- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: person under a train fatality at Lafayette and Classon Aves. in Brooklyn, another person under a train at 53rd St. and 5th Ave. in Manhattan, and yet another person under a train at Lincoln Ave. and N. Railroad on Staten Island.
- The giant apple will be popping up every time a Mets player hits a home run at the new Citi Field ballpark.
- If you work at one the top law firms in the country, surrounded by female colleagues who have graduated from the same prestigious law schools you have, it's probably a terrible idea to run a web site where others can rank them by their "hotness."
- StreetsBlog has an interesting claymation short demonstrating the concept of raised crosswalks acting as a sort of speed bump. Drivers may not care about running down pedestrians, but no one wants to bottom out his or her car, so at least they'll slow down.
- NY State is opening a probe to determine whether the costs of last year's massive steam pipe explosion will be passed on to Con Ed customers. We're 99% certain of the answer already, but won't spoil the surprise.
- A former aide to Gov. Pataki agreed to pay a fine of $15,000 for attempting to get the state to appropriate funds to a go-nowhere plan for a women's museum in lower Manhattan.
- It's still mid-winter, but it's never too early to start contemplating the fate of the Red Hook ball field vendors.
- Shrugging off offers from Microsoft to buy the company, Yahoo! management is now entertaining a possible deal with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., which already has a Internet foothold with its ownership of MySpace.
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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a home invasion robbery on Lincoln Ave. in Brooklyn, a hostage situation on Duane Ct. on Staten Island, and a sexual assault on West 153rd St. and Macombs Pl. in Manhattan.
- "Live Free or Die Hard" director Len Wiseman is slated to direct a remake of "Escape From New York," with Gerard Butler ("300") assuming the role of Snake Plissken, who was originally played by Kurt Russell.
- The Bronx GI who hired someone to shoot him in the leg so he wouldn't have to return to serve with his unit in Iraq was spared indictment on felony charges by a grand jury.
- The original home of The New York Times, at 113 Nassau St. between Ann and Beekman Sts., is being demolished.
- Former New York Met Jose Offerman, who was a Major League All-Star while playing with the Dodgers in 1996 and Boston in 1999, has been suspended indefinitely from the minor league Long Island Ducks after striking the opposing pitcher and catcher with his bat after he was hit by a pitch.
- An NYPD captain is on trial for dragging a subordinate officer by her hair to the backseat of a car where he allegedly punched her. An NYU security guard testified yesterday that he witnessed the attack on the female officer by the ranking officer she was having an affair with.
- New York magazine searches out the best lemonades in the city.
- The New York Times reports on the biology of sweating.
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