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Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an all hands fire on 2nd Avenue, a power outage in Queens, and a robbery and foot pursuit in Coney Island.
Today was the funeral of Joe Rollino, the 104 year old strongman who was hit by a car last week. On his 103rd birthday, he could still break a quarter in half with his bare hands.
Why doctors don't get tickets in Brooklyn Heights: "they take care of us, so we take care of them."
Have you ever wanted to read a 2200 word article about laundromats? Have you ever wondered why newspapers are going out of business?

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By Jake Dobkin in Miscellaneous on January 17, 2010 7:07 PM

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aspiringrapper

With the number of posts that pass for "news" on this site, you're not exactly qualified to designate what passes for journalism. Detatched, hipster snarking does not come off as even remotely professional.

fishfryin

did anyone look at that joe rollino daily news article? it reads like a string of chuck norris jokes. wtf?

asakasan

In the business, it's called "human interest". Living in a neighborhood where community laundromats are used often, I appreciated the article, it really captured the dynamic of the people there. It's a heck of a lot better than "HEY LOOK! BIRDS IN A SUPERMARKET"! Oh yeah, and dog bites man.

Peter

A few days ago I went to a laundromat near my house in Suffolk County to drop off some dry cleaning (a service it also offers). A large sign read "We use only fresh clean water."

Huh? What else are they supposed to use, sewer backflow or something?

jterry121

Bloggers dont do anything but steal headlines from Newspapers and add a worthless sarcastic comment. You people are even more pathetic than journalists.

Jake Dobkin

Bitch and moan— it took me five whole seconds to come up with that sarcastic comment!

Jewey Nougat

"Have you ever wanted to read a 2200 word article about laundromats? Have you ever wondered why newspapers are going out of business?"

I already saw the movie and it had gay sex with Daniel Day Lewis.