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From the Gothamist Newsmap: A car vs. building at Linden Blvd at Williams Ave in Brooklyn, police activity on White Plains Road in the Bronx, and a person shot DOA at the scene at 148th St & South Rd in Queens.
Among the quotes in the Washington Post's Gawker story, Gawker honcho Nick Denton says, "We may inadvertently commit journalism. That is not the institutional intention," while former Gawker editor Choire Sicha describes the current staff as "an unhappy group of media people writing about the unhappy media. It's gotten a little weird."
Monmouth County resident Ashley Shaffer was crowned Miss New Jersey. Shaffer, 22, performed a piece from Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot" in the talent competition.
The Momofuku restaurants are now donating their bones to animal shelters.
A 46-year-old Australian grandmother is attempting to become the first woman to swim the 28 miles around Manhattan against the current.
To research her cross-dressing role in Twelfth Night, Anne Hathaway went around New York trying to pass for a boy.
Even subway riders will applaud when a fellow straphanger finishes a Rubik's cube—with his eyes closed.
As if Andy Dick isn't creepy enough, here's Andy Dick dressed as Ronald McDonald.
Beyoncé kicked off her new tour last night at the Garden as her alter ego, Sasha Fierce. The Daily News says the diva has never before "distilled that character into something as focused, engaging and nuanced as now."
A New Jersey judge refused to revoke the bail of Jayson Williams and send the troubled former Net back to jail, despite some recent brushes with the law.
A Long Island man who claims to be a church elder with the Seventh Day Adventists in Patchogue was arrested for offering a 13-year-old boy money to have sex. The proposition allegedly took place in a 7-11 parking lot in Central Islip.
Let's get it started: Perez Hilton claims that the Black Eyed Peas' Will.I.Am and his guards assaulted him at the MuchMusic awards in Canada.

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on June 22, 2009 12:10 PM

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jibbly

Very nice image. Every time I try to take photos in there a security guard yells at me and threatens to destroy my film.

r1b2

Central Islip, in the news again, and again in the news for disgrace. Is there a lesson to be learned?

theevilone

Can I be the first to applaud Will.I.Am and his entourage?

maryjr

Isn't Beyonce talented enough as Beyonce? I don't get the whole alter ego thing. Seems like junior high school girl mentality. Maybe she's been watching too much Miley Cyrus...or maybe she's just not that talented.

longacre

She's definitely not very bright. And she's definitely not a great singer. But people give her catchy songs to sing and she's nice to look at, I suppose.

Anonymous Lost Cause

Or maybe she's talented but has the intellect of a jr. high school girl. It's not as if singing ability necessarily requires a lot of brain power.

Rocknrope

Triumph the Insult Dog at Bonnaroo:

"Is this the compost heap?"

[looks into compost barrel]

"Sorry, I was just looking for some Black-Eyed Peas singles."