- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a pedestrian struck at 186th St. and Amsterdam in Manhattan, a child was struck and killed by a car on 130th Ave. and Springfield Blvd. in Queens, and a pedestrian was struck by a Bobcat (motorized work vehicle) on Monroe St. and Catherine Slip in Manhattan.
- Ironic Sans examines the new animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie and finds specific references to it taking place in NYC, but a very unspecific skyline of unrecognizable buildings.
- A candid admission at the blog dailyheights.com and advice that is is a terrible idea and dangerous to wander off the subway late at night while completely intoxicated.
- Sprint has hired Samsung to install a fourth-generation level of wireless Internet known as Wi-Max in NYC by the end of 2008.
- Republican Presidential aspirant Mitt Romney is presenting NYC to the rest of the country as a paradigm of the ills of illegal immigration. Bloomberg News columnist Amity Shlaes contends that he is badly mistaken.
- A pair of NYC sanitation workers sprinted across three lanes of traffic on the Van Wyck Expressway after witnessing an accident last summer, and then kicked through a car's sunroof to pull a woman and an infant from the overturned vehicle, which was smoking and leaking gasoline.
- Gov. Spitzer's aide Darren Dopp will take some vacation time before returning to work, but his suspension has been lifted following his participation in a scandal to embarrass Majority Leader Joe Bruno with the help of State Police.
- Police are looking for a pair of men who pose as plumbers in Manhattan while burgling the apartments of elderly women.
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- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting at Quincy St. and Classon Ave. in Brooklyn, a homicide on 76th St. in Queens, and a missing child on East 174th St. in the Bronx.
- Martin Scorsese sold his four-story, five-bedroom townhouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side for $6.15 million, after cutting $500K off the price.
- Someone at Fox News is allegedly fooling around with Wikipedia entries to make itself look better and competitors worse.
- The murdered daughter of two NYU professors, Boitumelo "Tumi" McCallum, was buried in her native South Africa today, 11 days after she was murdered by a possessive boyfriend.
- Brooklyn-Born Jose Padilla was found guilty of conspiring to murder, kidnap and maim people overseas. He was held for three years without trial as an enemy combatant.
- The Liberty Heights Tap Room in Red Hook (bus stop on Van Dyke St.) is now officially Rocky Sullivan's Tap Room.
- Cops are searching for a man who allegedly struck and killed a woman with his car on purpose as she was standing at a bus stop with her children early this morning.
- Con Ed leaves behind an ugly wake on one Brooklyn sidewalk
- New York City canceled its 125-year-old Labor Day parade due to a lack of interest and a corruption scandal. A rally at Ground Zero is being planned instead.
- And Max Roach, considered
thea founder of modern jazz, died today at age 83.
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