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After Facebook removed photos of breast-feeding mothers from profile pages and albums, a protest group—on Facebook, naturally—has emerged. The "Hey, Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!" has almost 60,000 members who support nursing moms' right to post photos of breast-feeding their babies. The Daily News reports that Facebook only removes photos shown with full boob—Facebook wants the site to "[remain] a safe, secure and trusted environment for all users, including the many children [over the age of 13]"—but Mothers International Lactation Campaign has asked folks, on December 27, "change your profile picture for one day, to one which includes an image of a nursing mom." A Brooklyn lactation consultant tells the News, "The more people see breast-feeding, the more normal it becomes. It's a natural, beautiful state to be in." Previously, breast-feeding moms have taken on Toys R Us, Barbara Walters, and formula.

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a staircase collapse on Pennsylvania Ave. in Brooklyn, an unusual escort on Van Wyck and Atlantic Aves. in Queens, and a person fatally struck by a train at 170th St. and Jerome Ave. in the Bronx.
• 2007 marks the 25th anniversary of the Commodore 64 PC. The computer, which attached the primary system with the monitor and the keyboard, had a whopping 64K of memory. 17 million were sold.
• A bootleg recorded by an audience member at Rutgers turns out to be the only surviving recording of a live Woodie Guthrie performance in existence.
• Manhattan doormen vs. Brooklyn doormen. Union vs. Non-Union. A comparative study.
• Reporting that one's breasts are humongous seems akward. We imagine Tom Brokaw announcing that he's hung like a horse would be less so.
• An improperly vented furnace and dryer nearly killed 19 people at a party in Newark, NJ, as carbon monoxide accumulated in a house.
• If you've ever been to a Betsey Johnson boutique, then how her apartment is decorated should come as no shock.
• Warning: Pop Burger burgers are bigger than they appear, according to Midtown Lunch.

Perhaps it was the near-freezing temperatures at yesterday's Jets-Browns game that kept breasts covered, but that weather didn't stop crowds from flocking to Gate D at Giants Stadium for a halftime ritual - men yelling at women to expose their breasts and throwing bottles or spitting at them if they don't. Despite an attempt to shut down rowdy fan behavior at Gate D, things didn't seem to change that much at all since new procedures...

Looks like everything's bigger in the city, including your risk of getting breast cancer. After analyzing about 1,000 mammograms, researchers found that women who lived in the city of London had denser breasts than their suburban or rural compatriots. Their findings were presented at the Radiologic Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting in Chicago this week.

D is for drunk and disorderly, not boobs and breasts. At least according to New Jersey State Senator Richard Codey. The Times first reported yesterday on the halftime events at Gate D at Giants Stadium during Jets games. Hundreds of fans gather on the exit ramp, chanting at women and encouraging them to expose their breasts. If they don't lift their shirts, the women are met with boos and sometimes are spit at or have...

A Long Island woman is suing a medical lab in Rye Brook after her tissue sample was mislabeled, she mistakenly diagnosed with cancer and had a double mastectomy on her healthy breasts. Darrie Eason tells after she was told, post-mastectomy, that she never had cancer, Newsday, "I didn't know what to believe. They told me I had cancer and now they're telling me I didn't. I didn't know if the next day they were going to call me and say, 'Sorry, we made a mistake, you really do have cancer.'"

A Legal Aid Society lawyer was arrested yesterday for allegedly planting a clock with a hidden surveillance camera inside it in a female co-worker's office. WNBC reports that 32-year-old Peter Barta's distaff co-workers told police detectives that they regularly used their offices to change into work clothes (like a suit for court) or for after-work activities. Barta had videotape in his home of one of his workers with her breasts and buttocks bared.

Peter: "I think I like fondled her breasts twice." A jury found Braunstein guilty of 14 of 15 charges of assault, sexual abuse, kidnapping, burglary and robbery (they acquitted him of arson) and a judge sentenced Braunstein to 18 years to life.

Upper East Side plastic surgeon Brad Jacobs is without a medical license, after the state health department charged him with a number of violations, including smoking crystal meth with a patient as well as placing implants that were too large into another. The Post's headline - "What a Boob!" - while the Daily News goes with "State calls him doctor demento."

Chalk it up to the Wall Street Journal for making moles so interesting. The WSJ has an article about how a pioneering medical procedure and disturbing nude photos have rocked the world of dermatology. Bill Slue, an NYU Medical Center photographer who "devised a way to capture the whole body on film using 24 sectional photographs," which helps dermatologists monitor patients' moles. But now there's a dispute about whether he took photographs of female patients for his own pleasure.

The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores.

- An intoxicated couple in their home filmed during an emergency call. The duo, David Campbell and Kevin Edell who made the tape when they covered Coney Island, also made fun of different neighborhoods (they called it the "armpit" of Brooklyn) and the FDNY.

