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After rumors, the NY Times has confirmed that it will be cutting a few sections as part of its cost-saving measures. According to the Observer, "The City section, the regionals and the Escapes section will be eliminated as stand-alone sections in The Times. Instead, they'll just use material that may have appeared in those sections in a Sunday metro report." Times executive editor Bill Keller told employees, "We will consolidate Sunday Metro area coverage in a new Sunday feature section, which will be a showcase for news and features from the city and beyond. (Metro area breaking news will be incorporated into the A-book.)" Also, the Sunday Times Magazine will no longer have fashion spreads—they'll be going into the T magazine.

Your print edition of the NY Times may be getting slimmer and slimmer. According to the Observer's sources, "The New York Times plans to eliminate several weekly sections, including its stand-alone City Section," plus "There are also discussions to eliminate the regional weeklies in New Jersey, Long Island, Westchester and Connecticut, and the Friday Escapes section as well." This is the latest in a series of moves that the newspaper is taking to cut costs (last week, layoffs and salary cuts were announced) and it seems the City section, which arrived on Sundays with lengthy features about blog commenters and the subway, may only have four more issues left. Here are Times executive editor Bill Keller's remarks to the newsroom—one question left unanswered: What will the Weekender do?!? Also, last October is when the Metro section was rolled into Section A.

Almost all of the 17-year-olds' stories make for interesting reading.

Did you happen to read the NY Times City Section essay, Under the Scaffold, a No-Fight Club? The author Allan Ripp writes about a confrontation between some youngsters hanging out under the scaffolding of a building near Columbus Circle. Apparently the teens have been loitering around there regularly during the day, and one day, one of the kids gets shoved into Ripp's way while he's walking. Ripp decides to say something:

“You guys are always here, standing around, bumping into people and fooling around,” I scolded. “It’s not the place, and someone’s going to get hurt.” I’m certain I cursed as well.

Continue reading "Cruising For a Bruising"

Wingbridge, by Schveckle. Send your pix to photos (at) gothamist if you want us to use them.

A few months ago we were walking on Lee Avenue in East Williamsburg, and noticed some strange billboard graffiti. It looked like someone had spraypainted a beard over the kid in the ad. At first, we thought it might be the work of Beard, a streetartist who had been putting work up recently, but on closer inspection, it wasn't so much a beard as just a straight crossing out of the face.

The age-old question about whether or not there really is one rat per New Yorker arises in today's NY Times City Section. While the number of rats hasn't been officially counted, the Times answers:

As for “one rat per person,” that is a myth that has persisted for at least 100 years. As Robert Sullivan noted in his 2004 book, “Rats,” a naturalist named David E. Davis analyzed New York’s rat population in 1949 and called the one-rat-per-human statistic absurd. (The statistic had come from 19th-century England and was never more than a guess.)

Continue reading "What About the Rat Per Capita?"

We've been itching for a good tenant/developer fight and today's City Section delivers enter: Scarano v. The Orchid Man!

Today's City Section has a good FYI on New York City birds: