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-- We didn't report on Kapporot last week. That's a Jewish holiday-- "the ritual involves transferring a person’s sin to a live chicken."

Note from the publisher: today we're announcing a new experimental feature in our Gothamist Labs section: the Gothamist News Map. In nearly real time, it's mapping all the police, fire, and breaking news alerts that we receive from the various wire services. Check it out-- you'd be amazed by all the shootings, suicides, fires, and crane-collapses that you're not hearing about on the 6pm news. Some of the data that comes in is unmappable using our location algorithms-- so we've placed that data in a box at the bottom of the screen-- don't forget to glance at that, because often some of the most interesting stuff is down there.

An anonymous commenter on Gothamist Labs sent in this link to a rendering of this gigantic imaginary penis-like building. It seems to be positioned up by 59th Street or so, and looks to be about 10,000 ft tall! That's probably impossibly tall, even with the futuristic elevators that will no doubt be invented by our future robot overlords. [Related: NYC fantasy buildings at SkyscraperPage-- our favorite is the 2500ft BoA Center-- and the never-built NYC page at Emporis.]

Hot on the heels of the comes this news from Gothamist Labs: "At TEANY this morning.... There was a huge meeting with Moby this morning and he annouced that Teany today is the final day and he gave everyone one weeks compensation pay. They are going to reopen in a month with something different, but they fired everyone as of today."

Who-ho! Special suprise announcement for those of you who haven't left town yet: Gothamist Maps is finally live, and ready for a soft launch today! Goth Maps is a really fun and useful page-- our idea was to create a mashup that showed stuff that's going on right now in New York City. We figured it would compliment the news and events coverage that we already do. So far we have three data sources built into the page: Dodgeball (showing top venues from the last week, so you know the current hot-spots), Upcoming (Yahoo's amazing cooperative events listing), and reader-submitted listings (you can submit your own stuff just by clicking on the map-- try it! It's perfect for listing a party, a newsworthy occurance, an art opening, etc.) We're looking for more data-sources all the time, so if you have an idea for data we should include, let us know. Caveats: we're still polishing the page up, so expect some bugs, and give it a few seconds to load all the data-- there's a lot to queue up!

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