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Wildlife biologist Chris Nadareski, foreground, of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, assisted by Port Authority structural specialist Pete Mizialko, holds one of four peregrine falcon chicks for banding, at a nest at the east tower of the George Washington Bridge, over the Hudson River, in New York, Tuesday, May 21.  In the second photo, the mother bird is seen flying towards northern Manhattan.  (Photos: Richard Drew / AP via NBCNews)
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Wildlife biologist Chris Nadareski, foreground, of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, assisted by Port Authority structural specialist Pete Mizialko, holds one of four peregrine falcon chicks for banding, at a nest at the east tower of the George Washington Bridge, over the Hudson River, in New York, Tuesday, May 21.  In the second photo, the mother bird is seen flying towards northern Manhattan.  (Photos: Richard Drew / AP via NBCNews)
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Wildlife biologist Chris Nadareski, foreground, of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, assisted by Port Authority structural specialist Pete Mizialko, holds one of four peregrine falcon chicks for banding, at a nest at the east tower of the George Washington Bridge, over the Hudson River, in New York, Tuesday, May 21.  In the second photo, the mother bird is seen flying towards northern Manhattan.  (Photos: Richard Drew / AP via NBCNews)

Via the New York Daily News, the arrest of a suspect in a fatal bias attack in Greenwich Village: The homophobe accused of shooting a gay man to death in the West Village laughed in hideous glee as he confessed, a prosecutor told a judge said Sunday. Elliot Morales (seen being arrested on Friday night) was hauled before a judge and charged with killing Mark Carson with a point-blank head shot from a .38-caliber revolver following a barrage of anti-gay taunts shortly before midnight on Friday. Morales, 33, got only a few blocks away from where Carson fell on W. 8th St. near Sixth Ave. when police collared him. As he was being restrained on a sidewalk, he laughed and boasted: “I shot him in the face.” Morales, who had been staying recently with friends in the Rockaways, was ordered held without bail. He was charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime and other counts. “It’s clear that the victim here was killed only because and just because he was thought to be gay,” NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. The commissioner added that Carson in no way antagonized his killer. (Photo: Alec Tabak for the NY Daily News)
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Via the New York Daily News, the arrest of a suspect in a fatal bias attack in Greenwich Village:

The homophobe accused of shooting a gay man to death in the West Village laughed in hideous glee as he confessed, a prosecutor told a judge said Sunday.

Elliot Morales (seen being arrested on Friday night) was hauled before a judge and charged with killing Mark Carson with a point-blank head shot from a .38-caliber revolver following a barrage of anti-gay taunts shortly before midnight on Friday.

Morales, 33, got only a few blocks away from where Carson fell on W. 8th St. near Sixth Ave. when police collared him. As he was being restrained on a sidewalk, he laughed and boasted: “I shot him in the face.”

Morales, who had been staying recently with friends in the Rockaways, was ordered held without bail. He was charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime and other counts.

“It’s clear that the victim here was killed only because and just because he was thought to be gay,” NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. The commissioner added that Carson in no way antagonized his killer.

(Photo: Alec Tabak for the NY Daily News)

  • “Believe me — when they finish the Second Avenue subway, this apartment will quadruple in value” is perhaps my favorite line from this past Sunday’s Mad Men because that episode was set in the late 60’s and here we are in 2013 and they still haven’t finished the damned thing and Peggy’s would-be $28,000 two-bedroom, one-and-a-half bath, 1300 square-foot flat on the 11th floor of a building on York Avenue with one guaranteed garage parking spot and an option for a second has actually quadrupled times quadrupled times quadrupled times quadrupled in value.

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