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Homicide on Lorimer St
A gunman shot and killed a man on Lorimer Street between Ten Eyck and Maujer streets this afternoon, apparently after a car chase. A passerby who happened upon the aftermath of the slaying — which occurred at around 2:30 pm — had this to say: “There was a fight, then someone got shot. UPS man witnessed the incident and the UPS truck is part of the crime scene. Don’t know anything else, except saw cops try to revive the victim, who was bleeding from the back, pumped his chest, etc. as he was led into the ambulance.”
Another source had more information about the crime—which seems to have been classified as a homicide after the victim was pronounced dead on arrival at Woodhull Hospital according to reports coming across the police scanner:
“I live right across from the accident, but didn’t hear anything until the first responders came. Apparently one man (possibly older looking, mob-ish) was chasing another man both in their cars. There was a car crash and the man being chased jumped out and was shot by the chaser. The shot man then ran for cover in a UPS truck parked in front of a mailing place. Again, these details were all overheard, so I don’t know the truth to it all, but there’s a lot of activity here and I thought you would want to know.”NYPD’s press office said it has not yet received any further information on the crime.
(via Gothamist)
I was at Manna at 2:30 and I didn’t hear anything.
Ok.
Firstly, I basically live (and work!) above Manna, and I heard nothing.
Secondly, what is Neighborhoodr actually supposed to be? This is a blatant rip-off of the Gothamist piece… paraphrased (barely), but basically the exact same copy. Happy the “Community Moderator” linked back to the original piece, but why not just block quote the whole thing and attribute it honestly?
Finally, that “mailing place” is called “Tiger Lilly” and the bro in there will hook you up with stamps any time. Super chill.
brown, a guy DIED.
500 nyc homicides a year. tumblr wakes up for the one in williamsburg.
My friend Jesse Hooker and his brother Alex biked 350 miles out west!!
great times, sore ass. more photos/info here.
“Five Rings” - Bianca (formerly known as “IN”)
From their mahspaze:
We’ve had a long and tumultuous relationship with our band name. For the past year almost, we were called IN. In is a really good band name, except it’s totally incompatible with the internet. No one could find us. Even though that has some fascinating implications for the nature of naming and identity and hiding within the technology that makes hiding impossible, we decided to go olly olly oxen free and change our name to BIANCA.
Interesting, no? More importantly, this is an awesome track.
Dig.
they should’ve gone w/ BINACA
finally we’re seeing some good climate action media. best video i’ve seen yet, from Moms Against Climate Change
350.org’s Asian Youth Climate Workshop in Bangkok on Vimeo
between 2 weeks of mind-numbing UN negotiations at the Bangkok climate talks, a truly inspiring weekend of action, youth workshops, marches and rallies. hundreds of amazing young climate leaders from across southeast Asia. huge props to 350.org, TckTckTck.org, and everyone else involved. some proud and inspiring moments amidst the tedium of international negotiations.
(and i hope that uplifting climate activism videos are exempt from blake’s sigur ros soundtrack moratorium)
lots of jaws on the floor at the UN re: Obama’s Nobel. international community is not impressed, or pleased. Nobel seems to have lost A LOT of cred. UPDATE: my initial, barely hashed-out thoughts as it relates to these climate talks (and i think it very much does relate to these climate talks.)
Peak foliage chart.
Time to go to Vermont.
i’ll be back on monday. anyone wanna walk in the woods?
on the floor at the UNFCCC (framework convention on climate change), the white signs are for the countries that never ratified the Kyoto Protocol. only three countries—the US, Brunei, and San Marino—have white signs. more than a little embarrassing.
Fear and loathing on the road to Copenhagen | adoptanegotiator.org
things are off to a bad start here in bangkok. (counting on a karmic reblog, per usual, ryan brown.) and i’m running on 11 hour time difference, 8-hours/day of mind-numbing UN negotiation meetings, and barely 4-hours sleep/night, so the writing’s barely coherent. click away!
Casey & Katie Kulla of Oakhill Organics, Grand Island, Oregon, featured in 40 farmers under 40:
Forty of the nation’s brightest green thumbs, quietly nurturing a food revolution from their own back yards. (via @thelifesimple)
and a whopping 1 minority in the group. combined w/ their earlier “40 under 40” list (equally monochromatic), that’s 78 white young farmers and 2 persons of color. this despite the fact that the majority of young agriculture workers in this country are non-white. shame on MNN for not learning their lesson the first time around.
During the 2004 Cape Farewell expedition Alex Hartley began the work Nymark (Undiscovered Island), an artwork documenting the process of finding and naming a new island; an island only uncovered in recent years due to the retreating glaciers. The work is currently touring with the Cape Farewell: Art & Climate Change exhibition in collaboration with Barbican International Entreprises.
The island will be transposed onto a floating platform, and brought to the UK via International Waters. Whilst outside national seas, the island will become nowhereisland and will declare itself a new micronation.
The is an incredible project that I’ve been following for a few years. My friend Ben Jervey went on the Cape Farewell expedition a few years ago and he had an incredible trip. Very interesting stuff.
and as a formal “citizen” of nowhereisland, i’m talking with Hartley about how to possibly float it across the pond.
“The beautiful trail in the sky looked like a mysterious celestial event. In reality, it was urine.”
