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Score one for the Mayor's Anti-Graffiti Task Force: The NYPD arrested 34 year old Patrick McCormick, tag Map, yesterday. McCormick was on the NYPD's 50 "Worst of the Worst" graffiti vandals list. The thing is, McCormick was arrested after smashing the window of an A train in front of a police officer, who was behind him. It was on Saturday afternoon, near the Beach 98th Street stop in Rockaway. The police suspect that McCormick was trying to destroy a rival's tag, but the head of the transit bureau James Hall said, "He broke the window so we weren't able to determine that for sure."

1. The feds won't institute guidelines for September 11-related autopsies
2. The children saved by their mom from a Brooklyn house fire are doing well; the mom, though, has undergone surgery for second and third degree burns
3. The upstate mom who went clubbing with her daughter and daughter's friend and then drove drunk, killing the friend and seriously injuring another driver, was indicted for murder
4. Mayor Bloomberg kinds hates Manhattan Beep Scott Stringer
5. $20 City Councilman Vallone is distributing this to his constituents
6. The Goya en route from Ohio to the Guggenheim was stolen outside a Howard Johnson Inn! Was the "professional art transporter" distracted by the fried clams? And the thief (or thieves) had insider knowledge!

Ooh, we knew those knitters had a wild streak. The Houston-based crew, Knitta Please, have come to NYC and bombed various parts of the city. But don't crap your pants, City Councilman Vallone - their "tags" are adorable little woolens attached to sign poles and more. PolyCotN tells the Daily News it's not really vandalism since the tags, which are remnants of lingering knitting, incomplete projects, can be easily unbuttoned. Aw, even a grandma would like that.

http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2005/08/12/graffiti_games_party_under_fire.php">after complaints by City Councilman Peter Vallone last week, the Mayor, and then city, acted to stop the block party. Even though Marc Ecko, the lifestyle brand owner who designed the game, worked with the community and actually got a permit, the NY Times reports that the city said Ecko did not say the permit was a party, because apparently that makes all the difference. Mayor Bloomberg said, "Look, there is a fine line here between freedom of expression and going out and encouraging people to hurt this city...Defacing subway cars is hardly a joke; encouraging people, kids in particular, to do that after all the money we've spent, all the time we've spent removing graffiti." Yeah, given the Mayor's anti-graffiti initiatives, it's not surprising he's acting this way. The Mayor added that if the live graffiti element were dropped ("This is not really art or expression, this is, let's be honest about what it is: It's trying to encourage people to do something that's not in anybody's interest."), Ecko could still get a permit, which basically takes the wind out of what the game is. Ecko's spokesman tells the Times that they may look for a private space for the graffiti decoration part of the party because "We're not going to fight City Hall. We're not going to win." Hey, is that the spirit of Getting Up? By letting the man walk all over you? Gothamist can only assume that a truly "authentic" graffiti game launch party - yes, a totally contradictory turn of phrase - would have some sort of underground party as well.