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">members geared up for a walkout after midnight on Friday. At the heart of the disagreement between the two sides are wages, pensions and health coverage with current members averaging about $37,315 a year. Sounds like another strike that recently ended, yes?

The New York City Photobloggers are opening their first gallery show tonight at the Chrystie Street Gallery (167 Chrystie, between Rivington and Kenmare). Word to the wise: bring sunglasses, because there's going to be a lot of crazed photobloggers running around with giant flashes. Some of our favorite photobloggers are in the show, including Eliot Shepard, Rion Nakaya, David Gallagher, and Joe Holmes (disclosure: one of us has a couple of prints in the show).

Growing up in New York, Gothamist was limited to only two baseball options, the Yankees and the Mets, but in recent years, baseball has bloomed in the big city. Two more options are available for baseball fans in the single A affiliates of the Yankees and the Mets - the Staten Island Yankees and the Brooklyn Cyclones.

Tomorrow, head to Coney Island and experience one of the New York's wildest (and funnest) events, the Mermaid Parade. The Mermaid Parade always has crazy (usually barely there) costumes and even more colorful people... and the Cyclone and pizza are just steps away! This year, the King is David Johansen (Buster Poindexter and New York Dolls) and the Queen is Karmen Guy (Mad Juana). Keep in mind it's going to be hot, so wear your sunblock and have some water by your side.

Tomorrow night NYC Photobloggers take over Soho's Apple Store. Again. It's been about 7 months since their last gathering so come check out what's new at this next live photography exhibit. If you missed the last one, check out the hightlights here.

Protesters unleashed a campaign of demonstrations all over Manhattan yesterday. Aimed at being a day of non-violent, civil disobedience, things actually got much hairier as police tried to clamp down and ended up arresting 900 protesters. Some say the police were being overzealous, even reneging on agreements with protest groups about their protests. The NY Times reported NYCLU executive director Donna Lieberman's concerns:

"It's an example of the police suckering the protesters...It was a bait-and-switch tactic, where they approved a demonstration and the protesters kept up their end of the bargain. They undermined people's confidence in the police, and that's a serious problem as we go forward.

Naturally, the Post says demonstrations grew demonic, noting that 16 cops were injured and an intense confrontation with protesters spitting on delegates outside MSG. Gothamist loves the idea of these protests, but we get worried when we hear they get violent - both on the protesters' and police's sides - because that just means less flexibility and working with the police in organizing protests later. Sure, underground protests are effective and disruptive, but there are legitimate concerns about backlash from the heartland hearing soundbites about "demonstrators in NY hurting the delegates." Be good, everyone.

Gothamist loved this photograph from Rion Nakaya's rion.nu because it reminded us of one of our favorite films, but there are other fabulous photographs to be found on the site. Rion and other photobloggers will be speaking at the New York City Photobloggers Exhibition, on Thursday, February 26, SoHo Apple Store.