May 7, 2007
Extra, Extra
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a bank robbery at Victory Blvd. and Lester St. on Staten Island, a fall victim down a trench at Carlton and Park Aves. in Brooklyn, and a construction accident on West 30th St. and 10th Ave. in Manhattan.
- If you have Time Warner Digital Cable and are interested in transit issues, get NY1's In Transit on demand; the Daily News' Peter Donahue shared some interesting insights about the transit worker deaths with Bobby Cuza.
- Brooklyn photographer Spencer Tunick convinced 18,000 people to get naked in Mexico City's main square so he could photograph them. Yes, there is a slideshow after the link.
- Alerted by a foul smell coming from her daughter's closet, a Queens mother found the body of an infant stuffed into a bag. She took the infant to the hospital, but the child had been dead for approximately a week.
- A presumably former Mr. Chow waiter is suing the eponymous chain's owner for $5 million, after Chow allegedly kicked him and made him lie on the floor during a staff meeting as punishment for showing up late.
- The Bedford Police Dept. is following a trail of clues in the homicide of a homeless man found dead by the side of the road by impounding two police cars from neighboring Mt. Kisco in Westchester. The body of Guatemalan immigrant Rene Perez was found an hour after he had dialed 911 for the Mt. Kisco police. Responding Mt. Kisco officers said he did not have a police matter and left him, considering the incident closed.
- The NYPD is in the process of replacing Polaroid cameras with digital ones, in order to enhance the prosecution of domestic abuse cases by providing better images of victims' injuries.
- New York's Daily Intelligencer has early sketches of what might be in store for the Hudson Yards development on Manhattan's West Side.
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The NYPD is in the process of replacing Polaroid cameras with digital ones, in order to enhance the prosecution of domestic abuse cases by providing better images of victims' injuries.
I'm confused - is it actually 1997 instead of 2007?
It always makes me wonder what kind of of a parent wouldn't notice that their daughter's been pregnant for 9 months.
Spencer Tunick has been arrested many times on mostly minor charges, but I wonder how he's been able to avoid a much more serious child pornography charge. It must be extremely difficult to get age verification for every one of the thousands of people in his group pictures.
judging from those pictures, there's not a person under 45 in his work.
18,000 naked Mexicans? So many short, fat bodies.
Not an attractive image
Peter, no offense my friend, but, you've got to be kidding... these are the most non-sexual nudes you're ever going to see. It can't be child porn if its not porn.
The photo of the man in the wheelchair is just amazing.
Re: #2 Isa -
You know, it's going to sound like a completely fake story, but I went to high school with a girl who didn't know she was pregnant until she was 8 1/2 months along. We sat by her every single day and noticed she was putting on a little bit of weight, but no one ever suspected she was pregnant. It was crazy, but her body really didn't change all that much, and even her close friends (and her!) had no idea. So while I'd tend to agree that parents really should recognize that sort of bodily change in their children, I don't think it's completely out of the question for it to happen.
And if my parents had asked me if I was pregnant every time I put on a little weight, I probably would have stayed in my room and cried every day until I was 25. They're a fickle bunch, the teens.
Of course that also means the girl didn't know the biological facts of life. Repression is bad for you.