April 20, 2008
- Mets 4 Phillies 2: The Mets pulled out the win thanks to a home run by Jose Reyes and some nifty relief work from Aaron Heilman. Heilman came in with the bases loaded and only one out in the eighth and allowed only one run to give the Mets a 4-2 margin heading into the ninth. Billy Wagner took things from there with a perfect ninth.
David Wright had 2 RBI’s and 2 hits in the win.
- Baltimore 6 Yankees 0: Ian Kennedy delivered another clunker and the offense didn’t do anything. Those are the headlines, the question is what do the Yankees do about it? After tomorrow they have an off day, which would be a good time to split up Hughes and Kennedy in the rotation, but apart from that, they have little in the way of options. The bats will have to carry this team in 2008 and they have to hope they wake up soon.
| April 19, 2008
- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a suspicious death at 853 Driggs Ave. in Brooklyn, a DOA floater in the Harlem River south of the Cross Bronx Expressway, and a suspicious package in Central Park in Manhattan.
- New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning will be getting married to his fiancée Abby McGrew today in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
- Corporate sponsors of this weekend's Go Green! Greenpoint Earth Day festivities in McCarren Park include ExxonMobil (responsible for the largest oil spill in history in Greenpoint), BP America, Waste Management, and Forest City Ratner Company.
- Seven students at a Park Slope middle school are being accused of staying after school by hiding in the building's basement, and then setting fire to the teacher's lounge.
- Police are conducting an internal investigation of whether cops operated properly when knocking down the front door to a Hasidic family's home after an officer's son was injured in a racially charged assault.
- A Brooklyn establishment is putting the fun in funeral homes.
- DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan explained plans to make the city more bike and pedestrian friendly in the wake of congestion pricing's defeat.
- NJ lawmakers are trying to come up with a new state slogan to replace the more than 25-year-old "New Jersey and You, Perfect Together." Any suggestions?
With the weather warming, this will likely become less of a visible concern, but the City should also view the spring and summer as an opportunity to crack down on buildings who spew oily black smoke across the New York's skyline. The Gay Recluse has been concerned for some time about the cluster of chimneys in his Washington Heights neighborhood that spew plumes of noxious smoke into the air.
A little digging through Community Board #12 meeting minutes helped him uncover the cause. The money quote:
Smoke complaints probably result from poor quality oil. Inspectors find that dirty oil or waste oil is mixed with clean oil, or that boilers are not calibrated. He agreed to check on past complaints in CD 12 to see if this is a consistent pattern here.In addition, many superintendents don't have the qualifications to properly calibrate a boiler. A community board member said that it's not sufficient for the DEP to simply issue violations, but to help correct non-compliant boilers or crack down on building owners who don't rectify clearly visible problems.
A gallery showing just how much of a problem this smokestack problem is can be viewed here.
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April 19, 2008
Earlier this week it was announced that Foxy Brown would be released from prison after serving a drama-filled eight months behind bars. The first stop on her own personal freedom (publicity) tour, she said, was church, where "I've got to get on my knees." But what really came first was shopping in Harlem, followed by a trip to her mother's home in Prospect Heights. Her Rolls Royce also carted around the VH1 crew who are...
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Nylon has some shots of the new Keith Haring mural going up on E. Houston as a tribute to the artist on his upcoming birthday, May 4th. Still a work-in-progress, you can find it between Bowery and 2nd Avenue. Last year Cityroom reported that Haring's "Crack is Whack" mural in Harlem River Park is "one of the only — if not the only — public art works by Haring still visible in New York...
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Internal investigators at the Port Authority are faulting the overwhelming bureaucracy surrounding the construction of the Freedom Tower for the loss of confidential blueprints that could have left the new building vulnerable to those determined to strike the WTC again. Per the New York Post, "Experts say there was enough detail in the blueprints to lead to a devastating terrorist attack." Homeless man Mike Fleming found the 150 page document labeled "Secure Document -- Confidential"...
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Two chefs of popular seafood restaurants have settled a lawsuit out of court, denying foodies the chance to hear how restaurant plagiarism would be argued. The NY Times reports, "Both sides in the case agreed to keep the terms of the settlement confidential." Last summer, Pearl Oyster Bar chef and owner Rebecca Charles claimed that her former sous chef Ed McFarland took not only her recipes when he set up shop at Ed's Lobster Bar...
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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain released his tax returns for 2006 and 2007 yesterday, but most attention is on his wife Cindy's wealth. The Arizona Senator made $405,409 (including $23,157 in Social Security!) last year and $358,414 in 2006, but returns for Cindy McCain, chairman of Hensley & Company, a Phoenix-based Anheuser-Busch distributor, weren't released. The McCains have donated a cumulative $340,000 to charity in 2006 and 2007. Cindy McCain has apparently made...
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It may have come a year too late, but Isiah Thomas is no longer President or coach of the New York Knicks. Donnie Walsh announced Friday afternoon that he had relieved Thomas of his coaching duties saying, "The bottom line is we haven't won and the team didn't look like it was motivated to try to win and compete. Those were the reasons. A new coach is necessary to change direction of the team." Clearly,...
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NYC has agreed to lower the water levels in some of its reservoirs that supply the city with its drinking water. The move came after pressure from Ed Rendell, the Gov. of Pennsylvania, who argued for reduced reservoir capacity to spare citizens of his state from the regular spring flooding along the Delaware River that results from New York keeping its reservoirs filled to the brim. When spring storms exceed the already-full reservoirs' ability to...
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Gowanus Yacht Club: Outdoor seating at Carroll Gardens’ kitschy beach bum beer garden was born again on Thursday night; Eater is rightfully ecstatic, and has some photos, which show the place looking pretty much the same as ever. Wouldn’t have it any other way; Gowanus Yacht Club is an ideal summer's eve refuge for enlightened discourse on the finer points of yachting, whilst sipping fine lager and feasting on hamburgers and hot dogs. (A vegan...
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So, CNN personality Richard Quest was arrested early Friday morning for drug possession when police found in Central Park well after the park's 1 a.m. curfew. Sure, the initial reports said Quest told police he was carrying methamphetamime in his pocket, but leave it to the NY Post to add the really detailed details. Not only did Quest have drugs, he also had a "rope around his neck that was tied to his genitals, and...
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