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From the Gothamist Newsmap: A traffic agent struck at 90 Ave & Sutphin Blvd in Queens, a violent EDP on Amsterdam Ave in Manhattan and a shooting at St. Johns Pl & Albany Ave in Brooklyn.
Pay it forward: Jauntsetter is having a blood drive at McCarren Park today—there is still spots open between 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
Must be a Kenyan or madrassa thing: No one understood what "wee-wee-ed up" meant when President Obama said, "There's something about August going into September where everybody in Washington gets all wee-weed up. I don't know what it is. But that's what happens."
Sewage backed up into the basement of Sloan Kettering Hospital—and then into the parking lot! The city was able to get the mess cleaned up.
Satmar showdown! From the NY Post, "Hundreds of Brooklyn Satmars descended on a rival faction's cemetery to protest the blocked burial of a member who died yesterday."
Police have released further surveillance video of a man suspected of committing three rapes in Hamilton Heights.
Designs for a proposed High Line building, questioned over its height, have undergone some slight tweaks ahead of a city Board of Standards meeting.
Another member of the Sulzberger clan is working at the NY Times. Sam Dolnick interned under the Village Voice's Wayne Barrett, who says, "He came to me as a raw reporter. It was at the very start of his reporting career, but he really had the right instincts."
And Ramadan begins tonight.

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on August 21, 2009 11:53 AM

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Ivete

Gibbs explains "wee weed up" here: http://tpmtv.talkingpointsmemo.com/?id=3248495

longacre

"There's something about August going into September where everybody in Washington gets all wee-weed up. I don't know what it is. But that's what happens."

You stay classy, White House.

jaycjay

"proposed High Line building being questioned over its height"

While I could almost picture someone interrogating -- futilely -- a completed building, how would one go about questioning a building that has is so far only in the planning stages?

NannyState

I'm questioning the elimination of that cantilever, which was the only cool or interesting thing about this project.

jauntsetter

Thanks so much for posting about the blood drive!

Just a note - we have lots of spots available all evening, but we happen to have an abundance of them between 730 and 930pm. And while we encourage you to register for an appointment, please also feel free to just stop on by the bus. Thanks again!