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New Yorkers like to joke about the spread of chain drugstores, bank branches, and Starbucks in the city, but residents of Sunnyside, Queens can claim bragging rights in a shining example of the phenomena. Greenpoint Avenue is home to two adjacent Rite Aid drugstores, which sit literally right next to each other. According to the Daily News, it initially appears to be one giant store, but, in fact, they are two separately owned and operated...

Faces who are new to Greenpoint might best recognize Paloma for its owner and chef, Camille Becerra, a Season 3 Top Chef contestant (and early departure). Others might just head there for their touted “Urban American Cuisine,” a mix of restaurant, artspace, and convivial Greenpoint gathering spot that serves up food, drink, and oftentimes live music and DVD and television projections. Gothamist visited with a table of friends on a recent night after a successful bowling match at newly opened bar, The Gutter (which features eight vintage bowling lanes adjacent its bar). Paloma is a short walk from The Gutter’s N. 14th Street address on the Williamsburg and Greenpoint border, where food options can otherwise be sparse.

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an overturned auto on Christopher and New Lots Aves. in Brooklyn, a scaffold collapse on East 166th St. and Sherman Ave. in the Bronx, and a fire with evacuated animals on Greenpoint Ave. and 46th St. in Queens.
• If you're the head of a major corporation that wants to make a mark on the New York skyline by occupying space in a tower that comes with all the cachet of being above the Port Authority Bus Terminal, you may be in luck.
• Limousine company Attitude New York sued one of its former drivers for setting up his own company, E-Z Ryder Limousine, and allegedly poaching celebrities from its client list. The plaintiff wanted E-Z Ryder banned from ever soliciting a client he'd driven while with Attitude, but the judge thought that was a stretch and the case was decided in favor of the defendant.
• Brooklyn Assemblyman Karim Camara was arrested for drunk driving this morning and upstate police are thorough. Not only was Camara witnessed weaving through traffic doing 65 m.p.h. in a 30 m.p.h. zone, but he smelled of alcohol and was slurring his words when the cops pulled him over. Then he was given several field sobriety tests, each of which he failed. He refused to take a breathalyzer test, however, so he still has the tiniest shred of plausible deniability.
• Nathan Kensinger found his way into the tunnels underneath Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards and, thank goodness, remembered to bring his camera.
• Trailer for the street art grafitti vandalism movie Bomb It. It's about paint in public places.
• Incredible slideshow of pictures of the aircraft carrier Intrepid in a Bayonne, NJ drydock.
• The five-judge panel that refused convicted terrorist helper Lynne Stewart's bid to resign from the bar after her conviction was apparently just waiting for an opportunity to disbar her themselves.
• SHORPY, The 100-Year-Old Photoblog, has a great picture of workmen building the Manhattan Bridge taking a break in 1907, back when New York was cool.

Despite the fact that we live in Greenpoint, Gothamist never quite got around to trying out the Polish fare in the area. After reading about Joe's trip to Lomzynianka last month, we knew that it was time to take the plunge. Lucky for us, some of our friends were craving some Polish food over the weekend (because it's always better to eat with other people). They had heard good things about Christina's Restaurant, so that's where we headed. We can't say we were disappointed. The food was reasonably priced, but the service seemed a bit slow and they seemed to have James Blunt's CD on repeat. On the plus side (or not) they have a nice little wall waterfall and waitresses that dress in similar skimpy outfits.

Jeff Croteau, Librarian in G-Training