April 7, 2007
Extra, Extra
- Today on Gothamist Newsmap: a barricaded emotionally disturbed person/stabbing on Parsons Blvd. in Queens, an overturned auto on Bushwick Ave. in Brooklyn, and a stabbing on Staten Island's Taylor St.
- City Councilman Hiram Monserrate (D-Queens) is a big fan of Tom Cruise's Scientology detox program that is being offered free to firefighters. He's done it and it made him feel "100 times better", which is pretty good.
- City Island residents contemplate life on the water without the repetitive "thock, thock, thock" sound of gunfire drifting across Eastchester Bay.
- Police are questioning a 25-year-old woman from Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn regarding the dead infant found in a trash bag at her family's home.
- We don't remember this gambit from our Debate Club days, but a verbal argument among four men in Washington Heights early this morning was decided when three of the participants got into a car and ran over the fourth man, who is now hospitalized in critical condition.
- A former city sanitation worker was arrested for stealing from the comptroller's office. His scheme involved copying bank account numbers from workers' compensation checks, then having money automatically transferred to a bank account he set up under the inconspicuous alias "John Awesome."
- 20-year-old man tired of "non-stop ridicule" finally undergoes breast reduction surgery. Perhaps missing just a little of that ridicule, Scott Schulman then agrees to be pictured in The Daily News talking about his breast reduction surgery.
- Mayor Bloomberg thinks the Presidential primary process is broken and that the feds should fix it.
- Alex Rodriguez earned his paycheck this afternoon by hitting two homeruns, including a two-out two-strike walkoff grand slam.
- Housing Commissioner Deborah Van Amerongen let the wind out of the sails of Clipper Equities' bid to buy Starrett City. The developer's proposal was rejected on the grounds that it did not protect the interests of current residents.
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A debate club joke, with a man in critical condition.
Good journalism.
the breast story link is wrong. how can you add to his ridicule without a proper link?
the 'thock thock thock' link is also fascinating.