According to the results of the city’s admissions process for the seven specialized, elite high schools, the vast majority of those admitted were either white or asian. Only four percent of students admitted were black and six percent were hispanic, while 30 percent were asian and 35 percent were white; having said that, the ethnicity of nearly one-quarter of admitted students was not known, because they were multiracial, coming from private school or were not identified, so it may not be quite as dire as it seems. [ MORE]  | After a daylong manhunt, police captured triple murder suspect Maksim Gelman on a 3 train yesterday morning. Gelman, accused of stabbing his stepfather to death in their Sheepshead Bay apartment before going to his ex-girlfriend's house and fatally stabbing her and her mother, had climbed from the subway tracks onto a 3 train at 34th Street and confronted passenger Joseph Lozito. Lozito's sister said that Gelman told him, "You are going to die," before slashing him in the back of the head. Luckily, two transit officers were on the train.... [ MORE ] |  | We here at Gothamist are not normally in the business of international news unless it is of the utmost political and social importance. Which this story obviously is: The Dutch government has decided that they've had it up to here with stoned tourists using their cities as a backdrop for their perpetual spring break, and may soon decide that only those with a national passport can smoke their pot. Which means we'll now just have to visit for their beautiful scenery, interesting museums and great food. Oh, and the red light district.... [ MORE ] |  | The Daily News is getting 311 involved in the Bike Lane Wars. According to them (and one angry Chinatown resident), 311 doesn't distinguish between complaints about bikes, skateboarders or rollerbladers. Probably because all the rollerbladers in the city are just dancing to disco around those orange cones in Central Park.... [ MORE ] |  | Dr. J. Marion Sims is credited for finding a treatment for vesicovaginal fistulas and inventing the Sims' speculum, revolutionizing modern vaginal surgery. But Harlem residents say a statue of the doctor, which was moved from Bryant Park to around 103rd Street and Fifth Avenue in Central Park in 1934, has no place in Harlem. Why? Because the doctor tested his treatments on three slave women with no anesthetics. City Councilwoman Melissa Mark-Viverito said the memorial needs to be re-evaluated. She told the Post, “As time goes on and history is re-evaluated, some of these individuals who have been memorialized will be rightly challenged."... [ MORE ] |  | The family of a woman who died after attending the "Polar Bear Plunge" (not the famed Coney Island one) in 2009 is suing 19 defendants who they believe are culpable in her death. The body of the woman, Tracy Hottenstein, was found in Sea Isle City, NJ after the event in Feb. 2009; Hottenstein only attended the plunge, and didn't participate in the event. Authorities say she died accidentally from hypothermia and acute intoxication; they believe she jumped in the water later that night. But just because it was an accident doesn't mean the family won't be suing literally anyone who encountered their daughter that fateful evening.... [ MORE ] |  | New York is home to a number of successful breweries, including Ommegang, Brooklyn Brewery, Ithaca Beer and Blue Point. But according to voters on GOOD, Sixpoint is the best sustainable, independently-owned craft beer in the state. In their map of the United States of Good Beer (supersize it), GOOD tracks the best beers of the country, including New Jersey's Flying Fish, Connecticut's Willimantic Brewing Co. and Pennsylvania's Victory. Also, it turns out there is no good beer in Idaho, which is yet another reason never to go to Idaho. [Via Laughing Squid]... [ MORE ] | | |
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