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Published Jul 18, 2008
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Photograph of a tai chi club in Queens by milkshakepants on Flickr
- From the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting on Kent Ave & De Kalb Ave Brooklyn, and Unusual Rescue at 185 W Broadway in Manhattan, and a Scaffolding Collapse on 123rd St in Queens.
- A man went to his ex-girlfriend's workplace, fatally shot her, wounded her supervisor and then killed himself in Bohemia, Long Island.
- City Comptroller William Thompson says the city is failing to maintain its senior centers, finding obstructed exits and hazardous conditions at some.
- Rafaello Follieri, Anne Hathway's ex and a grifter being held on $21 million bail by authorities, is in talks for a plea deal, which apparently is news to his lawyer.
- NY1 Takes a look at the McCarren Park Pool mystery, they say the dead body found was reportedly that of a 50-year-old man. Watch their segment here.
- The chandeliers at the Metropolitan Opera house were packed up for their restoration in Vienna. They are supposed to be back for the Met's opening gala in September.
- A realtor has threatened a blogger via an email stating "you guys are in a hep of poop"!
- Choire Sicha strongly denies the blogger cabal conspiracy theory that a "tiny concentration of hyper-intellectuals has become a juggernaut that subtly controls everything that happens in the industry." He would say that.
Jen Carlson
Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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