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  • Devils 5 Toronto 4 (OT): New Jersey took a 3-1 lead midway through the second period, but Toronto battled back. Colton Orr (can you believe that Rangers’ fans?) started the comeback and Matt Stajan tied things up with under two minutes left. But, New Jersey took adavantage of a power play in overtime and Travis Zajac put home the game-winner.
  • Washington 81 Nets 79: They almost had a winning streak, but The Wizards hit a bucket with 0.4 seconds left to put the Nets back into losing mode.

Today's afternoon linkage: a Tom Selleck Sandwich, a preview of Wall Street 2, Bill Gates saves 10MM lives, and Donald Trump targets Stuyvesant Town. Plus more! more ›

[UPDATE BELOW] On Monday Bucky Turco at Animal New York published this photo he took at La Guardia airport, showing a Transportation Security Administration agent apparently napping. Now the unidentified worker is under investigation and has been reassigned to desk duty. High-five? A TSA spokesman tells the AP she may have been on break, but whatever, we certainly wouldn't want her sharp and well-rested while on the job, and the rules require her to rest in the designated TSA break room. Turco acknowledged that, "to be fair," she may have been on break, but he still got an earful from one Animal New York commenter: more ›

Keyspan Park Now No Name Park

12910keyspan.jpg A sad day for energy companies and minor league ball clubs alike: the Brooklyn Cyclones ballpark lost its name today. The Cyclones and National Grid, the company who has sponsored the fledgling ballpark for the past decade, ended their naming-rights agreement. The 7,500-seat Coney Island home of the Mets minor league affiliate will go without a name for the time being, until a new partner can be found. As the national economy has tanked, so too has the stadium-naming economy. According to Robert Boland, an NYU sports professor, part of the problem now is that the naming rights are worth around $100,000, and the Cyclones are "probably selling it for $750,000.” Hopefully the Cyclones will be able to find some silver lining out of this.

Gov. Paterson's plan to balance the budget by allowing no-holds-barred cage fighting is surprisingly unpopular with voters, according to a recent study. A new Marist poll indicates that 68 percent of voters oppose the plan to legalize ultimate fighting, which Paterson believes will bring in an estimated $2.1 million in tax revenue. more ›

Maximum Sentence Of Six Months For Driver Who Killed Man

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The 19-year-old driver who hit and killed a 47-year-old man at a Staten Island bus stop pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide and will serve a maximum of six months in jail. Joseph Catrama admitted he ran a red light and was speeding when he turned from Seaview Avenue onto Capodanno Boulevard last February, lost control of his 2008 Hyundai Sonata, and pinned Nathan Pakow between the car's bumper and metal post displaying bus route information. According to the Advance, Catrama will be stripped of his drivers license and will face a minimum of five years probation. "This plea guarantees that the defendant is held accountable for his actions and avoids the uncertainty of a jury trial," said a spokesman for the Staten Island District Attorney's Office.

The Times reports that Gov. Paterson is once again pushing to allowing New York groceries to be able to sell wine, as a means of raising revenue for our depleted deficit. The same measure was defeated last year, largely due to lobbying efforts by wine store owners and distributors who feared losing business. But under the new proposal, wine and liquor stores for the first time could sell "breads, cheeses and other items that would go naturally with wine," install A.T.M.'s in-store, and sell directly to restaurants, bars and convenience stores! Watch your back, 7-Eleven. more ›

After seeing this photo of babies enjoying some playtime on a fire escape in 1953, we got to wondering about what other kinds of crazy things city kids were allowed to do back in the day. Here are some photos, all taken in Brooklyn between 1886 and 1962, showing everything from elephant chases to what looks like jumping off a building (but surely isn't). It's like Where the Wild Things Are compared to the often overprotective parenting the borough sees these days. more ›

Is Perky Jerky the Coffee/Meat Craving Cure?

012910perky.jpg Four years ago, Tribeca inventor Matt Keiser created the world's first caffeinated beef jerky after spilling a can of Red Bull on the meaty snack. The flavor combination sent him spinning like some carnivorous Albert Hofmann, and starting tomorrow he'll be selling his caffeinated meat snack, called Perky Jerky, in Sports Authority. Because Americans simply don't consume enough caffeine and processed meat! Today Keiser told the Daily News the combination is "like vodka and orange juice, or peanut butter and chocolate." But the reaction from one random taste tester was revolting: "Ewww. It is disgusting. I like beef jerky. I like caffeine. But it is not a good combination." According to Perky Jerky's Twitter, the product's original name was "Jerk n Go," which doesn't sound like a good combination, either. What, was "Meat n Tweak" taken?

