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From the Gothamist Newsmap: A motorcycle MVA at Bedford Ave & Ave V in Brooklyn, crowd control at E 39th St and Lexington Ave and a homicide at East Gun Hill Rd & White Plains Rd in the Bronx.
A program that pays poor NYC families to improve school attendance, keep jobs, and get regular medical checkups has shown only modest success.
One of Governor Paterson's advisors continued to collect a $213K annual salary for work at the Empire State Development Corp— for 8 months after he left the job.
Latest hipster thrill ride: surfing the walls outside the new Cooper Union building.
Did you ever wonder how the Amish stay abreast of local news?
James Franco is taking a queer cinema class at NYU.
The new Hollister store on Broadway might be poisoning its neighbors with perfume.
Things you don't want to find on a playground: "more than 100 needles, many loose and unwrapped blood vials, razors, vaccine containers, and red plastic bio-waste bags."
During a 1995 visit to Washington, Boris Yeltsin tried to go out for a late night pizza, clad only in his underwear!

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By Jake Dobkin in Miscellaneous on September 21, 2009 6:30 PM

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thelexiphane

I was in Washington in 1995 and would frequently go out for pizza in my underwear. DC was a different place then. Guess you had to be there.

Oh yeah; I was in college though, not the President of a nuclear superpower.

NannyState

The infamous Jack Kent Cook, probably DC's richest, most powerful local once appeared in court in a bathrobe and bikini underwear. That burg is rife with such fetishists.

jaycjay

Slacker. Hell, I was President of three different superpowers over the course of my college career. You youngsters just aren't as motivated as we used to be.