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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: an inhalation victim at Penn Station, a technical rescue at the United Nations Plaza and a power outage at Mount Sinai Hospital.
- A New Jersey high school had a real "Donna Martin Graduates" situation on their hands where teachers ended up boycotting commencement ceremonies after seniors broke a pledge to keep their prom alcohol-free.
- Yonkers has canceled its Fourth of July fireworks on the Hudson in order to save $100,000.
- A downtown restaurateur told a community board his Lower East Side restaurant would have a "Frank Lloyd Wright style wood beam structure with thick sound dampening glass," but the renderings aren't very Wright—just very woody.
- The NY Times' Clyde Haberman compared Tehran to Albany, "In one place, political developments are being shaped in part by Twitter. In the other, they are shaped by twits."
- In what appeared to be a coordinated exchange, President Obama called on the Huffington Post's Nico Pitney near the start of his press conference and requested a question directly about Iran.
- "A Bolivian news program has claimed to have the first pictures of what happened aboard Air France flight 447, but they're actually just SCREENCAPS FROM LOST."
- Davonte Kelly, the little leaguer who was hit with a stray bullet a couple weeks back, threw out the ceremonial first pitch at tonight's Mets game.
- Patti LuPone, who has stopped shows in New York and Vegas to berate audience members for taking photos and texting, has fired back at the "very snide" New York Times.
- Joseph Brooks, best known for the Academy Award-winning 1970's hit "You Light Up My Life," was arrested after using his name and career to lure in women on craigslist and then sexually assaulting them.
- And who better to get the scoop on TomKat moving to the East Village than Nat Hentoff?
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the cops have busted the block of canal street near pearl paint.
I talked to them and they said that
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The really hilarious part about that is not just that they obviously don't watch Lost, but seriously, a picture taken from inside a plane that crashed into the ocean? Nobody at any of these organizations took a step back and said "Hey, wait"?
Awesome picture!
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get it right!
Spanish people are the pinnacle of DRAMA. I cant say our newscasts are much better
But Escandalo Teh Veh! And you saw how they kept showing it over and over and over. Tacky just tacky.
But you, you light up my...WHAT THE F**K???
Wait, they couldn't fight off a 71-year old? Lock that loony bastard away, please. Twas the Viagra made him do it.