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The owner of a Papa John's in Norwalk, CT uploaded footage of a delivery car being robbed of a GPS system and an iPod to Youtube, hoping the community would be able to help identify the thief.

Today's new and narrow NY Times Metro section features a battle over pizza propriety. The Times reports Papa John's Pizza is opening right next door to Johnny's Pizza, a 39-year-old Sunset Park institution. John Miniaci Jr. whose father started the pizza parlor in 1968 is none too happy about this development and not just because Papa John's is a blight upon the very word pizza: Miniaci's father died just a month ago. In fact John Jr. knew about the franchise's plan to move in before his father died, but couldn't bear to tell him.

Gothamist recently trekked to Lai Yuen in Bay Ridge to sample what neighbors called (in punchy, Brooklyn dialect) “Chinese food to make Confucius proud.” Confucius likely turned in his grave at the suggestion that Lai Yuen’s Americanized offerings, while delicious, even remotely resemble the simple fare of his 5th century BCE brethren, but the experience was vivid nonetheless. It revealed, in white-gloved detail, the fading state of the disused Chinese restaurant concept; a fact which, in spite of itself, may have turned a place like Lai Yuen into a kind of relic.

City Councilman Joel Rivera has floated a novel idea: Limit fast food establishments through zoning. Rivera pointed to the fact that many fast food locations are low-income neighborhood, which also have very high obesity rates. (One in five schoolchildren is overweight and "almost" one in four is obese, according to the Department of Health.) Rivera sid, "You're not going to totally eliminate fast food restaurants, but you could limit the amount," and says he will hold hearings to see if the zoning laws can be changed in such a way. NYU's Mitchell Moss doubts zoning laws could be changed, saying, "In a city like New York, where everybody is on the run, it's very hard to single out what is and isn't fast food."