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Photo taken outside Central Park by James Wolberg on flickr

From the Gothamist Newsmap: a homicide investigation at Lots Ave and Sheffield Ave, and overturned auto at Prospect Expwy and Sixth Ave, also in Brooklyn, and a gunpoint robbery at Richmond and Castle Aves in Staten Island.
37-year-old former boxing champion Arturo Gatti has been found dead in a hotel room in Brazil. Foul play is suspected.
The trustee who is liquidating Bernard Madoff's estate has racked up $14 million in fees. Don't worry-payment isn't coming out of the liquidated assets: Instead, a securities industry group is paying for it.
Former City Councilwoman and Harlem Success Academy founder Eva Moskowitz called Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer a teachers union "hack." The city is opening a public school in the same building where Moskowitz's charter school is located and the two schools are fighting for space.
The space once belonging to Mondo Kim's record and video store on St. Marks Place is going to be opening as a new karaoke joint for the thousands of bridge and tunnelers who desperately need an alternative to Sing Sing across the street.
Will we get a reprise of "I Saw Her Standing There" when Paul McCartney makes his big return to the Ed Sullivan Theater Wednesday night for his first-ever appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman?
Chris "Mad Dog" Russo had what Deadspin calls "one of the most epic meltdowns in sports talk radio history" when he snapped over the struggles of his transition to satellite radio and fired a producer live on-air.
And today's cover of the New York Post was the first day it was without Michael Jackson since June 26th.

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By Billy Parker in Miscellaneous on July 11, 2009 6:36 PM

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just saying

I was by Central Park after midnight last Friday and those carriages horses were still lined up for business. How many hours a day do these keep those broken down horses on the street? Don't those damn operators provide those poor horses with decent rest?

Jail_Bait

Boring ... more BP please.

Jail_Bait

Boring ... more BP please.

inoyourider

Is "Mad Dog" Russo retarded or something?

Why is he talking like that?

Does he think he's running for office?

I expected him to start referring to himself in the third person.

And who's killing all the ex-boxers?

longacre

I'm guessing you've never heard Mad Dog before. He definitely has some mental defect, but not worse than whatever affliction Mel Karmazin has that made him think paying Russo $3 million a year was a good idea.