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Larry Bird: “After we won the 1986 championship me and my wife Dinah went out to K.C. Jones’s restaurant. He had a rib place. I had two beers. Remember how we stopped drinking that year?’’ - the ’86 Celtics swore off alcohol for their playoff run - “Well, I had two beers and they didn’t even taste good. I was tired, anyway, so I went home an hour later.”

“Bill [Walton] came over. It was late. Doorbell rang and Dinah answered and she was like, ‘Hey, Bill. Larry’s in bed.’ I heard him, so I go out and I said, ‘Hey, man I ain’t doing this tonight. I can’t.’ He goes, ‘Don’t worry about it. I don’t even need you. I’m just going to sit down here at the table.’ He had a bottle of Wild Turkey. And he said, ‘I’ll be here when you wake up.’ And he was.”

Homicide on Lorimer St

cattleprod:

ryanbrown:

anastasiafriscia:

neighborhoodr-williamsburg:

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.

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.)