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The Post's Steve Cuozzo devotes a column to Wikipedia's many mistakes about NYC. Though he admits he uses it "on such essential matters as which actress plays which bimbo in 'Gossip Girl'," he doesn't understand why its non-pop culture entries--like that of New York City--are so wrong. Besides issues with street information, out-of-date crime data, real estate/architecture details, and the NYPD's community policing initiative, Cuozzo clears up the entry about the NY Post, explaining the 1983 "Headless Body in a Topless Bar" headline was not written by "onetime employee named Paul Beeman. In fact, it's a matter of historical record that the headline was written by then- managing editor VA Musetto (who is today The Post's film editor and Cine File columnist)." [Via Gawker, which thinks Cuozzo's "going to be up 'til at least midnight trying to correct all these things."]

Community leaders in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx tell the NY Times that they are not happy with the way their neighborhood is portrayed in its Wikipedia entry. Josephine Infante, the executive director and founder of the Hunts Point Economic Development Corporation, says she has a problem with several assertions on the Hunt Points entry, such as the one that "many, if not most men in the community have been arrested at some point in their lives." Infante says that the portrait of Hunts Point as one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the nation is out of date as crime has been down for years. Yet she has opted not to edit the entry herself because she says, "it should be an entire community that writes.” Infante did not comment how big of an influence the four HBO documentary specials "Hookers at the Point" may have had on the Wikipedia users take on the neighborhood.

Google is now revving up their maps engine with even more information, as you can see from the above screen shot of the Red Hook map. Now when you choose a map, a new “More” tab at the top gives you exactly what it promises: So far there are two additional map interfaces, with photos and Wikipedia entries.