Bloomberg: Crime Stat Manipulations are "Tiny"
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More Bald Eagles Spotted In Harlem!
- From the Gothamist Newsmap: separate incidents involving suspicious packages at 6th Ave and 49th St, Lexington Ave and Houston and Clinton Sts, all in Manhattan.
- A 60-foot dollar sign was burned into the synthetic turf field at East Hampton High.
- Services were held today for the cleaning woman found dead in a Manhattan office building last week. Her body will now be flown home to the Dominican Republic for burial.
- The sixth time was a charm when the space shuttle Endeavor finally took off.
- State Senator Daniel Squadron, who was married over the weekend, is on his honeymoon, which leaves the Senate Democrats one vote short of their majority; the Post reports that Squadron's "apparent no-show was being used as a cudgel by GOP members, potentially threatening today's unusual July legislative session." Well, today's session was stalled.
- Kirsten Gillibrand has outraised her likely opponent for Senate Carolyn Maloney by a nearly 3-1 pace so far in campaign funds.
- Yes, Maureen Dowd did write about Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings and use the word "spicy." And could a quip today about Sotomayor's affinity of prosecutor-challenged Perry Mason been written by Tom Davis?
- If you haven't been keeping up with all of the songs The Roots use for intro music on Late Night, you may have missed them playing "Like a Virgin" for Richard Branson or "Mo' Money, Mo' Problems" for Jim Cramer.
- OMG: Twilight fans flock to Brooklyn to see Robert Pattinson film a (non-Twilight) movie.
- It appears that the 2013 All-Star Game might happen right here at Citi Field.
- If you're looking for a good way to start getting in the mood for National Ice Cream Day Sunday, maybe you can find inspiration in this list of the best burger joints from '90s TV shows.
- And according to this website, Mayor Bloomberg's Twitter feed suggests that he is merely 23% heterosexual.
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So that's who that was. Fans were standing outside the Plaza hotel for the entire day trying to catch a glimpse of Robert Pattinson. I happened to be walking by when he came out and the flashbulbs fired and all I could do was wonder "who the hell is that?" I assumed it was some High School Musical actor.