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From the Gothamist Newsmap: A shooting at Jacobi Hospital in the Bronx, a shooting at Dean & Classon in Brooklyn and a suspicious package at W17th St & 10th Ave in Manhattan.
The company that loaned celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz $24 million is asking a judge to allow real estate agents into her homes so they can be sold off to pay off the loan.
State Senators promised to vote on mayoral control next week, which would ensure Mayor Bloomberg remains in charges of the largest public school system in the country.
The government was thinking of suspending its popular "Cash for Clunkers" program because, well, it's so popular that the $1 billion dedicated to the program may run out, but the House is set to sign a $2 billion bill to keep it going.
The Upper West Side condo conversion The Apthrop needs to sell eight more units by a September deadline so it has enlisted the help of a broker also known as "Jaws."
Economy ouch: Montvale, NJ has told its town employees there will no longer be any free coffee—apparently it cost over $6,000 last year.
Sure, President Obama might be fine with his "mom jeans" but Lee Jeans wants him to do something about it.
In WTF news related to the Commander in Chief, apparently only a small percentage of Republicans think he's a citizen. Is it 2008 again?

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on July 31, 2009 11:55 AM

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soopahgrover

I can't find any news stories about a shooting at Jacobi Medical Center. I only find stories of a recent shooting that took place during a home invasion, and the victim / intruder was taken to Jacobi Hospital.

jaycjay

Well, every shooting incident isn't reported in the news... but it also could be the case that the police call reported on the newsmap involved a shooting victim at the hospital. Police would be notified to go there to investigate it; the location where the shooting happened wouldn't even be known at the time.

jibbly

Annie Leibovitz: Mo' money, mo' problems.

She earns $3Mil a year and is still in financial trouble. Crazy talk.

Spirit of 76

That NYMag piece says 42% think Obama is a natural-born citizen. That's hardly "a small percentage." That's still ridiculously low and indicative of the level of intelligence (or lack thereof) of the general populace and the anti-elitist Republican party in particular, but you're not doing Gothamist's credibility any favors by exaggerating here.

longacre

Obama let it get too far without seriously addressing it. As his approval numbers have continued to plummet, the number of people who raise questions about him has only gone up. Now there's nothing he can say that will make the birthers believe he's legit.

What is more disconcerting than their questions is that the birthers basically think the whole world is in on the cover-up, including John McCain. Of course the GOP and McCain's lawyers looked very hard to find evidence that Obama was born somewhere else, and obviously they couldn't find any or else we would have known about it last year. McCain's own lawyers made a statement to that effect a couple of weeks ago, but even that wasn't good enough...the birthers continue on undeterred.

Outter Burrougher

considering that these people have little to no understanding of what "natural born citizen" means, there was never anything he could have said to make them understand. because his mother was a citizen (and had lived in the US for more than five years, two of which were after she turned fourteen), he was a US citizen at birth even if he had not been born in hawaii.

longacre

How do you know she is? We'll need a copy of her birth certificate as well, please.

longacre

The gap between approve and disapprove is narrowing rapidly. Approve line is down only about 24% but the disapprove line is up 350%. And some polls have a negative approve/disapprove spread. With health care dead in the water for now and job numbers likely continuing to fall over the rest of the summer, these numbers could very well drop more precipitously than before.