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December 17, 2007

Alycia Lane, the anchorwoman from the CBS owned station KYW in Philadelphia , who was at one time linked to WCBS anchor Chris Wragge, sent bikini photos to a married man, and is frequently mentioned in the Post’s Page Six column got into some more hot water in Chelsea around 2 a..m. Sunday morning. The Long Island native, allegedly punched a female police officer from the 10th Precinct in the face at W. 17th Street......

Continue Reading "Philly Bikini Anchor Arrested for Punching NYPD Officer"

November 29, 2007

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an unusual rescue on 68th St. and Central Park West in Manhattan, a confined space rescue at Lorimer and Meserole Sts. in Brooklyn, and a shooting on Carpenter Ave. and 221st St. in the Bronx. Columbia University is a-brimming with protests, against things like torture and apathy. A young man and his family are recovering from a freak accident involving a fallen tree branch in Riverside Park that put......

Continue Reading "Extra, Extra"

August 8, 2007

Holy Tornado, Brooklyn! Reader Jeanne just emailed us with this observation: I live in Kensington, Brooklyn and I think that a tornado just passed through. Have you heard any news about a tornado from anyone else? Around 6:30am there were heavy rains, thunder and lightning when all of a sudden the wind got really loud and we could hear stuff smashing into the house. It was all just 30 seconds or so but now......

Continue Reading "Wild Wednesday Weather, Watch Your Commute
MTA Says, Avoid the Subway"

April 13, 2007

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a bank robbery and arrest on 1st Ave. in Manhattan, an unstable building report on President St. in Brooklyn, and a tall truck met a low overpass bridge on West 231st St. in the Bronx. NJ Governor John Corzine remains on a ventilator and is heavily sedated, a day after he was involved in a car accident that left him severely injured. The severity and extent of the Governor's......

Continue Reading "Extra, Extra"

November 2, 2006

The Long Island Rail Road has been starting to fill in gaps at certain train platforms in the wake of various customer falls. Eighteen year old Natalie Smead, visiting from Minnesota and on her way to Manhattan for a concert, fell in the gap at the Woodside stop and was fatally hit by a train when she tried to get out of the tracks. Newsday found that the gaps at Woodside were as wide at......

Continue Reading "LIRR is Mending the Gap at Stations"

August 11, 2003

Either the Post is trying to rile people up even more or there really is a "Tourist Mugger" on the loose. A woman was assaulted while walking on West 93rd Street at 11AM Saturday morning. The Long Island woman was alone when her head was bashed, but it was 11AM. The attacker took $20 from her purse. The Post says police are determining whether there is any connection to last week's attempted mugging on a......

Continue Reading "Random Attack or Tourist Mugger"

June 5, 2003

Sixteen of the thirty-five bands, including Radiohead and the Beastie Boys, in the Field Day Fest line up will perform at the new Giants Stadium on Saturday. The Long Island towns and city departments are pointing fingers at each other, casting blame on who made the two-day music festival pretty much self-destruct. Newsday reports Suffolk Police Commissioner John Gallagher as saying "I think the exquisite failure here was the failure of one municipality to deal......

Continue Reading "The Fest Must Go On"

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