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From the Gothamist Newsmap: A barricaded EDP on 60th Ave in Queens, a fatal jumper down at Faile St & Gilbert St in Brooklyn, and a bank robbery at 99 Park Ave in Manhattan.
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is edging towards the Louisiana coastline. Some residents in the New Orleans area are beginning to smell oil.
Parks officials are no longer considering a plan to put bubbles over Central Park tennis courts.
"An auxiliary cop was accused Wednesday of being the hired muscle behind a Brooklyn brothel, ferrying hookers to casinos and threatening to kill a snitch." He also married the madam!
The circumstances around a fatal crash between a tour helicopter and small plane over the Hudson last summer include a distracted controller, another controller who wasn't wearing his glasses, an inexperienced chopper pilot, and more, according to a report.
The Time 100 list was released, maybe the only list in the world that includes Lady Gaga, Amartya Sen, Glenn Beck and Banksy. The Smoke Monster is sort of on the list (via Lost creators Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof.)
Dreckitude: Snooki's ex-boyfriend is doing a dating reality show with Spencer Pratt called "Fist Pumping For Love."
An ad for the Alabama governor's race says, "We speak English."

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on April 29, 2010 6:21 PM

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poxod

Faile St and Gilbert St are in the Bronx, not Brooklyn. [tasteless pun rescinded]

Mike

RE the helicopter crash... the original article specifically states the helicopter pilot is experienced, not inexperienced as this summary wrongly indicates (the NTSB report indicates he had over 3,000hrs logged). It merely says he took a course that is not the standard course helicopters follow.