Chloroform. High-heeled shoes. A message written on the bathroom mirror. All these were things mentioned during the first day of Peter Braunstein's criminal trial, which proved graphic and upsetting. Braunstein's lawyers do not deny that the journalist attacked a former Women's Wear Daily co-worker in her apartment on October 31, 2005, by posing as a firefighter. But his defense team says that he's so mentally ill that his actions could not intentional and that Braunstein's brain "just broke."

Spring is when we get busy here in the Ist-A-Verse. Very busy. But, after staying bundled-up indoors all winter, it's nice for us to be out, about, and collecting things to write about for you. Here's a glimpse at what's been keeping your favorite citybloggers busily away from home and out of bed.

Clearly, Keith Richards telling NME that he snorted his dad's ashes is huge news, or the tabloids just didn't take to the story about an appeals court making an insurer pay for a boy's breast reduction surgery (the teen is "burdened with unusually large breasts for a boy"). Though it has the better headline, the Post disappoints us by not whipping up some Photoshop fun - like Keith snorting something out of a casket-shaped urn.

Sure, sometimes you put up with your boss's quirks because he/she is, well, your boss. But when a boss pulls down a woman's blouse, that's a big problem. Three female employees at a city welfare office in the Bronx are suing their supervisor, Serena Reaves-Cain, for sexual harassment.

- News Director Peter Landis once asked her to turn around in a dress she had on so he could "get a good look at it," We love that the Post made sure to take a picture of Sammarco with the photograph (we bet it's "exhibit A" in the lawsuit). Sammarco's lawyer says that ever since she filed the lawsuit in 2002, she's been blackballed. NY1 says the lawsuit is without merit and that Sammarco was fired because her work was "not good."

What people will do at sample sales! Sure, they'll stomp all over you or strip down to see if the clothes fit, but creating fake booty? Brilliant!

- From Mean Girls

Jessica Lynn Johnson, Actress/Playwright, From St. Louis Missouri, lived in Astoria NY for a little over a year now.

The Post today has one of those great stories that isn't ever going to go anywhere but make fun reads anyway. How could you not be curious about a story involving the first openly gay Playboy Playmate, five leering police officers, a cabby imagining a gun and a dispute with the cabby over a $10.60 fare? And we haven't even gotten to the typically perfect Post hed - PLAYMATE: COPS BUNGLED MY BUST!

If you've ever wanted to see Britney Spears naked, now's your chance (at least until a tape of her having sex comes out) and all in the name of art. One minor detail, it's a sculpture and she's birthing. On the plus side, it's life size. The artwork is coming to Williamsburg for a two week show at Capla Kestin Fine Art. The piece, titled "Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston," supposedly celebrates Spears' "decision of placing family before career" and "honors Britney for the rarity of her choice and bravery of her decision." Gallery organizers and pro-life activists claim that the sculpture is the first pro-life "monument to birth."

Brenda Staudenmaier, "The Lovely Brenda," Photographer and Mommy

We're not normally into celebrities, but ever since her appearance at Times Square on New Year's, we can't get our mind off Mariah Carey and her rapidly ballooning weight. We were watching in high-definition, and it was impossible to look away-- every dent in her huge thighs and massive breasts was right there, in stunning detail. But hey-- lots of guys like a girl with a badonkadonk, a little junk in her trunk, a little jelly, so in our opinion, Mariah's got nothing to worry about. In fact, we'd like to see her go all out-- Kirstie Alley style-- check out the full version of Hollywood Rag's fat-morphs above to get an idea of what we're talking about. [Related: more fat celebrity morphs.]

There are so many blogs out there these days-- but it's rare we come across of bloggeurs that aspire to a higher social purpose. Check out our new recent fave Holla Back:

Animal Magazine's 6th Issue comes out this week-- and Bucky was nice enough to messenger us over a copy, since we unfortunately missed Animal's "Save Krucoff" themed party at BLVD on Wednesday night. The magazine is beatuiful and glossy and filled with pictures of scantily clad girls-- but we were interested in one feature in particular: a series of interviews with some of our NYC blog colleagues. Our favorite quotes:

The spring auction weeks are a lot like a trip to Vegas. They both involve a lot of fake breasts and new money and when either one is finally over you find yourself left exhausted, hung over, and with the vague sense that you've just been made capitalism's bitch.

British Sea Power

Gothamist hates the NY Post just a little more in our love-hate relationship with the dishy tabloid, because of this story:

The demanding diva announced yesterday on live TV that she's willing to undergo elective surgery to have her breasts enlarged because her new husband, Al Reynolds, "cares about boobs." She wants, "a little lift, they're saggy," Jones told viewers on yesterday's edition of "The View."

Gothamist wonders what Frank Costanza, inventor of the brassiere for men, "The Bro," would think. Perhaps he'd call it an early Festivus gift.