• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting at 104th Ave. and Remington St. in Queens, a bank robbery on Lexington Ave. and 45th St. in Manhattan, and a gas main break on Van Siclen Ave. in Brooklyn.
• Midtown Lunch considers why it was left off the positive press clippings wall of the new Goodburger.
• New York Shitty wonders about these Bed-Stuy guard dogs - they only have ten feet of leash and don't seem to have much food.

For those of you dreaming about brownstone Brooklyn, here's your stinky wake-up call: The "Mad Crapper" that has been leaving poop all around Boerum Hill is an actual person, versus a dog wanting privacy. Someone emailed Curbed and Brownstoner with a crazy account:

I just spent my morning cleaning poop off of my stoop. For the second time in two weeks I got pooped on. This time I saw her. I live on Dean St between Hoyt and Bond. 6:00am this morning my wife heard..... well peeing.... she woke me up and I went to the door. I live in the garden apartment so I looked up and saw butt—thus I yelled 'HEY MOVE YOUR ASS!!!!' This was the first time in my life that I literally meant it.

To balance out the news about people who are very bad to pets, here's a story about how many people are wonderful to pets: It's an update about Miss Julie, the cat whose home at a bodega was threatened by the Department of Health. Why? Because it's against the health code to have cats in bodegas - never mind the cats killing vermin - and the bodega was fined and threatened with closure if it kept the tabby. New York Shitty's Miss Heather happily reported that Julie was adopted to a couple in Kensington:

This couple had been mulling over getting a cat for some time and once John (the husband) learned about Julie via Gothamist, he contacted his wife. His wife, Nicole, in turn contacted me. After talking a little over the phone, we agreed to meet today so they could meet Miss Julie and make a final decision. more ›

Angry Park Slope signage surfaces again, this time on President Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues. With all the angry neighbors out there, we wonder why owners can't get their dogs', um, acts together, especially considering the city's new efforts to green the streets. more ›

New York Shitty's Miss Heather let us know that this adorable cat named Julie needs a new home. Miss Heather rescued the husky and healthy adult cat from terrible conditions last December and found a temporary home for her. Miss Heather writes:

Well, her temporary home (a local bodega) ended up being just that: temporary. Although the owners of this store (and their landlord) love her dearly, the decision to let her go was not theirs to make: someone saw fit to call the Department of Consumer Affairs and complain about her. more ›

"We want to get the Health Department involved and possibly get the mayor out there, too," Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty said yesterday. more ›

Just when we thought we'd seen the cutting edge of Brooklyn residential development, New York Shitty proves us wrong. Miss Heather stumbled across an interesting housing plan:

As I was taking a walk this afternoon I came across a kitty cat condo complex... For those of you who are not in the know, the property in question is where the MTA maintains a sizeable fleet of buses. I think it is safe to say that (at least) one of their employees is a cat lover.

While the State Assembly may be the face of dysfunction, we have to say their passage of a bill allowing New York City to increase the "failure to scoop dog doo" fine is something we can get behind. The bill, which would open the gate for fines to be increased from $100 to $250, still needs the State Senate's and Governor Spitzer's approval, but Assemblyman Audrey Pheffer of Howard Beach tells amNewYork he's sure it'll pass. "The fact is, it is a nuisance, it's a health problem." more ›

When walking the streets of New York, Gothamist is always aware of where we're stepping as we never know when we're going to ruin our sneakers with a step into a nice batch of dog feces. One fellow New Yorker doesn't avoid the fecal matter like we do - she actually stops to photograph and write about it on her blog New York Shitty. We can unequivocally say that there's now a blog for everything. Not only does she take a picture of Mr. Poop Head (pictured here), but the author even makes handy pie charts showing where in Greenpoint the dog logs were found. more ›