Attorney General and likely gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo has been netting huge contributions from major real estate interests — a group that some allege Cuomo's office has been hesitant to prosecute. Over the past three years, Cuomo has bolstered his substantial warchest by $18 million with money from land holders and developers including Stuyvesant Town defaulters Tishman Speyer, Atlantic Yards planner Bruce Ratner, and embattled builder Shaya Boymelgreen. But some say he's been less than responsive when faced with complaints against real estate interests. more ›

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The Idiotarod is coming, and tomorrow teams will freeze as they push their carts through the city streets... if it doesn't all fall apart before then. About an hour ago we received an email from organizers Corporation X which alluded to some people having suspicions about the validity of their ownership of the race—which they took over from Danger Zone. They claim Danger Zone (pictured) have been intercepting emails and causing havoc. more ›

If Gov. Paterson's proposed budget is approved and Mayor Bloomberg is unable to negotiate pay concessions from the teachers' union, city educators may face significant layoffs for the first time since 1976. About 11,000 of the city's 79,000 teachers might be fired, and others might be shuffled around the city to different schools, the Mayor said. more ›

On Fox last night, mustachioed laissez-faire fanatic John Stossel applied his "common sense" fearmongering shtick to the concept of "Food Police." You see, it's not just the local government here in NYC that is trying to influence what people eat (and smoke, and drink!)—this is going on in cities across America. Here in New York, some restaurants are required to display calorie info, and there's a ban on trans fat. Salt and soda are in the crosshairs too! In South LA, they've banned any new fast food restaurant from opening. Well, Stossel is here to defend people from the food cops; in this clip he starts with LA and finishes by busting Bloomberg for using salt and eating trans fat. more ›

A few years ago we took a look at the Central Park ducks as part of a DIY Holden Caulfield walking tour. Now, following J.D. Salinger's death, CityRoom has created a nice little interactive map if you want to stop by all of the places the author long left behind him when he moved to New Hampshire. (Another photo tour can be found here.) more ›

Even though he hasn't officially declared his Senate candidacy yet, Harold Ford has been on a very strange charm offensive the past couple weeks, with a bonanza of increasingly weird insults and interviews alike. Following "his handlers" trading jabs with potential rival Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Ford sat down with the Post's own Woodward-in-residence Cindy Adams for a brief chat in a Brooklyn coffeehouse, in which the "New Yorker at heart" told her "New York is a city of transients," and described some of he and his wife's favorite haunts: "And we both love our neighborhood. Places like Rosa Mexicana, Starbucks, BLT Fish or, after church, First Presbyterian on 12th and Fifth, it's Big Daddy's on Park and 20th. They do great fried chicken." Jeez, I wonder if he travels to Starbucks via helicopter too. more ›

Click on the film stills for details and reviews of this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which include: Edge of Darkness, When in Rome, Saint John of Las Vegas, 44 Inch Chest, North Face, Off and Running, Evil Dead, Seven Samurai, and The Shining. more ›

Ever since the Metropolitan Transportation Authority installed new tracks on the elevated portion of the D train line in Bensonhurst, neighbors have been complaining of loud grinding noises and a constant rumbling sound that has hurt businesses and allegedly caused hearing loss. "I've been here 30 years. It used to be noisy, but livable. Now, it's killing me," said Hilna Motors owner Louis Gellman, whose auto repair shop is beneath the D train at 86th St. and Stillwell Ave. "I can't even talk to people outside. I have to bring my customers into my office." more ›

ACORN "Pimp" Swears He Wasn't Bugging Phones

012910acornsting.jpg James O’Keefe, the twenty-something conservative gadfly, has issued a statement explaining why he, with three others, were arrested for posing as telephone workers in Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu's office on Monday. O'Keefe, who got famous after he punk'd some workers at community organizing group ACORN last September, says that contrary to "the false claims being repeated by much of the mainstream media," they were not trying to bug Landrieu's phones. Oh no, they were just trying to verify why her "constituents were having trouble getting through to her office." While O'Keefe admits he could have "used a different approach," he expects the media to apologize "for their journalistic malpractice" at once! In the meantime, he's charged with "entering a federal property on false pretenses with the purpose of committing a felony," which is how latte-swilling Obama elites treat Real Americans who are only trying to help.

You can take the orgy out of the Calvin Klein billboard, but you'll still be left with a one-man sex show. The latest image in the company's rotating ad space above Houston Street is pictured above, and Copyranter reports back saying, "His name is David Agbodji, and he's part of the new Calvin Klein Spring/Summer 2010 Collection ad campaign... I'm thinking five-story Mr Agbodji is going to light up the switchboard!" But this man is neither under-aged nor involved in an orgy with anyone under-aged... so maybe the downtown prudes will give it a pass? more ›

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