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Earlier this week, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced that a Queens marina owner was convicted of dumping untreated sewage into Broad Channel in Jamaica Bay. Cuomo said, "John Schmitt’s actions have been truly disgusting. Dumping raw sewage into a public waterway is not just bad for the environment; it is a clear abuse of the people who use the bay for swimming, fishing, and boating." However, Schmitt's lawyer says his client will appeal, "This is a case over a toilet and a sink. There are people in Broad Channel today who still don't have sewer lines." Schmitt has been previously accused of taking 600,000 square feet of land for additional boats and dumping fuel, concrete, and other toxins into the marshland.

Well, the wake of the Nor'easter, Weather Underground says that we're likely to have "light rain showers" tonight through tomorrow day, but the winds won't be as high as yesterday (north wind between 7 and 13 MPH, with gusts as high as 26 MPH). So this means: Make sure your umbrella is in good working order.

In a Crosswalk on a Chilly Saturday Morning, by mdpNY.

Of all the things you say to a police officer of another color, is using a racial epithet really the best idea?

You take some eggs, some rowdy residents, and some undercover cops and you get a crazy riot in Broad Channel. The NY Sun has a very detailed article about the riot between police and residents, where the only part of the story that the police and residents agree on is that a bunch of kids egged an unmarked police car. Which was only in the area to respond to earlier calls about property being egged!

Halloween has its scary sights and fun spooks, but it's also a night where lots of people pour onto the streets and tend to act a little crazy.

One of the many things I love about this town is that there are a thousand places where you might find yourself saying, “It doesn’t even feel like I’m in New York City anymore.” I started driving a yellow cab, in large part, to try to find as many of those places as I could.

It's established that it's hot in the city - there were a couple power outages in Brooklyn and Yonkers (Con Ed said Monday had the second highest power usage on record!) and firefighters suffered heat exhaustion at a Brooklyn fire - but overall, things were okay, if sticky.

- Last Friday we got a reminder from the Straphangers Campaign to email or fax questions to MTA Chairman Peter Kalikow as he'll be answering questions from the public in the Daily News (email AskKalikow@nydailynews.com or fax 212-643-783). We doubt our suggested question of "Why are you such a terrible leader who demoralizes not just the unions, but riders as well with your poor decisions?" or "Are you deliberately trying to sabotage the MTA's credibility?" will be submitted to him (we probably have to frame the question differently) but maybe you'll have better luck.

Well, Gateway National Recreation Area is right in our neck of the woods, extending in three New York City boroughs and into northern New Jersey. It is a good place to start your quest for the perfect patch of sand and cooling waters.

Gothamist loves us some Quicktime VR action, so it was nice to stumble upon PBS's Hidden New York series. While some places aren't so hidden to us - like the Transit Museum and Coney Island - it's still a cool feature to kill some time with. Panoramas include Broad Channel, the World's Fair, the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, and Sailors' Snug Harbor.

The NY Times has a feature about portable potty king, Charles W. Howard, of Call-A-Head. Not only are Howard's aspirations about making sure his potties are at concerts and constructions sites all over the state, he's also looking to make Broad Channel, an island in Queens, a "great seashore community." And while it's an interesting concept and it would be hilarious if there was a Howard's End Inn, Gothamist can't get past the notion of how the Call-A-Head ("We're #1 at Picking Up #2") porta-potties must smell to the neighbors. And on the portable toilet line of thought we happened to watch last night's Late Night with Conan O'Brien repeat, with Andy Richter (Andy!) as guest; Andy mentioned how Playmobil toys were sort of insane, citing this Portable Bathroom with Crew set as evidence. So now Gothamist will be purchasing this as a stocking stuffer for our friends.

New York City as Ohio? The NY Times says it's so, as film productions take advantage of the city's new tax breaks to encourage production money come to the Big Apple. Freelance location scout Mark Bodnar ran down how the city can be transformed into almost anywhere:

For the rural South? "I'd head to Rockaway Beach and all those great abandoned Army barracks there."

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