A $750,000 real estate commission? Gothamist is so totally in the wrong business! A real estate broker is suing two brokers and owner of a building leased to the Department of Education claiming that she was discriminated against because she was Muslim and thereby lost out on a fee. Ihsan Amatullah says she first showed the East 76th Street Sotheby's warehouse where the Department of Education has its Eleanor Roosevelt High School, but that City Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz, head of the council's Education Committee, sent the deal to a "personal friend" broker Peter Berman. Amatullah says that Moskowitz "refused to have a person of Islamic faith broker the lease." Moskowitz, who is not named in the lawsuit, denies that anything like that happened, and Berman's lawyer tells the Post, "There is not one scintilla of truth to any of this." more ›

dangerous due to radio waves and possible radiation. Dunh dunh dunh, even though there isn't any conclusive cell phone-cancer link. Moskowitz says a list of the cell phones and how many radio waves will hit your body if you use them sans headphones, and the two worst offenders are Motorola models V.120E and V.60x. Moskowitz said, "I didn't want to be alarmist. I just wanted consumers to be educated and to make their own decisions about the possible health risks." Let's face it - just like Gothamist, she must believe that Special Agent Dana Scully got cancer from her cellphone. more ›

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This reminds Gothamist of a story from the start of this year where many students admitted they "hold it" and don't go to the bathroom at school. Semi relatedly, the Mayor unveiled a solid waste management plan last week.
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