothamist Newsmap: A city bus involved accident at E 43rd St & Fifth Ave in Manhattan, an injured MOS at E 193rd St & Webster Ave in the Bronx and and a Hatzolah involved MVA at Cortelyou Rd & Dahill Rd in Brooklyn.
Late actor David Carradine's manager doesn't think his client killed himself—and reports say that the Kung Fu star's hands were tied, as were his neck and genitals.
The FBI are searching for an upstate New York man who told a Utah bank teller he wanted to kill President Obama, "The Secret Service said Daniel James Murray, 36, has at least eight registered firearms."
Governor Paterson's right hand man Lawrence Schwartz spoke publicly for the first time since joining staff in February, "I’m like the 300-pound offensive tackle blocking for the quarterback called Governor David Paterson — everyone’s going to be held accountable."
Demolition at the Kent Avenue Con Ed plant is going slowly.
A lawyer testified that late philanthropist Brooke Astor was joking in 2003 when she asked her son if he wanted half her $198 million fortune. Her son is accused of swindling her money.
Greenwich Village neighbors of Donna Karen's Urban Zen space hate how it's so noisy (it hosted a Def Jam party the other night).
Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell doesn't spend that much time in NYC anymore, calling it a city of "energy vampires."
Speaking of donuts, a Long Island woman had entered a "Smore-O" donut into Dunkin Donuts' contest.
Director Ira Sachs, who is co-curating the 92Y/Tribecas's Queer/Art/Film series this month, discusses the word "queer."

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on June 5, 2009 12:20 PM

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Gnomie

Dear Candace Bushnell,

Those "energy vampires"? You brought them here!!

mdow

The article says the FBI is searching for the asshole, not that they've arrested him.

Dead Himmler

I think this guy is a tool. Any competent sniper would never say they are going to kill before they did it.

r1b2

Grasshopper, so well hung.

hotstepper

no candace, city dwellers are not energy vampires.

it's called "old age"...time to move to florida with all the other fuddy-duddies.

KiljoyWasHere

Some nerve. The woman lures all of the screeching harpies to NYC and then flees.

Anonymous Lost Cause

I assumed what she meant was that all her friends here were shitty materialistic harpies (like the people she writes about). I'm sure she'd find the same type of shitty people to be around in FLA or anyplace else . . .

Rocknrope

"I’m like the 300-pound offensive tackle blocking for the quarterback called Governor David Paterson"

Does anyone else out there get anxious when people in positions of power use football analogies?