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• Exploring the Explorers Under the City

  Published: July 30, 2007, 3:30 pm

  Tags: News Nyc

  1980's, the LTV Squad is NYC's longest running exploration team. We are a group of professionals, historians, artists and infrastructure fanatics that are in love with all things abandoned or not commonly seen by the public." With photos and words they document what they find on a website they launched in 2001. Here's an exhaustive list of

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• Fatal Hit-and-Run Man Dies After Apparent Fall in Greenwich Village

  Published: July 30, 2007, 3:12 pm

  Tags: News Nyc

  On Gothamist Contribute, someone wrote about an incident that occurred at 6th Avenue and 10th Street in Manhattan:I went running at 5:15 and there were cops and detectives all over the corner by Ansonia pharmacy. The whole area was taped off. I asked a bodega owner and he said a guy jumped from a building. When the pharmacy opened I went in and

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• Adventure Ropes Course Opens in Queens

  Published: July 30, 2007, 2:27 pm

  Tags: News Nyc

  Alley Pond Park, the second biggest park in Queens, has a new attraction: The biggest adventure ropes course in the Northeast. Last Friday, the Park Department opened up the Alley Pond Park Adventure Course, which has zip lines, a climbing wall, webs, swings, trust falls, and balance boards.The course consists of 20 high and low elements that

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• Huh: Schumer Not Keen on Increasing Taxes For Hedge Funds, Private Equity Firms

  Published: July 30, 2007, 11:17 am

  Tags: News Nyc

  equity firms would leave NYC, NY State or the country if their taxes were increased from 15% up to 35%. But Representative Charles Rangel, a co-sponsor of the tax increase, said, "If the businesses are so fragile that taxing them at an equitable rate will cause them to leave the city, I can't picture that." Free Polls - Take Our Poll

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• City Considers a Little Tivoli for Coney Island

  Published: July 30, 2007, 10:26 am

  Tags: News Nyc

  Ooh. The Post reports that Economic Development Corporation president Robert Lieber flew to Denmark to met with representatives of Tivoli Gardens, the 164-year-old Copenhagen amusement park, about the possibility of some Tivoli Gardens action in Brooklyn. The Post's headline? "TASTY APPLE DANISH FOR CONEY IS." Lieber says that Tivoli

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• Tap Water is All the Rage

  Published: July 29, 2007, 6:37 pm

  Tags: News Nyc

  advertising - as well as for NYC. Last month, the city embarked on an advertising campaign to tout the benefits of NYC tap water, to encourage people to save money and reduce waste. In fact, a 2005 20/20 segment found that there's really no difference between bottled water and NYC tap water, and the city's tap water has long been heralded as

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• Subway Harassment Largely Unreported, According to Manhattan Beep's Survey

  Published: July 29, 2007, 5:07 pm

  Tags: News Nyc

  Last week, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer released a study finding that many New Yorkers have been harassed or assaulted on subways but most of the time, these incidents go unreported. Some key findings included:- 63% of respondents (both male and female) reported having been sexually harassed in the New York City subway system. -

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• Grandma, Dog Owner, and Pup Fight Off Muggers

  Published: July 29, 2007, 2:21 pm

  Tags: News Nyc

  There was a great story in the Post about a trio who managed to stop two teen muggers on Wednesday. And there was an equally great photo of two-thirds of the crimestoppers: Jan Garten and pit-bull mix Gee. On Wednesday afternoon, 84-year-old Garten was walking on Central Park West near 89th Street when she realized she was being followed by two

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• 9/11 Families Consider (Threaten?) To Hold Own Ceremony

  Published: July 29, 2007, 1:39 pm

  Tags: News Nyc

  Unhappy that this year's September 11 anniversary events will be moved from Ground Zero to Zuccotti Park, some families of September 11 victims are demanding that the events be moved back or else they'll hold their own ceremony at Ground Zero. The AP reports that a group of eleven September 11 family groups sent a letter to Governor Spitzer and

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• Riverside Park's Unexpected Helicopter Landing

  Published: July 29, 2007, 10:45 am

  Tags: News Nyc

  A helicopter operated by Liberty helicopters, a tour company, was forced to make a precautionary landing in Riverside Park yesterday morning at 10AM. No one was on the ground when the chopper touched down at a baseball field near West 79th Street, and no one on the helicopter was injured. The culprit turned out to be smoke from a broken light

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• Protest Against City's Proposed Photography Rules

  Published: July 28, 2007, 6:10 pm

  Tags: News Nyc

  rules will end August 3. The NYCLU has a fact sheet about the comment period (PDF), the city's proposed rules (PDF), and the NYCLU's comments (PDF). There are some more great photos of the rally from edittrix, zodak and Tozzer. And was this guy arrested for riding his bike across the flag? Photograph of the First Amendment rally in Union

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• Tougher Admissions Requirements at 11 CUNY Schools

  Published: July 28, 2007, 4:37 pm

  Tags: News Nyc

  The City University of New York is planning on raising math and English requirements for 2008 freshman at 11 colleges. CUNY's chancellor, Matthew Goldstein, told the NY Times, "We are very serious in taking a group of our institutions and placing them in the top segment of universities and colleges. This is the kind of profile we want for our

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• Sadness for Bronx Family, Friends After Fatal Car Crash

  Published: July 28, 2007, 2:44 pm

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  Some more sad details about the Tuesday car crash in Virginia that claimed the lives of six people, five of them believed to be siblings in a Bronx family of Trinidadian immigrants. The fire destroyed the Honda Accord so badly that mother Pamela Ramharrack of the Bronx was asked to go to Virginia to identify the bodies, but she was only able to

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• Abner Louima, Ten Years Later

  Published: July 30, 2007, 5:45 pm

  Tags: News Nyc

  The Post visited with Abner Louima, one of the city's most famous symbols of police brutality, ten years after the infamous incident at Brooklyn 70th Precinct. Louima had been arrested on August 9, 1997, after a scuffle outside a Brooklyn club. He claimed he was beaten by police officers on the way to the precinct, and later at the precinct, he

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• Fired NBC Producer Fell to Death in Greenwich Village

  Published: July 31, 2007, 9:22 am

  Tags: News Nyc

  Some more details about the death of the man whose body was found at 6th Avenue and 10th Street in Greenwich Village early yesterday morning. Forty-five-year-old Eric Wishnie had been a producer at NBC News, but was fired last September for alcohol and pill addiction. Additionally, he had been recently estranged with his wife, NBC correspondent

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